Posted by Richard Crowley on 10/11/06 17:12

"nobody special" wrote ...

>> Well if that's all you needed, what the heck.
>>
>> Typically as people increase their capabilities their creative vision
>> also broadens, which leads to looking for the next step. I would
>> consider looking at Final Cut Studio or one of the other systems with
>> Multi-camera editing capability if you aren't using one already. You
>> may not be doing much post now but it may give you some ideas for down
>> the road.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>> http://www.pro-tape.com
>
> No, for something like this you really REALLY want to live-switch it as
> much as possible. If it goes 4 hours on 2 cameras, you waste an entire
> 8-hour day just digitizing before you can even make a single cut, you'd
> be better off using tape-to-tape machine control for edits. Then
> editing would take you another 10 hours. Meanwhile, there's more
> meetings to tape; your drives are filling up, you have another 4-hours
> of output time for each project...you'd NEVER get ahead, unless
> meetings were only once a week or fewer. And your coverage becomes less
> timely.
>
> NLE's are fabulous tools, but not the solution to everything.

AMEN, brother!
This kind of production is virtually always done live-
switched to tape for that reason.

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