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FCp 10 Bit Uncompressed Disc Array
Hi,
I am putting together a Final Cut Pro system. I want to edit at 10 bit SD uncompressed. I have been told that 80mbps would be a comfortable bandwidth
I need a disc array/card that would let me do this. I have had scussi suggested to me and SATA suggested to me. I don’t have a ton of money.
What would be the best way to go? What card do I buy? What drives do I buy. I’m not a techie and not comfortable building my own raid.
I find this all confusing. Doesn’t anyone have a simple solution/package? card and drives? I have visited all kinds of sites and I came away more confused than before.
Can anyone help me out?
NORMCO
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[NORMCO] “I have been told that 80mbps would be a comfortable bandwidth “
Not a whole lot of bandwith if you plan to edit with filters, transitions, etc….. You’ll be doing a lot of rendering with 10 bit material.
[NORMCO] “What would be the best way to go? What card do I buy? What drives do I buy. I’m not a techie and not comfortable building my own raid. “
If you purchase an AJA Io, you don’t need a card, it will do uncompressed via Firewire. For a cheap 10bit SD card, I love the Aurora PipePro.
Since you don’t have much money, then you’re looking at FW800 or SATA for your drive. I have no experience with SATA yet, but I do run both the LaCie Big Disk Extreme and the G-RAID 500 and 800 drive units. All of them will playback and edit 10bit uncompressed, but pretty much just a single stream. You will be rendering every single effect. You can get better performance by purchasing two of these units and striping them together, then you’ll get some realtime performance.
SCSI, I’d highly recommend the Medea RTR and RTRX series, but those are probably out of your price range as would be Fibrechannel. My Medea FCR2X gets over 325mb/sec so I get a lot of realtime, even with 10bit.
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