Re: Manage Preview Movies

It sounds not entirely different than what I do. The primary difference: I'm using 1T or 2T raw SATA drives for my "archives."

We've been shooting on HDCam for 11 years, and before that DigiBeta and super16. We have a lot of tape originals. I'm slowly making us pseudo-file based. I setup one of the rooms to capture the field footage (or master off tape) into FCP (7)-with the capture directory the name of the shooting location. It's easy for me to setup large and odd batches. Then I transfer the files to an archive drive. Then I Scan the capture directory on the archive drive into CatDV and let it make proxies. The proxies are stored in that eSata drive hanging off one of the edit systems, which happens also to be the machine hosting the workgroup server.

So I end up with the camera originals in volumes\archive 11\WCSC and the proxies in volumes\G-1\CatDV Proxies\Volumes\archive 11\WCSC

Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.