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Capturing to external Firewire Drive
I have a Lacie external Fire Wire drive at 7,200 RPM with a 2MB bufffer set as my capture disk.
This drive is on a Firewire 800 PCI card.
I am importing video from an AJA box on a Fire wire 400 card.While capturing uncompressed SDI, an error that drop frames were detected appears and will not allow me to capture.
I AM able to capture the same tape to the hard drive, but not to the external lacie drive.
Any ideas on where to begin solving this problem?BES
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3 Replies
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Uncompressed SDI is 270Mbit/s – well beyond the (real world) capabilities of a single 7200 rpm Firewire drive.
https://www.barefeats.com/fire36b.html
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Q: Are you doing 8 bit or 10 bit? Are you capturing long clips? Is the FireWire drive a FireWire 800 drive?
A: It’s possible to do 8 bit, if you keep the clips fairly short and the drive is a FireWire 800 drive that is properly initialized.
If you have a tower, may I suggest you use a second internal SATA drive for 8 bit? You should get a RAID for 10 bit.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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I logged on to ask a similar question… I’d like to bring a long clip (abouan hour) in via SDI to a firewire solution of some sort. 8 bit is fine, 10 would be better. Portable is most important, it will be carry-on baggage, hooked up to FCP and a router in a remote truck, then taken back home for the edit.
What are my choices, and just how much memory will an hour of uncompressed 10 bit use?
Thanks in advance for your time…
Bob
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