Equipment Etiquette: Media Management (Camera Lesson 25)

Summary: Ryan shows you how to properly handle your media so that your footage is properly managed.

Length: 3:28 minutes

Video Lesson

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Transcript

Introduction

Properly managing recorded media often gets over looked and people try to cut corners. If you are not smart about how you handle your media, you can easily lose a day or more of footage. In this video I’ll share with you the three rules that will help you avoid that from happening.

Three Steps to Managing Your Media

1. Buy Quality Hard Drives

The first step to proper media management is to buy the correct drives. This is not an area you want to skimp on. Even if you have to spend and extra $50 per drive, that will be cheaper than having to do a complete reshoot. So buy hard drives from a reliable manufacturer. I get great results from manufactures like G-Tech, Western Digital, and Seagate.

Back-up your footage (Camera Lesson 25)

The number one rule when it comes to media management is that unless you have…

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Rich49er says:
March 20, 2016 at 6:55 am

What is the finder you refer to? Thank you.
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- Tim says:
  March 23, 2016 at 8:19 am
  
  By “finder,” we mean the folder window you open on your computer to accomplish a drag-and-drop action to move or copy files.
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