Importing Footage

Countzer0

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Hi Guys,

A quick question regarding the quickest way to import footage. At present we record a lot of weddings, using two 5D mk3's plus a C100. We normally get through 8 64Gb cards for the 5D's and a 64Gb card for the C100. I back up all the footage to a separate hard drive then import the footage into FCPX direct from the hard drive. (I used to import directly from the cards to FCPX but would get lots of errors, something to do with FCPX not liking very large files).

The problem I am having is the length of time the import process takes. We have been hired to shoot a 3 day wedding in the South of France and we are required to produce a next day highlights film. (Using a New MacBook Pro Retina and two 1Gb G Raid mini's. USB 3.0). I figure if we finish recording 11:00pm and start the import I am not going to have much time do do the actual edit. I am using a Lexar USB 3.0 dual card reader to import the footage.

If anyone has any idea how to speed up the actual import process so I can get to doing the actual edit more quickly it would be most appreciated.

Thanks for any help or advice!
 
What are you using to copy the cards to the MacBook Pro- that's your bottleneck. USB3.0 readers would be one way to go. Also there are units out there that go directly from a card to a hard drive that could speed things up even more. Also you could switch to a direct hard drive reader like this and do away with cards completely, which would be my personal choice.

http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/hyperdeckshuttle/

-Noah
 
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