Dean Sensui
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Lars…
I’m about to start working on a number of 30-second spots and making archive backups on DVD disks sounds like a good idea, especially considering costs of storage. And making multiple copies, even on TDK media, is still cheaper than a hard drive. With a 30-second spot there’s a lot less unused material to consider saving.
For a 30-second spot I’d probably media manage the project and then save the project and media on DVD’s for long-term storage. In reality, those projects have fairly short life spans and probably won’t be accessed after a year or two.
The cost of blu-ray is rather high. At the moment it’s on par with hard drives, I believe.
But for projects such as our fishing show (if we start producing it in HD) and for other similar projects, I’ll store them on multiple hard drives until some other storage medium comes along. These projects tend to have a lot longer lifespans and we also end up re-using material fairly frequently. So quick access is important.
And the other problem is whether or not to keep all the outtakes or just save the material known to be good, as well as material used within any given program. Our shooting ratio right now is almost 60:1. Hoping to get that down somewhat by not having to roll camera for extended periods of time in hopes of actually getting a hook-up on camera. With the record-ahead feature we can wait until the actual strike and hit the “record” button, and still capture a few seconds of time prior to the actual strike.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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Lars…
That’s a tough question right now. For the sort of projects I’m working on, I would need about 20 to 25 4.2-gigabyte disks per show. Trying to figure out which disk contains particular clip or group of clips would be tricky. It could be a time-consuming task to reload a backup, too.
The option I’m looking at right now is backing up to a mirrored removable RAID. But the cost isn’t cheap, about on par with what I would spend if I saved it to tape — but with a lot more flexibility than tape. Putting it on Hitachi 250 GB SATA drives is about 50 cents per minute. The costs double to about a dollar a minute with a backup (via removable mirrored RAID).
It would be nice to save the MXF source files to Blu Ray disks. But another concern is how long those things will last and how robust they might be. I’ve already had a couple of good-quality, carefully stored DVD’s go bad. Even had a commercially produced CD go bad, and that CD was seldom handled and carefully stored.
Regarding backups to multiple disks, check out Retrospect. I think it’s designed to help do just that.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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The credit scroll built into FCP is, as you already know, pretty poor.
However, if you use the one in Boris it’s very good. Boris comes with FCP.
I was doing scrolls with Photoshop and AE until I found out about how well Boris handles this. Now it’s a very simple task with clean results.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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” I hate to admit this but, lightning hit the church where I work about an hour ago, I had to reboot. No Problems!”
Sounds like divine intervention to me.
Man… talk about getting the Best Tech Support!
🙂
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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Richard…
As I’m planning my own workflow for the occasional extended assignment, I’m considering the possibility of duplicating the material acquired onto a mirrored RAID with hot-swappable drives.
It would most likely be 250-gig drives as they’re the most cost-effective. If not, then whatever SATA drive that provides the most storgae for the dollar.
As each RAID gets full, drives are seperated into two different cases for transport to ensure that at least one set of drives are safe. In one sense it’s more secure than tapes since tapes are seldom, if ever, backed up in the field.
Not sure if I would be recording onto P2 cards and transferring onto a P2 Store, or if I’ll end up using a Firestore. Most likely a Firestore for the sake of capacity.
That documentary trailer of yours is absolutely impressive. I’m hoping to do work on par with that — although it most likely will not quite that somber.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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When creating a multiclip you can tell FCP to sync to the in or out point. You might want to check to see if that setting is correct.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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For future reference:
If you want to apply a single filter on all clips, you can also nest all the clips, then apply the broadcast safe filter onto that.
This gives you the flexibility of having a single filter setting globally control the entire timeline.
Just in case, you might want to do this on a duplicate of the sequence. Nesting can be rather tricky at first.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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Gary and Tony…
Thanks for the info. Looks like I’ll have to reconsider at this point, and put in an order at B&H before they run out.
It’ll be a while before this monitor issue settles down from what I’ve been hearing. CRT’s being discontinued. LCD’s becoming more widespread but still not quite up to par.
Gary, that was a very informative session at NAB. I come from years of doing critical color correction work and color management for the print industry and want to make sure I can do work that’s on par in video production for my own company.
A lot of the little details of the process are things I suspected all along so it’s good to get these concepts confirmed by an expert in the industry.
Thanks!
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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A Sony representative here (Hawaii) said CRT monitors have already been discontinued and their broadcast monitor line is now based on LCD technology.
According to their literature, the Luma series of broadcast monitors, incluing the LMD-172WS, LMD-2323W, etc. are the intended replacements for the PVM series.
There’s a couple of things that I’m considering: How accurate and are these Luma monitors compared to CRT’s. And if CRT’s are quickly becoming extinct, then does it make sense to continue doing color correction on CRT’s?
Of course this doesn’t take into account SED’s coming into the marketplace. Nor the holographic 3D tactile Star Trek displays rumored to be just around the corner… 🙂
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com