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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">January 2015</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><b>January 48HFP Newsletter</b></span></p>
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<a href="#survey"><strong><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Take Our Survey For A Chance To Attend Filmapalooza For FREE</span></span></strong></a></p>
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<a href="#filma"><strong><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Hollywood, Here We Come!</span></span></strong></a></p>
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<a href="#peoplespick"><strong><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">New Amsterdam Vodka Lets The People Pick</span></span></strong></a></p>
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<a href="#quicktip"><strong><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Quick Tip: Room Tone</span></span></strong></a></p>
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<a href="#videogallery"><strong><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">48HFP Video Gallery</span></span></strong></a></p>
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<a href="#backup"><strong><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Filmmaker Workflow And Backup Tips To Protect Your Films For Years To Come</span></span></strong></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">We are conducting a survey, and your response is really important to us. In fact, so much so, that if you take the survey, we will enter your name in a very special drawing. If you <span style="color:#d10fd1;">take the survey in the next 48 hours</span> - your name will be entered into a drawing for a FREE REGISTRATION TO FILMAPALOOZA - good for this year OR next! This drawing will be done this Friday (January 30th) at 3pm EST.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"> If you miss the deadline, never fear - there are still other prizes to win. If you complete the survey before Monday, Feb. 9, you will be in a drawing for FREE ENTRY TO THE 48 FOR YOUR TEAM. We will draw 3 lucky winners.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">Just one month from today, hundreds of filmmakers from around the world will converge upon Hollywood for this year's 48HFP </span><a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=24948400&msgid=201512&act=DEFO&c=1368206&destination=http%3A%2F%2Ffilmapalooza.org" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">Filmapalooza</a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">! This action-packed weekend is filled with movie screenings, workshops, parties, networking, and more. Filmapalooza is open to ALL filmmakers, whether your competed in last year's 48HFP or not. We already have over 350 filmmakers, producers, and actors coming not just from the U.S., but also from places like Buenos Aires, Geneva, Israel, Beijing, and even Melbourne. Registration is still open, and we'd like to invite <strong>you</strong> to attend this unparalleled filmmaker event. </span></p>
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<strong style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 25px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: rgb(232, 146, 41);">February 26 – March 2, 2015</span></strong></p>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Save </strong></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>$85 by Registering by Monday, February 2nd</strong> </span></span></p>
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</span></span><img align="left" alt="" height="165" src="https://staticapp.icpsc.com/icp/loadimage.php/mogile/1368206/1a30593d60fd04489302e268dc7aebc6/image/jpeg" style="border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; float: left;" width="206" /><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">If you haven't registered for Filmapalooza yet there's still time, but you have to act fast. The regular registration deadline is coming up on February 2nd</span></span><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">--register before then to secure your spot and avoid paying the late registration fee. </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Schedule & Workshops</strong></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><img align="right" alt="" height="198" src="https://staticapp.icpsc.com/icp/loadimage.php/mogile/1368206/e27e731faabac4e27a6f3d88aa3a04ba/image/jpeg" style="border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 5px; float: right;" width="318" /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size:16px;">Highlights of the weekend include an opening reception on Thursday afternoon,</span></span><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;">a comedy night on Friday evening, and our annual karaoke party on Saturday. Screenings at the historic Chinese Theatres (formerly Grauman's Chinese Theatre) - the one with the handprints - will be happening throughout the day beginning on Thursday evening. We'll wrap up the festival Sunday with our Keynote Speaker, Awards Screening and Ceremony, and our final Awards party. Remember, the final events on Sunday will go late into the evening, so you should plan on staying at least through Monday morning.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><img align="left" alt="" height="133" src="https://staticapp.icpsc.com/icp/loadimage.php/mogile/1368206/da5dc9b8455ba9d644f186ff2c3de4b9/image/jpeg" style="border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 5px; float: left;" width="192" />A variety of workshops will also be available throughout the day on Saturday. Topics will include a film finance workshop and a pitching to Hollywood producers panel. Chris Huntley, Academy Award-winning software developer and Vice President of Write Brothers Inc., will lead two writing workshops: "Heroes, Villains, and Other Character Archetypes" and "Writing Action-Packed and Character Driven Stories".</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;">This Filmapalooza features plenty of great events that you're not going to want to miss out on. Make sure you register today at <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=24948400&msgid=201512&act=DEFO&c=1368206&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.48hourfilm.com%2Ffilmapalooza%2F%3Futm_source%3DiContact%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3D48hfp%26utm_content%3DJan%2B2015%2BNewsletter">http://www.48hourfilm.com/filmapalooza/</a>.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">The city winners have been selected and the audience award judging is now in <em>your</em> hands. Today is the launch of the <em><strong>New Amsterdam & 48 Hour Film Project "The People's Picks" Awards</strong></em>. Each city winning film from the "It's Your Town" invitational is online at <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=24948400&msgid=201512&act=DEFO&c=1368206&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnewamsterdamspirits%2Fapp_1382579798718410">https://www.facebook.com/newamsterdamspirits/app_1382579798718410</a>. Any registered Facebook user can vote for their favorite "It's Your Town" film (limit one vote per person per entry per day) between now and February 26th at 11:59pm PST. The film with the most votes at the end of the contest will win $2000.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Support your town and local filmmakers by going to <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=24948400&msgid=201512&act=DEFO&c=1368206&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnewamsterdamspirits%2Fapp_1382579798718410">https://www.facebook.com/newamsterdamspirits/app_1382579798718410</a> and voting now. Feel free to share the links to your favorite films and encourage other people to vote. Remember, the choice is in your hands!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">We welcome New Amsterdam Vodka back for 2015, and look forward to announcing the <span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">2014 winners at Filmapalooza. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">When you're still on set, make sure you record several minutes of audio of ambient noise, or room tone, from each location. Even with well-recorded dialogue, there is a noticable drop in the audio levels during times that actors are not speaking. Loop the room tone as a separate audio track under the dialogue to produce a more natural sound.</span></td>
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<span style="font-size:11px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em style="font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">Photo by Tommy Ballard-Cincinnati, 2010</em></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">In each newsletter we feature some of our top 48HFP films from all over the world. The films below were shot thousands of miles apart but will play side by side on the silver screen of the historic Chinese Theatres in Hollywood. These are just a small taste of the many great 48HFP films we'll be screening at next month's <a href="#filma">Filmapalooza</a>!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img align="left" alt="" height="324" src="http://www.computerhope.com/issues/pictures/pcfire.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 324px; border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; float: left;" width="200" /></span></b></span></span><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">In the northern hemisphere we’re at a time of year that many filmmakers</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">dread--ice, snow, and cold weather leave many of us hibernating for the winter. Poor weather and the post-holiday duldrums often mean less projects are happening, leaving most people with a lot more freetime than they normally have. Rather than hide out in your bedroom with Netflix, this </span><br />
<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">month is the perfect opportunity to make sure your backup systems are set up to keep your data organized and protected during the busy months ahead.</span></b></p>
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<b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Digital media management is like going to the dentist--nobody wants to even talk about it, let alone do it, but it’s just as essential to the health of your film business. Hopefully you’ve not yet had the experience of telling an important client that the video from their once-in-a-lifetime event was lost forever when your hard drive crashed, but the older your hardware gets and the more data gets squeezed onto a drive there will inevitably come a time when a drive finally bites the dust. It’s important that you have other copies of that data so that work remains intact.</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Backup plans for your data can be as complex and expensive as you like (photographer Chase Jarvis outlines his incredibly thorough workflow </span><a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=24948400&msgid=201512&act=DEFO&c=1368206&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.chasejarvis.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F06%2Fworkflow-and-backup-for-photo-video%2F" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), but they don’t need to be. The most important thing is to have some sort of workflow and backup system in place to protect files and data for you and your clients. Below is a simple outline for a backup workflow suitable for most amateurs and small production companies.</span></b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the shoot</span></b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A strong workflow begins right at the shoot itself. Make sure you have plenty of extra SD/CF cards for your equipment. Even though the cost has come down considerably on cards that are 64G and higher, resist the urge to squeeze your whole shoot onto one card. Something as simple as a bent pin or moisture can render a card unusable, which at the very least means a trip to the electronics store if you don’t have extra cards on hand. It’s a better practice to use more smaller cards and swap them out on a regular basis. Number each card and keep a log of what shots are on each of them--if data on the card is corrupted after the fact then you’ll at least know what was on the card. From there you can decide if it’s better to shoot those scenes again, try to recover data from the card, or just nix those scenes and move on.</span></b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img align="right" alt="" height="500" src="http://www.recoverysoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/Computer-Backing-Up.jpg" style="width: 334px; height: 500px; border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; float: right;" width="334" />Immediately after the shoot (or even on set if you have the personnel and resources to devote to it) you should download the cards onto two separate portable hard drives or a RAID dual drive. The most important thing is that the data is redundant--meaning that you have more than one copy of the same data. RAID drives will do this for you automatically--they are actually two separate drives in one housing unit. Data you save is automatically written to both drives at once, and the drives can usually be taken out so they can be transported and stored separately. RAID drives are typically more expensive than a standard hard drive, though you can get the same redundant storage effect by downloading your cards onto two separate external standard hard drives.From this point on you should make sure that your redundant drives are transported and stored separately. This is one of the most important pieces in a solid backup workflow, and the reason for using redundant drives--if you’re in a car accident, your office burns down, or some other catastrophe occurs, you still have another copy of the original files on your redundant drive.</span></b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When purchasing your hard drives another thing to consider is SSD (solid state drives) versus HDD (hard disk drives). HDD drives are more common and what you typically see in most consumer external hard drives, desktops, and laptops. These drives store your data using spinning platters and magnetism. These drives have gotten to the point where you can purchase a 500G or larger drive very inexpensively. However because of the moving parts there is a higher chance of drive failure--jostling the drive can break the glass plates, or heat can warp the inner workings of them and make them corrupt. SSD drives are a newer technology--they have no moving parts inside, so there is less chance of a drive failing through normal wear and tear. They also typically transfer data faster than a HDD, which could be a factor if you regularly store and transfer huge amounts of data. SSD drives are quite a bit pricier than HDD drives, and usually have less storage space. There’s not a “right answer” as to which drive you should get--do some research and decide which type will work best for the work that you do.</span></b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the office</span></b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At this point you should have just one of your drives that goes back to the office with you. The other drive should be safely stored in a different location and only retrieved when you actually need the backup. At this point you’ll probably want to store a copy of the files on your computer or local server. It’s good practice to copy the files that you’re going to edit--that way if you need to start work over you still have the original file locally and don’t need to go to your off-site backup. </span></b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However you store the files that you’re working on is up to you, but using a media management software like Lightroom, Bridge, or Aperture can be a huge help when it comes to culling through clips and stills. These programs allow you to batch rename groups of files to make them easier to find later, rate the different files (useful if you’ve done multiple takes of shots), and also attach different keywords to clips to make them easier to find later.</span></b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img align="left" alt="" height="239" src="http://www.silicon.fr/wp-content/uploads/logos/Fotolia_32934533_Subscription_XXL.jpg" style="border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; float: left;" width="299" /></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make it automatic</span></b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the key components of a successful backup workflow is that it be automatic. There are many tools available to automatically create off-site backups of data “in the cloud.” Services such as <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=24948400&msgid=201512&act=DEFO&c=1368206&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carbonite.com%2F">Carbonite</a>, <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=24948400&msgid=201512&act=DEFO&c=1368206&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rackspace.com%2F">Rackspace</a>, and <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=24948400&msgid=201512&act=DEFO&c=1368206&destination=http%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Fbackup-recovery%2F">Amazon’s Web Services</a> are all fairly inexpensive ways to back up large amounts of data. They can be set up to backup specific folders or your whole computer on a regular basis. If you ever do have a drive or machine fail, it’s very easy to retrieve the backed up data on to another machine. However services like this may not be practical if you deal with a large supply of data that changes regularly--backing up large files eats up a lot of your internet bandwith and can be unrealistically slow to back up if you have a slower internet connection. Mac users can easily set up the built in Time Machine feature to back up to an external drive, and there are similar services for PC users. These will back up your files to external hard drives, but again this is only truly effective if you’re making redundant copies of those files as well and storing them in a separate location. For filmmakers that don’t deal with large amounts of data regularly, <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=24948400&msgid=201512&act=DEFO&c=1368206&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com">Dropbox</a> is a dead simple solution--you can get up to 2G of storage for free, and easily drag files in to your Dropbox folder to be uploaded to cloud storage to save or even share with clients and co-workers.</span></b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yearly Maintenance</span></b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><b style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you’ve already got your backup system in place there are still some “spring cleaning” tasks you should do on a yearly basis. Go through all of your drives to make sure you have original files along with any edited files, but extra copies of files beyond those can be deleted to free up space on the drive. Older files on your computer that you’re not likely to need in the foreseeable future can be moved to redundant external drives. All of your hard drives should be given a “yearly checkup” using a utility to monitor their Self-Monitoring Analysis Reporting Technology (SMART) status . This will alert you of potential hard drive failures. Any drives in question should be replaced and the data transferred to new drives.</span></b></span></span></p>
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