How are you backing up?

pronghornproductions

pronghornproductions

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So I am contemplating a purchase of the 150, but am currently shooting a DVX100, I like the fact that I always have a back up of the footage (the original tape) and going to SD cards has me a bit stand-offish on hard drive cameras..............How are you all backing up your footage? Are you capturing it and then off loading to mini-dv.......or are you storing it all on a hard drive?
 
storing it all on my hard drive... im currently in the market to get another jsut to mirror that drive
 
External harddrive. I just bought another terabyte drive and I know will have to buy more. You'll probably want to pick up something with fast transfer speed in that USB 2.0 just doesn't feel fast enough. Firewire 800 or eSata are pretty good.
 
Fry's has 2 terabyte maxtor 800,400 firwire,usb2 drives for $199 at the moment. Thats is cheap for 2 terabytes. I keep buying drives until the blue-ray thing comes down a little bit more.

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The same Fry's had internal 1.5 TB Seagate Barracuda's for $120 two days ago. I bought a pair of 1TB barracuda's for $100 two weeks ago, and striped them together.

I also back up the raw footage onto Blu-Ray disks in case the HD's fail. Doesn't cost much more then the high end Panasonic miniDV tapes I was using with my DVX.
 
Capt Quirk said:
I back up carefully, and use the rearview mirror. I almost backed up over the cat last week...
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That's what I'm talking about - not the cat however. I loves the animals.

Video-wise I back-up via USB hard drives.
Not only do I save my mts files but I also place my Vegas veg files and any other media, graphic or text files that I use for a project. USB drives are so low in price right now and they are plug and play...
How could you lose?
 
I bought an ACER desktop from ebay from a guy who bought it brand new, and formatted the drive to put windows XP on it, but he could not get it to install due to Acer not having windows xp drivers for the hard drive controller...

Anyway, I got it for $200, had a guy from singapore translate the singapore website and downloaded the drivers from there.

I turned that computer into a network storage unit running windows home server.
It sits in the "computer room" and when ever I need it, I send a wirless ping command to "wake on lan" and in about 5 minutes it comes online. I then just drage the files to the stoarge drive. When ever I see a deal on terrabyte drives, I pick one up, and stick it inside.
The way windows home server works is, when you add a drive, it just adds it into the mix and just expands that drive segment.

For me, that would be my G drive. If I add a terrabyte to it, it just increases the D drive size by one terrabyte. No need to format, partition etc. It just does it. The way it writes to the drive is done so like a raid server in that it does not put everything in on one drive, but spreads it out. If one of the drives dies, I can just replace it, and it will build back the failed info, although that takes about 24 hours to do.

When I am done transfering, I just log on remotely using windows Xp pro's remote desktop and then I am looking at the desktop on my laptop screen. I just shut down like normal, and it turns off.

If I am out of town and happen to need one of the files on the system, I can just log on remotely through the net via windows home servers website.

your computer name.homeservers.com


I also pick up external usb hard drives from time to time.

I always wanted to use a blu-ray disk, but they costs are so high, that hard drives are best for me.
 
Archive the contents of the SD card on one drive, then

Archive the contents of the SD card on one drive, then

point FCP at that drive, and select another drive as the transcoding destination.

I may be paranoid, but I then make a further copy of the *archive* material (because quite a bit smaller) after transcoding.

Two originals, and one transcoded version. Works for me.
 
Because I'm not real familiar w/ blu ray, this may be a stupid question........Doesn't blu-ray compress the footage similiar to DVD so if you back up footage on blu-ray won't it be compressed and lose video quality?

I am looking at it as saving footage to an AVI file as opposed to an Mpeg4, is this not an accurate comparison?
 
pronghornproductions said:
Because I'm not real familiar w/ blu ray, this may be a stupid question........Doesn't blu-ray compress the footage similiar to DVD so if you back up footage on blu-ray won't it be compressed and lose video quality?

I am looking at it as saving footage to an AVI file as opposed to an Mpeg4, is this not an accurate comparison?
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There is a difference between encoding to blu ray for authoring and creating a data blu ray back up disc.

In the latter, the blu ray disc is an optical disc holding the information you copy it to.
 
I see, so you are encoding it to store the raw uncompressed file rather than an authored file that would normally be compressed?

So could you also do this with a standard def. DVD for backing up AVI files without loss in quality?
 
pronghornproductions said:
Because I'm not real familiar w/ blu ray, this may be a stupid question........Doesn't blu-ray compress the footage similiar to DVD so if you back up footage on blu-ray won't it be compressed and lose video quality?

I am looking at it as saving footage to an AVI file as opposed to an Mpeg4, is this not an accurate comparison?
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I think they're talking about data Bluray discs you, I think you can get 25 gig on a single layer and 50 gig (of data) on a dual layer Bluray disc. Hope that explains it for yah...
 
DVD and blu ray data backups are identical to backing up to a hard drive, except it takes more time to actually burn the optical disc.

But raw video files like QT or AVI take up a lot space, so don't think you can really save a whole library.

And it takes time to burn the discs.
 
What about backing up in the field? Do you guys use any of those portable hard drives with SD slots that photographer uses to backup their DSLR images?
 
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