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Dealing With Raw Data

Garbage In …

Information feeds that are used as content sometimes arrive in raw, unstructured, and unformatted condition. Perhaps it is typed in on location when some video is being shot, or perhaps it is a scanned image of a rap sheet. Sometimes, there may be no data recorded at all, and you must rely on a debriefing session and conversations with crewmembers in order to extract the necessary information.

Ideally, information is gathered onsite when shooting footage, recording sound material, or taking photographs. If you are shooting plates to use as backgrounds for some later visual effects work, then the more you know about the location and position of the camera and the kind of lens being used, the easier it will ...

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