Hi,
I work for a live events production company, we work for conference clients and produce awards shows for them as well as film AGM etc.
We have just moved in the market of offering them an ability to edit down their shows in to a montage or to provide them with their entire show on DVD.
We're running FCP and using Panasonic P2 cameras for filming. I've come in to problem that with our company there is need for a quick change around and cleaning of cameras as we only have 2 and they are in constant use. I can't seem to find a quick way to back up these files safely and quickly, and with information that i can refer back to in the edit at a later date. At the moment when a camera comes back from a show, we connect it up through firewire, open up FCP and use the log and transfer system this provides us with sometimes hundreds of clips of the show or the filming of cutaways for the edit. We're struggling to find a good solution to 1. Back up the media and keep it for reference or use at a later date, and 2. a quick and informative way of ingesting this media into FCP. I've read a few different workflows for working with P2 media and just cant seem to make any relate to our needs. Is there any information you guys could offer that may help? I've looked into buying a firewire hard drive to record onto, but not sure that this would give us what we need as sometimes we can be recording up to 5 hours of show. Our cameras have 4 SD 16gb cards each. So we're finding that we're using alot of space on our back just as back up and storage.
Any information on this would be really great as we're struggling to keep up!
I work for a live events production company, we work for conference clients and produce awards shows for them as well as film AGM etc.
We have just moved in the market of offering them an ability to edit down their shows in to a montage or to provide them with their entire show on DVD.
We're running FCP and using Panasonic P2 cameras for filming. I've come in to problem that with our company there is need for a quick change around and cleaning of cameras as we only have 2 and they are in constant use. I can't seem to find a quick way to back up these files safely and quickly, and with information that i can refer back to in the edit at a later date. At the moment when a camera comes back from a show, we connect it up through firewire, open up FCP and use the log and transfer system this provides us with sometimes hundreds of clips of the show or the filming of cutaways for the edit. We're struggling to find a good solution to 1. Back up the media and keep it for reference or use at a later date, and 2. a quick and informative way of ingesting this media into FCP. I've read a few different workflows for working with P2 media and just cant seem to make any relate to our needs. Is there any information you guys could offer that may help? I've looked into buying a firewire hard drive to record onto, but not sure that this would give us what we need as sometimes we can be recording up to 5 hours of show. Our cameras have 4 SD 16gb cards each. So we're finding that we're using alot of space on our back just as back up and storage.
Any information on this would be really great as we're struggling to keep up!
