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RAID 3 or 5 for video production?
Just got an XServe 2.8 TB and would like to know which RAID level to use for video production with FCP 5. It’s a 7 drive system. Which is the appropriate one, level 3 or level 5?
Project is DVCPro 50, 23.98 fps.
Cheers
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The XserveRAID should come pre-configured RAID5 on each side. If you have two sides, then stripe them RAID0 in the disk utility to get RAID50, or if you’ve just got one side, leave it RAID5.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Graeme, you’ve been super heplful with many of my questions and I want to thank you wholeheartedly.
Cheers and many thanks.
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The Project is a documentary shot with a Panasonic AJ-SDX900, 24p. I’ve worked out the rev telecine (with Graeme’s enormous help) and will be edited at 23.98 for film. It’ll incorporate archival footage (Graeme, do you sell a plug in that I can use to telecine the 29.97 footage to 23.98?).My system:
Dual 2.7 G5, 4.5 GB RAM
2.8 TB XServe RAID
FCP 5 (got it 3 days ago, any comments on it?)
2 23″ Monitors
Decklink Extreme -
If the archival footage is normal NTSC 29.97fps (59.94 fields per second) video, then you can use my Standards Conversion plugins to convert it to 24p (23.98fps) so that it can be edited on a 23.98fps timeline. It, by necessity, does a film look on the video, but it should make it fit right in.
If you look at the 24p web movies on my site, like Bird Brains, that was all shot normal 60i NTSC, and turned into 24p in post using the filter, so you can see what a nice job it does.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Yes! I think Graeme is a legend!
He is always so helpful, and is ever so smart -
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