Need advice purchasing storage units for HD work

[Pieco]

i’m no authority, but the HD I use shot on the Panasonic VariCam is smaller in size than your 1920×1080 uncompressed HD format. Panasonic HD I believe is 720p. someone will give you a more in depth and precise answer. However, this is not to say that the Panasonic HD Pro cannot be up-resed to full HD with great results.

[Shane Ross]

[Gene Jones] “However, this is not to say that the Panasonic HD Pro cannot be up-resed to full HD with great results.”

I cross convert 720p23.98 to 1080p23.98 via the Kona 3 in real time and have great success.

Shane

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http://www.lfhd.net

[Eric Grush]

I routinely use the Kona 3 to upconvert formats. My clients are blown away when for the cost of a high end deck rental they can get a substantial improvement on the quality of their project regardless of formats. That is not to say the Kona solves image problems; “garbage in garbage out still applies.” However, editing at a DVCPro HD or other HD formats upconverted look great for 90% of their needs.

As to you drive question. I recently struggled with the exact same problem and I have an older PCI-X G5 which precluded my use of the Cal Digit HDPro or Sonnet products. GSpeed was too costly for what I would get and the Dulce system which seems good was too small. I was able to have Maxx Digital build a 4TB rackmounted SATA RAID with a 3TB backup set that is giving me well over 400mbs. I am finish editing a feature at 10 bit uncompressed HD1920x1080 24p 4:2:2 and it runs 2 streams without fail. Oh, and it was reasonably priced too.

In my case, building a system was the best option. Price, size, speed, redundancy and being on an older machine sent me in this direction and it is working well.