FCPX cunning workflow: so close yet so far!

[Brett Sherman]

[Jeremy Garchow] ”
If you shoot 1TB, have that on your drive, then import and rewrap, it adds another 1TB.”

That assumes you keep the camera originals files. I understand why people do this. We don’t. I don’t find it worth the extra storage space. We just rewrap and once we’re sure everything is there, erase the camera cards.

Incidentally, I have had as much trouble with people doing incomplete transfers with camera cards as I’ve had with rewrapped files. So I’m not sure it’s much of a fail safe.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Even when transcoding, I always keep shoot media as it is the master copy.

I didn’t throw away tape after I captured it either.

[Bret Williams]

Not only that, we have multiple copies/clones of those original camera files. Sure we delete the cards when it’s time for another shoot. But along the way there’s a copy on the raid (that gets imported and rewrapped), a copy on the USB drive from the shoot, often a copy on the laptop from the shoot, and a copy on a backup drive eventually that gets stored off site in case of fire or theft.

[Robin S. kurz]

“In the case of XAVC, it doubles it.”

Odd that I’m not in fact seeing that here with my XAVC material, nor have I ever.

[Jeremy Garchow]

When you import 128GB of XAVC, the resulting rewrapped QTs are not 128GBs?

The original 128GBs x the rewrapped QT movies = 256GBs

This is double the disk space.