Getting EX1 Footage onto my Harddrive

[boweevil98]

hello

i am AC'ing a job and i trying to get EX1 footage on to our Lacie hard drive.

I am getting a MacBook Pro and I was wondering what is the quickest way to get the footage from the cards to laptop to the harddrive??

Should I also get a sxs card reader??

Thanks,
Cristina

[thxdave]

You don't want (or need) the reader. Just put the SxS card into the ExpressCard slot on the left side and drag the BPAV folders into folders that you create on your HDs (either internal or external drives).

[carl@brazos]

This is pasted from another post - but might work for you:

The solution that I have found best for me is to dump in the field or at the studio using my MacBook Pro. I have two Maxtor 320gb USB drives that I have gaff-taped together with rubber spacers in between. I connect both drives to the MacBook pro via USB and they are buss powered. I set up a software mirrored raid with them, so when I dump directly from the card to the drives I have two copies (just in case something goes wrong). I then dump this mirrored drive to my editing computers stripped raid when I am ready to edit. When the mirrored drive gets full, I take the gaff-tape off and put one of the drives in our media closet as an archive (mirrored drives can boot as single drives without any problem). I then tape a new Maxtor 320gb drive to the other drive and re-format them as a new mirrored raid for dumping. It may sound involved, but it is really easy to keep up with, and I always have my data on two drives this way. Incidentally, I don't really notice a difference in speed from dumping to the USB mirrored raid verses the internal drive. I like it, but it may not work for everyone. ;-)

I would be a little leery of dumping directly to a single external drive. That is putting a lot of eggs in one basket. I used to just dump directly to the internal drive, but that is not much better, and you can run out of room quickly.

Also, I have one of the new 1TB Lacie little big disk. these are great for scratch disks and as a volume for video files while editing, but I would NEVER use one of these striped RAID drives for archiving. They use Lacie's proprietary raid, and if they die or get corrupted, you are screwed... Only use on of these drives if you already have a backup elsewhere, and always store your .fcp files on your internal drive - that way, by using Time Machine you can keep a keep a archive of each days progress...