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cutting doc: choice of external drive?
I am going to cut a documentary on a MacBook Pro (2.33Ghz Intel Core Duo, 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM), using FCP 6.
I’ve got about 13 hours of source material on MiniDV. It looks like it’ll take about a terabyte to digitize it uncompressed. I am thinking about buying a Glyph gt050q to store it all on, in part because of the esata connection. Digitizing all the material on one 1 terabyte Glyph won’t allow me the option of RAID-ing the drive for redundancy.
I want to avoid any hickups in playing out 30 minutes of video, graphics, and titles at a time.
Any advice/warnings/solutions re: this plan?
Thanks!
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My first reaction was, “Why are you going to digitize all of it uncompressed for editing?”
I would suggest editing in DV, DV50 or even ProRes SD instead and save tons of drive space. Then when you’re done you could just re-digitize the footage you’re using in the final show in uncompressed. It’s up to you though.
If you’re looking at eSATA with the option of a RAID 1, look at these:
https://www.g-technology.com/Products/G-SATA.cfm
https://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10963Or FW800:
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/usb/raid_1/Gmax
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
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my ignorance is showing. I am a long time film and video editor who has little recent experience digitizing. For this small project I thought I’d handle it myself. If I can use the codecs that you suggest, and it is easy enough to redigitize and conform only the show material, well, that’s what I’d better do. I’d better speak to some assistants about it. Any tutorials that you can recommend?
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You don’t need a tutorial. Just bring the footage in through normal firewire log and capture. If it’s on miniDV, it was probably recorded at DV25 and so that’s the best it’s going to be anyway.
15 hours should take up about 180 GB. So a 250 GB firewire 400 drive should be plenty. Unless you are running more than 3-4 streams of DV footage, then you might want a firewire 800 drive.
I have several firewire drives that have served me very well: maxtor, homemade, etc. You don’t even need RAID 1 protection since the source footage is on tape, it’s no big deal if a drive fails, because you technically already have a backup. I do suggest regularly backing up your project file and any other files you keep on the laptop.
-trevor ward
http://www.redeyevideoproductions.com
orlando, fl -
For that much DV, get your self a 500GB or 1TB External FW800 drive. You want to get at least double or triple what you actually need to ensure you don’t run into any dropped frames or performance issues. People always forget render files add a LOT of media to drives so you need to allow for that.
I’m partial to LaCie as we’ve never really had an issue with them. You can actually get a 2TB FW800 RAID unit for around $700.
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