By Staff, June 12, 2008
As someone who spends a great deal of his workday just organizing media that's already been digitized, I appreciated Terence Curren's assessment that tapeless workflows "blend [...] the worst parts of the film workflow with the worst parts of the videotape mindset." In other words: lots of footage to sort through, and you still have to marry the sound.
Nonlinear is the 'NL' in NLE. And that was such a leap forward from the flatbed days that it seemed random access in the recording format (allowing you to jump nonlinearly through clips) was going to be a similar game changer
. The problem with the tapeless formats like P2 and XDCam is that they require a different skill set, one that even some assistant editors, who are the most organizational of the anal retentives, can't even get a handle on. Media named with strings of letters and numbers that are essentially meaningless is not for the human brain. It is for the machine brain. You need to know that going in.
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