Talk:Dailies
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[edit] Merge suggestion, etc
I've added the {{merge}} template to this article, as Rushes is an article for essentially the same thing, but a different term for it. I've also added the {{originalresearch}} tag; this article is very wordy but without a single source to its name. I was reluctant to remove any of it as there's a lot of good info there - it just needs to be referenced.
If no-one objects in the next few days I'll merge the two articles, and if I find the time I'll try and tidy up the article in order for it to accord with Wikipedia's guidelines. Nuge talk 19:16, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
- I agree with the merge; don't forget Daily rushes, which is also aboout dailies. So this is actually a three-way merge! :-) Peter S. 15:26, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sources of Information / Original research / Format tone
- In Hollywood, the creation of film dailies has been internal to the motion picture industry. It is done only inside film studios film labs or at post production houses in the LA area. Most of the process is proprietary and, therefore, an industrial secret. Therefore, no books to my knowledge have every been written about film dailies. No one has ever been allowed to see the entire process except employees of these firms. Once the film (and video) dailies are no longer useful, the film dailies are destroyed so almost no one outside of the film studios has ever seen real film dailies (either on film or video). Almost all of the dailies available on eBay are second generation or worse. All have been highly modified. Therefore, there is very little reliable information about film dailies.
- This is probably why the only company in the world to currently sell video dailies for editing at home or in schools is located in India. (See the Star Movie Shop.) Even these dailies are not in the original format. Instead, they have been modified (window burn with the frame number and take name; inverse telecine, audio resynced, resized, etc.) so the footage can immediately be edited on a Macintosh computer by film students.
- Therefore, any article written about film dalies must always contain original research or unverified claims. With so many unknowns, it is almost impossible to write this article in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Robert Elliott December 2006
