Wrap cards that are OK to format in green tape, wrap enough tape that the cameraman has to unwrap it to use it again. Septemat 8:35AM, Edited September 4, 7:54AMĮxpressCard34 for CompactFlash and SDHC cardsĪlways have 2 copies of everything before you willingly erase or move data. Thanks again Koo! Let me know if you have any workflow questions for Man-child Of course the trade off is all the thousands of dollars they're spending on the production is dependent on you doing your job correctly - they're paying you to shoulder that responsibility. With higher data rate cameras like RED, the pace moves a bit faster, but it's typical when data loading to spend a lot of time 'chillin' My first card dump didn't come until we broke for lunch! Then I sat there for 4 1/2 hours watching them shoot. So I showed up, got the hard drives ready, got the computers setup, and went over my process with the DP and cam ops. To give you an idea of just how action packed it can be: the day before I recorded this video, I was hired to do data wrangling for a National Guard instructional shoot being shot on a couple DSLRs.

Koo - thanks for the write up! Was pleasantly surprised to find myself on NoFilmSchool this morning :-) It's true the job is pretty boring - and that's exactly why I filled my time by shooting the video! In my own case, I've never been hired as a data wrangler, but there was one Sony SRW-9000 shoot on which I was supposed to be the Camera A operator - but then the DP decided he wanted to operate and, not wanting to displace the B or C camera guys, I hopped over to the vacant position of data wrangler (someone had forgot to hire one - oops). Oh, and Evan doesn't typically work in this capacity, but the right job came along so he took it. There, I warned you: I don't want to hear any comments of 'this was boring!' Hmm, that wasn't a very good front page teaser. This is not an action-packed video, but if you might find yourself doing work in this position it's a nice and informative behind-the-scenes commentary. The data wrangler is the person on set who is responsible for making sure that what gets recorded on camera makes it back to the editor without any data loss or corruption.

Evan Luzi, who runs the camera assistant blog The Black and Blue (and who also wrote a guest post here on NFS), takes a look at the crucial but unheralded position of data wrangler.

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