You could also use software like Xendata's middleware which is like
having an infinite NAS.
It is a windows server with a RAID 5 or 6 hard disk cache which is
shared across your network like a common or garden NAS.
Behind that is a tape library with one (or more) LTO devices in it and
as many blank tapes as needed.
As you and your users copy data directly to the RAIDed drive on the
server or to it as a shared drive on the network, the data is backed up
automatically to tape. As one tape in a Volume set is filled it loads a
blank one automatically.
The clever things is that you could have a setup where the proxies are
left on RAIDed disk as well as backed up to tape; the primary data is
backed up and marked as offline to the filesystem, even though the
folders and icons are all still there and browsable. The
metadata/icons/folder structure remain on the Server's drive all the
time and if you go to an old folder and drill down and drag back to your
workstation a file you need, then the tape library loads the tape and
very soon you will have the primary file copying onto your editing
storage.
That way you could use something like CATDV to manage the proxies and
decide what was needed for edits later in the series and retrieving the
required high rez material would be painless.
We have more and more customers with this solution and the more we
install the cooler it reveals itself as being...
Rupert Watson
+447787554801
From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Peter Jay Gould
Sent: 09 February 2010 22:04
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Avid-L2] Re: Reality TV Formats
Oliver Peters wrote:
>> The reality is that only Sony is bringing out new tape decks
>> and they aren't in super shape as a company these days. Most
>> owners I know don't want to buy any new decks and can
>> barely afford to properly maintain the decks they own. This
>> includes broadcasters.
>>
>> XDCAM is nice but many view it as an interim technology.
>> There isn't any great rush to buy XDCAM transports that I can
>> see. It's obvious that even Sony is moving away from the
>> optical flavor of this format. File-based post is still evolving
>> and it's not really there yet, but it is the future whether we like
>> it or not.
I agree with everything you've said, but that still begs the question:
if
I'm launching a show today, based upon the technology available today,
what's my best choice, and what's the resulting workflow?
Continuing to think in terms of COPS: they do regular shows and then
later
they do specials that string together previous footage in new
arrangements
(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.
(To all: thanks for a fascinating discussion on this topic, which has
been
bothering me for quite awhile now).
Pete
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