Overview

Ingest refers to the process of transferring, organizing, verifying, and preparing production media for editorial workflows within F1 productions. Be sure to double-check everything as you go through the various steps.

Careful ingest procedures are essential because production media must be transferred accurately and consistently before editorial work can begin safely and efficiently. Organized ingest workflows help reduce the risk of media loss, corruption, confusion, or downstream technical problems while reinforcing professional habits related to data management and post-production organization.

On Set

The Director of each project is responsible for bringing a personal laptop and a personal hard drive to set. At the end of the day, the Director should therefore copy the day’s data from the media card to the following locations:

• on the portable hard drive included in the camera kit
• on the student’s personal hard drive

After the Director has double-checked that all files have been copied over to the different drives, they can clear the media card, so that the next project has an empty, formatted card on which to shoot.

In the Lab

At the end of the shooting day the director will then need to bring one of the hard drives to the editing lab to offload the footage to the CMPAFilmPost Server. Use one of the computers in the lab to copy the OCF (original camera files) to the proper folder in on the server as shown in the example below.