Labelling Tapes
It’s boring and pretty easy to overlook, but when editing any video, at all, I strongly believe in the idea of serialised labeling. Nothing is more frustrating when revisiting an old project, or stealing footage from another job than to have the NLE ask you for “Tape 1″
Even for the small jobs, the one offs, I think it’s worth using simple and unique labelling that will enable you to find a tape again if you
read onSetting up OpenFiler
I’ve been setting up an OpenFiler server lately. I have mixed feelings, it is a slick and well put-together package, but if you go for the open-source version then you’re pretty much on your own. Most of the documentation is either available to commercial clients only or sold commercially. The open-source version has all the features, but none of the support or documentation.
So far here’s a few things I’ve had problems with…
My discs didn’t show
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