Re: AVC-Intra 50 in FCP

Jeremy,

Thanks for the post ! Things are becoming a little clearer.

"After your edit, you can dump the ProRes files and you can easily retranscode the files from the AVC-I MXFs. FCP makes that pretty easy actually"

After the transcode, and the package is complete, I could media manage, trash the prores and reconnect back to the MXF files later, so although the transcode has been made it always references back to the original files, even if names etc have been changed along the way ?



From what I can gather from your posts you, use LTO to backup field material. Can you tell me how that fits in with your work flow ? The archive of material is what worries me a little. I want a scalable system, individual TB drives dont feel secure, raids are costly and will fill up our san system after a while. I was looking at the drobo as an LTO alternative. This lets you put 4-8 2tb drives in its enclosure, and gives them raid protection. I can yank them out as a bundle when they are full, drop them on a shelf, and they will instantly have your raid available when you load them back into the machine to gather material. I can hang this on our SAN through the server. I'd just dump material off it onto our raids to edit. Good, bad or terrible idea ?

I have a lot more acquisition work flow questions... sorry and thanks.

Dave