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G5 Hi-Def advice
Hey everyone,
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wait until after MacExpo.
Lots & lots of old machines on the refurb store at the moment – guess why.
Peter
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What form of High Def? DVCPRO HD? Then external firewire 800 or External SATA RAID. And a bit more RAM.
Uncompressed HD? HDCAM? Then you’ll need a fibrechannel RAID, 2GB more RAM, an HD Capture card, HD monitor…
None of this is cheap…believe you me…
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
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Hey,
Thanks for the quick advice. I
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[fookai] “Why are people refurbishing their G5
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walter, do you think fibre channel is overkill for dvcprohd? or will there be benefit to a significant amount of rt? i will be working exclusively w/ dvcprohd. both laptop and g5 tower. what type of storage is recommended? thanks!
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Merry Christmas All!
I seem to be in the same boat as Fookai. The format I’m thinking is the Sony HVRZ1U HD with a G5 system. I’m basically starting from scratch and will need everything from the ground up. I’ve heard you can get decent warranties with (“Product B” items/ fact referb) and it seems to make good business sense by saving you a ton of loot. Secondly, is the duel sufficient or is it worth spending the extra for the quad?
Thanks,
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I’m using 8 10k Cheetah drives and it’s faster than an XSERVE RAID. I’ve done 1080 U/C 4:4:4 jobs with it no problem which at this point is about the highest quality you can do with a G5 and it worked fine. Also I would buy a quad G5 if I were you and get the new PCI Express bus so you don’t have to buy all of this stuff over again – SCSI Card, Capture Card- like many of us will have to.
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[jaser] “walter, do you think fibre channel is overkill for dvcprohd? or will there be benefit to a significant amount of rt?”
The more speed in your system, the more RT you get. Fibre Channel is not overkill for anything really. But you can’t use it with a laptop.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[Robert Brown] “Also I would buy a quad G5 if I were you and get the new PCI Express bus so you don’t have to buy all of this stuff over again – SCSI Card, Capture Card- like many of us will have to.”
Right now the Kona LHe is the only card to run in the PCI Express machines, which would not allow you to work in 4:4:4 today. So I keep recommending the PCI-X Dual 2.7 to folks who need to work on HD today. Of course MacWorld is coming so that could change everything.
I would not recommend anyone go with any flavor of SCSI at this point. Apple stopped supporting SCSI a while ago and it’s definitely much more cumbersome than Fibre. Fibre is so much easier to connect and maintain. We’re running the Medea FCR2X which is supporting 4:4:4 HD projects at a clients’ location right now. I’ve only run 4:2:2 10 bit HD here with it, but the thing is golden.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[hopperHD] “The format I’m thinking is the Sony HVRZ1U HD with a G5 system.”
For HDV all you need is a basic system, heck even a laptop will suffice. I don’t use the format and really don’t plan to use it anytime soon.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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