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Question concerning Pro Res 422
I recently shot a large movie project shot with three different cameras in 1920 x1080/30fps (all mov files at this point).
This footage combined is around 160 GB, and 160 GB converted to pro res is going to become huge. I have 1 TB left on one drive… not much for pro res in some cases.Is there a better way to start managing huge projects without converting to pro-res? Or do I just need to keep buying hard drives?
Intel iMac 3.06, 4 gb memory.
Jonny Cates
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4 Replies
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Have you considered a offline to online workflow, like working with footage in prores proxy and when you’re done make an online of your edit in HQ? Shane Ross did a tutorial about the offline / online workflow: https://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/tapeless_online/video-tutorial
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Drives are so cheap. 160 gig of H264 (I presume) isn’t a lot of camera footage compared to a typical long form doco. I would just go to ProRes with a bigger drive. Offline /Online might make sense if you had 100 hours of source material rather than 6.
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Yes, about 80gb of it is H.264 and the rest is AVCHD (Apple Intermediate Codec, Linear PCM, Timecode). The only real space I have left on one of my drives is about (1) TB.
This main project gets the attention first – 160GB. The others I will edit later. So all in all, I have close to 400 GB combined.
Thanks for the input…
Jonny Cates
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This sounds like a great idea…small or large projects. I will check out the video…
Thanks
Jonny Cates
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