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  Posted by Ron Pestes on November 22, 2010 at 1:26 am

  Just a little confused as to which Compact Flash cards will work with the new mini. How fast do the cards need to be? If ProRes Lt. is a 102 mbps feed than how can a Sandisk Extreme Pro keep up if it only has a 90 mbps capability? This would make it seem that most of the ProRes catagories would not record properly. What am I missing? Thanks.

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  Jeremy Garchow

  November 22, 2010 at 4:18 pm

  [Ron Pestes] “If ProRes Lt. is a 102 mbps feed than how can a Sandisk Extreme Pro keep up if it only has a 90 mbps capability? “

  [Ron Pestes] “What am I missing? “

  Your Mbs and your MBs. ProResLT is 100ish Megabits/sec (small b). UDMA 6 cards are rated for 90 MegaBytes/sec (big b).

  So ProResLT = 100mb/sec (or 12ish MB/sec), UDMA 6 = 90 MB/sec (or 720ish mb/sec). Plenty of headroom.

  Jeremy
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  Ron Pestes

  November 22, 2010 at 5:29 pm

  Great! Thanks for clearing that up. I knew I had made a mistake somwhere.

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