| | | | Re: Archiving multiple projects?
by Jacob Brown on May 20, 2013 at 6:38:02 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
For the feature film I am editing I back up in this manner:
I have all the media in 3 events. I have multiple projects.
On a backup drive I keep a copy of the "Final Cut Events" folder and a copy of the "Final Cut Projects" folder. I tend to ju | | | | |
| | | | Archiving multiple projects?
by William Davis on May 20, 2013 at 1:25:17 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
I'm wrapping up a pretty sizable job, and I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on best practices for archiving.
The Project Library for this job contains around 15 broadcast promos, and they are all based on the same pool of media in one event | | | | |
| | | | Service: Mario L. Cash
by Mario Cash on May 14, 2013 at 8:59:37 pm
in the COW - Services Forum
2011
Assistant Editor, 2011
One Shot Films, Los Angeles, CA.
Responsibilities
• Assembled and gathered all raw footage, with camera shots either
recorded or transferred onto video tape.
• Inputted uncut rushes and sound and synchronized and sto | | | | |
| | | | Mario L. Cash
by Mario Cash on May 14, 2013 at 1:59:37 pm
in the Forum
2011 Assistant Editor, 2011 One Shot Films, Los Angeles, CA. Responsibilities • Assembled and gathered all raw footage, with camera shots either recorded or transferred onto video tape. • Inputted uncut rushes and sound and synchronized and stored th | | | | |
| | | | Re: Backup Strategy Advice
by Michael Sanders on May 13, 2013 at 7:40:32 am
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
[Jeff Kirkland] "I've oscillated between keeping media in the events folder and just linking to it over the time I've been using FCPX. There are definite advantages to just linking and if I do, then I use Magic Bullet Grinder, ClipWrap, or MPEG Strea | | | | |
| | | | Re: Backup Strategy Advice
by Jeff Kirkland on May 12, 2013 at 9:15:25 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
I've oscillated between keeping media in the events folder and just linking to it over the time I've been using FCPX. There are definite advantages to just linking and if I do, then I use Magic Bullet Grinder, ClipWrap, or MPEG Streamclip to ingest/ | | | | |
| | | | Re: Backup Strategy Advice
by Michael Sanders on May 12, 2013 at 5:38:48 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
I've been messing with this the past few days as I've just retired my old Drobo S as its too slow...
The first thing I do is make optical copies of the rushes. I have a LG blu ray burner for this reason. 50GB discs are about £6 ea now and I make | | | | |
| | | | Re: How to copy 20TB to LTO 5(or 6)
by Tom Goldberg on May 7, 2013 at 4:37:55 pm
in the Archiving and Back-Up Forum
[Eric Weiner] "I have a Cache-A unit, which can also span tapes, but if you lose one of those tape in a span for what ever reason, you don't only lose the tape, you lose everything it is spanning too. "
Eric's comment is really not correct. When | | | | |
| | | | Re: Premiere Pro CC it is then?
by Jeremy Garchow on May 6, 2013 at 10:09:30 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Sandeep Sajeev] "Sure. The issue is what happens down the line.
I had to revisit an old Nike spot I cut a couple of years ago last week, and I opened up FCP7 and made the changes the agency needed. This is the type of thing that concerns me."
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| | | | Re: Best Way to Organize DSLR Video Metadata
by Sandeep Sajeev on May 4, 2013 at 7:10:56 am
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
Scott,
a quick note on wrangling your data on set. Apologies if you're already aware of all this, but just in case you're not, this may save you some grief at some point.
It's good practice to have multiple cards on set. They should all be labe | | | | |
| | | | Re: Best Way to Organize DSLR Video Metadata
by Sandeep Sajeev on May 2, 2013 at 7:18:20 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
I've totally skipped over archiving, as you mentioned that you've got that sorted. I also forgot to add that when Production hands over MovieSlate data, I feed that into FCPX as well.
I deal with external audio in a similar way, but the device ide | | | | |
| | | | Re: Do I need original file?
by Shane Ross on May 2, 2013 at 5:03:26 pm
in the AVID Forum
When you import into Avid...and create MXF media...you can then remove the original files. The only time Avid references those is when they are connected via AMA.
So you can import, and then remove the drive the originals are one and put it on | | | | |
| | | | Re: Outputting for future use!
by Ryan Holmes on May 1, 2013 at 5:17:05 pm
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
We've been archiving in different ways depending on the project. One way is to create, like Tim said, very high data rate h.264 files and then burn that to a data disc (DVD or Blu-ray depending on the size). The data rates vary from 40Mbps to 80-100M | | | | |
| | | | Re: Outputting for future use!
by Tim Kolb on May 1, 2013 at 4:00:13 pm
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
[Chris Tompkins] "We've taken to archiving the project of course, and mastering to the P2 format."
P2 is a data format, but not a video format. You archive in AVC-I 100 then? | | | | |
| | | | Re: Outputting for future use!
by Chris Tompkins on May 1, 2013 at 3:47:54 pm
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
We've taken to archiving the project of course, and mastering to the P2 format. P2 can be opened by any pro edit sys. mac or pc. Then, backed up to redundant USB drives. | | | | |
| | | | For Sale: Tolis BRU Producer's Edition
by Michael Holmes on Apr 27, 2013 at 7:56:12 pm
in the Classifieds, Personal Forum
I am selling my license for Tolis BRU Producer's Edition.
I have used it frequently for archiving and recovering video files with an LTO-6 tape drive.
The program is very easy to use.
It is so much quicker and more straight forward than writing Te | | | | |
| | | | Re: Archiving FCP project folder to send
by Mathieu Xavier on Apr 23, 2013 at 9:50:11 pm
in the Archiving and Back-Up Forum
Use hditutil in Terminal to make a disk image of your project folder. It will be the same size. Then use hdiutil to segment it into tiny 100M pieces to make uploading and downloading easier. It will take a long time, depending on your internet connec | | | | |
| | | | NAB 2013: Panasonic
by Debra Kaufman on Apr 22, 2013 at 11:45:27 am
in the NAB Expo Forum
Panasonic used NAB 2013 to unveil a number of new products and technologies. Chief among them was the third generation VariCam, the first to incorporate Panasonic's new AVC-ULTRA video codec for native 1080/60p operation. The company also unveiled th | | | | |
| | | | Re: getting HDV off HV30 with broken firewire
by Craig Alan on Apr 20, 2013 at 9:26:36 pm
in the Canon Cameras Forum
I think large file sizes are something we all have to get used to. The black magic intensity would not only let you capture all your tapes but could be used to record directly from the HV cam in a much higher codec than HDV and without using any tap | | | | |
| | | | Copying all a projects media files to another drive
by Adam White on Apr 19, 2013 at 6:53:22 pm
in the AVID Forum
Hi,
I have just completed an edit using Media Composer 6.5. Working on OS X.
For client archiving purposes, I have been asked to provide a firewire drive that contains all of the projects media, along with the Avid project file and bins.
I w | | | | |
| | | | Re: Fair use laws when using commercial video?
by Tim Wilson on Apr 18, 2013 at 11:44:43 pm
in the Business & Marketing Forum
[Todd Terry] " In fact I can recall a couple of times them mentioning some obscure film and saying "... unfortunately we don't have any clips of it to show you, but..."
"
A humongous and critical point. If they didn't have actual written, contrac | | | | |
| | | | Service: Metus Technology
by Nalan KOC on Apr 18, 2013 at 12:08:48 pm
in the COW - Services Forum
Metus Technology software solutions are chosen and used in 65 countries all around the world with more than 500 clientele, as it produces cutting edge corporate management solutions for recording, archiving, editing and distributing video, audio and | | | | |
| | | | Metus Technology
by Nalan Koc on Apr 18, 2013 at 5:08:48 am
in the Forum
Metus Technology software solutions are chosen and used in 65 countries all around the world with more than 500 clientele, as it produces cutting edge corporate management solutions for recording, archiving, editing and distributing video, audio and | | | | |
| | | | Library -1...?
by Aaron Rock on Apr 17, 2013 at 10:23:04 pm
in the CatDV Forum
We've been using CatDV for about a year now with great results. Our usual archiving method transfers all our media to one shared drive. /KLTV Library/Media
During the archiving of our most recent project we ran into an odd issue with the volume n | | | | |
| | | | Re: CatDV doesn't like m2t files,what are my options?
by Rolf Howarth on Apr 17, 2013 at 9:20:17 am
in the CatDV Forum
H.264 isn't a great codec for editing (it's optimised for small file sizes not for ease of editing), but then nor is AVCHD .m2t (as that's basically just H.264, in an MPEG wrapper). There are three main approaches you can use when working with AVCHD: | | | | |
| | | | Re: CatDV Archiving Workflow Question
by Rolf Howarth on Apr 17, 2013 at 8:43:27 am
in the CatDV Forum
It should prompt you about any drives that aren't loaded but will continue and restore the other available files if you press Ok. Then you can mount the other drive (and choose it as the archive location if necessary) and restore from that one. | | | | |
Podcasts | | | | adobe premiere pro podcast
Archiving Your Projects: The Project Manager
In this Premiere Pro video tutorial Andrew Devis outlines how to use the Project Manager to create both trimmed and full archived projects ready with all your footage to put on an external hard drive and save... | | | | |
| | | | adobe after effects podcast
AE Workflow Tips #1: AE Duplication
In this Video Tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz helps you improve your workflow through the use of duplication in After Effects. Topics covered include duplicating layers, render settings, overwriting renders, and creating videotape containing both RGB and Alpha transparency information for archiving. | | | | |
| | | | avid media composer podcast
Learn Media Composer Lesson 37: Media Organization
Project Archiving: In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a viewer's e-mail about the organization of media outside of MC/Symphony, and then shows you how using a free, third-party media management application will simplify your archiving process. | | | | |
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