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2006-06-05 09:05:32 |
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Hi Brandon
Just keep all your project media on separate drives from
other projects (otherwise when you send your media out you'll lose media from
other projects). For straight DV media just about any firewire drive will do,
but I prefer the larger ones striped together internally like the Lacie Bigger
disk Extreme (500G), the one with the firewire 800 interface. (I've been
using 2 striped together for about 8 months successfully for uncompressed SD
work) - you can still use these drives with FW400.
Send your project out on the same drive as your media,
provided your editor knows to move it to another drive to avoid disk
bottlenecks. Either way the media ;will stay linked, unless you do something
silly like change files within the OMFI/MXF media directories or deliberately
unlink master clips.
Avid recommend a maximum partition size of 300G - primarily
to speed up database operations as more and more media files get saved to the
partition, but also because after you reach 10,000 files the operating system
itself begins to have big performance hits tracking the
files.
Re: offline/online - I imagine you are not using Mojo so
no, I don't think 15:1s media would go out the firewire port - you need to send
IEEE1394 data to your firewire transcoder to successfully transcode to a PAL or
NTSC monitor. I don't use offline much at all anymore - 250 hours ;= approx
2.5 terrabytes so that's a lot of storage - depends on your budget whether you
can spring for it. If not, then simply make sure you track your tape
numbers EXACTLY. I don't think you can use User bits with DV so you better
keep an Excel spreadsheet of the tapes, the date and time digitised and where
they are physically located. That way - even if someone inadvertantly enters the
wrong tape number, you'll still be able to match back by referring to the
original date digitised in the bin. One other tip - set an exact ;naming
method for your tapes and make it flexible enough that the same tape can have
different sections of timecode on it (if you have repeated timecode on a tape
then you must give each section a separate tape name or batching will fail -
this is a definite possibility with DV) - make everyone from field cameraman to
tape logger stick to it religiously.
cheers
John Mitchell
Mondo Media Pty Ltd
Hey list!
Its Brandon from Link
Technologies in New Jersey.
We are starting a longform
documentary (SD DV) project where clips will be logged and
digitized onto a firewire drive on one workstation, and then we will
send the drive to our editor at his location in another
state.
All, told we will be
shooting approx. 250 hours, so media management is going to be
important!
Here are my questions for
you!
(and thank you in advance
for any other ;tips you may want to add to ease the project into smooth
operation !)
What are the steps ;we
must take to ensure that BOTH the project and media show up on our
editor's workstation the same way as we see it when we digitize here onto the
firewire drive?
Is there a tip about working
in off-line rez, so it shows up on a monitor?
(so far we only see it in
the DV Xpress interface..is that normal?)
What firewire drives do you
all have most success with and do you partition them?
(What is the methodology and
rule of thumb to partition our drives correctly)
Thank you SO much for taking
the time to be of assistance to us, much appreciated!!!
best,
brandon
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