RE: [Avid-L2] Re: Reality TV Formats

I grew up on tape: shoot the tape, ingest the tape, throw the tape on a
shelf. Five years later if you need footage from a tape, throw it in a
deck, find the footage and away you go.

In a huge facility I see how cool it would be to take EVERYTHING off P2
cards or the equivalent, put them on an enormous server, and be able to
access them in perpetuity. But in my world where 5TB of online storage is a
lot, I'm trying to come up with a workflow that works and offers the
relative safety of tape-based storage (yes, something can happen to the
tape, but typically it happens only to a short portion of the tape - if a
hard drive fails, ALL the data is gone). And backing the drive up to linear
data tape of some sort doesn't give you the ability to put that tape in a
drive and VIEW the contents - it's just data files until you restore it and
view it from the hard drive.

XDCAM discs seem to be the closest thing to the "tape" mindset: shoot 'em,
ingest 'em, put 'em on a shelf. There they are when you need something six
months or a year later.

The alternative of P2 or other memory-chip-based acquisition, unless the
chips are inexpensive enough to serve as the permanent storage media, is
something I'm still trying to get my arms around.

Pete

From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Terence Curren
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 6:40 PM
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Reality TV Formats

If you can, shoot either DVCPROHD or XDCAM Discs.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com> , "Peter
Jay Gould" <petegould@...> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm involved in a pitch for a reality tv show. Imagine something shot in
> the style of COPS both in terms of acquisition and editorial approach and
> also shoots that happen all over the country, multiple crews in different
> locations, etc. An initial 26 episodes will be produced.
>
> What's the current consensus regarding a good HD acquisition format on a
> direct-to-cable budget? Trying to steer them away from HDV although it's
> being pushed for cost reasons.
>
> Pete

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