• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Re: Storage options for tons of footage?

  Posted by Circus Dreams on October 17, 2006 at 4:39 pm

  I am going to be digitizing up to 300 hours of footage for use with Final Cut Pro. I am wondering which external hard drive you would recommend? Has anyone had experience with the S1S 2 TB drive from Lacie? Is Wiebe Tech that much better than Lacie? Enough to justify paying almost twice the price?
  Thanks for all advice!

  Todd Gillespie replied 19 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Todd Gillespie

  October 24, 2006 at 5:32 am

  Hi there,

  We use a lot of Lacie’s with very little problems, I don’t have any personal experience with Wiebe Tech. We have a couple of Gtech drives that we really like, but you will pay more.

  the real issue with your post is
  [Circus Dreams] ” digitizing up to 300 hours of footage”

  that’s a LOT of footage. 3tb by my math, and that’s just to digitize, you’d almost need double if you did any titles, color correction, etc.

  You’ll probably need to adjust your workflow. ie- offline, draft quality, etc.
  But still, I can’t remember ANY time that I heard of someone dig-ing 300 hours.

  Even Lord of the Rings, which shot at a terrible 1×100 ratio wouldn’t have needed to digitize 300 hours.

  Good Luck,

  Todd at UCSB
  Television Production

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