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Playout of VERY High Bit Rate files to DigiBeta
Hey Gang,
Sorry for the rapid succession of posts, but I thought since the topics were different they warranted different posts. I didn’t want to make anything unclear.
In our archive system we are storing videos as MPEG2 @ 50 Mbit/sec. I have now been asked to take some of this archival footage and play it out to DigiBeta to send to other facilities. Here are the requirements of the software/hardware we need:
1. Must be able to playback the MPEG2 files natively without rendering, stuttering, dropping frames, etc.
2. Must be able to print the standard Black>Bars & Tone>Black>Countdown before the footage begins.
3. Must be able to print timecode from the file to the DigiBeta.My initial thoughts was just use an NLE on a very beefy system, but it seems even the most powerful systems we have (Dual Dual-Core Xeon Machines, 2 Gigs RAM, SAS Hard Drives) choke almost instantly on these files. Can anyone out there recommend a solution that would meet all of our criteria?
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Hey Dave,
Thanks for the RAID suggestion, but actually we are already using RAID. On one system we have two external 8-bay SATA drives connected via SCSI 3, and on the other system we have 4 SATA drives RAIDed together in an SAS configuration. Both system are incapable of playing back these files.
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Check out Digital Rapids web site.
They might have a product that could help you. We have a Stream-Z box for compressing video to MPeg files in real time. I believe that they might also have boxes that could go the other direction as well. Might be good just to contact them and ask.
Their web address is”http://www.digital-rapids.com/
Tom
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