• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  HDCAM storage?

  Posted by Steven Escobar on July 25, 2005 at 7:21 pm

  I’m in the middle of upgrading to a G5 and hoping to buy the Decklink HD Pro card and just want to check with everyone and find out what kind of storage everyone is using.

  I have a 90 mininute HDCAM feature that I want to uprez on my own system but want to make sure I have enough storage. Which one do you guys use or prefer? I have a Huge System 320R but it’s only about 900Gigs. How much do I need to digitize HDCAM 4:2:2 for 90 mins? I prefer to buy a new system or can I just buy the removable drives and put them in to redig on my huge system drive array?

  Anyone know how much a new drive array is or where I can get a good deal on one?

  Any advice is appreciated.

  Steve

  Nick B replied 20 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Walter Biscardi

  July 25, 2005 at 7:42 pm

  For uncompressed HD there’s really nothing like Fibre Channel. I run the Medea FCR2X (2TB) array here and it’s very fast and it just works. No SCSI OS X issues, no installing drivers with each OS updates, etc… it just works.

  You can get them at Promax (promax.com) and B&H Photo (bhphoto.com) among others. They go up to 3.2 TB.

  Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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  Nick B

  July 25, 2005 at 9:27 pm

  If you have a Huge 320R that is fast enough for uncompressed 10bit HD single stream 900Gigs should give you nearly 2hrs so 90 mins should be safe.

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