Greg Ondera
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Firewire 800 out from the laptop and SxS cards in the slot, XDCam Browser for ingesting. It’s 11 time faster ingesting than the footage length itself. Then if you don’t have Calibrated software on your editing computer, use XDCam Transfer to re-wrap the footage so you can edit on FCP. This is what I use. But they don’t make laptops with SxS card slots anymore, so you’d have to get a card reader.
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I use the G-Tech Drive Mini https://g-technology.com/products/g-drive-mini.cfm but it is only 500 gigs. It’s small. I never edit on it, so it should last a while. Only edit on drives with a fan or you’ll burn em up sooner.
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Yikes, 10K! I did mine for a total of 2K. And yes it’s a Mac Pro. However I will someday want to get rid of this SCSI technology and go to something hot-swapable. You might consider LTO-5, which I think might do a TB. I still like this as a backup system much better than recording onto tape or disc. I know it is tape, but the idea of how long this kind of archiving lasts and how cheap it is appeals greatly to me.
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Sorry. You asked for links: https://www.cartoni.com/eng/gamma.html or go to https://www.bhphotovideo.com and call them for the part.
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If they are the same plate, then you simply need to get that plate and attach it to the underside of the EX3.
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Wow. Thanks Eric. This is helpful.
Why do you think sometimes they see video but no audio on those Windows machines?
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Bob… Yes, I have over 40 hard drives sitting around with footage that I wanted to archive so I just bought a Quantum TC-L42BX LTO-4 Model B desktop tape drive and a ATTO ExpressPCI UL5D SCSI PCI Express Host Adapter # EPCI-UL5D-0R0 which is all ol’ time SCSI. It has been an unhappy ride getting sent the wrong cards by a number of companies, but now I got it straight, and with Roxio Retrospect, and having to be retaught that you have to turn anything SCSI on before you boot up the computer and turn the computer off before you turn off anything SCSI, it is all working well now. The reason I got this is that the archiving lasts up to 50 years, and it is a great and less expensive way to back up footage instead of on hard drives, that I don’t always trust. I have had a few hard drives go on me, and that is scary.
So I am mostly using it to store footage after a shoot, and the FCP file after an edited master, while also using the many hard drives to work on. I don’t feel the need to go back up constantly, because I know I can call on the footage and a FCP file to reconnect that footage should something go wrong with a drive.
I am not crazy about going back to SCSI, but it’s what I have now for a while and it works and I feel much more secure than relying on drives. I shoot Sony XDCam EX.
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I wonder where they make the SxS cards? Not that we need a supply of them. And I use Quantum LTO tape for backup.
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Thanks, David. I appreciate it. And as for surgical skills, some of us are just “cut” out for it!
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Wow. Seems like I was doing several wrong things. Thanks tremendously for this. I vaguely remember there was a time when Windows couldn’t see DVD-Rs(do I remember that correctly?), so I got in the +R habit.
Greg Ondera
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