Any Ideas on Archiveing Footage from P2 cards???

[D. scott Dobbie]

Best for me are the new Quad Interface 500GB LaCie drives (2 Firewire 800 connectors as well as a FW 400, a USB 2.0 and the new eSATA). They only cost around $250 through MacConnection.com. I just creat a folder with the client name and load the cards into it. When one drive is full I store it and put a new drive in its place. I have multiple clients on each drive so it’s very cost effective. The drives stack nicely and don’t take up much room.

-Scott

[Russell Lasson]

Whatever you do, make sure you have two copies. We’ll be setting up a DLT-S4 autoloader (about $110 for a $800 tape) and also putting the finished project on a harddrive for easy access. We’ll keep the DLT tapes offsite just incase.

Or you could just use two harddrives. There are a couple of devices where you can just buy harddrives and trays instead of the whole enclosure. I don’t recall the name right now, but if I remember, I’ll get back to you.

-Russ

[Steve West]

I copy the P2 cards to a P2 store in the field- and if I have time and a place to work, I also copy the cards to an external hard drive hooked to my HP8000- which has a slot to insert the P2 cards- I use P2 Genie and copy to a seagate External drive. When I get back to my suite I copy the P2 folders from the P2 Store to a Dual Layer DVD. I then import the files to my Avid. Because I’m paranoid- I don’t reformat the P2 store until I need the space for another shoot. I figure it takes about twice as long to import and backup the P2 files than it does to digitize a tape and put it on the shelf when you’re done.

Time- Copy 8 gig card to P2 Store 8 minutes
copy to hard drive 12 minutes
copy and verify DL DVD 22 Minutes
Import to Avid 8 minutes
Total 50 Minutes

Digitize 30 minutes of DV tape and put on a shelf- 31 minutes

[Shane Ross]

I archive to inexpensive internal SATA drives. 250GB bare drives. They cost about $80 and I have a $20 SATA to USB connector that I bought from OWC. Two of them archive all the footage from one shoot (100+ 4GB cards). Now, the network I deal with wants this footage as well, so I end up sending them a triple interface OWC drive, which is more expensive…but one that they can plug in a variety of ways.

As for future proofing…when new drive technology comes down the system I’ll transfer to those new drives. Just like we transfer our 3/4″ masters to digibeta. But that hasn’t happened yet.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Bobby Holbrook ii]

Thanks Guys for all of your help.
Bobby

[Joe Murray]

I have the AJ-HD1400 deck so I archive my P2 to DVCProHD tape. I also archive project files and consolidated media files to hard drive. Eventually I might consider an SDLT unit.

Joe Murray
http://www.editatjoes.com