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 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 GB and XDCAM Disc Very expensive $1700 for a 4GB card 2011 Tsunami in Japan HDCAM SR tape shortage Began with P2 Card in GB 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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

Questions?