Editing 5 streams of multicam on fw 400

[Simon Bryant]

thanks for the offer david, but sadly i’m in the uk and the job starts monday.

I’m going to have to go and work out the numbers with the production company, but at least now i know what’s what.

Many thanks (again)

S

[Steve Knattress]

I recently did a job on location where I ran multi-cam of dvcam footage ingested from xdcam optical discs using a 2.6GHz MBP and a G-raid2 FW800 disc drive. (run from an express34 FW800 card)

I managed 9 cameras (plus a couple of intermittent record cameras) without problem.

In fact I could ingest using FAM on the internal FW400 bus at the same time, this did however get a bit jittery! Each time a clip completed the FCP time line stopped whilst the .xml file was written to FCP.