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Filing Rushes
Hi,
I work with a mid-sized television production company in India. We’ve held out on tapeless for quite a while, mainly because of budgetary issues, but now we’re inducting some Panasonic GH4s into our equipment inventory. We’re switching from Final Cut Pro 7 to Premiere Pro CC for editing.
Here’s my question: we need to figure out a way to file and archive our rushes. It was easy with tape. We just filed them with a librarian who labelled them and put them into an air-conditioned library. You obviously can’t do that with tapeless. I’m wondering if there’s a cheap (preferably free) and efficient way to do this. Is there a solution within the Adobe universe, Prelude perhaps?
Any suggestions/experiences/warnings would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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Get bare SATA drives. Drives that aren’t encased in a shell…meaning a USB drive or Firewire drive. Get the basic SATA drive…as they are cheap. $120 for a 3TB drive. Get TWO for every backup you make…because hard drives fail so you want to have a backup. As my post super says, “If it doesn’t exist in two places, it doesn’t exist.”
Then, get a drive dock. The SATA drives will slide right into them and connect to your computer.
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/NewerTech/Voyager/Hard_Drive_DockThen, get hard drive cases to store the drives…on shelves like tape:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?gclid=COfK0o6Z-r8CFQuCaQodWUcAWQ&Item=N82E16817994112&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-_-pla-_-SSD+%2f+HDD+Accessories-_-N82E16817994112&ef_id=U9@9LgAABeIfbPXS:20140804180426:sCopy the tapeless footage to the drives. Make one an exact copy of the other…meaning they both have the exact same files backed up.
I blogged about this here:
https://lfhd.net/2014/07/18/back-it-up-voyager-drive-dock-review/
This is the cheapest way. There are more secure, more expensive ways. Such as LTO 6 tape backup. But you asked for cheap. And this is cheap, and decently reliable.
Shane
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