Re: re-stripiing sata drives

Mick,

About the only thing you can do is at least have an "important folder" where you can then run a cron job on to copy data over to somewhere else for a backup, even if it's off to LTO (if you have it). This way at least if you do loose a drive, you don't loose all your really hard to re-create stuff. SAVE YOUR EDLS AND BATCH LISTS in this folder, this way you can always re-create easily!

I would like to add that Bobs comment, that you don't need uncompressed, I disagree with. It depends on where your project will end up and how many steps in between it will take before it gets there. ProRes and DVCPro DO NOT replace uncompressed by any means. EVERY time you re-render or re-Compress those formats YOU WILL loose quality!

so for example, you bring in as say ProRes, and you render it out as ProRes (with whatever effects/transitions/etc... applied) your content is de-graded, you bring that into a color app and re-render it out again, more de-grading and so on.....

"Choose your weapons wisely" and strive to put the very best quality out there for the job. This is what will make you a professional, not simply because you own a computer that can edit! It isn't easy and it certainly isn't cheap to do this.....good luck in whichever route you take.

Cheers,
Ramona


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