Editing 8-bit uncompressed in FCP

[Matt Devino]

As long as your computer has firewire 800, just put it on a firewire 800 drive, preferably something with 2 drives in a RAID (a bunch of different manufacturers make theses). And away you go, no need to do an offline.

[Michael Gissing]

I’m confused. 35mm to dig beta makes it SD not HD. If that was a typo and it is going to HDCam and then to 8 bit uncompressed HD, you cannot run that off a firewire 800 drive.

Uncompressed HD will need a fast RAID. I use a 4TB sata array with dula channel fibre to run HD uncompressed 10 bit. 8 bit is still a lot of bandwidth.

[Shane Ross]

Michael, Corey said that they were having it telecined to an HD…HARD DRIVE…at 8-bit uncompressed.

Shane

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[Michael Gissing]

[Shane Ross] “Michael, Corey said that they were having it telecined to an HD…HARD DRIVE…at 8-bit uncompressed.”

From a digi betacam as he states in his post – “I am a student who shot 35mm and had it transfered to digibeta.”

So my confusion is whether that was a typo or if this is actually HD at all.

If it is HD, I stand by my comment that it needs something other than a firewire 800 drive to be able to play HD 8 bit uncompressed. This was in response to mattdawgpro who said “As long as your computer has firewire 800, just put it on a firewire 800 drive, preferably something with 2 drives in a RAID”.

Have I missed something here?

[Shane Ross]

You missed the sentence after that….

“I am having it captured at a post house in Dallas to a HD at 8-bit uncompressed.”

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[Michael Gissing]

[Shane Ross] “”I am having it captured at a post house in Dallas to a HD at 8-bit uncompressed.””

Yes I got that bit. It comes just after he says he has his film on digi beta.

My understanding of the English language is that he is saying he is taking his digbeta and having it captured to HD at 8 bit uncompressed. Silly idea really but that’s what he said so I questioned if he had typed digibeta instead of HDCam. There is no mention of transferring his 35mm to HD 8 bit uncompressed so I avoided making assumptions.

We should wait until we hear from Corey rather than guessing.

[Shane Ross]

Michael…He said “transfered TO A HD.” Not “TO HD.” There is an A in there, indicating an object…TO A HARD DRIVE. He is having the digibeta captured to a hard drive at 8-bit uncompress SD.

That is the problem…High Def and Hard Drive have the same initials.

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[Michael Gissing]

Clear as mud Shane! The veil of confusion lifts. Many thanks.

I should have given up after the words “I am a student…”

BTW Can we draft a protocol for acronyms?

[Corey Frey]

Yes, I meant to a Hard Drive, not HD. I’ve cut two features in the past, both 35mm, but I was given offline dv tapes to edit off of. This is my first 35mm project to receive an uncompressed format and I wanted to make sure that I would have the ability to run it off my FW800 drive without any problems.

Just to clarify the process. 35mm to Digibeta… Digibeta captured 8-bit uncompressed onto a Hard Drive…. edit off the drive.

By the way, why would you give up after reading I am a student?

[Michael Gissing]

[Corey Frey] “By the way, why would you give up after reading I am a student?”

Nothing personal Corey. I spend my time constantly talking work flows for picture & sound post with a range of experienced and inexperienced program makers.

So often students get themselves into the biggest messes and then expect people like me to bail them out for no money. My caution is a survival instinct.

However, I salute you for doing the homework and asking. Yes 8 bit uncompressed SD will run off a firewire 800 disk. I run 10 bit SD Uncompressed of various Lacie drives without any bandwidth problems. Chose the correct Easy Setup and way you go.