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Expanding from photo to video over the past couple of years has resulted in a mushrooming of data. My question is what's the best strategy to manage the data?
For photos, my approach is to cull from the cards on ingest to a working drive and make backup copies. With decent working drives and 8TB of NAS for backup copies no real problem.
For video, I'm adapting the process as follows:
1. Ingest
Similar cull on ingest, although not as straightforward to make selections. Working drive needs to be SSD for editing and rendering speed and with the large file sizes the SSD fills up fast. So it means I copy to SSD working drive and then to two backup drives.
2. Create proxy files
To improve editing speed I create proxy files. I'm treating these as temporary so make only 1 backup copy while working on the edit.
3. Edit
Creates new editor files which are small xml files.
4. Render product
Rendering creates more big files, full 4k, 1080p, compressed versions for different platforms etc. Similar to proxy files I treat most as temporary as can be recreated so 1 backup copy.
5. Delete proxies and compressed output
Once the project is complete, delete the proxies, compressed rendered files and everything off the SSD. This leaves 2 backup copies of the original ingested files, editor project files, and uncompressed rendered output.
Does this make sense, any ways to improve or other ideas? The backup copies are in different places, I may move one online, any suggestions for that? I'm up to over 50TB and it's growing all the time.
For photos, my approach is to cull from the cards on ingest to a working drive and make backup copies. With decent working drives and 8TB of NAS for backup copies no real problem.
For video, I'm adapting the process as follows:
1. Ingest
Similar cull on ingest, although not as straightforward to make selections. Working drive needs to be SSD for editing and rendering speed and with the large file sizes the SSD fills up fast. So it means I copy to SSD working drive and then to two backup drives.
2. Create proxy files
To improve editing speed I create proxy files. I'm treating these as temporary so make only 1 backup copy while working on the edit.
3. Edit
Creates new editor files which are small xml files.
4. Render product
Rendering creates more big files, full 4k, 1080p, compressed versions for different platforms etc. Similar to proxy files I treat most as temporary as can be recreated so 1 backup copy.
5. Delete proxies and compressed output
Once the project is complete, delete the proxies, compressed rendered files and everything off the SSD. This leaves 2 backup copies of the original ingested files, editor project files, and uncompressed rendered output.
Does this make sense, any ways to improve or other ideas? The backup copies are in different places, I may move one online, any suggestions for that? I'm up to over 50TB and it's growing all the time.