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Drives needed to run DVCPRO HD FCP-5 multicam, 3 angles
We have a project we want to edit in RT multi cam … it stops stutters no matter what we do. It works fine with a single stream.
We’re running a 2.7gig dual with 4 megs of ram. We’ve got 3 300gig medea sccsi drives (oldbut they work) and 3 G-Raids, using fire wire 800 connection.
We’re using only one of the g-raids (500 gig) on this project.
I hope there is a solution WITHOUT buying a new computer just yet.
We can’t use the offline RT HD because the footage was imputed from a Sony Z1U, component out into an AJA LH board, therefore NO timecode for any sort of redigitizing.
thanks for your help.
Bob Burton
Executive Producer
CAV Media Corporation
http://www.cavmedia.com
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Why don’t you use the media manager to transcode the project into something you can edit (like dv) and then reconnect to HD when you are done?
Fibre channel is best, but you can get a SATA Raid for pretty cheap these days. Editing multicam really has most to do with drive speed, not processor speed so no need to buy a new computer. What format did you digitize, DVCPRO HD?
Jeremy
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The hard drive system definitely should be upgraded to SATA or better. Firmtek has a 4-channel hot-swap SATA system that should work nicely. There are others out there, including one from G-RAID that is supposed to be formatted in such a way as to maintain throughput even when it gets close to capacity.
The other concern is I believe HDV requires more computing power to display than a codec such as DVCProHD. That might be another contributing factor.
As for multiple streams, I recall seeing four streams of DVCProHD being played back simultaneously when FCP HD was first announced at the NAB in 2004. And three of those streams had been scaled down to half-size and overlaid on the fourth stream.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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