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Re: Working with efx offline and online
by Jeff Brown on Oct 2, 2006 at 6:25:04 pm

As a stopgap, firewire drives are cheap. Export the footage to file sequences; I'd recommend PNG files, as it is lossless compression, but efficient. How long are the sequences your folks are working with? Short clips can be previewed in RAM. Or, an downsampled branch can be added to the compositing flow to preview in SD.

But, yeah, in the end, HD requires gear that can handle it.

From my estimating, a basic HD setup for efx/graphics (beefy computer, RAID, output card, and monitor) can be had for less than a BetaCam BVW. There's always lease/purchase (for about 18% per annum)

-jeff

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Working with efx offline and online by Lili Lab on Sep 30, 2006 at 4:57:17 pm
- Re: Working with efx offline and online by Del Holford on Oct 2, 2006 at 3:22:28 pm
- Re: Working with efx offline and online by Jeff Brown on Oct 2, 2006 at 6:25:04 pm

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