[MacDV] Re: imovie storage

[Daniel Beck]

On Dec 31, 2003, at 12:20 PM, James Asherman wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 30, 2003, at 09:42  PM, Juan Mariscal wrote:
>
>> This must be true of Final Cut Express too, correct?????
>
> Might be , might not be.

I wasn't sure either, so that's why I wrote "Final Cut" and not FCP or 
FCE.

> Truth is all this logging and looking at the tapes over and over and 
> batch capture and logging decisions are a major pain, big loss of time 
> and a holdover from the time when 9 gig drives cost 1100$.

It's not a holdover. It's the norm. Unless you don't do that much 
editing. Plus, you don't need to use batch capture to do what I was 
suggesting. You can simply use Capture Now. This will require more HD 
space while editing, but allows you to dump the media files when you're 
done, thus saving hundreds if not thousands in HD costs.

> With hundreds of gigabytes to spare, do your project and then maybe 
> line up the originals of all the clips you actually used and run them 
> out to a DV tape. EAsier, quicker, easier on your playback unit.

Sorry if I sound contentious (not my intent), but this seems more 
labor-some to me. I'd just assume let FCP do the "remembering" for me. 
Again, how often are you going to need to import from those tapes. Not 
very often unless it's footage you use over and over; in which case, 
yeah, leave that footage on a HD.

Again, just a different way of looking at these things, I guess.
Daniel