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Originally Posted by Jay-Rock
I use many HDDs to put my scenes on. The 360 gig mini HDs by western digital holds like 10 scenes (raw off the sony EX1) and is the size of a DVCAM tape. So technically you would save tons of space by shooting Hard Drives since 10 mini DV tapes take up more space. Furthermore I copy the project to my main drive and a mini HD which takes only 5 minutes for an hour of footage to copy over. You are stuck capturing video for the duration of the footage and it would take you just as long to make another tape and back it up. This doesn't makes sense and takes up a shitload of time. I mail out my scenes and I never use padding i just throw these things in a USPS priority mail envelope and send them out. I haven't had any mini HDs fail on me EVER and if they did I keep the scene on my system drive as well until I see that the client has put the scene out or on their site. Do you make a copy of your tape in real time then send them out to your clients?? What if the tape gets lost in the mail??? Did you backup the tape to another??? (PAIN IN THE ASS IF YOU ASK ME)
Mini HDs are the best way to go unless you are just completely old school.
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When I send tapes with raw footage and edited movies to a client I still have the raw footage in digital form and project files on my external hard drives for a few months in case anything gets lost. No need to make a tape backup in that case. One thing about mini-DV tapes is they don't require power and they are easy to label. Small HDDs still need power and to be plugged in. Tapes are easy to throw in a drawer or closet. If I ever do go tapeless, small HDDs sound like the way to go.