Hi,
I am basically trying to find the best way of archiving rushes shot on P2 (in various formats) without necessarily playing everything out to tape. I have obviously checked some of the other posts covering this but still have a few questions.
We do not have the option of buying an HD deck and so the archiving of HD rushes is the largest problem. To date i have just been slowly filling up my Raid storage, but soon this will have to end as it isn't really cost effective.
We have one or two projects that were shot using DVpro50 and i will probably just play these back out to DVcam as they are not very large (am i correct in thinking there will be no loss of quality by doing this?). However, apart from the HD rushes we also have a lot of graphics projects (again at both SD and HD) and i'm concerned about quality loss if we were to dump those onto DVcam.
The best solution seems to be to buy a tape backup drive like this:
http://www.nextwarehouse.com/item/?568696_P:O which would allow us to put anything on there, at a fraction of the cost of an HD deck and with no format issues. Are there many other people out there using these and am i right in thinking this would solve our problems?
Regards,
J
