[Avid-L2] Re: Reality TV Formats

Pete,

> Peter Jay Gould wrote:
> (COPS: pursuits, COPS: domestics, COPS: Mardi Gras etc.). We'll have the
> same thing, so all acquired footage has to be available for later use.
> That's why I'm trying to figure out how to do file based workflow and where
> the footage lives once it's off the solid state acquisition media.

Definitely a dilemma and I'm not sure Media Composer is well suited for this in a file-based world, but that's a different discussion. You either want to follow an offline/online workflow or work natively at a low data rate and have enough storage. That tends to make EX (at 35Mbps) a good choice, possibly using some sort of external storage.

One thing is for sure and that is you have to protect your original camera media and do not use it for editorial. This means back-up and redundancy. So look at LTO systems or cheap commodity hard drives. For example, you can readily buy raw 7200RPM 1TB Seagates and Western Digital at places like Best Buy for $100.

I think the big question is whether to edit natively with something like the EX codec or to set up some sort of proxy-media editing and then uprez. I would opt for native, but it really depends on how much media you're going to have to have on hand at any given time. These days, 5TB is not a serious amount of storage. Right not I'm making revisions to a special venue project and I've got 14TB of cheap storage right beside my desk.

Cheers,
Oliver

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