Re: Freelancer work flow as an owner/operator of a HVX.

I was just talking about this with a D.P. friend of mine. he is obsessed with digitizing straight into FCP and I'm not. I told him that it might be sensible for some clients and shooting conditions, but certainly far from all. We hashed out a workflow that involves p2 cards, a p2 store, a cheap SATA enclosure, cheap SATA drives, and a cheap SATA cardbus controller. The workflow goes like this, shoot on P2, transfer to P2 store. At lunch or at the end of the day or whenever is most convenient, transfer the contents of the P2 store to the cheap SATA 2 disk RAID that is striped RAID 1. This will essentially write two copies of the p2 files to two drives at the same time. Your client on the other end has to have a cheap enclosure and SATA card or cardbus adaptor. You can then give them either both of the drives, or you give them one drive and you keep one. The drive then becomes the master and you keep the backup. If you try and insert just one drive, your computer will say that an incomplete RAID is present, but all of the data will still be there. At that point your client could choose to rebuild the array (making a new copy) or they can start to enter the footage into their NLE which then copies the material again. It is then their job to backup from their. If the poop hits the fan, then you have a backup from the original two drives. This is untested, unproven, but it's what we are working on. So far so good and further testing is happening everyday.