If money was no object what would be the best editing setup?
If you could have anything you wanted to shoot and edit a major motion picture what would you need?
joshua
couple of questions for you
What format are you shooting this feature in?
This movie is being shot in HD 1080i
Why would you capture uncompressed HD? (why not do an
offline cut)
What is the difference between uncompressed HD and an offline cut?
What capture card are you considering?
I do not know how a capture card works
How are you going to deliver the feature?
The feature will be delivered Strait to DVD and possible film transfer (if thats what you meant)
What applications are you going to be using?
The software we will be using will be Final Cut Studio and Shake (latest release)
Do you REALLY need 16 GB of ram . . . HONESTLY?
I realize 16GB is a lot but if we have the money and it makes things faster whats the harm.
2x30" displays??????(2x24" Dells are AMAZING)
Again If we have the money and the space...
do you have a desk that can fit them?
yes
do you REALLY need the quadro 4500 (the 1900 offers
similar performace at a WHOLE lot less)
Im not sure I will do some research on it.
Have you edited stuff before?
No I have not but this is not for me its for a new production company.
You have 1.5 TB of usable storage in your system
the Graid "pro" is not industry standard . . . there
is no real industry standard for storage. However
Fiber Channel is more prevalent in most high def
suites. External Sata raids and internal Sata raids
are gaining popularity however fiber channel offers
"hardware security" with raid controller cards that
let you set up Raid 5 or Raid 6.
Fiber channel is definitely the way we want to go.
What capture card are you looking at?
for HD there are 2 major players BlackMagic
(decklink) or AJA (KONA)
Again I am not sure but I will find out, once I know what they are.
how are you going to monitor the audio?
Can you elaborate?
anyway your workflow determines the machine
configuration..so...what will your workflow be?
Can you elaborate?
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