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Example of four archived directories of RED media. The name of each RDM folder is used as
the reel name for all the media it contains.
If youʼre using a RED Drive, you should copy the entire contents of the drive to a new
folder every time you fill it up or are finished with a particular part of your shoot. For
example, if youʼre archiving the contents of the drive after every dayʼs shoot, then after
four days you should have four directories (perhaps named “MyGreatProject _Day01”
through “MyGreatProject_Day04”). For organizational ease, use sensible folder names.
You should also be aware that the name of the folder that ends with “.RDM” is used by
the Log and Transfer process as the reel name for each clip contained within. If you like,
you can change the name of each RDM folder prior to ingesting the media into Final Cut
Pro in order to create more intelligible reel names. However, do not under any
circumstances change these folder names after youʼve ingested the media. Doing so
jeopardizes your ability to easily reconform offline sequences to the original source
media at a later date.
For safety, most productions immediately copy the contents of each CF card or RED
drive to two separate volumes once recording on that magazine has finished.
Tip — If youʼre shooting using relatively inexpensive CompactFlash (CF) media, you
should consider purchasing enough CF cards to shoot your entire project without having
to erase and reuse cards. This provides you with valuable redundancy should your hard
drive archival volumes later prove to have problems.
At the very least, have enough CF cards for an entire dayʼs worth of shooting so you
can verify the integrity of your media at the end of each day, before reusing them the
next day. In either case, be sure to physically label each CF card with the name of the
corresponding directory you copy its media to, as this is the only way youʼll later be able
to match a directory of archived media to the CF card it was originally copied from. If
you change the name of that cardʼs RDM folder, you should write the new name on the
CF cardʼs label as well. Should you need to restore media from that card, youʼll be able
to rename its RDM folder as it was before.
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