[Studiotalk] Question Regarding Hindenburg File Storage

[Nancy Gahagan]

Thanks to all who have responded either to the group or directly to me. I
am passing the suggestions on to our IT department. Sorry for the delay in
response. Most of it went to my Spam folder and I am now catching up
between holidays. Hope you all have a wonderful New Year!

On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 9:52 AM Andrews, David B (DEED) <
david.b.andrews at state.mn.us> wrote:

> I am not sure I can help much, but I am familiar with the issues.
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> In MN9A we have 20 recording booths. They record stuff to, and store stuff
> on the cloud.  We had to get a 1 gig line, so we had adequate bandwidth,
> and responsiveness.
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> We do not use Hindenburg for our basic recording. We use a program we
> wrote, and are in the process of writing its replacement.
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> Hindenburg was designed as a stand-alone workstation product. It can’t be
> run from a network, but writing to a network should be ok. We don’t use it
> that way, we use it at the end of our process to prepare books for BARD,
> but everything is done locally.
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> I would think you should be able to get your system to work, but you ma6y
> need to improve the performance of its parts, server, connection,
> bandwidth, and your network itself.  This is pretty detailed and messy IT
> stuff, and there is no guarantee, but it should be possible, I think.
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> Dave
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> Hi All,
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> I am hoping for some feedback about some challenges we are facing in our
> studio in regards to storage of Hindenburg files both short term and long
> term.
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> We use Hindenburg for the entirety of our process: recording, editing,
> markup and exporting the dtb. We have 4 recording booths and all of our in
> process books are located on a server. We access this server for all of the
> work we do. None of our files are stored locally on any computer. That way
> all staff and volunteers have access to the files from whichever station
> they are working from. We also store all of our completed projects on this
> server. It's a system that has been in place for many years even before we
> started using Hindenburg.
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> Our current server is nearing retirement, and we are exploring storage
> options. This includes finding new storage for archival files and other
> material. But the primary challenge is how to store active Hindenburg
> sessions in such a way that recording, editing, etc. is not hindered. We
> find that Cloud storage has too many lag issues.
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> So my question to the group is, how do you store your in-progress
> Hindenburg sessions? For those who use Hindenburg for the recording
> process, do you record to a Hindenburg file that is on a local computer or
> do you, like us, record from an external server? It would be most helpful
> to hear from studios that have multiple booths and produce large quantities
> of audio. We have considered storing directly on the computers at the
> booths, but it seems that would require either a way to access the internal
> storage of each booth computer from workstations elsewhere in the studio
> and via a VPN; or transferring each in-progress session to a cloud server
> at the end of each recording session, which would add to our already ample
> workload.
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> Any suggestions about how you all manage all of this would be appreciated!
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> Thanks so much,
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> Nancy
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