Importing 24hrs of DV footage, how would you guys do it?

[Ron James]

[ben] “well at harvard, its speed. its also uber-boring talking heads teaching classes on string theory ;)”

Ah, there’s the difference. To me, anwyay, that’s not documentary. It’s informational video. To me, documentary is storytelling and takes a LOT of time. It’s really an art, like carving or sculpting.

I’m not saying informational doesn’t take skill, but I think it’s an entirely different beast than documentary filmmaking (which is not to be confused with “reality tv” bulls**t).

Times might be changing, sure, but filmmaking is still filmmaking and storytelling still storytelling. FireWire hasn’t changed that yet.

G5 Dual 2.7 GHz
2 GB RAM
OS 10.4.6
FCP 5.0.4
QT 7.1.1

[Ben Oliver]

well, at least in my case, the footage has all been gone through, except i did it on my computer, instead of off the tape.

i think its pretty poor to judge a production, whern you havent seen it, based upon how someone digitized there film…

[Kevin Monahan]

We all have different methods to get from point A to point B for our jobs, depending on the type of production – those methods can vary quite a bit. ‘Nuff said.

Kevin Monahan
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[Greg Ball]

How much storage space do you guys have!?!?!? 24 hours of footage?! Yikes!

[Frank Nolan]

I remember reading a thread a little while ago where the poster had loaded footage in off tapes in one hour chunks. Problem was they had a 10 second edited piece in FCP that had some BG noise and they wanted to export that to Soundtrack Pro to clean up the audio. When they did it would take the whole one hour file into STP and process it. Another good reason to log and capture clips.

[Ben Oliver]

in the case of the guy who had to throw all the audio into STRack Pro, i would hjave just rendered out the audio itself, the ten seconds worth, and brought that in…

i have a series of lacie drives, together total it probably adds up to about 1 1/4 terabytes.

i basically just continue to add storage as i need it. i work mostly in DV, so firewire works wonders. on my g5, i have a few firewire cards, to help the bus speeds, but even if i daisy chain the drives together, and work from my ibook, i get very good speed when editing.

yeah everyone has there own system that works, and thats my main point, do what you need to do to get your project finished.

ben
http://www.benjaminoliver.net

[Gary Adcock]

[Frank Nolan] ” When they did it would take the whole one hour file into STP and process it. Another good reason to log and capture clips.”

the other reason is that you will not have an easy time re-digitising if you just do a “capture now” on long clips

and by the way 24 hrs of DV 25 footage is less than 400 gigs.
( and that same amount of space would also be about 16.5 hours of DVCPROHD 720p24)

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows
Chicago, IL

[Dave_foxvid]

Quote: “DV/ Start Stop detect doesnt actually break the clips down it just leaves a marker at the beggining of the new clip…”

Just read this thread and no one seems to have answered that IT DOES BREAK DOWN THE CLIPS – you highlight all the markers in the browser window then “make subclips” from the menu bar – you can then delete all the markers and re-name your individual clips to whatever you like.