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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 :)

The solution for an affordable Scarlet-X backup workflow

If RED adds Thunderbolt to the red stations soon then I think a Laptop with TB connected to SSD reader connected to 2.5" red station connected to TB raid. You can now make a backup to your raid and a bunch of 2.5" drives all via TB and avoid the whole firewire and eSATA thing altogether.
 
Absolutely.... but that's a big "if"

Tehben Dean said:
If RED adds Thunderbolt to the red stations soon then I think a Laptop with TB connected to SSD reader connected to 2.5" red station connected to TB raid. You can now make a backup to your raid and a bunch of 2.5" drives all via TB and avoid the whole firewire and eSATA thing altogether.
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sonnet echo doesn't work. been covered in other threads, but as of now, with it's current driver set it's a POS. it will crash out your system like no other. I'm banking on the magma express3t, and just throwing in a 4 port esata card in it and calling it a day. get some internal hard drives (if they ever come down in price) and some decent enclosures, and you are talking zippy fast, laptop offloading. might be able to get a rocket card in there and see how it effects the bandwidth. I'll see when i get mine in :)
 
I'm just gonna go ahead and guess that I'm not going to need any more than my 64GB plus a 256GB card on any given shoot day. I'm not gonna be filming any day-in-the-life type stuff where I gotta constantly be dumping. If someone wants to budget out a full day 12 hours or more straight worth of 4K I'll tell them I'm not their guy. I doubt I'll have to do that very many times.

Now here's a question. Would you guys rather have a full 256GB card and just wait to take one massive dump at the end of the day after chowin down on all that beefy footage, or would you like to take smaller dumps throughout the day? This would also allow you to get a bit of a cycle going unlike a full card. I think I'd rather just have all the space on one card. I like keeping things simple like that. Got a backup 64 if things get sticky and the sun's about to set and my 256 is full.
 
The workflow doesn't bother me. Having limited space forces you to plan your shots better. Hey, it's not as bad as the early HVX days where you only had one card and could only shoot 4 minutes at a time. Remember OTG USB drives? Lol!

But yes, I prefer to take one big dump at the end of the day. :biggrinjester:
 
I remember dumping my 16gb P2 card off every 42 minutes of 720 24pn footage onto a portable 250gb firewire drive. That sucked! I still got that ol beat up thing hanging around. It's still good for run n gun stuff so I'm gonna keep it. But I'll be just fine with one 256gb redmag for now.
 
Brennan Clark said:
I remember dumping my 16gb P2 card off every 42 minutes of 720 24pn footage onto a portable 250gb firewire drive. That sucked! I still got that ol beat up thing hanging around. It's still good for run n gun stuff so I'm gonna keep it. But I'll be just fine with one 256gb redmag for now.
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P2 was an excellent school to learn to control and manage your media. When I started using P2 there were NO 16GB cards! But at that time, at that price range, nothing could beat the quality of an HVX200 at 1080 25p. Actually, for certain broadcast work, the HVX200 is still a very usable camera that gives good looking 1080p footage. And no rolling shutter artifacts... Love that camera and its colors. Not much space for grading but a great little broadcast handicam.
 
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