EDL Trace, or, “compilation reel” layoff and re-capture

[Mark Raudonis]

Bob,

Seems like you’re trying to revist those “glory days” of linear editing. We used to do this all the time… tracing back three, four, up to thirteen generations of cuts, selects etc. It was tedious. Unreliable. And… a major pain in the ass! Why in tarnation would you want to “go there” when storage now is so cheap? Sure it’s possible. I’ll dust off my old copy of “Turbo Trace” (on a 5 1/4″ floppy!) and you can have at it. On the other hand,
simply putting your selects on a spare firewire drive accomplishes the same thing.

Mark

[Bob Woodhead]

If there’s a relatively simple way to do it, tape is still MUCH cheaper (and more reliable, in some regards) than HDDs. I still feel I can count on mounting that 5 year old tape, while a 5 year old drive…….. (even if it has just been sitting on the shelf) But without the FCP clip metadata, it’s a moot point. It’s the information about the clip that’s useful, not the ins & outs.

[Bret Williams]

In the DV25 world, a blank DVD disc for storing clips is cheaper than miniDV tape and extremely cheaper than DVCam tape. You could put 25 minutes of DV25 material on a DVD disc as quicktime clips, retaining all the tc and reel info.

Make 2 copies of the disc even and at a buck apiece it’s still about the same as tape.

[Bob Woodhead]

Nope, we’re talking 8 & 10 bit UC files. And potentially, HD from the new Panny P2 camera. The one that records HD to flash cards, which are offloaded to HDD for field storage. After these are transferred to the editing system, the problem becomes “what to do with the source files”.

[Bob Woodhead]

To answer my own question…. maybe the new 35-50GB DVDs….

[Bret Williams]

Sounds like capturing to something other than tape is kind of a hassle to me. With tape, you just keep the project file (or edl, etc.) and recapture or reedit from the original tapes.