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Capturing an all day event
We’re planning to cover a murder trail that will involve a lot of recording from a pool setup. Any advice on what codec to use when recording that will save some space and also make a reasonably small file to FTP daily reports. The stories will be under 2 minutes. I expect we will record for 4 hours or more each day for possibly 10 days.
We’ll be using a Matrox MXO2 in order to ingest and I think we have SDI from the pool feed.
Thanks!
Mike Borland
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I do something similar… I use 48k Anamorphic DV, as what’s sent to me is 16X9. I edit it in the same settings, and post back out. That stream is about 16GB per hour of recorded content. Problem I have is I can’t ever get time code to what I want it to be.
Scott
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As of now we are using FCP. That’s a change from the old DVCPRO laptop tape editors. This is our first try with this stuff.
Mike Borland
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I’m thinking of using H.264 all the way through to save space and because it can be sent via FTP sort of quickly. I just did a quick test here and the H.264 file was 1/16th the size of an Avid Meridian file.
I’ve told the people there to use a stopwatch when they record and to be sure to name each clip to keep the confusion low.
Mike Borland
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Do you have access to Adobe OnLocation?
I use it for onsite long-form recording. Works great. It will take DV in and you have an edit-ready file after.
Naming clips is easy, give the first one a name and then it sequentially numbers them.
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[Dave LaRonde] “If you’re resolved to use FCP for the Becker trial and you’re worried about storage, then GET MORE STORAGE. How much is a 1 TB portable drive, anyway? $150?”
$89 for a 1TB drive and then pick up the WeibeTech RTX200 for the chassis. Heck only $150 for a 2TB drive.
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I do have a 1TB drive on the way and it should be in place Friday. I didn’t realize H.264 would be troublesome for editing. So, record and edit in DV then convert to send? I am more concerned about the time it takes to do the FTP then about the time to convert the story to whatever form it needs to be in. Converting it here is quick too, if we need to do that before airing.
Mike Borland
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[Dave LaRonde] “Can they be used out in the field, where they’re sure to get power from an extension cable plugged into a wall and jostled & bumped around on a table in a hallway by a crew inexperienced in using FCP?
Are they resilient to changes in temperature? Right now, it’s twelve degrees outside the courthouse where these things will be used. Can they go from a two-hour drive in a cold car trunk to capturing video indoors in about five minutes?”
Those are questions for WeibeTech. From prior use of other WeibeTech products, they make extremely good products. But as these are just trayless cases, you’re talking more about the hard drives themselves than the units probably.
As for being jostled around, keep in mind, there’s nothing in the box, so I’m sure that’s no issue. I would travel with the hard drives themselves in a Pelican case so they don’t get banged around inside the case during travel. Pop the drive in to the case after it’s set up and away you go. WeibeTech also sells awesome static free drive cases that look like VHS tape cases so you can put the drives in those and then go into a small Pelican briefcase type of unit.
And of course, anything you purchase will deal with condensation issues as you go from cold to hot. Again, questions for WeibeTech and I’m sure they’ll have some answers. We flat out love our unit here and will soon upgrade to the RTX400 (4 Bay).
One of the neat things about it is there is a separate output for each individual drive. So you can literally connect a single unit to multiple computers and each computer will see that individual drive. We do that here with the single unit connect to two computers at times so each user can access their own Archive drive.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author.
HD Post and Production
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