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  1. Kevin Colber
    Thanks, I appreciate the feedback from the field.
  2. Kevin Colber
    Most post houses ask for the dailies to have all the channels of audio baked in. I would check in with them and see what they prefer. It's probably also worth quietly checking in with the sound guy about the hissing in the track.
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    When you create the new project be sure you set the timeline FPS setting to match what the Odessey will be sending you before creating a timeline- that option goes away after you create your first timeline. A mismatch there will prevent you from getting a Live image in my experience.
  4. Kevin Colber
    I'm going to a Junior. Even down here in Florida we shoot in so many houses for commercials that dealing with a large cart inside is really difficult. Most people with 04's or Yaegers have a Junior or Rubbermaid to bring in the locations.
  5. Kevin Colber
    Hey gang- any thoughts on the various CFast readers out there? I found through trial and error that not all USB3 CF readers were created equal and I'd like to cut down on buying the same gear (only different) this time around.
  6. Kevin Colber
    Great to hear things came together for you! It looks like of the 1st gen Echo Express only the pro had multiple slots for cards. Still a great peripheral that will remain a major part of your mobile kit. Have fun on the next one!
  7. Kevin Colber
    To the OP- your system is more than capable of quick transfers. Look for a second hand Echo Express, pop an ESATA card or two in there and you are transferring nice and quick. You will even be able to do some solid transcoding with it. Thunderbolt has more than enough pipe. You'll hit the hard limit of the spinning drives before running out of bandwidth for transfers. When I said "that setup" in the previous post I was referring to a 5 year old macbook pro, not your system. You can leverage that thunderbolt port heavily for a lot of flexibility.
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    Even medium budget commercials in my small market spring for a real DMT or DIT- many small budget as well. As for it being a laptop, a modern MBP is an astonishing machine. It is a great collection of special, high end bits. A 5 year old laptop may be just as capable for copying and verifying data, but it is slow as hell and will keep you from being re-hired unless you are on a flat rate (even then production doesnt want to sit for 2 hours while a 5 year old machine moves 128GB of data over FW800 and verifies using md5- not to mention getting the cards back with the camera package on the last day). As this pertains to the original posters question- that setup is not a reasonable option for the OP to be successful. A modern MPB utilizing thunderbolt ports to leverage maximum speed out of peripherals is not just recommended, it is expected these days. I'm not exactly sure where this discussion is going, or what point is trying to be made, but I think the DIT's in the thread have made it pretty clear what is expected of the position both in experience and gear. I'm going to bow out of this one unless the OP or other knowledge seekers have questions I can help with, it seems like this thread is headed off the rails :)
  9. Kevin Colber
    A guy "with a five year old macbook copying stuff around" is a huge liability and I don't know a single DP or have worked on a job that would take that risk. I've known some reality folks that operate like that.....scary stuff. It's safe to say that the majority of real production here in the states requires even media managers to have some basic DIT skills.
  10. Kevin Colber
    I just don't see any point in spending time writing scripts- especially on set- when there are so many tools that do these things great already. I want the most streamlined and reliable workflow for any given job nailed down and ready to go before I even hit the set- tricky issues with luminance issues and performance hits when applying LUTs are an invitation for breaking the workflow and my concentration. That needs to be avoided at all costs- hence mature tools with great support and established workflows.
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  12. Kevin Colber
    Correct me if I am wrong, but FFmpeg is a command line encoder, right? There are a lot of tools out there with easy to navigate and powerful GUIs- not to mention their efficiency in leveraging multi-core chips and GPUs for encoding.
  13. Kevin Colber
    I really struggled with ProxyMill on my last episodic. We had a mix of cameras and some would not render the video properly- I went back and forth with their tech support but was unable to get it fixed. Setting up a watch folder in Adobe Media Encoder was easier and faster in the long run.
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