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Best RAID drive for RAW Cimena DNG
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[Chris Kenny] “This is the 2.5K camera? I don’t know why you’re getting all these responses about needing 8+ drives. This isn’t uncompressed 16-bit 4K DPX or something, it’s 2.5K raw.”
It’s not about taxing the drives, but rather the efficacy of most NLEs in how they deal with DNG image strings.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[David Mathis] “I plan to render out proxies from Resolve first, edit in FCP X then back to Resolve first. Will apply a LUT as well. “
That’s a good plan. An alternate would be to use Resolve to create 2.5K ProRes4444 “master” movie files with the BMD Film gamma profile applied. Then bring those into FCP X. Create FCP X proxies if you need to.
Now FCP X 10.1.2 will let you apply a BMD Film LUT to those right inside the app. Effectively this gives you files that work much the same as Log-C clips from an Alexa. And you still have the 2.5K overscan space to use for clean downsampling or pan/zoom/scan within a 2K or HD raster.
You could theoretically stay completely inside FCP X (after the initial conversion) if you felt the color grading tools were adequate for your needs.
FWIW – here are some alternate ideas I threw together in the past for working with these files.
https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/blackmagic-cinema-camera-post-workflows/
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Oliver,
Just read the article. Some of the workflows I heard of, others I have never knew about or considered before. Thank you for another clear, concise and to the point article as always. Thank you for the sound advice as well. Thank you to all as well. This is why I love the Cow and this forum in particular.
I do have one quick question, to which I believe I might have the answer but just want to confirm it. I am going to adopt the workflow as suggested in your post and apply the LUT inside of FCP X. Should this LUT be removed before going back to Resolve for final color grading or can I leave in place and remove it in Resolve?
Again, thank you to all that have responded.
I am an avid user of FCP X!
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[David Mathis] “Should this LUT be removed before going back to Resolve for final color grading or can I leave in place and remove it in Resolve?”
I would presume so, but I haven’t tested a roundtrip yet with FCP X 10.1.2 and R11 Beta. I’m not sure if the LUT comes through in the FCPXML as a node or is stripped off. Either way would be fine, as long as it isn’t baked in.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Yes, the camera would be of the 2.5K variety. I was looking at products offered by G Technology but very open to any suggestion. I might talk with John Davidson, sounds like he might have a very good option. I take it that USB 3.0 would outpace Firewire 800 if my understanding is correct. I do have additional internal drive docks available in the Mac Pro but thinking external would be a better approach.
Look forward to any additional advice, even from Mr. Tim Wilson himself.
I am an avid user of FCP X!
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Sorry, missed that. Thanks Shane…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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