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Re: What’s the Best Solution for Managing Digital Photos and Videos?

John Andrew Fredrickson — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 16:50:15 -0000

I am the technical director of a small photo/video team in NYC and have been spending a lot of time researching digital asset management options over the past year and refining our system from a bootstrapping perspective that prioritizes cost effectiveness over robustness at this point, but still maintaining a 3-2-1 backup strategy for all of our content at all stages of our workflow.

We start in the field by recording our photos and video onto SD cards which immediately get dumped onto two separate SanDisk SSD external drives before wrapping any aspect of the shoot. These drives and SD cards stay on our person at all times until we are able to get back to our studio and are able to back them up to our archive external HDs.

We dump the raw footage onto the archive HDs immediately while keeping everything on the 2 SSD drives to for processing since we use laptops that don't have enough space for all of our active projects at once.

Both the external SSDs and the archive HDs backup to our Backblaze account so that we have a cloud backup of everything at every stage of a project in case of a catastrophic loss of all local drives due to disaster or theft.

The biggest problem with this setup so far is that we have to keep the archive drives connected to a laptop as often as possible to enable them to continually backup all the raw footage and we often fall behind on cloud backups because we can't keep the laptop connected 24/7 while we are working and traveling. We are planning to get a dedicated desktop workstation sometime over the next year so that the archive drives can always stay connected to that computer for 24/7 backups.

After that I plan to build an unRaid NAS so that we can grow our archive drive array without having to maintain 1+1 copies of every drive and it is easier to pop drives in and out in the event of a drive failure. We will migrate to B2 once we have this setup, but unfortunately it's down the list a ways in terms of asset allocation over the next year so we will be continuing with the existing setup for the foreseeable future.

Backblaze is the backbone of our backup strategy and while we hope that we never have to use it for recovery, it is an absolutely critical part of ensuring that no local disasters can wipe out our archives.

Re: Networking: Dave Delaney on Networking Productivity Online and Offline [FIXED] – BTTDL163

John Andrew Fredrickson — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 12:12:52 -0000

Loved the episode guys. Is the offer to join Networking for Nice People still good? The link doesn't seem to be working.

Re: Instagram access token generator

John Andrew Fredrickson — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:16:54 -0000

Same for me. Can't see to set the redirect_uri to http://localhost. It just fails on save with no error message and resets the field to blank.

Re: Blame Congress, not capitalism!

John Andrew Fredrickson — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:28:54 -0000

"This is what happens when government fixes prices. Of labor. Of loans. Of goods."

"Eventually, the masses lose and a few with connections to the powerful of the government survive and thrive."

That's the gist of it right there. As much as liberals like to make the fiscal-conservatives out to be insensitive scrooges with no care for the greater good of the community, they don't realize that their short-term, compassion-based campaigns cause more harm in the long run.

Free markets are better for everyone involved, not just the gifted and/or lucky.

Well written Andy.

Re: SKATING BABIES: YouTube Video Ad Campaign Enters Guinness Book

John Andrew Fredrickson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:16:01 -0000

Just a heads up, the "Acrobuttocks commercial" link goes to the skating babies post.

Re: It’s Not Just You: Facebook Is Down

John Andrew Fredrickson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:00:04 -0000

I love how this post has 5 shares on Facebook already. Hmm...

Re: It’s Not Just You: Facebook Is Down

John Andrew Fredrickson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:58:54 -0000

That's an urban legend. Constantly refreshing actually helps shock the server back to life like those paddles in those medical shows on TV. Do it for the children.

Re: Life is hard. Here is someone.

John Andrew Fredrickson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:37:41 -0000

Mmm, I just got one of those too. 'Cept it was way worse. I'm debating whether I should learn to manage my finances a bit more carefully or move to an ING checking account with no overdraft fees. Hmm...

Re: There’s No Sex When Google Shows You Colored Balls

John Andrew Fredrickson — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:48:14 -0000

This post is win.

Re: Entrepreneurship is an obligation.

John Andrew Fredrickson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:40:54 -0000

Hehe, so you didn't. My apologies. It is not a strange conclusion to come to though given how the statement about obligation is preceded by a list of ways in which entrepreneurship benefits collective society.

You are right in that the collective benefits of entrepreneurship (or any translation of ability into value) which you listed are all in fact benefits to the individual creator as well. That is the beauty of a free market, which incentivizes those with ability to create value for the collective, thus channeling natural and rational self-interest in ways that lead to the greatest public good.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here though. That is why I was most surprised to read this post on your blog given my initial understanding of your words. ;)

Re: Entrepreneurship is an obligation.

John Andrew Fredrickson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:40:55 -0000

Lies. I don't owe anyone the potential of my mind. If I choose to exercise my abilities and create value for those around me I will do so at my own choosing and for my own benefit.

That personal benefit can be the satisfaction of helping others or creating value for others, but never should ability be used to determine obligation. My obligation is to myself, my survival and my values. To claim otherwise is to claim ownership of the content of other men's minds. And that is the second greatest crime of all.

Re: Twitter’s Default Avatar No Longer Smacked By the Ugly Stick

John Andrew Fredrickson — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:00:04 -0000

Hehe, you're description of the old default avatar is perfect.

Re: Twitter’s New Monetization Strategy?

John Andrew Fredrickson — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:48:30 -0000

Could he be referring to toilet seats that have a slowing mechanism on them to keep them from slamming shut too fast and making a loud noise?

Re: Why Teens Don’t Tweet

John Andrew Fredrickson — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:32:16 -0000

But what are they using their cell phones for? They are using them to interact with their friends, not share knowledge with the world. Twitter is about public knowledge and sharing. Teens tend to care more their social sphere which is why many (most?) prefer Facebook and find no value in Twitter.

Re: Stockholm

John Andrew Fredrickson — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:57:32 -0000

Any companies in particular that impressed you?

Re: 10 Ways to Find People on Twitter

John Andrew Fredrickson — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:48:15 -0000

I prefer Twitter search. Best way to find people who are interested in the same things you are is to search based on the content of one of your recent tweets. If other people posted a link you found interesting enough to post, chances are they will do it again, and a quick glance at their recent posts is usually enough to tell.

Re: Tweetree Advertising

John Andrew Fredrickson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:54:47 -0000

Thanks for the feedback Martin. We are looking into other display alternatives.

Re: Tweetree Advertising

John Andrew Fredrickson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:26:46 -0000

Glad to hear it's not too bad in the end. We'd like the ads to actually be a positive experience so we're listening close to any feedback we can get about them. Let us know if you have any ideas for improvement.

Re: Tweetree Advertising

John Andrew Fredrickson — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:03:36 -0000

Sorry to hear you don't like the placement Nathalie. We're paying close attention to all the feedback we get, so we will definitely consider other placements for future iterations.

Re: Announcing OAuth and Saved Searches

John Andrew Fredrickson — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:53:17 -0000

Hmm, thanks for the heads up on quotation marks stopping searches from getting saved. We'll look into that right away.

Glad to hear you're finding saved searches useful otherwise though.

Re: Tweetree Advertising

John Andrew Fredrickson — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:51:15 -0000

That's something we are considering Ricky. We'll keep you posted.

Re: EdgeCase Ajax File Uploads Made Easy (screencast)

John Andrew Fredrickson — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:15:10 -0000

Lol it's late, meant to say Adam. Sean's name was peaking at me from above the comment form and slipped into my stream of thought.

Re: EdgeCase Ajax File Uploads Made Easy (screencast)

John Andrew Fredrickson — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:13:19 -0000

Nice screencast Sean. Have you heard of the plugin "responds_to_parent" by Mark Catley? It does a really nice job of allowing you to treat iframe ajax file uploads as if they were normal ajax requests in your controller.

With that plugin all you really need is the extra hidden iframe and a ":target => 'iframe_id'" in your html options for the form_for.

Both seem to be good clean options though. Thanks for posting this.

Re: Google Asks Common Man “What is a Browser?” Common Man Has No Clue [Video]

John Andrew Fredrickson — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:40:08 -0000

The more transparent the browser becomes to the end user the better. If their only concern is whether to search on Google or try to find stock information on "the Yahoo" it means the industry is doing a good job of making the browser experience transparent. Now all the users have to think about is what they do with the browser and that is all that really matters.

Re: Microsoft To Sell Windows 7 Without IE in Europe: Odd and Unnecessary

John Andrew Fredrickson — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:29:41 -0000

So you are saying that a car company doesn't have the right to create a car that won't work with a third-party engine? Or a printer company can't make a printer that doesn't work with third-party ink?

I believe that anybody has the right to make any ridiculous and stupid restrictions on their products and it is outside of the scope of the government or any organization to tell them otherwise.

Let the consumers decide if they are willing to buy the product with the given restrictions. There will always be alternatives as long as you leave the market open and free. If you simply leave it up to the government to decide how a company can produce and market their products, you are essentially closing the market to only the most "influential" companies and that is a very dangerous concept.

Influence in the marketplace should be determined by your reach with consumers, not your reach into the pockets of your elected representatives.