[Kevin C.]

JUst thinking about this some more. For many of my projects,

I’m going to be sending many of my tapes, original footage, Fed Ex, to other editors to work on, and as reliable as Fed Ex is, and other editors, etc, I just could not imagine sending the sole tape of a project where you spent thousands of dollars on models/actors/locations etc (without a backup on hand). Would you? just curious.

[Kevin C.]

thanks for good info.
I’m getting used to this idea, in film world, that you don’t back up immediately work you just shot.

I’m a still portrait /fashion photographer, and have been shooting digitally for three years, and the first thing I do is back up everything I just shot into 2 DVD and 2 External hard drives–one off site. But this is just a few gigs of still photos.

I guess backing up moving pictures, originating from mini DV tapes is just a whole lot more tedious and draining and expensive, hence, why so many don’t bother backing up original footage.

So this is correct, most don’t back up original footage?

And if you do, way to do is camcorder to camcorder.

[Kevin C.]

thanks Matte:

Damn, someone was over, and said that would be ok. And it’s so much nice to have lot of backup in large CD case than have all these more expensive mini DV all over the place. You can see the difference?

Kdawg, what are you saying? transfer to a DVD deck or to burner? what is avi?
( I was talking about the very convenient DVD Burners you can get for your TV set)

[Kevin C.]

thanks Peter!

[Kevin C.]

Often I ask questions, but what does bid blind mean?

[Kevin C.]

Interesting Matte, did not know that.

Still, I want to see it listed when I looking on ebay, and it’s not always listed. But it’s good to know it should be there. thanks!

[Kevin C.]

Someone else mentioned pawn shops. Called couple. none! so it’s off to e bay.

But do you want a power adapter for this purpose? this seems to be a problems as not all manufactures seem to provide one.

I don’t think you would want to be dubbing with batteries. you tell me. thanks.

[Kevin C.]

thanks Thax. I guess this is another urban myth?

[Kevin C.]

thanks Don. that’s what I think. I don’t know why these guys on this DV forum keep touting this filter.

[Kevin C.]

thanks Matte, I mean I always thought that timecode was indispensable until I learned fcp exp did not have it, so I started to wonder. But based on what you just said, it may be that if your are working closed loop on small projects it’s not that important.

But — the ability to recapture, it seems, would always be a critical thing. If you even did a 1/2 project, and then needed to recapture, you could not do this with FCP Express?? if that’s true, you would eat all your work, then that’s outrageous.