I have almost finished putting the Footage and Photos onto another HD. (which I had to buy another 2000 gig one yesterday) When you film and Photograph 29 bands, there are big files. I had taken 12 SD (12 hours of footage) cards and the JVCs Video camera hold 60 gig= 4 hours. As I didnt always have access to power (only late Sat night and Sunday in one room- I had to use batteries, which I have 13.. Every time one ran out and as I have to use the side screen on the video, a 90 battery only gives me 75 min or recording and the three 60 min Batteries only 50 min each..I had to go back to the flat next to the pub and re-charge them. Just left it re-charging and ran back to continue filming as I had the tripod setup already filming-usually asking whoever was nearby to watch it for me...This takes 80 min for a 60 min battery and 2 hours for the 90 min Batteries.. I took a 1000 gig HD I had, which only had 350 gig spare..Every morning I had to be up early so I could use the owners Laptop, the first day that took 4 hours to upload one band as his laptop was so slow 98 k a second, by the Sat I had fixed that for him and was getting between 8 and 23 meg a sec.. Every 18 min I record, my JVC stores that as a 3 gig .tod file (a file you cannot watch unless you have a program I do at home-except on the cameras screen) and then open another program that turns it into a MPEG so I can watch it..ON Sunday I was up at 7 to do it but by law wouldnt allowed to use the laptop in the pub before 9a m, So I waited till 9am, but the first band started at 10am. I had to transfer 100 gig in one hour otherwise I wouldnt have been able to film the 11 hours, Sat was 12 hours of filming too..So the first band was ready to go but had to wait 15 min into their set before the could start. Otherwise I didnt have enough room to do that 11 hour day.. This is continuous filming too. There was no break..As soon as the band finished in one room I had to close the video camera, take the stand and literally run into the other room to set-up, as Toni would be straight in to announce them. was very hard at times.. Then when I came home, I had to put the HD with all the footage onto this new 2000 gig HD I had to buy as I had no room on the one I took to make Mpegs to see whose on what file..TO transfer 360 gig of Footage and over 90 gig of Photos. Takes hours. I have spent since I came home mon night doing nothing else.. From 7 till 3 am mon night..From 8am till 2am last night and from 9am this morning till now and I still have 100 gig just to put on this new HD. Let alone then having to open the program and then go through every .tod file from the video camera of 29 bands and turn it into a Mpeg>(as each 18 min is a 3 gig file and as it takes 12-18 min per file to make a 3 gig file a readable Mpeg, and bands played a minimum one hour you see how long this takes) Just so I can see who is on the footage then put that and the photos of each band into a folder of each bands name so I can then have it in an order, and send things to bands and put them in albums on FB. In the past I used to make a DVD for each band.That used to take over an hour to design, then 3-5 hours to render, then another 2-3 hours just to burn, and some months I filmed 80 bands. I am not sure many people ever thought of how much time this really takes for me to do..I try to do it as fast as I can. But even with a Quad core system it al takes days,sometimes a week or more in the case of a big festival like I just filmed/photographed. I am mainly writing this so many of the bands who dont know what I do after the festival is over can understand why I dont give them images or video the next day.. There was a time though when I would stay up after recording for bands-till 5 am, doing the things I described above, re-charging (had to re-charge the next day too) , adding to a HD and then turning them into mpegs and then designing and rendering and burning so I could film/photogrpah the very next night; when I was filming betwen 3-6 days per week.. So to spend 3 hours at Caves Beach after 4 days of filming for 36 hours this was a Beautiful place/area to spend, as I really had time to relax and think about a lot of things..
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:58:10 +0000
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