[MacDV] Re: imovie storage

[James Asherman]

On Tuesday, December 30, 2003, at 10:30  PM, Daniel Beck wrote:

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> On Dec 31, 2003, at 12:14 PM, James Asherman wrote:
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>> On Tuesday, December 30, 2003, at 09:20  PM, Daniel Beck wrote:
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>>> My suggestion would be to consider getting Final Cut. Then you won't 
>>> need to store all those media files. You would have have your 
>>> project files and would be able to re-capture whatever media you 
>>> need off your original tapes. Sure Final Cut costs much, but so do 
>>> hard disks. And with books by Michael Rubin, it's not nearly as hard 
>>> to learn as you might think.
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>> too much precious time and tape drive thrashing.
>> My solution?
>>  80 gig cuda  boot drive. 40 gigs sitting open.
>>  80 gig capture drive. Cleaned after every job. also a cuda
>> 80 gig storage drive on second bus under DVD drive for deep storage.
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> You must not do as much editing as I do then. It doesn't take so much 
> time nor tape thrashing, because how often do you go back and edit a 
> finished product? The disk space you save is more than worth it. And 
> when you do need to edit a finished project, you can have Final Cut do 
> the capturing while you're sleeping or watching TV or just away from 
> the computer.
>
> Of course, this depends on your needs.
>
> Daniel
>

I turn out like two hours of finished product every day and turn over 
about 50 gigs every day.
Final cut can capture by itself with or without logs. Sadly , every 
time I walk away, tape glitches happen. Nevertheless with a good tape I 
can capture the whole hour or whatever and make my decisions in final 
cut.
Making logs and batch capturing 2-3 hours of tape, makes your tape 
machine stop, start , search,pause, and is in my mind not preferable to 
just pressing play and then making decisions off the harddrive.
  Now if one were doing a feature film or some other LARGE scale 
enterprise that may in fact, need further revision, then ok.

J