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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Backing up data "on the road"...

Back to the Digital Magazine file stuff - YOU DO NOT NEED TO KEEP THOSE. Just got off the phone with Stuart English himself.

Here's the deal, from my notes:

do NOT need to keep those files, the camera needs to know it (whether the mag formatted), and tell the camera what project frame rate was selected, what record resolution, that adjusts the user interface to verify if stuff is incompatible, etc.

-the other one contains a list of clips already recorded, and the purpose of that is to know what the next clip name to assign

-they are there for the camera, and once recording is made, DO NOT NEED

...as of build 9, you CAN change the resolution and Varispeed and keep shooting on the same card. The one thing that MUST remain is the timecode framerate - is it a 23.976, 24.0, 25.0, or 29.97 etc. based project. Which makes sense - you wouldn't want to mix frame rates in the same project anyway - but change res? Absolutely! Done it many times.

This fixes the duplicate file naming problem that I've been bit by a few times.

-mike
 
MikeCurtis said:
Back to the Digital Magazine file stuff - YOU DO NOT NEED TO KEEP THOSE. Just got off the phone with Stuart English himself.
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Are you talking about the two .profile files in the root of the magazine? If so then I'd like everyone NOT to follow this advice just yet. I think that there are plans to use that information in some post production software. I'll check and let everyone know for sure

Stuart is very involved with the camera and workflows involving the camera, but he's not writing the post software :)
 
Man, this was a long thread to read in detail.

We have a trip coming up where we will be in a fairly remote location with 2 REDs for 17 days. My estimate is 2-3 hours of footage per day per camera.

(3*2)*17=102 hours of footage or ~10.2TB
for redundancy, we are talking 21 1TB drives. not practical.
LTO-3 or AIT-5 would be ~23 native or 10-15 compressed. I can work with this.
I guess the main problem with the tape solution would be the SCSI interface to a laptop. Has anyone figured out a solid option? I havent found SCSI ExpressCards anywhere.
 
How about the sonnet fusion d400Q with enough 1TB removable drives to meet your needs. You can create two separate RAID 1 pairs in the unit at one time. That means you have one RAID 1 for the primary backup and another RAID 1 array for a secondary backup. That would be a total of 2TB for every four 1TB drives.

Make sense?
 
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