Suggestions on transferring tape to hard drive backup in te field?

Tommy K

Tommy K

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I am leaving next week to shoot a documentary in Eastern Europe. I want to off load the tapes to an external firewire hard drive after each day of shooting as a backup. We are doing this for security reasons. What would be the easiest way of doing this? Could I use a laptop with a simple capture program? I plan to hand carry the HD back to the states and FEDEX the tapes back to the USA. This is being done because where we are going is still a little like the wild west. Our tapes could possibly be confiscated by customs officials. We are planning for all scenarios concerning 3 weeks of footage. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
 
There is a very good program floating around called "DV Rack". I use it for one of my cameras that has broken heads. The older version works fine, Adobe bought the company not that long ago and put it into the software suite they sell. It can be found in stand alone form.
 
It depends on what you are gonna edit with. Avid uses a different file than premiere, ect.
I suggest using a version of the software you will be editing on to capture.
You may find it easier to to clone em onto other tapes for your return flight home.
 
grinner said:
It depends on what you are gonna edit with. Avid uses a different file than premiere, ect.
I suggest using a version of the software you will be editing on to capture.
You may find it easier to to clone em onto other tapes for your return flight home.
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Thank you. This was my thought as well. I will be using Edius 5.12 for the editing which uses a USB "Dongle" and must be plugged in all the time. If you lose it you are out of luck unfortunately. That is a pain. One of our guys has "On Location" that we are going to try out first. If that doesn't work out it may be Edius and the dongle...
 
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