Long term Work Flow

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ryanheron@gmail.com

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I'm spending the next 18 months shooting footage for a feature documentary.

My current equipment is as follows - Shooting onto two 8gb cards which I then transfer to a 3.5inch hardrive via my MacBook Pro. (the problem being I can't use the harddrives in the field as there not bus powered)

I'm looking at investing in some more hard drives and thinking of operating in the following manner - Having several bus powered notebook drives to transfer the footage to in the field. Then backing these up on a second lot of high capacity drives.

Is this a good plan? and can anyone recommend a good type of high capacity drive?

Cheers

Ryan
 
I use Firelite Firewire 800 drives in the field and they work great. I then dump to large external hard drives back at base camp.

If I have time, I burn the most important P2 cards to DVD's for extra protection.
 
ryanheron@gmail.com said:
Having several bus powered notebook drives to transfer the footage to in the field.
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PLEASE remember that setting everything up to transfer in the senario you suggest and then packing it all securely away can be a REAL pain in the ar*e! doubley especially if your on the move! I speaketh with experience :(

Indy.....
 
I offload to the internal drive in the field, then after the day's shoot, I connect an external drive and copy the files to it.
 
doccutter said:
I offload to the internal drive in the field, then after the day's shoot, I connect an external drive and copy the files to it.
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This is our method also. Internal Laptop drive. Transfer when we get back to the studio.
 
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