Premier recording directly to disk

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justin518

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Hi all, so on Friday night I am planning on shooting a concert event that will hopefully be produced and sold. I will be doing a 2 camera shoot with 2 laptops and 2 external hard drives.

My plan as of now unless you can give me any better ideas, is to have premier pro 2.0 on both laptops up and running and connect each camera to each laptop and record directly to each of the external hard drives using the premier's capture window. After I get the footage i will be bringing it back and putting both clips onto my editing computer and doing a mix with premier as well.

My questions are can anyone think of a better way given the supplies I have?

and how reliable is capturing onto disk just using the premier capture window the show will probably be about 2-2.5 hours long, will it be able to just keep recording reliably?

Thanks!
 
I have never recorded directly to a hard drive, so I cannot offer any advice on this method. However, if you are using DVX100(A)(B) and could manage to get your hands on a couple of cheap miniDV camcorders to connect via firewire as slaves, you could set your DVXs to CHAIN mode and record sequentially one camera after another:

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=142362

If you are not using DVXs, then I'm afraid I don't know what to tell you.
 
yeahh I'm not so much worries about the heads as the efficiency of recording straight to disk, no one knows how reliable this method will be though?
 
Justin,

At the church I work for, I just setup the camera to record only to external drives through my macbook. It works flawlessly, just make damn sure to protect the power supply to your hard drive. I have used Quicktime, FCP 6, and Premiere CS4 and all work just fine.
 
As long as you have uninterrupted power and enough disk space (think 13 GB per hour, so for 2.5 hours I'd make sure you have at least 40 gigs free for plenty of head room), you should have no problems. Shut down anything other than Premiere, though, including any virus protection.

Just don't pull any cables out!
 
alright good to hear, I have 400 gigs left on one of my hard drives ill be sure to use that.

Thanks guys! wish me luck!
 
Oh -- make sure the hard drive is NTFS and NOT FAT32 file format. Also, if you can, stop/start the recording occasionally; a 2.5-hour file could be a pain.
 
I'm not an expert but wouldn't you be worried about having some dropped frames using the capture window for that long of a period.
 
You're much more likely to have dropped frames when capturing from tape.

Dropped frames in live capture could really only be caused by breaks in signal -- OR some kind of background action clogging RAM, hard drive bandwidth, or other vital function -- which is why you should shut down every other unnecessary operation while you're doing it. You should shut down your WiFi, too.
 
Do you have a copy of OnLocation? OnLocation direct to disc while also capturing to tape is a good way to make sure you have a backup(tape) in case of a hard drive failure.
 
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