I'm fine offlining at 20:1 or 10:1, but only I recently noticed Avid's new h.264 resolution so I ran some tests on it. It looks surprisingly good at a fraction of the bit-rate of even 20:1. If it's as reliable, why not? "If". . .
Yeah, I'm planning on dual-recording everything from the Cinedecks. Also gonna record a switched feed plus one iso to HDCam as my drop-dead backups. (Just shipped out a 3 hour documentary series to PBS which we shot over a 3 year period, simultaneously recording tape & files. Never touched the tapes, but they helped me sleep at night.)
Thanks for the great comments, Jeff.
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:34 AM, jeffsengpiehl@yahoo.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Why fiddle with H264, just have them give you 20:1 or 10:1 for the "proxy". Avid native, rock solid for multicam grouping.
The things to look out for.Tell the truck to make TWO copies from the Cinedeck(s) to different drives. Nothing quite like discovering corrupt media, and having no backup, and when you go to call the truck, they've already pulled up stakes and gone home. So no "make one copy to a drive, then copy it to the other" moves. both from the original.Keep the high and low res media completely segregated. Never mount a low res drive on a system after you've begun your "uprez". If the date/time on the low-res media is earlier then the high-res, it will lock back to it, and suddenly you've got the wrong stuff in your sequence.JDS
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