Green Hornet
Veteran
I just got called to do a job same day service.
I was already at a job 3 hours away, but live 2 hours towards the new event.
They said it would be easy,
All I had to do was Shoot 1 hour of footage for a DVD that would be edited elsewhere. It needed to be done today, and sent out the next day.
Well the one hour turned into 2 hours due to set up, and getting all the b roll as requested.
The footage was downloaded to P2 store,
Once finished, I thought I would put it on DVD's.
As someone else stated, this was a nightmare to just transfer.
I couldn't do the transfer and dvd burn that night as it was already 11pm, and everyone was ready to leave.
I ended up going home and transfering on the desktop.
The naghtmare came when I had to think of a way to put the footage on dvd's.
My files are all 8 gig. I tried to shorten them by transfering cards ABOUT half way full. I was sucessfull on all but one card. That one was 5.9 gigs.
As one could see, I couldn't burn it to DVD.
It was too big.
I ended up transfering via edius, which sorted footage by likeness.
I then zipped all the files except the video to a 4 gig file.
I took the remaining files and divided them by size to be 4 gigs or less, and zipped these up and burned them to dvd.
I drew a diagram and indicated where all the files went before attempting to edit.
The disks shipped out today.
It turned out to be more time consuming than I planned for.
My question is, how is everyone else delivering footage to a client that is over 4 gig, like from an 8 gig card?
I was already at a job 3 hours away, but live 2 hours towards the new event.
They said it would be easy,
All I had to do was Shoot 1 hour of footage for a DVD that would be edited elsewhere. It needed to be done today, and sent out the next day.
Well the one hour turned into 2 hours due to set up, and getting all the b roll as requested.
The footage was downloaded to P2 store,
Once finished, I thought I would put it on DVD's.
As someone else stated, this was a nightmare to just transfer.
I couldn't do the transfer and dvd burn that night as it was already 11pm, and everyone was ready to leave.
I ended up going home and transfering on the desktop.
The naghtmare came when I had to think of a way to put the footage on dvd's.
My files are all 8 gig. I tried to shorten them by transfering cards ABOUT half way full. I was sucessfull on all but one card. That one was 5.9 gigs.
As one could see, I couldn't burn it to DVD.
It was too big.
I ended up transfering via edius, which sorted footage by likeness.
I then zipped all the files except the video to a 4 gig file.
I took the remaining files and divided them by size to be 4 gigs or less, and zipped these up and burned them to dvd.
I drew a diagram and indicated where all the files went before attempting to edit.
The disks shipped out today.
It turned out to be more time consuming than I planned for.
My question is, how is everyone else delivering footage to a client that is over 4 gig, like from an 8 gig card?
