Tapeless Field Production: New Developments and Best Practices
Mar 10, 2009 10:40 AM
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Speaker:
Barry Braverman, Contributing Writer, Digital Content Producer and Millimeter
The advent of a tapeless workflow has wreaked fear in the hearts of shooters and producers alike. In years past, the question posed apprehensively at end of every shooting day was always the same: “Who has the tapes?” Now, as tapeless technologies evolve, the answer to that question is increasingly, ‘no one.’ Thus, there has been a meteoric rise in our fear as original camera files are moved to a storage medium and the camera’s flash memory is re-formatted—i.e. erased, for further use. In the hope of reducing this collective pain for both shooters and data wranglers, the editorial section of this webcast will explore some of the options available to us on the new and evolving field production landscape. Among the issues we’ll explore are the ramifications of the various MXF formats from P2 to XDCAM, the rise of BUS-powered devices and support for Firewire and USB, use of Flash memory technologies, including solid-state and high-speed thumb drives, archiving and metadata preservation, key data management tools for file capture, and the prognosis for eSATA as a fast method for offloading cards in the field.
Field Archival Storage for Today’s Portable Applications
Speaker:
Tony Lopez
Broadcast and video professionals working in the field need to capture high-quality, near film-like images in the most difficult environments. For some people, it’s humid jungles while for others it’s the hot desert. ENG crews have their own set of field challenges, including riding in a bumpy helicopter or pushing their way through a crowd at a news scene. Regardless of the environment, professionals are looking for a field archival storage solution that’s as rugged as their job.
This presentation will discuss the requirements of field data storage in today’s broadcast and video world. It will review considerations such as physical size and why smaller is better, durability of the device and the type of housing necessary to survive in the field, and other design aspects well suited for field applications. Non linear editing workflow with iVDR will also be discussed.
Illustration of these points will be made through highlighting real world examples, such as ENG, corporate/industrial, mobile videography, and mobile law enforcement. The discussion will conclude with the evolution of field archival storage and where it must go to meet ever-increasing and changing broadcast environment.
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