Workflow for Extended Travel

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rangerholton

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I'm a journalist and often spend between 1 and 3 weeks traveling abroad - usually in fairly remote places. I love the EX-1 (though I wouldn't mind if it were a bit smaller!) and have experimented with different workflows for saving my projects.

Currently, I carry two pocket-sized hard drives. At the end of each day of shooting I plug the SxS card into my laptop and copy the entire BPAV folder into a folder on the hard drive named by date: for example 16Dec08.

Then, I copy it AGAIN to the second hard drive. Both drives are kept in waterproof, airtight pelican cases. So far I haven't lost any data, but I feel like this process is kinda clunky. Also, I only travel with one carry-on bag and no checked luggage, so every ounce I can shave off my pack is greatly felt and appreciated.

I've been contemplating (now that the wonderful MxR solution has arrived!) getting rid of the hard drives in favor of about twenty 16-gig SDHC cards, then just swap cards every day. but I must have a backup also. Can't afford to lose footage.

What do you all think of these: they're 16-gig flash drives, and I can buy them in bulk for about $16 apiece. Seems like an inexpensive solution, but is it at least as reliable as a 5400rpm hard drive?
 
Feel Your Pain

Feel Your Pain

I also work as a journalist and have just started shooting with an EX1. Great camera fantastic quality.
When I'm working within the US and driving to a location, I bring my Drobo, (4TB). This is just not practical when traveling outside the US. Sorry to add to your thread, I also need a solution.

Thanks
 
You could tote around a mirrored RAID (2 drives that are mirrored so they are redundant). Because it's a RAID your files should transfer faster, and you won't have to do the process twice. Just a thought. I don't have first hand experience with this.
 
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