What types of hard drives / monitoring are you using?

[Don Greening]

Hi Clint,

Keep in mind that EX footage is 35Mbits per second and MiniDV is 25 Mbits per second, so you can count on about 4 to 4 and a half minutes per gigabye of storage as opposed to MiniDV which needs a gigabyte of space for every 5 min. of footage. Probably a reliable 5 bay SATA RAID would be fine.

For monitoring take a close look at the Matrox MXO and a 23″ Apple Cinema HD display. In addition, the MXO is also a cost effective alternative for fairly accurate colour grading. More info on this can be found here:

https://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mxo/

– Don

[Dean Sensui]

I have a Firmtek-based hard drive system. This card is teamed up with a removeable Firmtek housing which gives me a hot-swappable and expandable setup.

SeriTek/2SE2-E External PCI Express (PCIe) 2-Port Adapter with eSATA Connectors SATA-2SE2-E. $99.95

The bundle package is here:

https://firmtek.stores.yahoo.net/2ense2e.html

For monitoring I’m using a DeckLink HD Extreme card.

Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing

[Clint Fleckenstein]

I’m a little confused on the Decklink/MXO adapters. Do I have to give up my second DVI output as a computer monitor when using these devices? I like to park my palettes for Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. in my second monitor, as well as XP Pro in a window using Parallels. Being limited to one monitor for my computer desktop is NOT an attractive option. I’m unable to find anything about this on either manufacturer’s website.

Thanks,
Clint