Storage Workflow

As soon as you press the record the button, you need a way of safely and reliably storing, backing up and working on your data.
In the past we had 35MM film, which were used and then sent to be processed, once processed it comes back with near perfect copies to work with. There were one or two issues with this though, many copies were made, and each one came back slightly less quality than the previous one.

We don't have this problem anymore however, as we now have digital:-

Tapes - DV stores 60 minutes/14gb
          - HDV stores up to 60 minutes on one tape

Workflow with MiniDV means you have to capture/log your work into a computer before you can work with it.
For example Canon DSLR and Panasonic 151 cameras are all solid state file storage - SD card (550d, 600d, 60d)
DSLR footage is better quality and smaller than MiniDV but the workflow of DSLR or MiniDV is exactly the same. 

Workflow Advice:-

- Backup onsite – using a laptop or computer if you have one.
- Make it one persons job to backup cards while you're filming.
- This gives you 2 copies as backup (one on card and one on computer)
- Once you wrap, the first job is to get back to base and backup the footage, whether it be off the laptop, or re-ingest into your main computer system edit suite.
- You should copy to the computer and if you have an external drive, to that afterwards.