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2013. Exciting Items. 4K everywhere Black Magic Design 4K Camera and Equipment. BMD Pocket Cinema Camera Freefly Movi More controllable LED lights New Options for studio in a box. Tapeless Acquisition. Began with P2 Card in 2004 2GB and XDCAM Disc Very expensive $1700 for a 4GB card
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Exciting Items • 4K everywhere • Black Magic Design 4K Camera and Equipment. BMD Pocket Cinema Camera • Freefly Movi • More controllable LED lights • New Options for studio in a box
Tapeless Acquisition • Began with P2 Card in 2004 2GB and XDCAM Disc • Very expensive $1700 for a 4GB card • 2011 Tsunami in Japan HDCAM SR tape shortage
Tapeless Acquisition • Most to least expensive • Sony SR Memory Card • Sony SxS Pro • SxS • Panasonic P2 • Micro P2 • XDCAM Disc
Tapeless Acquisition • There are also options to adapt the camera card formats P2 and SxS to SD cards using adaptors like the Panasonic AJ-P2AD1G and the Sony MEAD-SD01
Tapeless Acquisition • Consumer memory formats are also becoming common such as Compact Flash, SD Cards, and SSD.
Tapeless Acquisition • Outboard recorders • The benefit of this is that you have the ability to capture in a less compressed format such as Apple ProRes or Avid DNxHD. • The first device I remember seeing that did that was the AJA KiPro.
Tapeless Acquisition • Now there are many other options made by Atomos, AJA, Black Magic Design, Convergent Design, Sound Devices and more…
Tapeless Acquisition • LCD/Recorders made by Atomos, Sound Devices Convergent Design
Storage • Directly Attached Storage – Firewire, E-Sata, USB3 or Thunderbolt • Network Attached Storage (NAS) Ethernet • Storage Area Network (SAN) Fiber or Ethernet
Storage • Directly Attached Storage • Pro – Cheapest • Con - Only one user • May be slower depending on connection
Storage • Network Attached Storage (NAS) • Can be attached to one computer and shared on network or can stand alone • Pro - Cheaper than SAN • Con - Limited to Ethernet speeds
Storage • Storage Area Network (SAN) Fiber or Ethernet • Drive level or file level • Pro – FAST! • Con – More expensive and may need fiber run to computers
Media Asset Management • Where’s the footage? • How do you find what you have shot? • Need a way to search and find files. • File naming consistency • Software – Avid Interplay, CatDV, Metus
Media Asset Management • CatDV
Archiving • Back in video tape days you just put the tape on the shelf. • No matter how big your storage is you will run out. • Options – Original Tapeless Media, Hard Drive, Data Tape
Archiving • Original Tapeless Media – P2, SxS, XDCAM, SD Card, SSD • Pro - not using video tape. • Cons – High cost low capacity.
Archiving • Hard drives • Pro – Less expensive than tapeless media with higher capacity • Con – Hard drives do and will die. Need maintenance
Archiving • Data Tape – LTO (Linear Tape Open) • Different versions LTO1, LTO2… Newest is LTO6 • Enterprise class archiving solution • Pro – Low cost per tape. LTO5 1.5TB for around $30 • Con – High Price for Drive, Needs special software
Archiving • Retrospect – What we currently use
Archiving • Cache-A
Archiving • Storage DNA