On set all files will be copied to at least two drives (A & B). When the shoot is done, a producer will bring the A drive to the office and connects it to a computer. The B drive must stay with the producer and may never be left on the same location as the A drive.
Once the drive is connected a mediamanager will make two copies, one to the server and one to the Rushes Archive drives. The Rushes Archive drives are stored in a remote storage location.
<aside> ⚠️ At all times it is crucial to have two copies on two different locations.
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The transport disks (A & B) may only be formatted when both the server and the Rushes Archive copy have been completed. Until then, the producer keeps hold of the B drive, they will receive a notification from the media manager when they can return the transport drive. The mediamanager will then format the transport drives.
In practice this works as following:
A mediamanager prepares a folder on the Ingest workspace so that when the producer comes to attach the drive, they only have to copy it to the correct folder.
The producer brings the drive to the office after shooting and copies the footage to the Ingest workspace.
When the copy is done a mediamanager will move the rushes from the Ingest workspace over to the Rushes workspace and will clean up the folder structure if necessary.
A mediamanager will make the backup to the Rushes Archive drives. Once both copies are done, the B-copy has to be brought to the remote storage facility. The A-copy we scan in to Disk Catalog Manager.
Then, proxies will be made, read more on that here:
When both the copy to the server and the copy to the rushes archive up have been completed and verified with Yoyotta, the producer can hand in the transport disks. The transport disks can then be formatted for use on another project. Only when the rushes Archive-B drive has been dropped off in the remote storage we can receive the backup SSD that the producer has.