I LOVE Neofinder. Been using it for years.
interesting I nearly went with Simply, did you go for LT09?, I found them friendly too, but I went with quantum, good but support not so personal,… the drives are all IBM, … but good friendly support is important.
we had ours for a while so its lto8 , 12TB native
Tape costs going up 40%.
Just reminds me of the question:
Of those of you who are freelancers or run your own shop, how much have you raised your rates in the in last 2-4 years to make up for all those price increases?
For reference: CPI increased 22.13% (from 2020 - 2024); Average wage of a worker with Master’s Degree (proxy for degree of specialization) went up 7.95% (from 2020 - 2024).
Based on data from BLS.
I’m guilty of not doing this enough. Some of us just have round day rates burned in our head and keep using them, or have clients that know them. But realistically, you should have raised your rates at least 10%, probably better 15% on what you charged in 2020 for the same work.
interesting,… LTo9 only by 15% still worth going for.
I was randomly doing a google search and stumbled across this solution for Ethernet to Tape…seems interesting to me I have an LTO8 and LTO 9 tape standalone for backup and storage offloads. Been wondering how to make it more accessible to my team spread across the office… anyone with experience with this product?
It’s an interesting solutions to get noisy drives away from your desk. But I would make sure that the software supports it.
Reaching out to the Hedge/Cannister folks maybe worthwhile as I’m sure they have looked at that solution and can tell you more.
Thank you - I contacted the company and they are already interoperable with Canister and several others as well. They have a hybrid SAS cable that lets me mix up LTO8 and LTO9 on the same device. Hindsight, the setup seems pretty straightforward… I am looking forward to acquiring one.
sad
You want to save 90% or more on your flame storage costs?
→ use openclips workflow , never use your framestore
→ use DWAB EXR everywhere
→ write a script
to prune old versions before archive
at that point your archives will be in the kilobytes.
Your project will be tiny and you can archive it to a bluray disk if you wanted to…
Honestly we do archive raw footage because of DIT business integrated into replayboys but other than that using modern workflows we have been able to save incredible amounts of money and time
preach…
Can’t say that’s true (cost going up). Just ordered some more. Looked at order history:
Nov '24: $76.95/tape
Feb '23: $68.99/tape
Sep '22: $78.99/tape
So there’s that. Bought from B&H. HP LTO8.
DWAB? What compression level? I’ve never used it thinking: “compression bad!” haha…
45 default is fine.
Honestly do you own testing, but its better than prores444… my clients dont have enough money for 8K PIZ …
there are some posts here , you can actually change a config file (sw cfg something) to get dwab for your timeliens and general caching.
Bascially its “visually losless” compression, go one step further and denoise your plates before publish and you will get even WAY smaller files
only reason I wouldnt do dwab would be
- high end greenscreen shots shot on arriraw
and thats about it.
Yes there is some minor generational loss, sure.
No colorist has ever noticed (one complained because it said dwab, so i took the dwab and reencoded it to piz and he was happy…)
We have been doing only dwab@45 for all shows since like 5 years. Been such a HUGE money and time saver
hell I can easily playback UHD timelines that are cached(rendered tlfx) ona framestore thats just 10Gbit/s because the files are so crazy tiny. and its still higher quality than caching to prores444…
Dont forget to not put log into 16bf exrs, always go linear , or rec709 its fine too - we use 32bit float for log.