Avid and King Kong

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D_and_G

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This may be a stupid question so bear with me. :)

On the King Kong diary, they show the editing setup, and they have about 370 hours of footage stored in a 1.9 terabyte module.

So if 1080, 1 min = 1 GB.
Then 370 hours, 22,200 min's = 1.9 TB ?

Obviously they have to be editing in a resolution far, far less than 1080.

I know colour correction, fx etc... will be done in an uncompressed environment.

So the initial editing doesn't need that great resolution ?
The reason I ask is I was planning on getting a RAID solution (possibly X-serve) but maybe it's unnecessary for DVC-PRO HD feature footage (on Avid) ?

Sorry if this is a little esoteric, but what settings in Avid, allow you to edit that amount of footage, with that amount of storage, without compromising the editing necessities ?

I don't know if they are on an MC or Nitris or Adrenalin, so anyone with info. I'd be interested.

Also, PJ seemed to be laying on a couch making editing decisions based on the footage he was watching on a LCD/Plasma T.V - So why do you need the latest flatscreen/CRT monitors to edit off of, if you are doing cc in a pro edit suite or on a HD monitor ?

Maybe I'm overthinking the need to have the best set-up possible:)
 
well first you can offline at a much lower rez i.e. 2:1/3:1/10:1/20:1 .
and we have a 40+ in flat panel production monitor that could be easily confused with a standard "LCD/Plasma T.V"
 
If your editing at a lower rez like 20:1, wouldn't that compromise your editing choices/environment ?

I've always edited at the highest possible rez - not really home based editing.
Thus, I always imagined you woouldn't catch the nuances to the footage that is crucial for instinct/feel for shaping story.

ALthough, I've never had 370 hours of footage to edit. It just struck me as odd that with all the dough King Kong is spending ( supposedly vying with Titanic for the most expensive movie ever made - according to GQ) they would have 100 TB's and edit at a high rez. Maybe I'll have to consider low-rez editing:)

As to the monitor - 40" flat production monitor ? Damn, that would be sumptin'.
For a home based .
 
They are editing at 14:1 resolution for the offline in a shared environment. Then they conform at HD using DNxHD for screening purposes but the final conform will be done from 2K/4K scans via a DI process.

The SD and HD are only used as proxies throughout the post process.

Michael
 
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