Managing harddrives and filmed footage.

We learned about how to properly manage the hard drives that we book out from the media centre today.

The first point of call is that the Lacy drives and main hardware that we book out for this module cannot be booked overnight. As a result in my crew we decided to split up the responsibility for booking out the harddrive during the editing process and at a lot of point it resulted in us not having anything that we could pull our footage out onto.

We were told that (if possible) we should gain access to a 7200RPM external hard drive that we can use for coursework purpose. This ensures that if everybody within the crew has at least access to one hard drive then our data has backup to at least one person per crew and it’s almost impossible to keep track of whoever has footage that day.

An important factor that we were introduced to is that we should never open the folders that we are presented with when archiving footage; the “Private/Contents” folder should remain closed unless we are editing to the specific moment that is captured within the film. Any and all camera footage should be backed into a separate folder with nothing else alongside it. Renaming any camera files that come out of the C100 is also a surefire way for disaster, as we will not be able to identify any information that goes up following this.