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What sort of stuff are you shooting and do you really need to keep it? The reason I ask is in the last 20 years I can count on one hand the stuff I've needed to cut from archived rushes. The majority of the time with even the biggest production companies things get archived off to LTO, sent off site never to be seen again.
As long as you've got clean masters at the highest resolution possible and audio stems (and consolidated project with just that line and supers etc) that'll do 99.99% of the time for any reversioning you might need to do.
I just cut so I don't have the need but if i was running a full service production company I'd charge clients for long term storage, first year free and then a yearly charge if they want ongoing, if they don't want to pay then they'll have the rushes themselves. These days the majority of things I cut are around the 10tb mark in raw footage for a 30 second ad, it's just becomes an unmanageable and unnecessary cost to store it.
Obviously for feature films, docs, or any narrative longform I think archiving rushes is important but for ads and corporate there's a lot of dusty old drives and tapes that'll never get turned over again.
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I just cut so I don't have the need but if i was running a full service production company I'd charge clients for long term storage, first year free and then a yearly charge if they want ongoing, if they don't want to pay then they'll have the rushes themselves. These days the majority of things I cut are around the 10tb mark in raw footage for a 30 second ad, it's just becomes an unmanageable and unnecessary cost to store it.
Yep, long term narrative doc. Ended up with a trip to proTape, a pile of 12TB G Drive Mk2's, and all of them on the invoice to the client (which we agreed on). 👍
Bring on massive capacity Lacie Rugged size SSD's !
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What do one man bands / videographers / company owners do for media backup here? Is anyone using a cloud solution? I’m amassing a huge amount of footage and don’t want to be storing it all on two drives for physical space and cost reasons, would rather have one physical drive and one copy in the cloud (also taking care of the off-site copy should my office burn down).
I’ve been looking at Dropbox business. Thoughts?