For the purposes of the questions that will follow on this post, let us assume the Red Epic MX 5K records Redcode 5K RAW on its storage media at roughly 300GB per hour. For a regular 90 minute feature film let us assume there is a planned 20 day shoot and each day 8 hours of footage is shot. Doing the math each day will require approximately 2.4TB of storage space to back up the day's shoot. Obviously of the 8 hours of footage shot each day, there will be takes that are not good and the Director and editor would opt to delete those takes. Obviously of all the takes for a particular shot, the Director would search for the best take and only one of the many takes would make their way into the final film.
Now let us assume the Director (for whatever reason) wanted to keep all of the footage (i.e. good takes, bad takes etc) for the entire 20 day shoot until the film was mastered and complete. This would mean storage space of 48TB would be needed to store all the footage from the 20 day shoot.
The questions here are:
1. What is the general practice adopted by most Directors/Editors in terms of workflow while on a planned time limited shoot (e.g. 10 days, 20 days etc)? After each day's shoot, do the Director and Editor generally review the day's footage and select the takes that would be used in the cut of the film and discard the remaining footage? What is the smart way of doing this?
2. To the actual RED camera feature filmmakers here, what is the size of your storage that you currently use to backup all your RAW footage shot that you use for the entire course of a feature film until the film is complete and mastered to its DCP?
3. What is your workflow? Do you discard bad takes immediately after reviewing the day's work or do you backup and keep bad takes as well?
4. Is there any pre-built storage unit/equipment that filmmakers generally use as their main backup storage during the course of making a single feature film? Is there anything out there in industry that is popular and made for this storage purpose with high speed transfer via Thunderbolt for e.g.?
Thank you.
Now let us assume the Director (for whatever reason) wanted to keep all of the footage (i.e. good takes, bad takes etc) for the entire 20 day shoot until the film was mastered and complete. This would mean storage space of 48TB would be needed to store all the footage from the 20 day shoot.
The questions here are:
1. What is the general practice adopted by most Directors/Editors in terms of workflow while on a planned time limited shoot (e.g. 10 days, 20 days etc)? After each day's shoot, do the Director and Editor generally review the day's footage and select the takes that would be used in the cut of the film and discard the remaining footage? What is the smart way of doing this?
2. To the actual RED camera feature filmmakers here, what is the size of your storage that you currently use to backup all your RAW footage shot that you use for the entire course of a feature film until the film is complete and mastered to its DCP?
3. What is your workflow? Do you discard bad takes immediately after reviewing the day's work or do you backup and keep bad takes as well?
4. Is there any pre-built storage unit/equipment that filmmakers generally use as their main backup storage during the course of making a single feature film? Is there anything out there in industry that is popular and made for this storage purpose with high speed transfer via Thunderbolt for e.g.?
Thank you.
