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Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: storage - Recent Topics http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: storage - Recent Topics en Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:50:19 +0000 sarahkreen on "Light weight options to backup HD footage while traveling" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/light-weight-options-to-backup-hd-footage-while-traveling#post-57559 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:10:42 +0000 sarahkreen 57559@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hi Everyone, I'm going to be traveling and shooting approx 3 hours everyday around S.E. Asia for 3 months. I'm deciding between a Canon HFS and HFN 31 right now but want to be able to download and backup footage every couple of days. What would be the most lightweight option to do this? I first thought of the MacBook Air but it doesn't have a firewire port and only one USB post. Is there a PC option or am I missing something like a go-between that would literally make it possible to download files directly from the camera to a hard drive? Many thanks in advance for you help. composite1 on "Good Answer for Field Flash Storage" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/good-answer-for-field-flash-storage#post-55475 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:01:58 +0000 composite1 55475@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ There have been a number of products coming out lately that deal with the number 1 issue concerning Flash Media in the field. Yeah, solid-state cards are great since you don't have to digitize the footage but when they fill up you have to take time to download them or buy a buttload of cards which can get expensive. Videographer Paul Joy's video review of Nexto's latest answer to this problem answered a lot of my questions about the rig and as I move further into a solid-state workflow, I see this on my list of future purchases. <a href="http://vimeo.com/9454378">NEXTO DI NVS2500 Video Review</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/pauljoy">Paul Joy</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>. SafetyMan on "Storage and Retention of footage Opinions" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/storage-and-retention-of-footage-opinions#post-54747 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:46:29 +0000 SafetyMan 54747@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I consider myself an intermediate novice (It is mostly a hobby for me, but I do some paid work as well), and I am struggling with how best to capture and store my footage and projects, and would appreciate others sharing their process. I do some paid work for a local organization, and I do some volunteer work at the local school selling DVDs as a fundraiser, and I edit my own personal family footage. My Current workflow is as follows: Footage is captured on Mini DV Tapes. I Digitize the footage and store on an external Hard Drive connected to my PC Via ESATA. This drive is essentially a dock so I can "eject" the disk when it is full and place it on a shelf for archival purposes (<a href="http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1346&ID=1731">http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1346&ID=1731</a>) I save my data in folders organized by "client" (Family, School, corporation), and then by Project (Holidays 2009, Christmas Pageant 2008 etc), and all of the footage and final projects are saved in that folder. When I complete a project, I burn it to DVD, and I will usually keep a copy for myself incase another master copy is neede by my client. Unless it is priceless footage (Birth of my child, or some one in a lifetime event) I will often times reuse the MiniDV tapes again for another project, partially for cost, but mostly because I have no place to store hundreds of DV tapes, and and saving a 1 hour DV tape for 5 minutes of highlight footage of an elementary school soccer game does not seem worth it. Do you Copy all of your raw footage and edited footage and final project off to another storage media? Do you keep your initial raw footage, or fo you only keep the files used in the finished projects? What sort of storage device do you used to store your projects? Network attached storage, a media server or Drobo seem like they would be good, but it places a huge strain on my homenetwork to be transfering 10-15 Gigs of data between my locally connected drive and my networked storage or USB connected Drobo (Although the new Drobo S looks interesting) Any other advice on workflow and long term storage of footage and finished products? blindeye on "File storage" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/file-storage#post-52976 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:39:04 +0000 blindeye 52976@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Ok, folks. I'm working on a mac, FCP, I store all my files on an external 1.5TB hard drive, and right now it's at about 900 Gigs of files. My internal hard drive is 320G, and I have an 320 time back up hard drive for all the system files and software programs. So now I need to figure out how to BACK UP the hard work and files. I talked to Apple, and they said to mirror the drive. So I bought another 1.5TB hard drive to mirror it to (because my internal hard drive doesn't have the room for it to create a mirror on my desktop!), but it took a full day to compress it, then another 6 hours to uncompress to the new Hard Drive. So that's no help, I can't afford a full day and a half down time every time I make an edit. I talked to Larry Jordan, and he says a RAID is the way to go. Without spending gajillions of dollars, what do you suggest for an Raid? Do all Raids take bigger hard drives in each slot? Thanking everyone in advance for their help! HighKalibur on "HDD vs. DV: Is Quality Compromised?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hdd-vs-dv-is-quality-compromised#post-46242 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:12:25 +0000 HighKalibur 46242@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hi, I know little about the technical aspects of cameras. I plan on spending a nice chunk of savings on a one- or three-chip video camera. I love the convenience of direct-to-hard drive storage. However, I have never been able to get a definite answer as to whether or not I am losing picture quality by not recording it to a DV Tape. Is this the case?<o:p></o:p> What is the difference in quality when recording on a HDD or DV tape? Is there one? <o:p></o:p> Also, as far as filmmaking goes, can anyone suggest a great starter camera (until now I have used camcorders) for an independent filmmaker that produces good picture without unnecessary luxury accessories. In other words I’m looking for a great ‘deal’ camera. <o:p></o:p> CraftersOfLight on "How do you "File" your video clips?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-do-you-file-your-video-clips#post-44030 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:27:47 +0000 CraftersOfLight 44030@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I have searched this website and the closest article has a 2007 date on it. I started out with a small camcorder (Panasonic HDC-CF9) about a year ago. I am having a lot of fun with it and am enjoying working with a few video editors, (highest level editor I own is Corel's VideoStudio Pro X2). Largely very armature stuff but it is a nice hobby. I love doing nature/scenery shots, and living in Oregon there is a lot of scenery available within 90 minutes of home. My issue; I am starting to have quite a collection of shots and am facing the daunting task of trying to file these in some logical way. I have almost 200Gb of video in .mts format (AVCHD), 2,200 files ranging from 10 seconds to 15 minutes a clip. The most painful issue is not getting a thumbnail of what the video clip is about. So this involves opening the folder. Opening a video edit program pull a folders worth of videos into the working folder of the editor, and renaming the files based on the topic or location. Time consuming at best. Then storing them on DVD RAM. What methods do you use to file your shots? How do you sort your videos? I know a few of you are in the production business and most likely file by project. I also know that film sites provide a chance for collecting stock footage as well. How do you file those? Any special tools, file software or such you could suggest? Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. mbeano on "External Hard Drive Recommendation?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/external-hard-drive-recommendation#post-40608 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:24:10 +0000 mbeano 40608@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Â Hello everyone, I am a new film student (as of now I have only taken theory classes, and yet to take a production class).Â I am thinking of buying an external hard drive.Â It has been a really long time since I have touched anything in relation to film or video editing so I am pretty ignorant to alot of the technology as well as the jargon. I really want to get more into video editing.Â Unfortunately, due to lack of funds, I have to buy my system in stages, little by little, and cannot afford to have 1 system dedicated solely to editing (for now).Â So for the time being my laptop will be used for everday stuff as well as learning editing and fufute student video projects.Â Here are my computer details: Laptop - Apple MacbookPro 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4G DDR2 SDRAM, and 250G Hard drive, running OSXÂ 10.5. For now I only have iMovie, but eventually plan on buying Final Cut Pro.Â So for now I am looking for recommendations on an external hard drive.Â I know I want at least 1 terabyte of storage.Â I am also wondering If it is recommended to get 2 separate external hard drives - one for my media, and 1 for everyday stuff.Â In all I'd like to keep my costs down under $600. As I am new to all of this any comments on what I need or should be thinking about would be welcome, and all adviceÂ would be much appreciated Thanks in advance, Mike McDuke on "To Firestore or not to Firestore" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/to-firestore-or-not-to-firestore#post-39153 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:16:46 +0000 McDuke 39153@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ So it seems I'm taking the dive andÂ researching Firestore and related storage devices. I'm finding more and more manufacturers out there any input from those that have used them would be appreciated. What's good, what sucks. We're using a Sony HDR FX1 and we usually shoot regular DV I see Firestore, Canon has something out and Citi Disk and, and the list grows Videoguy on "Big News from G-Tech" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/big-news-from-g-tech#post-35344 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:13:47 +0000 Videoguy 35344@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Big News from G-Tech Itâ€™s been a very eventful year so far for G-Technologies, the maker of the award winning external storage solutions for video producers. Back in January, at Mac World, it was officially announced that Fabrik had acquired G-Tech. Fabrik is a leading provider of innovative storage, memory and next generation online services. What does this mean for G-Tech storage users and fans? Most importantly, the company now has significantly better financial strength and purchasing power. Over the past year product shortages have been common and this has impacted the availability of new product lines like the breakthrough G-SPEED eS series. Fabrik is committed to the G-Tech brand and product line. Over the next year we can expect the same great products and service that fueled G-Techâ€™s recent growth as well as some exciting new products that will define a completely new segment of the creative pro market. We are already seeing the benefits of the Fabrik acquisition! We have two major announcements for you! 1) New lower prices on the award winning G-RAID 2 family of external storage solutions for video. Over the past few years G-RAIDs have become the de facto standard in video editing. Regardless of your platform (PC or Mac) or the video editing software you use (Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 / Production Premium CS3, Apple Final Cut Pro 6/ Final Cut Studio 2, Avid Express Pro / Media Composer, Sony Vegas Pro 8, Pinnacle/Avid Liquid 7, Grass Valley Edius Pro / Broadcast, or consumer level editors from Pinnacle, Adobe, Ulead, Sony and others), G-RAIDs are the perfect external storage solution. Just how low are the new prices â€“ check out this list â€“ and yes we have plenty of stock! * G-RAID 2 - 500GB - $329.95 * G- RAID 2 - 1 Terabyte (1,000GB) - $499.95 * G- RAID 2 - 1.5 Terabyte (1,500GB) - $699.95 * G- RAID 2 - 2 Terabyte (2,000GB) - $1,050.00 2) G-Tech G-SPEED eS are in STOCK!! The G-Tech G-SPEED is a top-notch storage solution for video editing â€“ especially if you are going to be editing HD footage. G-SPEED eS gives you all the throughput you need for the most demanding SD or HD video work, including complex long-format projects. Even more importantly the flexible RAID configuration allows you to select a RAID5 configuration for redundancy. G-SPEED eS is a complete storage solution. It consists of an external drive array, special eSata controller card and Browser-Based RAID Configuration and Management. This winning combination of technology gives you a screaming fast storage solution with flexible configurations to meet even the most demanding video editing needs. The best part is that it doesnâ€™t require you to buy an expensive and difficult to configure SCSI or FibreChannel controller card. The PCIe card is a snap to install on a Mac or Windows machine, and you can purchase additional storage units that can be daisy chained as needed. We have the following G-SPEED eS configurations available for immediate delivery! * G-SPEED eS PCIe 2 Terabyte (2,000GB) $1,429.00 * G-SPEED eS PCIe 3 Terabyte (3,000GB) $1,899.00 * G-SPEED eS PCIe 4 Terabyte (4,000GB) $2,850.00 For more G-Tech info <a href="http://www.videoguys.com/gtech.html">http://www.videoguys.com/gtech.html</a> Gary