Thursday, October 27, 2011

Re: [Avid-L2] Hard Drive Shortages to Drive Up Cost of Video Editing

 

back up to LTO5. Two copies. House once local. House the other off site.

Jay

On Oct 27, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Robert Lawson wrote:

> Backup to redundant hard drive?
>
> Sorry, we didn't budget for that.
>
>
>
> On 10/27/11, James Culbertson <albion@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>> File-based delivery is better and faster because you don't have to deal with
>> tape.
>>
>> File-based delivery is worse and slower because you have to deal with
>> redundant backup to hard drive.
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>> On Oct 27, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Job ter Burg (L2B) wrote:
>>
>>> Bouke,
>>>
>>> What exactly makes digital file-based delivery so much better?
>>> Seriously, I'm interested in your opinion.
>>>
>>> To me, in its current state, it represents lack of standards combined with
>>> confusion, if not chaos.
>>>
>>> To illustrate: for a TV-job a few months ago, I received the ident of a
>>> public broadcaster, in an Apple IMX codec and in H264, both obviously
>>> straight from FCP. They couldn't tell me the color space it was in (or
>>> should be in).
>>>
>>> The H264, which they claimed most folks used, was completely off,
>>> gamma-wise. They said I was the first to mention it. I have watched that
>>> ident on TV from time to time. Nice, crushed blacks, and H264 artifacting
>>> all over the place in 80% of the cases.
>>>
>>> Now I know some people will always screw things up, but I do recall that a
>>> DigiBeta tape with bars and tone (and an inlay) would often at least
>>> indicate what you would be dealing with. Compared to files in "some" color
>>> space (take a guess) and "some" codec (never mind platform compatibility),
>>> no bars, no tone, no information, no metadata.
>>>
>>> Again, this is just my narrow view and recent experience. On the Digital
>>> Cinema side, things seem a bit brighter.
>>>
>>> Job.
>>>
>>> On 27 okt. 2011, at 23:18, bouke wrote:
>>>
>>>> Terry, you've been bitching about this too much lateley.
>>>>
>>>> The fact that it is not for your business does not make you have a valid
>>>>
>>>> point.
>>>> The world is bigger than your shop. Learn to live with it.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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