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When is it time to bump past FW
ok, So I’ve had the sneaking suspicion I’m starting to throw money away at fire wire drives. I just bought the materials to build a two drive 1.5tb drive (debating if i should stripe to 1.5 or mirror, at 750 but that’s a different story).
Any ways, I work mostly in FCP, AE, and Mocha. the problem is I’ve only worked in an uncompressed environment once, But I do do a lot of 1080p/1080i/720p dvcpro 50.
The other problem is I not only do freelance, but work from home and in the Digital Lab I help manage. All on macs, But my home mac is the only one I would be able to install a card on (besides the possible 2 computers we may be adding a larger raid too)
I have roughly 1.5tb of storage on board my mac, and another 2tb of fw storage (not counting this new incoming drive) But before I keep buying new drives, when should I start thinking about going to a larger set up (like a caldigit, or Dulce)
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[a.zander] “But before I keep buying new drives, when should I start thinking about going to a larger set up (like a caldigit, or Dulce)”
When working with uncompressed HD, or even compressed HD and uncompressed SD or ProRes, and you want speed and protection…and multiple layers of real time video playback.
Drives aren’t portable? No problem. I use the Raid at home, edit my show. And when I am done, I export a self contained QT movie, use a Firewire drive to transport it to the post facility where they load it on their SAN and output.
Shane
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I am on the edge with FW800 when outputting 720p60–especially when it gets down to crunch time. For some reason, it’s always then that you need the speed.
Next chance I get, I’m going to five SATA drives and above.
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Thanks guys, I actually hit that point today. High speed High res 22bit images. fcp wont play the footage back. But there’s no render bar so I am a bit confused.
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