Re: [Avid-L2] Avid media archiving solution

Great workflow Greg. Maybe the ideal solution is to split the difference and save one copy to spinning drives and one to LTO. That way you have the potential to grab something quick as long as the drive doesn't fail, and if it does, you have the LTO to back that up.

Steve

On Aug 13, 2013, at 7:13 PM, Greg Huson <Greg@SecretHQ.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure what your workflow is, but our procedure works pretty well.
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> We're on Terrablock, so we create a new virtual volume for each project. They're all 'multi-write,' so everyone can work on any project, either sequentially or simultaneously, then once the project wraps, we archive the entire virtual volume to spinning media- two copies. Generally new editors or assistants need to be disciplined a little before they remember to render and import to the Terrablock volume instead of locally - but that's true of any workflow. This workflow also works for FCP projects.
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> Sure, the spinning drive's eventually going to fail, but that's why we make two copies. Once a quarter someone spins up the old media. We found that recovering one small bit off LTO was too time consuming, and 9 times out if 10, we're only looking for a graphic, a final edited/rendered piece, a single piece of b-roll, etc. With Avid, you can simple move the MediaFiles folder to the root, and you can actually edit (a little) off the archive drive if you just need something quick. For most things we restore the archive to the terrablock.
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> Facilis actually has software that does this sort of automatically for you, but it's LTO - based, and we prefer over-the-counter bare drives, at least for now.
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> Because the Terrablock is running raid 5, we're comfortable putting the project on the volume - we've never lost anything. (You could always set the Attic to write locally if you're worried about the 'unity' attic.)
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> We're starting to get more camera original material, so that may require that we move back to LTO, but for most of our work spinning media is faster for archive and, more importantly, getting things BACK from archive. We don't charge our clients for archive, except on rare occasion - but we DO charge them for restore FROM archive!
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> For Series work each episode gets it's own volume, and media that's in all the episodes is on a separate volume.
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> On Aug 13, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Nathan <ndowning72@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> We've recently switched from FCPro to Avid Media Composer and I'm trying to find a project and media archiving solution. In our old workflow I'd simply backup our FCPro project folder with the ProRes quicktimes, graphics, sfx, etc. to our LTO system.
>> Since every system will be working on multiple projects, how do people keep track of archiving their MXF media for each project? Is everyone just using multiple numbered folders within each MXF folder on each of their drives?
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>> I've downloaded and tried to buy MediaMover but they don't seem to be in business anymore. No replies to emails and when I enter payment info on their site, it just loops back around to the first step.
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>> I've also looked into MDV, but it's Windows only. http://djfio.com/mdv/
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>> I can't believe Avid hasn't built this capability into their own Media Tool after all these years!
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>> Thanks,
>> Nathan
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