Comments on: Save terabytes of storage with your DSLR footage / tips for storage options

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Mon, 14 May 2012 13:03:41 +0000

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By: Nino Leitner

Nino Leitner — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:13:13 +0000

Sorry, I don’t have one … but I heard there’s one from Delkin that is quite good!

By: Markus Haken

Markus Haken — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:37:51 +0000

Hey Nino,
can you recommend any esata cards for the MBP? I have the old 2007 modell.
Thanks,
Markus

By: Markus

Markus — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:30:48 +0000

I havn’t done any scientific comparisons, but I don’t see why the quality should be different. However I havn’t tried it for anything longer than 10 mins. Wouldn’t be suprised if Premiere will crash on you if you load a 30 min project =P

By: Nino Leitner

Nino Leitner — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:27:08 +0000

That sounds great Markus. Will give it a try soon!

By: Markus

Markus — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:24:02 +0000

True, a lossy codec will be degraded if it’s saved over and over again, but the workflow doesn’t call for that. I belive the quality is the same as if you convert to ProRes. Also you’r not bound to work in 8-bit space. The color correction tools etc. work with up to 32-bit even if the original footage is only 8-bit. It’s a little CPU heavy though, but with mercury GPU acceleration it’s pretty smooth.

By: Nino Leitner

Nino Leitner — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:06:42 +0000

Good idea, very similar to how my workflow is working.

By: Nino Leitner

Nino Leitner — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:04:11 +0000

It’s great that Premiere CS5 can handle these files natively, though I’m not sure if working and editing in an 8-bit space is a good idea. H.264 compresses so efficiently because it works like a JPEG and drops information you can’t see. If you save an image over and over again as a JPEG is degrades massively. Likewise, H.264 was meant to be a finishing codec, that’s why I’m not sure it’s necessarily good to work in that codec.

By: Sybren

Sybren — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:00:17 +0000

Here is my solution. First of all, I only save the card data and (sometimes) document the settings in a textfile, so I can always re-produce the ProRes or any other edit codec files.

I have two RAID-1 FW 800 LaCie’s. One is for projects I’m working on (speed and space), the other for storage (safety). The great feature about these LaCie discs is that you can replace both discs. If it is full I can pull both discs out and replace them with new disks. Both old discs are stored at different locations. A HDD dock is great to read the old discs.

By: Markus

Markus — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:28:35 +0000

Haha, I feel like such a fool for not having thought of
this! So simple. Anyways right now I’m editing with Premiere CS5
with native support for H264 files so no need to convert. Only
works for short projects though.

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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:48:00 +0000

[...] the final for some snippets. So i put the HDD back into my QuickPort and fired up After Effects (check out Nino’s blog post on storing DSLR footage and the QuickPort solution right here). (The director’s cut was edited on a MacBook Pro 13″, in Avid 5.0 and After Effects CS5) [...]

By: Michael Buffa

Michael Buffa — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:52:17 +0000

Nino,

Thank you for posting this. I have been looking for a better backup solution then the one I have (which is two usb lacie drives). This is faster and cheaper, really appreciate it. If you find a good way to store them please let me know, I could see how that could be a problem.

Michael