![]() ![]() The product of an entire day’s worth of shooting exists on tiny plastic and silicon memory cards, small enough to swallow, until the data is safely backed up. This is one of those wildly scary weak-link moments in file-based media production. They only rented two cards so, “ make it snappy.” The AC hands you a 64GB SDXC card and says to clone it to the edit drive and the back-up drive. You stealth your way back to the shoot just as the first card is getting swapped from the Sony a7R II covering the job in 4K. Within minutes you’re up and running in the kid’s bedroom closet. There’s no room anywhere, so you start checking closets. ![]() The tiny house is crammed with crew and a couple of stressed out producers. The 1st AC tells you to go find quiet corner out of the way and set up. You’re handed a MacBook Air and two USB 3 SSD drives. The location is a cramped house and space is at a premium.Ī small, cramped set. ![]() Their original guy didn’t show and the shoot is already happening. You got a last minute gig as a card wrangler for a low-budget corporate spot. So now that ambitious PA charged with wrangling cards and backing up data can also tag crucial metadata tags for the editor and attach LUTs to clips for the colorist working with the data downstream. The best part is… everything you do on set with cloning will reside in the exact same app you edit and color your show on. While you wouldn’t want to actually edit and grade with a MacBook Air (because that would be an exercise in sadness) it should probably be used as a hub for cloning and backing up footage on set. With the app now boasting Intel GPU support, even with the lowliest of the Mac notebooks - the MacBook Air - users can zippily run the app (especially if you opted for 8GB of RAM) on the same machine you compose emails and invoices with. It’s also the Assistant Editor’s best friend, allowing for easy metadata markup of assets, automated audio waveform sync, complex searches, and file organization. In Blackmagic’s latest bid to hook all of us on software we can’t live without, DaVinci Resolve 12 beta is now a very cool, easy-to-use on-set data management tool for ingest-monkeys, card-wranglers and actually-real DITs. Blackmagic updates DaVinci Resolve with incredible features for ingesting footage. ![]()
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