This isn't exactly about shared storage, but I was at a TV station once that had EVERY PROJECT that had ever been done at the TV station since they'd had a Unity server running Avid, in just TWO Avid projects. There was a project for TV SHOWS and a project for TV Promos. Every episode of every show was in one single project and every promo was in a single project. And they wondered why they were having media management problems. I was at another TV station where there was absolutely NO naming convention for projects. There were dozens and dozens of Untitled projects, other named completely generically, like "Simpsons Promo Today" The only way you could find a specific asset was to ask someone about where they thought it was and hope they had a memory like an elephant.
I agree with episode/project based volumes but I have been amazed how many places I've worked didn't do this. It isn't very practical on the offline side with reality shows that pull from all kinds of material in a given show but then the material is usually separated by shooting days in prep projects. In online separate volumes have made for easy archiving and better system performance with fewer volumes mounted.
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