- Once you're back from the field,
one of the first things you need to do
is get your data transferred.
Now, I'm of the belief that you want
to make sure that this gets transferred
to multiple hard drives, and I'm not a big fan
of importing directly into something
like a Lightroom library.
I'll explain more why in just a second.
Now, this process is pretty straightforward.
You're gonna want a card reader,
something that ideally supports your computer.
In this case, we've got a multi-card reader,
and it will actually take in a wide range of formats.
This is great because you might end up
with a couple of different format types
or media types as you're shooting.
Now in the this case, I'm using USB 3 as a connector.
It's very fast.
You might want to investigate USB 3 or Thunderbolt
so you've got fast transfer speeds
because with panoramic shooting,
you're gonna have a lot of material.
Next, take one of the cards from the shoot,
in this case just a simple SD card.
And I'll just mount that by plugging it in.
Now that you've done that, you want to create a copy.
Now, there are ultimately a couple of different ways
to go about this copy.
You might notice that applications on your system
are designed to pop up automatically.
In this case, the Photos application is offering
to import from the card.
Well, I'm going to quit that because I'm not using that
for acquisition, and let's just simply click Cancel.
I've also got Lightroom which I can import to,
but I'm going to bypass that.
Instead at the Finder level, let's go to the card
and explore what's there.
Now while I was shooting on a Sony a7S
during the shoot, the card was last used in a Lumix.
So I could have re-formatted the card.
But in any case, there are three folders,
and these multiple folders are often
pretty common when shooting on cameras.
You'll notice that these other folders here
have additional information that could be created
by the camera, some databases.
Now, I recommend saving all of this
as well as the entire DCIM folder.
As we take a look at that, you'll see
that it's got the raw files.
Now ultimately, we want to get this copied,
and I'm going to copy it first to one
of my production drives.
Then I would recommend making a second copy
for a second location for backup.
Let's just open up a second window here.
Navigate to that folder.
And I'll make a new folder here called 360 Archive.
And let's open that up.
Now, you could, of course, do the simple drag
and drop transfer over, but that can get a bit confusing
as you start to get multiple things here.
So let's simply make a new image over here
and we'll name this and I'll call it Card_01
and then put the shoot date.
That's gonna give me some unique information.
Now, from the top level, take the entire card
and transfer that in.
You'll notice in this case it's creating an alias.
If I hold down the modifier key,
it switches to the plus.
And now that entire card is transferring in.
Now, you could step within the folder, and that's fine.
But you'll notice there, the transferring
and what it's doing.
This is telling me that it's going to take
a bit of time to get this transfer.
Now this time will start to plummet.
It's not actually going to take 40 minutes
to transfer about 14 gigabytes.
But this is a bit of time data as you start
to do the transfer and be prepared that it will add up.
Another thing you can look at
is using a more dedicated utility.
For example, if I take a look here
at something like Carbon Copy Cloner,
this is a dedicated copying utility.
You'll find utilities like this
available for both Mac and PC.
This allows me to make a new task to set up the copy.
So notice, for example, I can select the volume here,
see information about it, and decide what I want to do.
So we'll make a new task called Photocopy.
I'll take the source and add it in
and then add a destination.
I can click and select an individual drive.
If I want, I can actually go in and choose
a specific folder.
In this case, this would make it easy to drill down
and to be very specific.
And I'll just make another folder here
and call it something similar.
Normally, I would only do one of these types of copies.
But we'll call this Card_01A and add the date.
I use the shoot date as opposed to the transfer date.
I can click OK, look that over.
I don't need a safety net.
And it shows me that it's going to take this content
and put it here.
Additionally, you can have it send you
an email when it runs or if there's an error.
This allows you to actually set things up
and configure it to give you information
about what's happening if you need it.
Alright, let's close that.
I'm not going to send an email for now.
But when I click Clone, it's going to do
a verified copy.
Now this tells me that it's going to move things over.
I don't need to worry about deleting here
because there's nothing there,
so I'll click Continue and proceed.
In this case, it's doing an actual comparison.
So unlike the desktop copy here
where it's just doing a simple copy
and looking at the file size for verification,
this is actually analyzing the data on the card first
and then it's going to initiate the copy.
And it will do a nice job of verifying
that every single bit that was on the card
ended up on the destination drive.
Alright, we'll let that finish out with a copy
and we can then go forward.