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Hi Martin,
Is there any way to implement in vmix a feature of fail safe recording?
I see Atomos have this ability in the Ninja and Samurai field recorders. Somehow if you have a power problem or remove a drive they can recover the files from the catastrophic event.
We were doing a basketball game recently. With 2mins to go, the dame PC froze. Its just stooped working. I had to reboot but of cause lost all the recordings. Everything.
Can vmix have fail safe recordings?
Cheers
Bryan
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Hi Martin,
Thanks for the reply.
Our situation: Filming Basketball Approx. 2hr games. We are working on our systems and specs before we go multi-camera.
Currently:
Single HD camera
HDMI into vMix
Use Caspar CG for overlay graphics
Recording in vMix (AVI which I have now learnt is wrong choice)
External on
Livestream Producer software streaming to Livestream event for client
We are pushing out 4 bit rates to livestream
So, as you can see, we are pushing the pc.
Single HD camera, graphics, recording and streaming in 4 bit rates including 720p
Which format would you recommend using that is less processor intensive but gets great results and stops us from having the failure agin losing recordings?
Cheers and thanks for your help,
Bryan
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if you are using a single camera ( or when using multi camera's designate one master camera ) record on this camera as well. this way you always have a backup independent of vmix operation on the card of the camcorder.
i route the audio via the main camera as well so always record a master. it has saved my ass many times.
i record in low quality hd on the camera, enough for web production and purely for backup. also backup of the audio stream.
on vmix i record in mpeg2. which is fairly fault proof. I stream preferably one stream, max 2, if more i use seperate machines for recording and streaming. streaming and recording in mp4 on one machine is fairly demanding on the cpu. don't forget to look at memory and harddisk performance. i record on 2ssd raid...
So with critical recordings: don't forget redundancy, I also use a ups if i don't trust the main powersource.
good luck, stefan
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Thanks Stefan for the help. Yes, I forgot to say we do record on the camera so we did fortunately have a full back up :)
Also seems we too do the same with audio. We run the mixed audio with commentators into the camera so back up recording gets that too.
Cheers
Bryan
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