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  Using Drobo 5N for AMA linking and onlining full res media

  Posted by Michael Cummins on April 4, 2014 at 3:36 pm

  I’m considering using a Drobo 5N for nearline storage to hold all our full resolution file-based media. Currently our process is to:
  – Backup card media to two duplicate external USB3.0 drives
  – AMA the media in
  – Transcode to the 800kbps Proxy setting and edit with that (transcoded files now reside on ISIS)
  – Once edit is finished, AMA original media back in from external drive
  – Relink sequence to AMA clips
  – Transcode sequence to DNxHD (new DNxHD media resides on ISIS)

  Do you forsee any issues AMA linking clips from a volume on a Drobo 5N connected to our local network (via gigabit) versus an external hard drive? Juggling drives is starting to take up more of my time and I need a solution where I don’t have to mentally and physically lug around a couple dozen external drives.

  We’re on MC7 and use PCs connected to an ISIS 5000.

  Michael Cummins replied 12 years, 6 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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