Without a doubt, one of our most popular posts of 2010 has been this post where we outline in detail our photo and video workflow from capture to delivery of digital assets to clients. Every step is included in that post or video, but EVEN THEN we had a huge number of questions about it. As in hundreds and hundreds. Questions that are important and deserve answers. That’s the reason we’ve decided to dedicate an entire episode of chasejarvisLIVE to this topic for tomorrow!
Who: YOU and the Chase Jarvis Crew
What: chasejarvisLIVE discusses photo & video workflow – takes questions from a global audience
Where: tune in to http://www.chasejarvis.com/live
When: Tuesday, Sept 28 at 9:30am Seattle west coast time [12:30pm New York time] [to help with time zone weirdness here’s a quick iCal & gCal -d worked up]
I’ll offer my decade of experience on the matter, but what’s more cool is that I’ll be hosting my entire tech crew on the show: Scott, Dartanyon, and Erik. They’re the guys who literally walk the data through each of the steps, whether it’s still photos, HDdSLR video, RED or Phantom cinema cameras. They’re opinionated and have a ton of experience–they have all been doing this at the pro level for about 5-10 years. And tomorrow we’ll a lot of the questions that came in after our initial posting, plus we’ll be taking questions LIVE from YOU via twitter at hashtag #cjlive.
It’s a big topic, with dozens of components, from the very basic to the very complex. We’re aiming to simply this complex process. I’m re-posting the video from a few month ago after the jump in case you missed it or in hopes that you’ll get a chance to watch it and formulate some questions for tomorrow’s show. Click to see that again and keep reading…
–And in truth, more than ever before, what we’re preaching about workflow can be applied to anyone these days. We all have digital assets and all those assets need backup protocols and a plan for how to deal with important data. AND most importantly this is all scalable to your own needs.
We have beefy needs, and you might not. Tomorrow is a good chance to ask us questions about scaling your workflow according to your particular needs, even if they’re completely basic. You can put questions in the comments in advance an we’ll pull from there, but live Q&A will be available too….
Hope to see you tomorrow at http://www.chasejarvis.com/live
nice one chase!
This is tremendous news. I am so struggling right now with my digital files management. They are everywhere!
Can’t wait for tomorrow! There will be one happy photographer in Geneva, Switzerland. Thanks Chase & the gang!
Excellent idea!
Hopefully subject # 1 is: “How the heck should I name and organize my files”.
In case it didn’t make sense in the video we use this ….
[20100928] – [cjLIVE] – [Cam 1] – 3108.mov
So [inverse date] – [project name] – [camera] – [native filename from camera]
Which looks like this in real life …
20100928_cjLIVE_Cam1_3108.mov
In your video, you talk about ingesting photos through Aperture and also your naming protocol for files. Can you get more detailed about the ingest process through Aperture and how the files themselves get renamed on the hard drive? Do you generally import into the Aperture library or just to a folder on your hard drive? How do you simultaneously back up to a second drive?
Jordan,
I don’t know if this was covered well enough for you, but we use Aperture to ingest, we set the download location to our primary drive, the backup location to our secondary drive, and we set the filename and meta template in Aperture, being sure to click the “rename master files” checkbox that allows the files to be imported under the new name.
I remember in the first workflow and backup post on the blog Chase insisting to never backup through any piece of software, but instead just use copy-paste of the OS for security reasons (having a clean copy of the original RAW file). Looks like you do it differently today? Why?
As I had recently a problem with some corrupt files in LR, I hesitate to go this way. I could never figure out what caused the corruption, only way to get rid of it was to re-import the clean original RAW files from my untouched backup.
Q: Any tip how to beware of surprises (corrupt files) later, if you have a big shoot with 4000+ images and maybe not the time to inspect every image in LR/Aperture before reformatting the cards? And how verify file moving to archive and be sure nothing got corrupt on the way? Do you use any software to check?
use the lightroom option to write xmp sidemap files. then you can reimport xmp+raw and you get nearly all the modification on your files.
ps: you’ll loose the virtual copies
Thx, Night, I know xmp sidecar files, but that was not the question. And wouldn’t help anyway if your RAW file was corrupted during import into Aperture or LR. You would just re-import an already corrupt RAW file…