Made the switch to mac, and now have no idea how to archive my footage

Interesting thread. I'm about to try some of those logging techniques sometime soon. Also about the drives.. I have found that my external 1tb lacie works beautifully.
 
I was looking at Maxtor drives for their speed, but went back to Western Digital for their reviews, even though I've only used WD. It sounds like the fastest internals are the Maxtors, but reliability is a big deal too. Still (and always) investigating...
 
Sounds like a good candidate for an offline edit. You can "capture" in lower resolution and then FCP should be able to recapture just the footage you used for your edit in ProRes for fine-tuning and such.

Here's a tutorial... obviously this will be different because you will be using log & transfer instead of log & capture, but I assume you should be able to figure out a similar workflow using log and transfer.

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/offline_rt.html

Just ordered my HMC150 from spec comm on Sunday... can't wait for them to be back in stock for fulfillment... and a little sad to be selling my DVX.

JD
 
So I have four bays, and the first is my OS. I have 1tb, but I only use a bit of it since I don't want media on the same drive to bog it down. If I partition the drive would it still bog it down? I was thinking of storing my AVCHD files there and transcoding them to one of the other three in its capture folder. I would then backup the first drive to an external.

Are their other file-types that it's okay to store on an OS partition?
 
Even if you partition the drive you're still using it for the OS + Read/Write files... maybe a different drive would be an option... I'll be using an internal drive and an external drive to back-up the same avchd files (I'm also burning a DVD DL for every 8 GB)

Now when it comes time to edit, I transcode to a diferent drive, edit, compress or export, burn a final product and delete those big files. If i have to re-edit or fix anything at a later time, I would just log&transfer again and re-link!

You can find DVD-DL coming down in price, and blu-ray in the near future =)... oh yeah i may delete those AVCHD flle from the harddrives after a year or two (still thinkng about it)
 
DNathan said:
So I have four bays, and the first is my OS. I have 1tb, but I only use a bit of it since I don't want media on the same drive to bog it down. If I partition the drive would it still bog it down? I was thinking of storing my AVCHD files there and transcoding them to one of the other three in its capture folder. I would then backup the first drive to an external.

Are their other file-types that it's okay to store on an OS partition?
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That's a reasonable approach, since you'll be working with the transcoded files on other drives after the Log and Transfer.

Partitions don't help with general thrashing (the drive having to jump around a lot because it's reading/writing many files simultaneously), but if properly managed can help a lot with fragmentation. Partitioning can also help protect the system partition from accientally becoming too full... which can make the system very unstable.

It's not the file type that determines what should be on the partition, but the usage pattern. As in your example usage in the quote above, which is a good one.
 
So the only time I would be using the OS drive would be during the Log&Transfer process -- although that's not ideal either. I just hate to see 800gb sitting there indefinitely.
 
You could also use it to store your project files, pictures, music... i allways use a smaller drive for the OS and the biger one to work. But then again hard drives are so cheap now days =)
 
DNathan said:
So the only time I would be using the OS drive would be during the Log&Transfer process -- although that's not ideal either. I just hate to see 800gb sitting there indefinitely.
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Why not use it for backups? Sounds like an ideal purpose to me (doesn't require constant access)
 
DNathan said:
So the only time I would be using the OS drive would be during the Log&Transfer process -- although that's not ideal either. I just hate to see 800gb sitting there indefinitely.
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Right. It's not "not ideal" unless you are extremely concerned about the speed of the log and transfer process... and even then, the CPU rather than the drive seems to be the bottleneck there with the current generation of machines....
 
TigerFX said:
Why not use it for backups? Sounds like an ideal purpose to me (doesn't require constant access)
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Using the system drive as "backup" is a bad idea... generally, I don't keep anything essential on the system partition, so if it's ever necessary I can wipe it/reinstall without much fuss.


Remember, the system drive is generally the one most likely to fail in your system.
 
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