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Old 30th November 2009   #20
philper
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Originally Posted by TVPostSound View Post
Unbelievably, Magical Elves, (the company that does Top Chef, and others I mix) doing all reality, has 25 Avid offline bays, and 2 Avid online bays.
7 more offline bays coming soon (all Avid).

They are aware of all the FCP pitfalls.
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This is what I mean. TOP CHEF is a fairly big show, being produced in a "rolling" fashion with new episodes being completed during the season while earlier ones are shown. The companies I've worked for doing shows like this ("HouseCalls", "Diet Doctor", "Art of the Athlete", "PROPS" etc etc) were done on a smaller version of Magical Elves setup--ie networked Avids. ALL the other stuff to come through here, whether series or oneoff, has been from FCP.

Philip Perkins
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