Offline RT from HDV footage

We have ten 1TB drives that we are sharing amongst 3 editors. It is very time consuming to disconnect and reconnect drives. I was wondering if going to an offline RT workflow would save us time? The initial recompressing of the files would be time consuming but I believe most, if not all, of the media would fit on 1TB drive. We would also be able to do this on 3 machines overnight.

I was wondering if someone knew of a link for a "How To" when it comes to the OfflineRT Photojpg workflow. How well does it handle movement or fx on stills?

thank you

Pop it into Compressor, select a destination and make sure it is named exactly as your original HDV clips. Then reconnect to the Offline RT clips and you're done. When the edit is completed, hook it back up to the original HDV rushes and reconnect.

I'm really not sure why you need to go offline/online for HDV, as it is a really tiny codec, also, a hard drive costs less than a hundred dollars.



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strypes Wrote:
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> Pop it into Compressor, select a destination and
> make sure it is named exactly as your original HDV
> clips. Then reconnect to the Offline RT clips and
> you're done. When the edit is completed, hook it
> back up to the original HDV rushes and reconnect.
>
>
> I'm really not sure why you need to go
> offline/online for HDV, as it is a really tiny
> codec, also, a hard drive costs less than a
> hundred dollars.


Wouldn't it be better to use Media Manager for that so that file paths remain the same? Or is Media Manager slower than Compressor?

Either works. Yea, I would think MM is slower than Compressor. Also, MM may be more picky with file names. There is the occasional error that may be caused by files having long names or having illegal characters. Can't recall seeing it happen with the recompress function, but FCP sometimes messes up the file names on export.



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Thanks for the advice. I am going to run a test tonight.

Alberto