I have 3 RAID systems in 3 different locations - one off premises. Preferably without inducing any sort of heart pain in the process.īack home in the edit suite I have a 3 backup rule (minimum). Finding the easiest and quickest way to offload my footage is of utmost important at this point. There’s batteries to charge, and loads of prep and mental anguish for what’s next. Who isn’t? Lugging around camera bodies, lenses, batteries, hard drives, stabilizers can take its toll. When I get back during a day of video shooting, time is almost always of the essence. Which brings me to the topic of backup workflow on the road - on location / in the field. Yes, it stinks to lose gear, but that’s what insurance is for… and no amount of that will recover your video footage if you don’t have backups. If, again by slim chance, my camera gets stolen I have a backup of all our hard-earned video footage in hand. Also, when we break, say for lunch, I like grabbing one of the memory cards and slipping it into my wallet.

Though it’s never happened, if an SD card does fail by chance, I have a second one already on hand to save the day.

That way I have two copies of everything - photo and video files are duplicated on both SD cards. When I’ve travelled somewhere and spent the day shooting video, filling up several SD cards, the last thing I want to happen is to lose it all.īecause I’m a very paranoid guy, I prefer cameras that have dual memory card slots (the Panasonic GH5, for example, has 2 SD card slots).

Backup workflow on the road is always one of my biggest challenges.

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