organizing footage part 1

 the process of organizing material has begun.
first step is to gather the recorded material. This is hard since it was recorded on all sorts of different cameras:

• canon hv20 - HDV
• canon unknown (chris's camera) - HDV
• 3 x panasonic movie cameras - VHS
• 2 x webcams - dunno
• canon dslr - dunno
• nikon dslr (timelapse photos)

to gather the material i first bought a usb hdd with 2 tb.
this was used to dump material from:

• burrowed cameras
• timelapse rooftop camera
• desk sound recorded via macbook

this proved a to be a good method at shooting phase. but proved hard in organizing since the hdd was usb2 and the material on it was everything else than well organized.

afterwards i bought a hp microserver and stoffer outfitted it with a raid.
this is to be our production nas fileserver.

next step was to start put material unto the server. we connected the usb hdd to the laptop and started mowing the footage unto the server.
here it was organized from the start into folders of which camera the footage came from.
sound is still to be transfered from usb hdd to server.

digitizing of hdv tapes began and we captured the tapes from HV20 directly to the server.

my brain is starting to sicken of all worries about formats and codecs since all captured material until now is not at all in the same container or codec.
Stoffer came with good thoughts on this:
digitize to whatever format all your material and THEN encode it into same format with correct crops on stuff that isnt in widescreen.
the last task would be done with ffmpeg which allows cluster methods to rendering. this is especially good since we have many computers doing nothing in late hours.
this would end up in all clips being the same format, container, codec etc.
plus we would at the same time encode both into a highres  for end product and a low res for editing.