Personally, I have confidence that I could manage a project of this
size on DVCProHD tape. (I've done shows with up to 2000 hours of
tape, with no problems.) But I have *no* confidence that I could
pull this off with AMA. I wouldn't do it.
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:18 PM, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:
I think I know the answer but wanted to ask the group. Copying 24
hour XDCamHD disks/day times 9 cameras for 3 weeks would yield 4,536
Virtual Volumes. Assuming that each day is in a parent folder for the
day with 216 Virtual volumes inside there would be 21 Parent/Day
folders with 216 files each. Come online is it conceivable that all I
would have to do is mount the 21 day parent folders and the sequences
would link through ama to the virtual XDCam volumes in the parent
folders. This would happen after the Virtual volumes have been ama'd
and transcoded to 10:1 for offline in 9 camera multicam groups. I
find this a big if to think that big of something filling up a 56TB
san with virtual volumes will link through ama reliably. We already
have the infrastructure to do the show on DVCProHD tape which would be
my preference but this workflow is being considered. Any thoughts or
suggestions appreciated and of course they start shooting in less
three weeks so there's not much time to test the feasibility of this
on a large scale.
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