WahWay wrote:which one we choose has to be determine if it is value for money and other factors such as past reference, good track record and if it is of sound reputation, the quality of equipments, etc. Now we can argue it does not matter as long as the result is good which is fair point but that is not how things gets done in the public sector.
Back in the day (
early 00's) I built out an internet/broadcast dept. from scratch.
Was not easy - at all - because it was a new link between an already existing 'internet' and full fledged broadcast dept.
When I first arrived there was an initial setup of the "bubble" imac,
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remember those colorful creatures?), and the Canon XL-1.
First thing I said was the "DV imac" would not cut it. My boss said, "Steve J. says it will."
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He was an excellent boss, who actually listened and was open to logical reasoning)
I explained that the quality of videos seen from Apples movie trailers were far better because they were compressing them from a higher quality source, and compressing DV would be... yeah.
So, our broadcast dept. was using DvcPro 50 (
Panasonic) and Sonys digibeta
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did I get that right?)
I chose the 'cheaper of the two' and bought a used DvcPro 50 VTR for about 30k
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it was about 50k new then)
Also had to choose between a BlackMagic card for capture, or (and I cant for the life of me remember the name) another... and I went with whatever the other was as I was able to have real-time chroma key with Final Cut and my DVCpro 50 footage.
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BlackMagic had realtime, but not chroma key at the time - and if they did, forgive me, there must have been an extra reason on top.)
At the end of the day, I had to go through my boss, the COO and the CFO to get approval - it took a lot of leg work, 'proving' the validity each step of the way, and after a year and about 100k later we had a good system built out.
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Had AnyStream, I believe it was, for live events, that was put on our truck, etc)
Ended up making a deal with Akamai for about 20k a month (
seems a lot - back then, it was excellent for all the content we had), and it allowed us to integrate our internal IT dept as well to save cost.
Yeah... it was fun.
At the end of the day... (
you probably guessed it), my dept. got gobbled up by the Broadcast dept.
Lovely folks - the sound guys... amazing people to hang with - heck, enjoyed the whole team.
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4k sq foot studio that we shot music interviews on against a chroma wall - amongst other things)
A bit of reminiscing... but yeah... building things out can have a lot of factors to it.
* Especially working for a non-profit, which I did.
As for my query... it mainly just a curiosity - I have been out of the field since 2005.
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Turned in my Producer hat for that of a stay at home dad - kids are now grown, teaching my daughter Fusion... though Im an AE guy orginally - and looking at a camera... have been for a couple years now.) :p
Im a stickler and wanted a Sony A7s ii update, so waited forever... and - its fine...
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Well - to be honest, RED used to be my #1 choice back when 2k for $2k was a concept - that was abandoned... now its 6k for $6k) :p
But I really like the Panasonic s1h, but the BlackMagic Cameras are doing some things I really wish it would do. (Menu is a main thing - its just... clean)
Memory lane... sorry folks -