Hello All
We have been shooting on P2 for close to a year now. I have hard drives coming out my ears! We archive completed projects in both Project form, and rendered form. We now primarily use Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 between 3 or 4 editing suites. In the past, we have projects archived in Avid, Edius and older versions of Premiere.
Im looking for a way to catalog everything that is on my offline hard drives in some sort of database form. We have developed several crude ways of finding our projects, footage, customers, ETC, but before this gets out of control, I need to find a way to get a database started. Because there is everything from P2 footage to graphics, scripts, and other types of media archived, It would be really nice if I could find something that would scan a hard drive, and then dump the contents into an editable, user friendly database I could simply research by drive number or file name.
Im sure we are not the only production company out there suffering from the Tapeless Storage database solution. I would love to have some input or suggestions from others.
It would probably be a good topic for DVX user to start a whole forum over this, now that Sony and others have officially joined the Solid State aqsition revolution.
Many Thanks
David
For what it is worth, I have all of our off-line hard drives stored in a fire resistant, leaded-drywall-encased, (same drywall they use in Xray labs) small metal Vault located inside the building. It is strategically placed against an outside wall of our studio. There is a hidden, steel hook, welded directly to the back the vault, accessable from the outside of the building in case of a fire. The Idea is that One could simply pull up a truck with a tow chain and yank the vault right through the wall to safety. Totally destructive to the building, but is there as a last resort safety net for our Data and footage. Our studio is on our property, in rural setting, and is not in an area that is easily accessed by vehicles. I would not reccommend this for studio's or facilities sitting on a street corner. You may show up to work one day with a hole in the wall. Non the less, My fire department is aware of this Idea and the hidden hookup, and condones it.
We have been shooting on P2 for close to a year now. I have hard drives coming out my ears! We archive completed projects in both Project form, and rendered form. We now primarily use Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 between 3 or 4 editing suites. In the past, we have projects archived in Avid, Edius and older versions of Premiere.
Im looking for a way to catalog everything that is on my offline hard drives in some sort of database form. We have developed several crude ways of finding our projects, footage, customers, ETC, but before this gets out of control, I need to find a way to get a database started. Because there is everything from P2 footage to graphics, scripts, and other types of media archived, It would be really nice if I could find something that would scan a hard drive, and then dump the contents into an editable, user friendly database I could simply research by drive number or file name.
Im sure we are not the only production company out there suffering from the Tapeless Storage database solution. I would love to have some input or suggestions from others.
It would probably be a good topic for DVX user to start a whole forum over this, now that Sony and others have officially joined the Solid State aqsition revolution.
Many Thanks
David
For what it is worth, I have all of our off-line hard drives stored in a fire resistant, leaded-drywall-encased, (same drywall they use in Xray labs) small metal Vault located inside the building. It is strategically placed against an outside wall of our studio. There is a hidden, steel hook, welded directly to the back the vault, accessable from the outside of the building in case of a fire. The Idea is that One could simply pull up a truck with a tow chain and yank the vault right through the wall to safety. Totally destructive to the building, but is there as a last resort safety net for our Data and footage. Our studio is on our property, in rural setting, and is not in an area that is easily accessed by vehicles. I would not reccommend this for studio's or facilities sitting on a street corner. You may show up to work one day with a hole in the wall. Non the less, My fire department is aware of this Idea and the hidden hookup, and condones it.