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

Have you considered a LTO tape library attached to you network for footage backup? It keeps all the footage and accessible but safe on archive. One tape holds over forty 16Gb cards, you can grab just the files you need (LTO4), and don't have to babysitting footage backups/retrievals one tape at a time.

Off-lease tape libraries are cheap and most take any format (LTO2/3/4) half-height drive....

John McClary

--- On Tue, 2/9/10, Peter Jay Gould <petegould@intervalegroup.com> wrote:

From: Peter Jay Gould <petegould@intervalegroup.com>
Subject: RE: [Avid-L2] Re: Reality TV Formats
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 5:04 PM

 

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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