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P2 Workflow for Travel
Hi,
I’m going to be traveling internationally with a film crew shooting on P2 cards. They plan on shooting a max of 24 16 gig cards per day. There’s a possibility we will need 3 copies of the media as we shoot. So I’m rounding up and came up with a possible total of about 13.5 TB.
I’m looking for hard drive product and configuration recommendations as well as workflow recommends. I’ll be working on Avid MC v.3.0 on a MacBook Pro laptop. Does it matter if I use the Media composer and consolidate to create my copies of the media, or is it better to do the copying through the finder?Thanks for your help.
Dan
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4 Replies
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Get three sets of hard drives. Two to back up the p2 cards to, and one as your media drive. The first two can be inexpensive USB drives, but the media drive should be a good one. And I would use Shotput P2 to offload the cards to the backup drives, and I would then open the cards in the Avid, and CONSOLIDATE to the media drive. This way Avid puts everything where it wants it to go.
Still, you need lots of space for your media drive. TWENTY FOUR 16GB cards a day? For how many days?
Look at the CalDigit HDOne and MaxxDigital EVO HD as your media drives. RAID 5 and capable of up to 8TB of media storage.
Shane
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Hi Shane,
thanks very much for all the info, much appreciated. There are 9 shoot days currently scheduled. Hopefully they WON’T be filling up 24 cards per day (there are two cameras) but the director wanted that ability and option so that he’s never running into – sorry no more space….
In addition, I’m following the production internationally – Thailand, Romania and Iceland/Greenland. Do you think I’m better served by something smaller/lighter as far as drives or would you stick with your previous recommends? Again, thanks very much.
Dan
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Issue is that you will need storage, and a lot of it. So whether you have a stack of firewire drives, or the one biggish unit, in the end you will most likely come out with more issues carrying lots of drives as opposed to the one compact tower…and then the backup drives
Shane
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Hi Shane,
one other thing I’d like to run by you if possible. When performing calculations for how much storage I need, i’ve been basing it off of the actual P2 cards. So am I doing this correctly by using the 16gig P2 card as my base?
So for example, production is bringing a total of sixteen 16Gig cards. That comes out to a total max per day of 256 gigs of material. 9 total shoot days are scheduled, so if I multiply that out, i get in the neighborhood of 2.3 Terrabytes. Is this accurate? Just want to make sure I’m not missing a step. Thanks again.
Dan
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