About Memory

nightowl123

Contributor Joined: Apr 27, 2011 06:17 Messages: 315 Offline

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Feb 26, 2013 22:24

Hi All,

Now that my first attempt at making a video is "in the can" I'm already onto collecting clips for my next video.

I've a question about memory. I've filled my hard drive, a secondary external hard drive, and now I'm 1/4 into another external hard drive. I've also many files still on cards.

Today I let my video remain on a Great Blue Heron fishing below a spillway for 5 minutes while i was taking photographs elsewhere. It paid off...about 3/4 into the video he caught a bass that was as large as his head and, although it took some doing, he swallowed it down the gullet. It was amazing...

I want to keep the original video, but 4 minutes of it is unusable. It's just going to eat up memory. Would you bite the bullet and save the original anyway, or would you cut the unusable portion out and produce it and save just the good bit?

Dustie

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Dustie
I'm still working on it....

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Feb 26, 2013 23:39

Dustie -

Get your cast together & give them a stern talking to about wasting time on set. Four minutes down time??? I understand the issue. I have some miscreant pelicans taking up a few GBs on one of my drives.

Just keep the original. External storage is as cheap as chips. Leave the editing till you have that heron & its bass in the next project.

Cheers - Tony
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nightowl123

Contributor Joined: Apr 27, 2011 06:17 Messages: 315 Offline

Feb 27, 2013 00:10

Oh yes, i do have a contrary cast. Today a pair of visiting bald eagles refused to fly closer to the camera, a really naughty River Otter ran away from the river and kept darting behind fallen trees so I couldn't get a clear shot(and I didn't even know he was in the cast)..so I'm going to have to hunt the little devil down...and then the time wasting heron. It's enough to make one want to work with a human cast sometimes.

Ok...I'll go looking for more memory. Anyone seen any sales lately?

Thanks Tony! Dustie
I'm still working on it....