If this isn't faith than I don't know what it is.
You know that sinking feeling you get when you know there's nothing you can do to stop something really bad happening? Well that's the feeling I had today when I started editing this morning. This morning while I was editing I lost a file (footage that is). Now it wasn't a really important file. It was one I was using and would like to still have though, but it wasn't like I lost all of episode 1 or something. However this incident made me think "I probably need to backup all this footage so that I don't lose it too"! And that's when I made the following discovery.
Did you know that S.C. TreeHouse productions has over 8,000 GB (18,000 minutes) of footage.
Did you know that footage is stored on eight hard drives?
Did you know that in one month you have a 1 in 36 chance of your hard drive crashing?
Did you know that when a hard drive crashes you lose all the information on it?
So all this information means that S.C. TreeHouse Productions has a one in five chance that in any given month one of our hard drives can crash. Causing us to lose over 3,000 minutes of footage.
Yeah backing up all of that footage seems like a really really good idea right now! So as you can probably guess if I want to backup 8000 GB worth of footage I have to have 8000 GB more to back it up on. Thus I looked to see how much free storage we had and I discovered we had less then 1/18 of what I needed. Knowing that I need to save our footage I looked to see how much it would cost to get the 8000 GB I needed to backup the 8000 GB we already had...$8000!! That's how much it would cost. So I looked in the budget. I was met with a whopping $526.00! And I'm sure you know that 500 dollars is nowhere near $8000. plus we still have seven episodes to film and we need that $500 to pay for food for cast and crew. This is when I realized I can't backup any of the footage which means if something happens to a file it's gone...forever!!! And there's nothing I can do!
So to sum up, I could wake up one morning and 8000 GB, 18,000 minutes of footage, my whole film career could be gone. And I'm literally powerless to stop It.
Talk about faith. The only thing I have now is to trust and have faith that whatever happens God is in control and He'll make it all work out for my good... Even if I don't think it's for my good.
So now I must ask you to please pray... and not to pray that God protects all the video footage, but to pray that He gives me the faith I need to trust that whatever happens is what He wants.
-C.D.S
P.S. Sarah Lauren Bath, when I discovered all this I called technical support to see if there's anyway to recover my file and the guy on the other end told me that there wasn't. The guy was really nice about it but then he told me that I should probably back up everything in order to keep from losing anything else. And when he said that I was so mad that I couldn't do anything to secure the footage safety that I almost cried. So then I climbed up a tree and had a good talk with God. But anyway for those of you who didn't think I could, now you know. I can get mad.
So yeah please pray.