First Time Out with EX1: Nighttime Video

basspig-

im very sorry to hear about drive failures. in this day of flash aquisition, the back end digital workflow is as important as the camera with every link in the chain being at risk. there are moments that good ol tape and a pd150 seem like wonderful tools.

i hope the system is up and running soon.

thumbs up

be well

rob
 
This was a considerable setback. I have a new drive coming from Newegg in a day or two. But the problem is the 650GB of lost production work. Mostly output rendering. That includes some camera folders that wouldn't fit on the other drives.
One of the traps one falls into with this camera is the ease with which massive deluges of video data can be created. I filled up two 500GB drives last week. I was using the RAID array for the rendered output, but also for my Norton Ghost backups of the system drive image, because they are over 20GB in size now--to big to fit on DVD.
Ordering 25 BD-R discs for $625, to offload some of this footage.
Yup, acquisition is fast, but you pay the piper on the archiving.
I was out shooting video at a dam/waterfall yesterday and used a laptop to offload the footage so I could continue shooting.
I always worry if the laptop drive were to fail, say, at a wedding, what a crisis that would be. Really need about 7 or 8 16GB cards for each camera, so I don't have delete any video and entrust it to a mechanical hard drive.
When I got home, I saw that it was taking 229 minutes estimated remaining time to offload via the wireless LAN, so I made the wired 100mb CAT5 connection work, but with that, I was denied access to the network (unable to browse the network--don't have permission, etc). Finally, I offloaded the camera to the workstation, and deleted the card, then used the camera to transfer the laptop files to the NLE. That took 17 minutes.
So now everything is on the NLE, and I am hoping the other drives don't fail!
Lots of disc on order.
 
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