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Formatting after projectPosted by MikeDerk
my understanding, (which may be out of date, or just plain wrong):
simply deleting the files on the disk actually leaves them there, but with a flag on them saying "i can now be written over" i think then they are written over in a "last on, last off" sort of way, (this is where i may be completely off-beam) they WONT necessarily be written over in order of where they sat on the disk. so new files may get fragmented. so it's better to erase the disk. nick
>>do you get time to backup / tidy up, erase, one show, then start capturing the next,
or do stagger it?<< No - it's staggered - each show has its own dedicated media drive, and there is a 'Vault' drive that has all the openers and graphics and music and sfx and so on for all the shows. So I might send out a show on Wednesday morning, it goes to air on Thursday night, and I dump it off and erase its drive anytime after that. By this time work has started on the next episode of that show, and there is also another completely different show being prepped, so I find it best to make sure every episode has a drive (or partition) of its own. We also do TVCs, so there's a drive for that as well. When stuff gets sent to the wrong drives, there's always hell to pay! Once a year I completely rebuild the machines and throw away all the unused junk that accumulates on the main drive. It's my favourite time of year
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