P2 workflow...how do i make this work?

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DVX100Shooter

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I am about to shoot a music video next month. I am either going to shoot with the HVX200 or a HDSLR camera. I am pushing more towards the HVX200 at the moment. If I bring my Macbook Pro and external 4TB Caldigit hard drive and P2 Card reader to the shoot, what else do I need? Once a card gets filled, I need to pass it off to someone and have them ingest the footage into the hard drive. So would I just hook everything up the same way as if I was about to edit something? Then have the person do Log and Transfer to bring the clips in to FCP, then format the card and place back into the camera? I know you all have different workflows that worked for you. If there is something else that might be better for me to try, I like to hear your thoughts...

Thanks!!
 
Shoot...take the card out when it is full...back up THE ENTIRE CARD CONTENTS onto a Field Archive Drive to a folder with a unique name, preferrably with software like ShotPut Pro that verifies that everything is copied (and even makes the new folder for you). Then erase the card and put it back into the camera for more shooting. Do this until shooting is complete. THen take your Field Archive drive to your editing machine and use LOG AND TRANSFSER to import the footage. Then, backup all the footage from the Field Archive Drive to a larger, permanent storage option. Then erase the field drive for future shoots.

Full workflow here: http://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7/1

If you don't back up and archive the full card structure, you are crippling your workflow.
 
Listen to Shane, he's a genius.

Also, I am a big fan of ejecting the cards and then doing a log and transfer into final cut from the hard drive rather than the cards, once the ingest is done and has been checked, I format the cards and get them back into the field for shooting.

This way, if you run into a problem because there was a problem with the transfer of the cards, you can re-back them up.

Lastly, make sure that you make a copy of the data onto two different hard drives that go to different places with different people at the end of the night. The stupidest thing I've seen people do is make two copies of something and then take them in the same car somewhere. Imagine what happens if you get into an accident and those hard drives are ruined? Now imagine if you did that, but someone else drove away with a copy of the data?

But that's just good data management. Watch the video that Shane recommended.
 
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