[Ed Cilley]

From an Explorer window, right-click on the drive and choose Format…

NTFS should work fine. Quick-format is also fine, unless you have a lot of time.

Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
_________________________________________________
Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

The PDW-U1 is a player only. You can’t even write metadata back to the disc. This deck is only USB.

Yes, you will need to step up to something like the PDWF75. I haven’t done anything with Captions, but you could check Sony’s site.
https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-videorecorders/cat-recxdcam/product-PDWF75/

Hope this points you in the right direction.

Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
_________________________________________________
Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

Congratulations Grinner!

I’m sure the exposure you’ll get being allied with the production company can only lead to more work.

Best of luck.

Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
_________________________________________________
Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

Set in and out points for your clip. From the Fast Menu (burger or map it to one of your keys), select Motion Effect. You can enter a speed, % or fit-to-fill.

Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
_________________________________________________
Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

You cannot make a freeze frame of a motion effect clip. If you don’t want to Ramp to 0, then what you need to do is park on the frame you want to freeze in your timeline, matchframe (which may show the motion clip) and match frame again. This will give you the original clip in the source window and you can make your freeze. If you have effects applied in the timeline, step-into the effect and edit the freeze frame “under” your effects. Hope that makes sense and answers your question.

Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
_________________________________________________
Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

[Rich Rubasch] “Would love to have SD cards in, say, the 1 terabyte range for under $50”

1TB will take a while, but it will come. Just five years ago 16GB of flash memory was huge – not so today.

[Rich Rubasch] “800 gigs on an LTO huh? Hate to adopt a new format only to have a big tech breakthru a month later.”

LTO is now 4th generation (LTO-4) and LTO drives are backwards compatible two generations. Our LTO-4 drive will read LTO-3 and LTO-2 tapes. I wouldn’t consider LTO a passing fad with concern for a big tech breakthru.

But that’s an interesting comment. There is always concern that what I buy today will be old technology tomorrow when the latest thing comes out. After much research, we settled on deep archiving with data tape – similar to Emre above.

Whatever commitment (or lack there of) you make for backing up data (even copies of copies on HDD) is a decision. There isn’t an industry wide Best Practice for this process. But there are some good suggestions in this thread.

As far as the original question – do we have a contract for long-term storage? No. We just archive every project and include a line item on the bill.

Avid and FCP Preditor
_________________________________________________
Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

Yes, XDCam is a blu-ray disc. And…?

Avid and FCP Preditor
_________________________________________________
Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

There a couple corporations I work with who chose XDCam over P2 for the same reason Nick mentioned. It takes man hours to manage and maintain all the data – versus logging the disc into the library. And if you need to revisit a project a couple years from now, you can grab the clips you need.

In answer to the original question, we charge a fee of about $150 per project to archive to LTO tape. Every project goes through this process and the line item for Project Archiving is never questioned because we talk about that ahead of time. Data Tape backup is something the IT sector has been using for ages. It is reliable and tested. An LTO-4 tape will hold 800GB of data which allows multiple projects to be stored on one tape. Desktop or internal tape drives are fairly cheap and tapes are about $60 right now. As with any media, there is risk of failure, so multiple tapes are suggested.

As far as storing data on HDD (Hard Disk Drive), you don’t need to ask too many people about their experiences with crashed drives to know this is NOT an practical and efficient solution. There is nothing wrong with having a pile of HDD on the shelf with project material. But don’t use this as your only archive/backup method. And if you don’t spin them them up occasionally, don’t expect the data to be there in a couple years.
https://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_hard_disk_warning.html

Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
_________________________________________________
Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

Max,

I’m sure you have thought about the audio aspect. If you are used to using HDV with a good camera you would have good audio recordings. The audio with DSLR is very low quality, but enough for some. If you’re shooting interviews or concerned with audio, look into other sound recording solutions to supplement your video.

Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
_________________________________________________
Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

Jon,

What Richard said. Archive Original, but save the final show elements. If your using FCP (which it looks like you are) use Media Manager to trim the fat and only keep the footage you need. But also keep the original clips. These are smaller and unprocessed (except by the camera).

Also, be careful about storing on hard drives for long periods of time. HDD fail. See my notes here..https://jumpcutpictures.com/backup/backup.html

Hope that helps.

Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
_________________________________________________
Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield