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while in HD, i'm trying to backup my raw footage that i loaded into the system. what is the best way to backup footage, scenes in the scene bin, to a dvd? Putting your raw footage scenes in the storyboard and making a dvd? i was going to go to finish and use my stand alone dvd recorder, but i can't get it to play when i go to finish. thanks in advance.

John,

It really depends on the quality you want your backup footage to be at more than anything else.

The second largest consideration is how long is this backup supposed to be designed for.

If you are talking about true backup, as in no degradation of quality you cannot go out to standard DVD as that is degraded considerably even compared to standard DV footage let alone HD footage.

You can burn internally using the AVCHD format to a standard DVD for about twenty minutes worth of footage per DVD.

As DVD is known as a very suspect archiving medium long term I don't consider it a very good choice for multiple year archiving.

Hard drive backup is another choice which allows far greater capacity at a time and faster more efficient archiving, but has it's own long term issues.

Solid state (as in cards or hard drives) would probably be the current safest storage, but do to current media costs is also the most expensive.

As for exporting, you need to render any scenes in the actual Finish menu to activate export and we are talking serious rendering time, especially talking about raw footage, aka: lots of footage.

To back up individual scenes in the SCENE BIN, you can use the OPT. button and export to a FLASH DRIVE. If you use a CD/DVD with this feature, I am finding that only ONE scene at a time can be saved. So, I would recommend, when saving individual scenes, use a thumb/flash drive or Ext. Hard drives.


.You can also save individual scenes using Media Manager. Use the ARCHIVE function BUT CHECK-OFF the MPEG-2 button as not to lose sound once in Media Manager. Once in Media Manager, you can also save to an EXT. source and choose a CODEC or better yet....save to Galileo on an External drive. The above is for saving INDIVIDUAL clips in your scene bin and NOT the entire Story Board......though you could make an entire scene of the SB and import to the OPT button.

Great tip Joel as I have been using my PC to save actual files on my flash cards..

Q: Is your audio drifting with this method of by-passing the BOGART side? Losing Audio like the unchecked MPEG-2 method in the BOGART archives to MM?

JBrooks wrote:John,

Just to add to the already good tips, in addition to importing footage into the Bogart side & using the project back-up method & HD back-up , I personally import all of my raw footage directly into media manager via USB then I choose either the first or sometimes second from the top export option choice: MPEG direct .avi, or H264, direct, .mp4 codec (both are suppose to be lossless) then burn on a BD-R disc. You can re-import the footage in the future directly on the Bogart side via the USB record window & maintain very high quality.

Joel Brooks
MIT Video
http://www.mitvideoproductions.com