I'm currently shooting a LARGE amount of AVCHD files for a documentary. What are the most important things to BACK UP? The camera and audio cards saved as disc images? Or the Prores files after they've been ingested via Log & Transfer? If, god forbid, a hard drive crashes, how difficult is it to reimport material back into the timeline from the original files from a stored disk image?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), FCP 7.0.3
Why is your text gray? It is incredibly hard to read...
You may know this alrady, but NEVER take out jsut the footage from your sd cards... if you are going to store anything, make sure to keep the file structure intact. OTehrwise, Log and Transfer won't work.
Back up the camera originals. Those are your MASTERS. You can always reimport, and they take up far less space than the transcoded media. Back up the project file too. Re-importing is as easy as selecting the footage and choosing BATCH CAPTURE.
If you backed them up as Disk Images, you'll need to un-disk image them before you batch capture.
What to back up?
