Idiocy
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- chossy0
I was digitising from a harddrive based camera at my work and it was a new type different to the ones we use, so I decided o take in all the footage as the harddrive was full and it had footage that was ten minutes long 30 minutes long and about an hour long, I had plenty of time to do it and there was no rush.
One of the producers came in and said have you got the footage we need in yet?. I said not yet I am taking everything in so I can find out exactly how long things take and how big the files are once they are ingested, so that in future if you ask me how long things take or how big the files are I can give you plenty of information, if I don't do this then I cannot tell you how long things take and how big the files will be.
She replied with they take as long as they take and the files will be as big as they will be, so stop what your doing and just digitise the frootage I want.
I complied, about a week later the same camera came in it was full etc. etc. she asked me to take in all the footage, I began and she called me every ten minutes askin if it was done yet and how big would the files be as she needed them put on a drive and wanted to know how big a drive to buy, I said it will take as long as it takes and the files will be as big as they will be. Sorry I can't answer your question.People have no patience these days, and just dive right in without thinking about the bigger picture.