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P2 archive footage
We are thinking to buy a hvx200, but we are worried about the system to archive the footage after the postproduction proces. We produce corporate videos, thus we shut a lot. I was wondering if it would be an option, to shut with the hvx and then after the postproduction, to copy the rushes to minidv cassettes in a hdv vtr, in order to mantain al the footage in hd format. Is that logic?
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I would transfer all of the Data to a DLT device, and then you wouldn’t lose quality to the HDV process. There is a lot of compression in HDV that is not in DVCPRO HD. Take a look at the inexpensive Dell DLTs, the machine is around $2200 and you can store about 200 GBs for about 50-60 bucks.
Hope this helps,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
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Transcoding to anything sounds like a bad idea to me, especially HDV.
Hard drives are weighing in at under 50 cents per gig these days. You could build an archiving strategy around removable hard drives.
George
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We archieve to removables and too DVD-R…
I can burn a .25 cent DVD in about 4 min now…
That reminds me, I need to do that for
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It sounds good, but aren’t the process very slow? And anothe question…. The cost per hour in 1080 would be about 20 bucks? We shot to our projects an average of 4 hours.
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Do this machines work with Macintosh?
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I’m using a pair of SATA hard drives configured into a mirrored RAID 1. In case one drive dies, the other maintains the integrity of the data.
Cost is about $1.20 per gigabyte, or about $1.20 a minute. On par with Varicam tape but the retrieval is a lot faster.
The drive pairs are also removable, so the storage capacity is actually limited only by budget, not by anything technical.
The system is sold by Firmtek: https://firmtek.com/seritek/
My concern now is finding a good cataloging system that will help me retrive specific clips.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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I just ordered a removable HDD system to do this very thing. It is made by Sonnet Tech, a Fusion 500. It is a removable HDD box that connects via eSATA. Nice thing about this box is that I can have two or more drives striped for editing and another single drive to archive everything to when I am finished, That drive will then be removed, labeled, boxed and stored in case I need it again. I will be starting this project with two 320gig drives striped and a 250gig drive for archive. The archive drive will hold my 6 hours of 720p/24pN footage, plus all resulting mpegs, project files, etc. The whole setup including the Fusion 500, eSATA Express/34 card (for the MBP) and 3 drives was about $825.
Ken Summerall
Wellwater Productions, Inc.
“A non-profit production company specializing in media with a mission.” -
Hi Jan,
We just ordered an HPX 2000 on Friday, so now it’s time to organize our workflow and archive system.
You mentioned in one thread I found that using a DLT tape setup would be good. I know about the Quantum which is pretty pricey; have you heard of people using the Dell setup successfully?
I’ve also heard that Panasonic is doing a P2 roadshow that might address these issues. Is anything coming up in early ’08?
Thanks so much!
Andrew
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