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fire wire drives for HD editing?
Hi. I need to get new hard drives for my SD editing system. I will be upgrading to HD editing with FCP within the next 6 months. Will the current fire wire 800 drives from lacie, medea, etc. be sufficient to handle compressed HD (DVCPro HD or XDCam HD)?? Thanks.
Nick Lammers
Media Mill, Inc.
St. Louis, MOMedia 100i XS 8.2.2
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DVCPro HD sure. No clue on the Sony HD format. I believe I did some DVCPro HD editing in my G-RAID review.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Thanks, Walter. If the drives handle DVCPro HD then I would guess the XDCAm HD video would work fine too since the data rate is actually lower.
Nick Lammers
Media Mill, Inc.
St. Louis, MOMedia 100i XS 8.2.2
Dual 1Ghz G4 -
Nick, I’ve done lots and lots of DVCPRO HD off of Lacie BDExtreme FW 800 drives. It works; but since moving up to an external SATA setup, renders are fewer and faster and I’ve yet to have droped frames on the SATA which were fairly common on the FW.
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Why go with FW drives though? There may be good reasons, of course, but since there are so many options
for external SATA options (and the drives cost the same), the reasons for FW are fewer and fewer. A SATA card
is as easy to install as a FW card, a laptop can use a SATA cardbus card, a new Mac Book can use a SATA Express 3/4 card.
The performance is so much better than FW. And you either build it yourself or buy a ready-made solution.
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FW works for cuts only systems… SATA is the way to go for doing more of a full production… you can get away with FW its not as nice…
Simon Carlson-Thies
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Thanks all. I will look at the SATA drives – I guess I was thinking FW out of force of habit. On another note: I wish apple would release their desktop Intel solutions so that I can move on.
Nick Lammers
Media Mill, Inc.
St. Louis, MOMedia 100i XS 8.2.2
Dual 1Ghz G4 -
[Nickel] “Thanks all. I will look at the SATA drives – I guess I was thinking FW out of force of habit.”
If you’re going to for most speed, then look at Fibre channel. That’s what we edit DVCPro HD on here due to the tremendous realtime functionality we get on those drives.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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