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Can a Macbook Pro be used?
How well can a 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro with 3 GB of RAM be expected to edit and compress video and author DVDS from FCP, Compressor, and DVD SP? Is this at all realistic? Is it likely that it could drop frames or present other problems that would make it not worth taking a chance with?
Thanks for your opinions.
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As long as you’re not using media that requires a data rate faster than FW800, you’ll be fine (unless you can find a SATA or optical mini slot card… don’t think that exists though). In your workflow, the only place you could drop frames is during capture. Everything else is just math that the computer has to crunch.
-Ben
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It wil perform very well. Many users are doing it now. Many users are still doing it with G4 Powerbooks.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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By faster data rate, are you referring to HD video?
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Caldigit makes an external RAID that will play back HD footage via an eSATA cable, and they offer an eSATA to Express34 adapter that will work with the MacBook Pro. Although, just because the RAID can spit it out at 200mbps doesn’t mean that the MacBook Pro’s Express34 bus is fast enough to take it in; you’d have to ask apple.
Also, you’d need a way to get HD footage onto the RAID, like an AJA IO. -
The Express34 slot has a 100MB/s limit…so you can’t cut UNCOMPRESSED HD. DVCPRo HD is your limit.
Except, as Indie mentioned, ProRes 422 is an option with the AJA I/O HD.
I have the CalDigit drives and love them.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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[Ben Insler] “As long as you’re not using media that requires a data rate faster than FW800, you’ll be fine (unless you can find a SATA or optical mini slot card… don’t think that exists though).”
Yes it does,
I am running a Sonnet Express card into a 500G G-SATA raid in that very laptop config (In FCS2) and getting over 120Mgs a second read /write over the sata connections.Add an IoHD and I have a premium HD capture and playback solution.
gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
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[gary adcock] “getting over 120Mgs a second read /write over the sata connections.”
REALLY? I heard there was a limit of 100MB/s.
I stand corrected.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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[Shane Ross] “The Express34 slot has a 100MB/s limit.”
My Aja System test tells me that I am over 120MBps.
must be the fact that I am using both ports on the express card, one to each drive in the array.gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
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[Shane Ross] ” I heard there was a limit of 100MB/s. “
well I sent you the screen grab.
time to get an intel laptop Shane.
gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows
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