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FCP 5.0 Multiclip Edit (10 Angles) Needed Resources?
G5 Dual 2.0Ghz, 1.5GB RAM
Entire project is on Lacie Firewire 400, 500GB Drive.
Trying to playback the multiclip is obviously bottlenecking in Disk I/O.
What am I going to need to get this working. Obviously a RAID solution would be optimal, but I don’t think it’s in the budget. Any other options? If not can you point me in the right direction for a budget minded RAID solution for this type of project. 10 cameras is to this point the most we’ve ever done, and I don’t see us doing any more than that anytime soon.
Thanks,
JB
Jason Brantley
Fatbelly Productions
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I would look into the g tech drives, I have a few 320’s and they are amazing, lacie drive have had many troubles and there not rated for video this I was told from a lacie tech person when I mailed a set of new drives to them that crapped out after 1 week. But yes a raid or a scsi set up will work much better.
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Hey Jason-
My first thought when I saw your post was to re-compress all of the media into a low bandwith format like OfflineRT. Can’t say I’ve done it myself on a multicam cut, but it seems like it should work. Let me know how that works.
Peace,-Harry
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10 streams at 3.6 MB/sec is still over 40 MB/sec. NO firewire drive is going to be rock solid with that data stream.
If you want to do a first class but cheap RAID; try this
Get the SwiftData 200 from http://www.transintl.com that allows you to add up to 4 internal SATA drives in your G5. Populate this with whatever SATA drives you want as a total volume as a RAID and use Disk Utility to build a RAID 0 with up to 4 stripes as each stripe will get you 50 MB/sec of bandwidth.
If you would like security with that, get 4 more drives and use the 4 external ports on the Sonnett card to double the size of the volumes but use either Tiger Disk Utility or purchase SoftRAID 3.2 that will allow you to set up a RAID 1+0 which is the fastest RAID (0) and a copy RAID (1)
With 400 GB SATA drives that would get you over one terabyte of data at near 200 MB/sec and security of a copy on the fly.
People will tell you. yeah, but after the first 2/3rd of the drives, the rate slows to half, but for that you just need to manage the data streams appropriately.
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So you achieve RAID 0+1, by using the Sonnet Controller for RAID 0, and either Disk Utility or SoftRAID to add RAID 1 mirroring correct? I couldn’t find any data that SoftRAID alone could do RAID 0+1.
I’ve been thinking about trying to put together one of these, with maybe up to 8 drives.
https://www.macgurus.com/productpages/sata/hotswapsatakits.phpThe real bummer is that don’t seem to have any PCI controllers for Mac yet that can handle RAID 3/RAID XL. Having to double to the number of drives for redundancy is such a waste IMO.
Thanks for the link to the SwiftData 200, it definately may be an option as well.
JB
Jason Brantley
Fatbelly Productions
http://www.fatbellyproductions.com -
If you are looking into building your own Sata Raid then read this
https://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_storage_soltz.html
Michael Horton
lafcpug
https://www.lafcpug.org
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