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  3 HVX200’s, 3 mac pro’s and a raid

  Posted by Alexander Joyce on May 26, 2007 at 9:32 am

  I posted this in another forum also, but thought I might give it a try here.
  I recently got an HVX200 to try out. Was looking for a cam to shoot an upcoming program on. I really liked the camera and so it’s been decided that we are going to use this camera for the shoot.
  Now I have set up this crazy idea about how we might be able to handle 3 cameras and all the footage we are pulling off them each day.

  My plan was to set up the 3 cameras, each with say 3 16GB cards and daisy chain them together to get the same TC on all 3.
  Then I thought we might set up an equal amount of Mac Pro’s with card readers and connect them all to an XServe RAID and just have an assistant offload the cards as they fill up.

  Now! Does anyone see any problems with this workflow?
  Will the Mac’s be able to offload the footage off the cards fast enough?
  I was thinking of just having folders on the RAID disk for each camera.
  Should there be any problems with performance on the RAID when you have 3 Mac’s writing to it all at once?
  I’m not too savvy on the computer tech side so you have to excuse me if these questions are obvious.

  Nothing’s been decided, so I’m open to suggestions about changing the workflow.

  Barry Green replied 18 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Barry Green

  May 27, 2007 at 1:53 am

  If you’re using something like the PCD20 P2 card drive, and you’ve properly installed the driver and everything, then you should be able to copy each 16GB card over in something like 8 minutes or less, so yes this should all work fine.

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