High Def editing

[Matthew Brunn]

What kind of HD? HD uncompressed, DVCProHD, HDV?

Hope this helps-
Matthew
Quad 2.5 G5
OSX 10.4.X
Ram 4GB
FCP 5.1/AE 6.5/DVDSP4

[Jeff Jones]

Thanks Matthew…..HD Uncompressed and editing with Final Cut 5.1.

[Walter Biscardi]

You don’t need a faster machine, you need faster drives. Uncompressed HD editing, especially 1080i 10bit, is generally done with 10 drive Fibre Channel arrays that run 350MB/sec on up. I have a Med

[John Pale]

And, as you probably already realize…you need a capture card capable of Uncompressed HD…The Kona 3 would be a great choice.

[Walter Biscardi]

[John Pale] “And, as you probably already realize…you need a capture card capable of Uncompressed HD…The Kona 3 would be a great choice.”

I’ll second that. With the K3 you’re ready for any format, any output.

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[Ben Holmes]

We’re using the Ultra-SCSI 320 solution – dual channel SCSI via Medea 8 disk array. Not as fast as FC, but a little cheaper, and capable of 250-300Mb/s. We’ll probably go Fibre Channel next time, just for the ability to share arrays between workstations.

Of course, you could use the Kona 3 to capture with the HD DVC Pro codec (see other posts) to get near the same quality at a much lower bit-rate, with a cheaper array. Just another option for you…

Ben

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