ProsRes capture hdv & workflow

[Jeremy Garchow]

[chris gorman] “ProRes 8 bit.”

Can you please take a screen shot of that?

The video coming in is 8bit yes, but ProRes is 10 bit. If you want you can choose to render it down to 8bit in the timeline, but it’s natively 10bit.

Jeremy

[David Roth weiss]

Chris,

Stripe two 500Gb drives as Raid-0 and you get a single virtual drive that is essentially 1Gb and nearly twice as fast.

You are more than likely confusing Raid-o with Raid-1 (mirroring), which provides a crappy backup solution, cutting your drive space in half while also cutting down throughput.

David Roth Weiss
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[Chris Poisson]

Guys,

Give it up on the difference between 8 and 10 bit. In most situations, 8 bit is fine, don’t worry about it. Very few exceptions where 8 bit won’t do the job, especially in cases where original footage is 8 bit, or if that’s what it’s going to.

Have a wonderful day.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Chris Poisson] “Give it up on the difference between 8 and 10 bit”

Sorry can’t let this one ride as ProRes is not 8bit.

Jeremy

[Chris Gorman]

I made the screen cap but don’t know how to attach an image here. i see there’s a tutorial, but i don’t understand it and don’t have the time now figure it out.

i was hoping to be able to tell you a page in the manual but can’t find it there. for sure it’s there in the sequence pre-sets for fcp6

[Chris Gorman]

I was never wanting to capture 10 bit for this hdv footage. But even with 8 bit, I’m wondering a couple things. How much lag time would I get capturing a 45 minute reel over fw without a capture card?

My 48 sec. test capture, i think had about 18% lag time. Would the RAID0 over fw have less lag time even though I’d still be coming in over fw?

Also, re: drive space, even with two 500GBs as RAID0, doesn’t the speed slow down as the drives get more full, so you may not gain anything if you start with the RAID0 half full or a bit more before rendering etc.?

[David Roth weiss]

Jeeze, just stripe those suckers Chris and get on with your life. I asked you what you waiting for 16 posts ago. I would not have advised you to stripe them if there were not very good benefits.

All SATA raids slow somewhat as they fill up, that “somewhat” is just a small percentage of the increase you gain by striping.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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