arthur richards

For our media work with Adapting to Scarcity, we use SD cards to store much of the video and audio footage that we get. As part of our normal workflow, we make a disk image copy of the SD card before erasing it to get more footage. I wrote a really basic shell script to facilitate the process - read on to check it out.

First of all, ***n3rd alert***. This post is technical and jargony - so unless you care about video codecs, video editing, storage, etc, you probably don't want to read this :) But if you know anyone who knows about these things, please pass this on!

I'm facing some technical challenges attempting to shoot a documentary (potentially hundreds of hours of footage) on a camera using the AVCHD codec. The primary issues are storage space and coming up with a decent workflow to handle footage in Final Cut Express 4.2. I've got some thoughts on the matter, but really could use some advice!