Re: post production
There are sort of two camps (though they crossover).
One is the post with out mix, you do all the editing and prep and go some where else to do the mix. This is more comon in film where your mix stage needs 35mm playback and has to be big but the editing can take place almost any where.
The second camp is the do it all folks. If your mostly doing small format (TV, video and comercials) then you can mix in a much smaller room and it becomes posable to "do it all".
In the first camp you need to be able to output your work in away that is usable by the Mix facility and do the prep that they will expect like Cue sheets. You will Spec. the video they send you but you should have some numbers of places that can convert what they actual send you to what they were suposed to send you. Digitizing your video can be a life saver since a lot of the folks you will deal with don't know alot about what they are doing (generating video for you always seems do get delagated to the lowest intern) and I have given up trying to get usefull TC on tapes sent by ad agencys.
The second camp is more expensive but its all inhouse so you shouldn't have format issues (atleast out going).
Both camps need a good portable recording rig, acsess to a sound library (till you build up your own), acsess to a Foley stage and preferably a Foley artist and a good resolved PT system (the resolving isnt so critical in spots since they only run a minute or less but for longer format work it's essential.
You should be prepared to get sound delivered to you on 1/4" NAGRA,DAT, TC DAT, and sometimes (low budjet features and radio) Minidisc. If your not doing the dialog you probably won't have to transfer from NAGRA or TC DAT.
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SK
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