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FCP and Firewire 800 Storage
Just a quick confirmation needed. I have heard differing arguments that when cutting in FCP uncompressed footage, you can play it back off a Firewire 800 storage device. I just want to know if this is true or not. It seems that I cannot get a straight answer. Some people are saying, no way! Firewire 800 can not support playback of uncompressed video footage (i.e. 8-bit uncompressed) , and that only a Serial ATA RAID drive can be used. However, LaCie seems to have a “Big Disk” 1TB Firewire 800 and they claim that it will support uncompressed video playback in FCP HD.
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Yes you can play back 8-bit uncompressed of a FW800 drive. I can play 2 streams of same off my G-Raid. That being said, will it have enough throughput to play a half-hour show? Don’t know and am unwilling to test it. If your doing 30 second spots I would say go for it. If your doing longer format stuff I would say invest in the SATA drives.
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Thanks very much! This helps out alot!
-Bob
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I have g-raid 500 GB for a couple months and I didn’t have any problems with frame drop on longer projects – 1-3h. Mainly I have one stream unc. 8-bit but with colour correction and broadcast safe sometimes on it. It also works with allmost full disk.
For small projects you can get more than two streams.
Check g-tech forum here on Cow.
Miha
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I have a LaCie Big Disk Extreme and it plays uncompressed 8bit just fine. Even a 20 minute show. But, someone correct me if I’m off base, in order to see the video in real time on an NTSC monitor you need some kind of video card like a Cinewave or Decklink, or an AJA io, no? My system runs a Decklink SP. But on my other system with no card and another Big Disk Extreme I can’t see uncompressed video on that monitor which is fed from a DSR 11 connected via FireWire 400.
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