Hey, I am about to start a new project, and I have around 200-300 gigs of footage I need to archive off of my drives so that I can make room for more. Does anyone have any suggestions as to the best/most efficient way of doing this? I considered just exporting it to tape through a premiere timeline, and also burning it all to DVD's, does anyone have any suggestions?
Footage Archival
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Re: Footage Archival
The best way is to use a dedicated Mobile Rack ( http://www.chieftec.com/products/Assories/Moble.htm) with a new IDE HD for each project. This rack is cheap. Buy more than one. An IDE HD drive is very cheap. You can build an external rack system as well if you are using laptop to edit.
If you have biger projects than use of raid with extr. rack system is a good investment.
The best way is to use a dedicated Mobile Rack ( http://www.chieftec.com/products/Assories/Moble.htm) with a new IDE HD for each project. This rack is cheap. Buy more than one. An IDE HD drive is very cheap. You can build an external rack system as well if you are using laptop to edit.
If you have biger projects than use of raid with extr. rack system is a good investment.
Bart_Boge
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Re: Footage Archival
I bought two WiebeTech ComboDock FW800 interfaces. It takes about 90 seconds to swap in a new IDE drive for each big project. I use a 200GB Seagate Barracuda as the main "working" drive, then, once the project is finished, I'll use the Media Manager in FCP4HD to trim it down a bit--then save everything onto a cheap IBM/Hitachi 120GB drive ($90 ea., probably less by the time you read this). The I just set the whole HD on the shelf with other client materials/info for that project. I build in the price of the drive into the final budget.
The HUGE benefit is that if you are ever going to revisit an old project or want to steal some footage from one project to use in another, it only takes 90 seconds to go from archived to ready-to-edit-like-the-last-day-you-worked-on-it. No recapturing or rerendering anything. Seeing that HD prices are continuing to plummet I think it is a worthwhile bit of hardware extravagance. Heck, if it saves you an hour or two of work scanning tape logs/recapturing/rerendering, you have recouped the expense in lost time anyway!
I bought two WiebeTech ComboDock FW800 interfaces. It takes about 90 seconds to swap in a new IDE drive for each big project. I use a 200GB Seagate Barracuda as the main "working" drive, then, once the project is finished, I'll use the Media Manager in FCP4HD to trim it down a bit--then save everything onto a cheap IBM/Hitachi 120GB drive ($90 ea., probably less by the time you read this). The I just set the whole HD on the shelf with other client materials/info for that project. I build in the price of the drive into the final budget.
The HUGE benefit is that if you are ever going to revisit an old project or want to steal some footage from one project to use in another, it only takes 90 seconds to go from archived to ready-to-edit-like-the-last-day-you-worked-on-it. No recapturing or rerendering anything. Seeing that HD prices are continuing to plummet I think it is a worthwhile bit of hardware extravagance. Heck, if it saves you an hour or two of work scanning tape logs/recapturing/rerendering, you have recouped the expense in lost time anyway!
Bart_Boge
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Re: Footage Archival
Watch out for the typical enemies: magnetic fields & G-shock. Keep it away from speaker coils, CRTs, etc., and store it where it won't fall to the ground and trash the internals. HDs are pretty well sealed up, so humidity and dust aren't really too much of a problem, but if you wanted to be anal about it you could seal it in a cheap zip-lock bag. I have been using "Container Store-esque" plastic bins, and I keep all related paperwork and notes regarding the project in the same place. As I am fairly new at the game, I am sure space will eventually become an issue, but for now my system works well for me.
Watch out for the typical enemies: magnetic fields & G-shock. Keep it away from speaker coils, CRTs, etc., and store it where it won't fall to the ground and trash the internals. HDs are pretty well sealed up, so humidity and dust aren't really too much of a problem, but if you wanted to be anal about it you could seal it in a cheap zip-lock bag. I have been using "Container Store-esque" plastic bins, and I keep all related paperwork and notes regarding the project in the same place. As I am fairly new at the game, I am sure space will eventually become an issue, but for now my system works well for me.