• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Archiving the MTS file in a AVCHD workflow?

  Posted by Robert Medrala on May 21, 2010 at 7:37 pm

  I’m moving into a tapeless work flow. I transcode my AVCHD MTS files from my Canon for editing in FCP. I’m planning on archiving my clips on Blu-ray disks. Is there any advantage of archiving the original MTS file or are the Pro Res files the better way to go for the archive?

  Rainer Wirth replied 16 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Rainer Wirth

  May 21, 2010 at 7:52 pm

  I tend to leave the original files untouched.
  We’re working with P2 files since 6 years now, all the process is nearly tapeless, never had problems, never lost a file.
  Important is double back up on raid5 miniraids.
  So we archive the original data (P2 untouched) on a raid5 miniraid and the unwrapped QT file on another raid5 miniraid. We have always a spare HD for each miniraid plus the customer gets the QT files on a HD for their internal storage.
  I can recommend this workflow strongly!
  During shooting all the material gets copied on two seperate HD discs before deleting the cards.

  I hope this helps

  Rainer

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