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Do you need the IO to play footage captured with it?
Okay, so this might be a really dumb question, but just to make sure…
If I had an IO HD for just a day to capture footage, I could still view and edit the footage with Final Cut Studio 2 but WITHOUT having the IO HD, correct?
I’d be using a MacBook Pro, so I understand that the hardware might not be the greatest for playback, but given that I’m willing to put up with slow performance, would it work?
Thanks!
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The IOHD is just a capture box. Once it’s captured, you don’t need it until/unless you need it for outputting.
Jeff
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Just make sure you have sufficient hard drive capability; the internal drive nor a single SATA/FW800 drive will cut it, if you plan on capturing HD.
-mark
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Thanks for the tip! Do you mean in terms of storage space? The AJA data rate calculator says I should be able to get 1 hour per 112 GB, meaning a 1 TB drive would store just under 9 hours. Does that sound about right?
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No I mean data rate or throughput. My SD system I was using had G-RAID FW800 drives that could sustain a single stream of uncompressed 10bit SD video; Apple states that ProRes 422 is the same data rate as UC 10bit footage, but AJA will tell you (because I asked) that they do not recommend FW800 RAID systems when editing ProRes; so I went with the G-RAIDes, which is a 4-drive eSATA RAID system, which is plenty fast enough.
-mark
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Gotcha… So a single eSATA drive wouldn’t cut it either? What kind of data rate specs should I be looking for? The G-RAID es is unfortunately out of my price range…
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