Moving 120 GB of stuff

patreb wrote on 5/31/2004, 6:41 PM

I have 120 GB of video and need to "give" it to another editor to work on cut. He doesn't have enough space so we were thinking about compressing the footage really heavily. My concern is this: i shot it at 24pA so will the compression get rid of the pulldown information? If so is there any other way to do it? Also it appear he's working on FCP and i'm obviously using Vegas. I'm thinkging to bring the finished (low res) version into Vegas later on and replace all the low res versions with hi res -- will i run into problems?

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farss wrote on 5/31/2004, 6:55 PM

Easiest way, copy it to an external firewire drive, one of you will need to make it compatible with the other though. You could have him format it as HFS+ and then get hold of a utility that lets you mount that under Win2K/XP.

patreb wrote on 5/31/2004, 7:00 PM

I was thinking that it would be easier to make a highly compresses version of teh clips. Right?

riredale wrote on 5/31/2004, 7:02 PM

Using heavy video compression is how Studio7 and, presumably, Studios 8 and 9 were able to do large projects without using large hard drives. You would do all the editing on a much smaller video file, and then tell Studio7 to build a finished project based on the raw video. The program would sit there for many minutes, directing the camcorder this way and that, collecting all the bits and pieces needed for the final result. Worked great, but are you really planning to spend weeks matching up finished low-res shots with the raw video? I didn't think so.

Why not just spring for another 120GB drive? They can be found for about $70 these days without looking too hard.

As for file sharing with a Mac, I would assume you'll need some sort of file conversion utility such as MacDrive. I don't have much experience in this area, but I did pull off video from a Mac system recently and brought it into my PC using that program.

Spot|DSE wrote on 5/31/2004, 7:15 PM

I JUST NOW bought a 120 gig drive from Walmart (desperate times here)
and only paid 99.00 for it. I'd absolutely go that route instead.

johnmeyer wrote on 5/31/2004, 7:24 PM

Absolutely, positively get the Firewire drive. No compression or compromises. Other than the $100 - $150, there is no downside.

Cheno wrote on 5/31/2004, 9:13 PM

Yup.. go the hard drive route... compression = bad

Cheno wrote on 5/31/2004, 9:15 PM

You will want to make sure if you are handing over raw files captured in Vegas that FCP will read them.. I've had a whale of a time getting FCP to read stuff captured in vidcap.. have to rerender to .avi in order to get it to work.

Tim Duncan does FCP to Vegas quite often.. you may want to hop on over to the DMN and ask him.

Mike