Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Welcome
I just want to take the opportunity to welcome all of you to TBT's blog site. My goal as author is to allow a market place of ideas to flow across this page. I would like to start off this blog with comments on "File Management" and what it means to you? How do you move product from capture to transmission? What methods do you use to store your footage for short-term and for long-term archiving? What role does meta-data play in your work-flow process? Does this sound like enough to get started? Blog On!
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I acquire footage to a Panasonic P2 card...most of my work-flow is based off a portable hard drive. We shoot all day, dump cards at night to a Iomega hard drive. We use final cut for editing and the Panasonic AVCintra file compression really works slick with our editor. We shoot primarily everything in HD, but have a lot of down conversion requirements. For long term storage, we use D5 tape...its a bit expensive, but for now, still the industry hires standard. I'd like to know what others are doing...our process works great, but we are always open to ideas. - Scott
I have enough trouble convincing producers that a file on a hard drive is the same thing as a tape only more flexible. File management for my company is fairly easy. Frist, we don't use meta-data at all. One reason meta-data is useless to my company is: it doesn't flow from one piece of hardware/software to another. We shoot both tape and XDCam and P2, we treat each piece of media exactly the same. Shot sheets are generated for each tape, disc and card. We Digitize all our footage to an Avid Unitity server which for the most part is glitchy at best. Nonetheless, when we finish editing, we master to D-5 like the fellow in the post before. I'm waiting for a cheap solid state PC card to master to and I feel it should be nearing reality. From our master tape we submaster to whatever format the client is asking for, in our case its usually DVD. That opens a brand new can of worms that maybe I'll "complain" about later, we cut all the fat by deleting any excess b-roll and we are ready for a new product. My friends in the news buisness running primarily Panasonic gear shooting on P2 cards have it a lot easier as they simply push material into a server based newsroom environment and they are back out the door. As we all know, the news folks, especially at the local level don't do a lot of long-term storing of data. This is an interesting post and a topic that as I write peaks my interest. I don't think there is one good way to develope a solid work-flow, especially on a tight budget. Aaron, I can't tell from your questions if you are facing a problem, or simply just trying to get several ideas. I hope this is helpful.
Tim Shue / RedClover
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