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As the industry changes and tapeless conforms have become so much more prevalent, I was just wondering how many of you have been dealing with this issues. Tape has virtually become distinct! Ive noticed that I need to almost double my conform time when bidding. What use to take an hour to ingest and hit assemble, now takes several hours to bring in from a drive then almost have to eye match the reference because it never seems to conform accurately! Always seems to be a couple frms. off or so? Have you guys experienced these issues? What are your experiences with the tapeless workflow? Thanks much!
This is always the case. Unfortunately clients believe that tapeless means cheaper, but they rarely understand: not in post.
From now on, you have to invest into quick drives and fast network, not expensive tape decks.:)By the way I find the archiving the biggest problem.
So true on your statement! Although a 20+year veteran on Archiving to tape! lol When we began to Archive to the server…I thought a miracle had taken place. The speed, ease of use and retrieval seemed so fast and easy.
Tapeless doesn’t have issues with compression or chroma sub-sampling, which is nice. The only big difference for me is that I can soft-import all the footage that was shot for a spot and have it very close by. This makes grabbing handles or an alternate take a very simple process. I really like that and will happily deal with the other nonsense for that advantage.
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