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
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> 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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