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Regarding the transcoding; there must be other costs at play there. Because by my calculation[1], time on your Mac Pro costs £0.67 per second...which seems quit

• jimktrains2 13y ago
  Sometimes you price yourself out of a market because it's a pain and you _don't_ want to do it, but will if someone pays you well. I don't know all the details here, but I would venture to say that it's around that idea.
• modfodder 13y ago
  You also typically need someone watching over the footage, making sure everything is transcoded correctly (especially in the early days as the software would crap out halfway through). Most producers were under the mistaken impression, at least early on, that shooting on the RED would save a day of film transfer. It didn't, it just switched that day over to the edit house, preferably to a dedicated machine with an assistant. It still took a day or two to get footage ready for the editor. Also, early on, the camera dept. didn't want anything to do with onset media management and transcoding (the job of the newly created DIT), but over time, camera realized their mistake (in losing that control and revenue) and now DITs are typically part of the camera dept and most transcoding is done on set. Now post will get a drive of the raw footage and the transcodes.
• KaiserPro 13y ago
  that includes storage and basic QA. You have to remember that staff are needed to over see this, data has to be conformed into something sensible. and that post production is expensive.