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transfering media to new drives
Hi,
I am working on a doc that is 85% complete. I have three separate G-Raid2 drives – 2 x 1.5 TB and 1x 1TB. They are daisy chained and one of them doesn’t always mount the first time around!…and renders can be slow. Since we are going out in the field to shoot some additional footage – we decided to UPGRADE to an eSata G-Speed eS Tower with 6TB capacity which I intend to use in Raid 0…..since I already will have the media on my original drives as back up! The new footage will be backed up in the field on external drives as they are shooting on P2.
Since I already have a very complex cut – I want to be certain that when I copy the media to the new drives, NOTHING gets “lost”. I would love any suggestions on the MOST reliable, efficient way to move my media….
what are the pros and cons of drag and drop from the desktop OR using the media manager tool.
Please advise?Thanks
Sherril -
2 Replies
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I do drag and drop all the time. but normally not the middle of a big project, but I have done so. I have cheap fast RAID 0 drives as on big multi-cam projects I capture to single drives, then I do a drag and drop copy of the drives to my array.
The only thing that drag and drop adds is that you have to reconnect all the media the first time you open the project file. If you are well organized this should be fairly easy. Nice thing about doing this way is only one of the FW drives has to be attached at a time, if you are having problems with all three going off-line while doing the media manager
Of course a media manager will do it all for you and you can also trim the fat in the process.
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Hi Michael,
Thanks for your response.
A while back I did move my media using drag and drop and everything relinked fine….but the project has gotten way more complex since then and like I said – the edit is 85% done.Just so that I follow the pitfalls – why would you choose NOT to drag and drop in the middle of a big project? Is it in case not everything relinked?….when/why does that happen? Since I didn’t originally set up this project and there are MANY hours of material from several sources, I cannot be 100% certain that everything is organized perfectly!
Thanks again,
Sherril
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