• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Capturing to “the same” drive.

  Posted by Rocco Rocco on May 15, 2009 at 9:48 pm

  Assuming 500GB of raw footage from various solid state cameras (HVX, EX1, Red etc) on a 2TB G-tech drive.

  Is it better to capture all this footage onto a DIFFERENT drive or will it pose any problems capturing back to itself? This would be via FW800.

  Generally looking for the speediest, least likely to cause problems solution. Or doesn’t it matter?

  Thanks for any input.

  FCP 6
  Intel Mac Pro

  Shane Ross replied 16 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  May 15, 2009 at 10:19 pm

  Yes, because all of the RAW footage is basically your TAPE master. This stuff you put on a shelf and archive. After you import them to a separate MEDIA drive.

  Shane

  

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  Rocco Rocco

  May 16, 2009 at 12:18 am

  Thank you. That’s definitely the way to have it organized. But as far as speed of transfer or reliability etc., is there an advantage to capturing to a different drive over back to the same drive?
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  Shane Ross

  May 16, 2009 at 12:20 am

  ABSOLUTELY. Instead of alternately reading and writing to one drive, if you go from one drive to another the process will be MUCH faster.

  Shane

  

  GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
  Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def

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