• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Building a MAc editing workstation

  Posted by Third_man on September 26, 2006 at 6:32 pm

  I’m a newbie when it comes to HD editing. Need advice on the RAID setup and different components I may need. I plan on purchasing the new Sony HVR-V1U with 24p progessive scan capture. This is the current setup in my Mac Pro:

  Processor 3.00 GHz Quad Xeon
  Memory 2GB 667 DDR2 FB DIMM ECC-4×512
  Graphics Card ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB
  Hard Drive Bay1 250GB Serial ATA (3 more bays available)

  I was planning on putting either four 250GB or four 500 GB HDs in the four available internal slots and externally hooking up a Hard Drive through an eSATA connection for the OS and other programs. Do I need to add four more HDs externally and stripe all 8 together to get proper write/read speed?
  What Hard Drives (size and model) would you most recommend?
  And finally, do I need the Black Magic DECKLINK-HD-PRO Video Capt.Card?

  Any advice would be welcomed.

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