RED camera / FCP & long-form project workflow

[Sean Oneil]

[gary adcock] “Rotational speed is not the only factor needed here, disk cache, number of read/ write heads, formating and block level formating also need to be taken into consideration.”
Not with laptop drives. There’s only a few 7200rpm drives available at that size. All others are much, much slower. So they’re using one of those. And you can always just use the same one’s the RED DRIVE uses. And the filesystem is created when you format the disk with the camera.

[gary adcock] “even the RED CF cards have such a high sustained data transfer rate that more than 90% of the top of the line 3rd Party CF cards fail when used in the camera.”
That doesn’t surprise me. Flash memory is a different animal than hard drives. Not to mention they’re all much slower than any RAID-0 hard disk system would be.

Sean

[Gary Adcock]

“[gary adcock] “Rotational speed is not the only factor needed here, disk cache, number of read/ write heads, formating and block level formating also need to be taken into consideration.[Sean ONeil]“Not with laptop drives. There’s only a few 7200rpm drives available at that size. All others are much, much slower.”

Block size and formatting affects ALL disk drives, not just laptop drives. Cache can increase or decrease thruput, block size is all about moving files. Read/ write heads can speed up or slow down a directory if there are not enough of them..

Rotational speed is just one factor that relates to overall drive performance on any drive and while the needs for a laptop computer are far different than those needed for the sustained write performance when recording a video stream direct to any disk without dropping frames.

gary adcock
Studio37
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[Cole Mueller]

i question that now because I heard Jumper was shoot with the Red too but when I watched the Behind the Scene in every instance they were clearly shooting with a panavision 35 mm camera. They might have only used it for some special FX shots but not the whole film…speculative

[Ed Gutentag]

I shot a feature on 3 REDS back in April/May and it was posted in Final Cut.
If you I can foward your info to our editor.
Ed Gutentag
DP
“Hunter Prey