[MacDV] Re: imovie storage

[James Asherman]

On Tuesday, December 30, 2003, at 10:40  PM, Daniel Beck wrote:

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> On Dec 31, 2003, at 12:20 PM, James Asherman wrote:
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>> On Tuesday, December 30, 2003, at 09:42  PM, Juan Mariscal wrote:
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>>> This must be true of Final Cut Express too, correct?????
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>> Might be , might not be.
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> I wasn't sure either, so that's why I wrote "Final Cut" and not FCP or 
> FCE.
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>> 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$.
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> 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.
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>> 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
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>

Absolutely.
For me, going through three hours of tape and marking it only to have  
to back up and do the batch capture is a waste of time. Nobody pays me 
that much and they assume I will get it right the first time.
And right, "stock footage" has a folder. And I have 80 gigs empty(third 
HD) to store hours of footage should I deem it necessary. Save the 
project file too and bingo, I have still only run the tapes once and 
the machine didn't take all that (what I think is) abuse.
Jim