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

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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