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ProRes 422 on firewire
i’ve searched around and kind of gotten an answer, but i’m not totally convinced. i’m working on a student film. the telecine house will give her HDCam tapes, and we’re planning to get this captured to either DVCPro HD or ProRes 422 at 1080p24. the big drawback is that i don’t have a RAID. i know DVCPro HD will run off of a firewire drive (we did that on the previous film), but it may be cheaper – and better for quality – to use ProRes 422. will ProRes 422 at 10bit 1080p24 run off of a firewire drive (400 or 800, i have both)? thanks for the help in advance.
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Aaron Williams
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[Aaron Williams] “will ProRes 422 at 10bit 1080p24 run off of a firewire drive (400 or 800, i have both)?”
Not reliably, no. Sorry, Firewire really isn’t good for high end stuff. ProRes is highly compressed, but still, even with raided firewire drives like G-Raids, those specs might be pushing the limits. I would not expect it to play back without dropping frames.
DVCPRO HD would be a good bet. But really, if you are going to the expense of shooting HDCAM, invest a little to edit that format. An eSATA solution like the CalDigit S2VR Duo would be fine for ProRes, and won’t break the bank.
Shane
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FWIW, I have a LaCie Big Disk Extreme as a backup disk, and the other day accidentally opened the backup file of a 720p project on it with 1080i ProRes media and made a few changes, it played everything fine. My system is a G5 2 gig dual with 4.5 gigs RAM, Kona LH and an X 800XT graphics card.
So, maybe not the ideal situation, but in a pinch, it might work.
Have a wonderful day.
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I have a Western Digital raided 1TB MyBook firewire 800 drive, and ProResHQ at 1080p24 works perfectly. My computer is an old G5 dual 1.8GHZ. Maybe my system is a freak of nature, but I’ve been doing ProResHQ editing on it since 6.0 with no problems at all. I just need to render more often than on the 8-core at work. I think you should be fine.
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To be a bit on the safer side (speed-wise), a small two disk software RAIDed Taurus e-SATA box with a Sonnett card works without a hitch for me in ProRes HQ. It has cost me less than 300 € for one full TB. Of course, you’ll need a good backup strategy, since this is no RAID5.
Regards,
Uli
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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