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High Def upgrade options
Hey guys,
a facility I work at is considering upgrading their gear to meet increasing demands for hd. I’ve been asked to get some input on the best options available.
what they currently have are FCP suites using FCP studio, g5 quads, aja io, and macgurus hotswap burley towers connectes by sata multiport cards.
I’m pretty certain that moving to hdv format won’t involve much more than hdv cameras, deck, either using the hdv codec via firewire or upgrade the card or io to either the aja io hd or kona lh/3. Correct?
The next choice would be to move to dvcpro hd. Again, I imagine the konas or io hd cards would be required along with a corresponing dvcprohd deck, but what about the hard drives? Do we need to expand to an xserve or something similar? currently the facility rotates its hotswap drives to its different suites based on need and they don’t really want to build a central network server (fibrechannel). Does the transfer/bandwidth requirements of dvcprohd not allow for the current setup to work? Are there alternative hotswap enclosures that handle faster transfers (scsi hostcard, maybe?)
same questions for HD Cam.
Appreciate the feedback in advance. Thanks!
Rick
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2 Replies
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Any of the Kona products you mentioned (IOHD, LH, 3) will get you where you need to be. I don’t know how your SATA drives are raided or what throughput you’re getting, but a typical raid-0 with three or more drives is just fine for the compressed HD formats such as DVCProHD, HDV and Pro Res 422.
Don’t forget that monitors will be required. For non-critical stuff the Panasonic Pro series plasmas can’t be beat.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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BTW, before I get chided for misinformation, let me make a modest revision to my response above to just say that, even a single SATA drive can actually handle limited editing of the compressed HD formats. However, for performance in a professional environment, at least two, and preferably three or more SATA drives raided is really the way to go.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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