Question for Post production Sound Designers...

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NomadxJess

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I will soon be finished with the Director's Cut of a full length independent feature and was wondering if it is possible for a post production sound designer, using protools, was capable of working off of a 500 GB G-Raid external drive that contains the complete Project File?? In my case the project file is about 150 GB... I'd love to be able to just drop the G-Raid off at my sound designers studio and allow him to do his work, just not aware if it is possible..

Thanks for any help...

Jesse Gullion
 
ProTools does not support RAID volumes. I think that the computer will see the G-RAID as just a big HD and all of the RAID is handled by the G-RAID hardware, but I'm unsure if this is enough for ProTools to get around it. You could always do what you're describing with a non-RAIDed firewire or USB2 drive.

Hope that helps.

Chris
 
Agreed.

However, first you are going to want to cut your movie into as close to 20 minute reels as possible. Don't give your sound designer a gigantic picture file to work from. It's a pain in the ass. I've done it, and don't like it. Plus, if you plan on ever going to film, you are going to need to break it into reels anyway. So break it into reels, and put them on an external firewire hard drive. Your sound designer should have one anyway. BTW, how long is you movie? 150gb seems kinda big. Make sure you give your sound designer a medium res picture. It doesn't need to be full res. Saves on space and processing power.

-Dave
 
Dave_Fisk said:
Agreed.

However, first you are going to want to cut your movie into as close to 20 minute reels as possible. Don't give your sound designer a gigantic picture file to work from. It's a pain in the ass. I've done it, and don't like it. Plus, if you plan on ever going to film, you are going to need to break it into reels anyway. So break it into reels, and put them on an external firewire hard drive. Your sound designer should have one anyway. BTW, how long is you movie? 150gb seems kinda big. Make sure you give your sound designer a medium res picture. It doesn't need to be full res. Saves on space and processing power.

-Dave
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EDIT:

Hell, I didn't even full read what you wrote. I pretty much just quoted you.

Unless my math is WAYYY off, 150 gigs would be just over 10 hours of finished material?

DV runs 'bout 13 gigs per hour, 3.3-3.6 megs per second. Or so I thought.

OF course does the project file inflclude lost mof multi-takes and unsde footage in the efditor, but floating around as scraps of them are being used?

Lastly, couln't you just smpte up a excport full video track (say at 1/4 res), soundtrack uncompressed, do all your tweaking and changing, and then use the new soundtrack and save the other and dump the half sized video? I have had to do something like this for a production in two giant chunks of footage just over an hour each. There was not any real sound efects design, thank God, mostly just taking sub par audio from people who didnt know how to work a mixing board and make it sound better. Of course, I was running MiniDV, so it may not even be that simple.
 
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