Corey Sullivan
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There is a difference between a technical manual / reference guide and a textbook -- the second is meant to be read as a book, the first is meant to use for reference, though the ASC Manual does mix in articles with the charts and whatnot.
Certainly if you are a shooter, a reference guide like the ASC Manual is worth owning. When I was a film student, I picked up a used version from 1980 that was quite fun to flip through.
I find that "intermediate" level textbooks on cinematography tend to go beyond technical issues (at that point, better covered in technical manuals) and concentrate on real-world experiences of professionals. They tend to be interview books. Truth is that once you get beyond the basics of photography, most of the challenges of cinematography tend to be artistic and logistical more than technical.
Good point...A tech manual is helpful but no one would want to sit down and read it cover to cover....try the textbook style for a general overview.
Corey
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Oh yeah. That's why I hate backing up on set. I'd much rather treat it like film and send the rushes offsite to be backed up in more controlled conditions.
I've always been sceptical of on set backups. The chance of interrupted power, accidental hard drive knocks, constant moving of the set, constant moving of the DIT trolly. It just screams painful. I'm even more sceptical of onset colour correction, a la DIT.
On a recent TV series, we simply shot to RED DRIVES instead of card. Every couple of hours of set time we swapped out the drive and sent them off to the lab (in this case Deluxe) with a runner at lunch and the end of the day.
Deluxe would do visual and tech checks of every print take, two sets of backups to editorial drives, backed it up to their networked storage and this was then also backed up on their LTO tape system.
The main chance of failure with this approach is then the camera drive itself. I feel like it's minimised by swapping it out religiously every couple of hours. Even if the drive fails, there's often a chance of recovery of most of the drive if a particular sector / take goes down.
The most you loose is a couple of hours of set time if the drive totally fails. More than likely you'd also know on set if that happens to the drive because the camera will report a fault as you shoot. Not a bad trade off. And i can have one less person on set. Just a loader instead of a DIT and loader.
jb
Always a great idea to have multiple drives as backups. On a recent commercial, we changed the drive out each time we changed the shot.... There was plenty of time to copy the footage onto multiple drives before you needed that drive back to shoot on.
Corey
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Thanks for the tip! I'm downloading it now!
Corey
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