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Advice please- We are getting HD-ready..What is your fave gear?
Life has been berry berry good to us this year-
We are looking to upgrade our suite to get it HD ready (see specs below). Recently I worked on a suite very similar to my own except for the very sexy 2.5TB XRaid that made life in the bay so satisfying. I am having that experience that many of us have when we partake in the next level of gear (insomnia. obsession, ‘net searching and searching)
Q#1: Is XRaid fast enough for multiple-stream HD (that would be Uncompressed at @ 230mbps, right?). I’m a newb here.
My feeling is that, since we are small, the best approach would be to upgrade ext. memory, select an HD capture card and get HD-correct monitoring. We can write deck rental into our proposals and life is okay, right? (We don’t have $98K for an HDCam 5500 SR deck)
I know there is a SATA RAID revolution happening- are read/write speeds and stability there? I saw a barefeats test that had speeds of like 400mbps on empty drives, which qualifies as fast, but I’m wondering whether anyone has experience out there w/ SATA Raids over time.
The thing is, and I’m trying to be open to other options, the Apple products we have invested in have not let us down yet, so I would consider XRaid, it’s just the price. From what I’ve seen, the XRaid for the system I just cut on would be like $8K USD. Is that what I can expect to pay?
Lots of questions, I know, pick the one(s) you like.
Thanks in advance!
Bee
G5 dual 2.0/5.5gig/sonnet allegro FW800 PCI/3X250 LaCie FW800 extreme/AJA Io/Horita BSG-50/DSR-45/DSR-11/M-Audio Delta 1010LT/JVC Hi-Res Ref Monitor/stock Radeon video card/Prod Suite/Logic 7.1.1
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I very highly recommend the Medea Fibre Channel storage solutions. I run the FCR2X here and a client of mine just installed one in a 4:4:4 HD suite and the thing works great.
As for Capture Card, AJA Kona series is the way to go. I run the Kona 2 in both suites because I use the SD to HD Upconvert quite a bit here and that’s the only card in that series to offer it. Quality is outstanding and there’s no better tech support out there.
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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[walter biscardi] “I very highly recommend the Medea Fibre Channel storage solutions.”
I agree -my medea array FCR2X runs non stop. I also currently have fibre from ADTX and Facillis.
” AJA Kona series is the way to go.”
I to run Kona in all 3 of my suites. I have a Kona 2, and LHe and
I travel on the road with an Kona LH which has been shipped in a Dual 2.5 – 26 times via fedex and and still works like a charm.Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
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Found this thread on a search and it brought me to a question I need to clarify. I’m currently working on a project that has to deliver in DVCPro HD, but most of the footage is coming from archival SD sources. I’ve considered editing in Pro 50, outputting that via SD-SDI, then dubbing to an HD Deck and recapturing in HD. You mentioned in this post about the Kona 2’s upconverting capabilities. Can you clue me in to how the card does it, the format requirements to get a good uprez, etc.?
Thanks in advance!
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[Spanky] “Can you clue me in to how the card does it, the format requirements to get a good uprez, etc.?”
I’ve upconverted from BetaSP, DigiBeta and DV. All of them up-convert very well. It seems to be shots with a lot of round items in them that can cause the most problems with the raster jaggies. You just need to test the footage and see how it looks when you bring it in. I only work in 720p right now and haven’t had to do an converts to 1080i yet.
The way it works is simple, you just set the Kona control panel to upconvert the SD signal coming in via SDI.
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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