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Thoughts on DVD-R for ProTools session backup?
I recently bought ProTools LE and am running it on a G4. SO far so good,
mostly. I bought this setup is to add more tracks and editing capabilites to my otherwise analog commercial project studio. One major impediment to getting lower-budget clients to "let" me open the Pandora's box of editing their stuff (so that I can get "new" billable time from my new rig), is that I can't store everyone's stuff indefinatly for them, so clients would have to buy their own FireWire drive for me to copy it to. On some larger projects I'm sure that will happen, but I need a viable backup alternative; something removable, cheap, and large capacity. So... why not DVD-R? The things hold over 4 Gigs, and I can get an external DVD-R/RW drive for about $200. I know this won't crank data to PT fast enough to work as an actual working source for session data, but then, it doesn't NEED to; it'd just be to store sessions on. Stuff would be transferred back to my main hard drives(s) for actual mixes, etc. Anyone see any reason not to do this? I realize 4 gigs wouldn't hold entire multitrack projects, bt it WOULD hold a song or three. I could charge $10/pop for 'em and pay off the burner fairly quickly (always looking to make digital stuff pay it's way before it's obsolete, eh), and people could have backup copies of their PT sessions for $30 or so... -jeff |
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On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 19:13:24 -0700, Handywired wrote:
I could charge $10/pop for 'em and pay off the burner fairly quickly (always looking to make digital stuff pay it's way before it's obsolete, eh), and people could have backup copies of their PT sessions for $30 or so... ------------------------------------------------------------ That'll work in the short-turn, but what if you do a bunch of songs? 10 DVD blanks will be a charge of $100, and you can buy an 80-gig Firewire drive (actually, more like 120-gigs) for that. Also, know up front that burning 4 gigs of data to DVD-R is very slow, especially compared to just dumping it on a spare hard drive. --MFW |
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On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 19:13:24 -0700, Handywired wrote:
I could charge $10/pop for 'em and pay off the burner fairly quickly (always looking to make digital stuff pay it's way before it's obsolete, eh), and people could have backup copies of their PT sessions for $30 or so... ------------------------------------------------------------ That'll work in the short-turn, but what if you do a bunch of songs? 10 DVD blanks will be a charge of $100, and you can buy an 80-gig Firewire drive (actually, more like 120-gigs) for that. Also, know up front that burning 4 gigs of data to DVD-R is very slow, especially compared to just dumping it on a spare hard drive. --MFW |
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Handywired wrote:
snip So... why not DVD-R? The things hold over 4 Gigs, and I can get an external DVD-R/RW drive for about $200. I know this won't crank data to PT fast enough to work as an actual working source for session data, but then, it doesn't NEED to; it'd just be to store sessions on. Stuff would be transferred back to my main hard drives(s) for actual mixes, etc. Backup to DVD-R is pretty common. I can take a while though. Be sure to get at least a 4x drive. If the 8x's are available and reasonable, get one of those. -- Eric Practice Your Mixing Skills Multi-Track Masters on CD-ROM www.Raw-Tracks.com |
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Handywired wrote:
snip So... why not DVD-R? The things hold over 4 Gigs, and I can get an external DVD-R/RW drive for about $200. I know this won't crank data to PT fast enough to work as an actual working source for session data, but then, it doesn't NEED to; it'd just be to store sessions on. Stuff would be transferred back to my main hard drives(s) for actual mixes, etc. Backup to DVD-R is pretty common. I can take a while though. Be sure to get at least a 4x drive. If the 8x's are available and reasonable, get one of those. -- Eric Practice Your Mixing Skills Multi-Track Masters on CD-ROM www.Raw-Tracks.com |
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I backup regularly to an external firewire HD (daily backups), but
also save/archive on DVD-R. Both are great for their own purposes. Ken/Eleven Shadows http://www.blueberrybuddha.com Apogee AD-16 for auction on EBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3728932598 |
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I backup regularly to an external firewire HD (daily backups), but
also save/archive on DVD-R. Both are great for their own purposes. Ken/Eleven Shadows http://www.blueberrybuddha.com Apogee AD-16 for auction on EBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3728932598 |
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I backup regularly to an external firewire HD (daily backups), but
also save/archive on DVD-R. Both are great for their own purposes. Thanks, Ken! That's what I was hoping to hear. That is my plan, essentially, also: a backup hard drive for "internal" backup and DVD-R backup for (cheap) clients and archival purposes. -jeff |
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I backup regularly to an external firewire HD (daily backups), but
also save/archive on DVD-R. Both are great for their own purposes. Thanks, Ken! That's what I was hoping to hear. That is my plan, essentially, also: a backup hard drive for "internal" backup and DVD-R backup for (cheap) clients and archival purposes. -jeff |
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