* Jusa Saari <jargonautti at hotmail.com> [2006-08-15 11:50:55]: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:00:19 -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > > On 14 Aug 2006, at 14:11, Matthew Toseland wrote: > >>> > >>> As far as compression goes for big media files... let the application > >>> do it.. or better, tell people to use more efficent formats. > >> > >> If we let the application do it, don't we end up with a hundred > >> different mutually incompatible ways of doing it? One app uses a > >> separate client metadata document, another uses a .avi.gz ... > > > > We can recommend a standard approach. > > Or you could simply add a "compress=yes/no" option to the insert FCP > command, which defaults to yes. Then the clients that really do know > better can disable it. >
That's what we were doing ... The debate is whether it should be yes by default or not. NextGen$
