Re: [CGUYS] Hardware Recommendations
On Dec 5, 2009, at 9:29 PM, rocky lee wrote: The weak part of the tapeless system is that leaves open how to archive the footage. You transfer the footage from the memory cards to the hard drive, but then what? The memory cards get wiped and reused but then that leaves the footage... on a hard drive? The memory cards are better for workflow, but at some point I would want the footage stored on tape for long term. You get a stack of SATA drives and a toaster. Stick the drive in the toaster, move your files to it, pop the drive, put it back in its anti- static bag and file it. If you use 2-1/2 inch drives you can store a heck of a lot in a small space. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Hardware Recommendations
Alex Lindsay who works at pixel corp has been around a long time...worked with lucasfilm on star wars for a time. I know from listening to macbreak weekly podcasts this is exactly what this video pro does. He has mentioned several times they have stacks of drives on a shelf each one labeled and read to go. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:03 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 9:29 PM, rocky lee wrote: The weak part of the tapeless system is that leaves open how to archive the footage. You transfer the footage from the memory cards to the hard drive, but then what? The memory cards get wiped and reused but then that leaves the footage... on a hard drive? The memory cards are better for workflow, but at some point I would want the footage stored on tape for long term. You get a stack of SATA drives and a toaster. Stick the drive in the toaster, move your files to it, pop the drive, put it back in its anti-static bag and file it. If you use 2-1/2 inch drives you can store a heck of a lot in a small space. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Hardware Recommendations
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:03:04 -0500 From: b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es Subject: Re: Hardware Reccomendations On Dec 4, 2009, at 1:55 PM, b_s-wilk wrote: Most pros use tape. Probably true, because most of them bought their gear years ago. Nope. New camcorders have tape. SD cards are good too, but easy to lose, and expensive compared to tape. Some have both tape and SD. Direct to DVD is stupid [Sony again?], and hard drives are too limited. If you are talking about shooting on video, some of those arguments might be valid, High def on a Red or P2 cards on a Panasonic however are competing with Film budgets. If time is money, then the fact that you can import footage in faster than real time is gold. If the premise is that there is enough footage to require more than a couple of tapes, then that becomes hours to ingest the footage into the editing system. The weak part of the tapeless system is that leaves open how to archive the footage. You transfer the footage from the memory cards to the hard drive, but then what? The memory cards get wiped and reused but then that leaves the footage... on a hard drive? The memory cards are better for workflow, but at some point I would want the footage stored on tape for long term. Rocky * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
