Working huge uncompressed footage

[Vince Becquiot]

1080 uncompresed (10 bits ?) will require a serious RAID setup. Something in the likes of a 3 drives RAID 0 with a solid RAID card. If RAID 5/10, plan on spending about $500.00 on more on the card, but you could get away with a $100.00 card on RAID 0.

I can’t tell you if that’s what’s causing the crashes, but I can tell you that you won’t be running anything above 10 frame /seconds of 10 bit HD on a single SATA drive. Write speed is even slower.

BTW, are you running a separate drive for your media ?

Vince

[David May]

Ah crap. I dont know the number of bits in the footage, but yeah, I really cant afford the RAID setup. I have the adobe installers on one 200gb sata, and the video files on a 500gb sata.

Heres the properties of the footage taken straight from premiere
File Size: 11.6 GB
Image Size: 1440 x 1080
Pixel Depth: 1440
Frame Rate: 25.00
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz – compressed – Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 32 bit floating point – Stereo
Total Duration: 01:03:30:02
Average Data Rate: 3.1 MB / second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.333

So if i have 9 of these files in after effects, opened straight off the premiere save, is rendering uncompressed out of after effects so i can re-attach the audio in premiere, and then render again the best bet? I can leave my computer on for a week just to let it get through all the footage if needs be. Or will i be able to get away with rendering from after effects as BluRay (or the highest quality codec i can find…i have no idea what that would be?), attaching audio and rendering again at the same codec without getting a big quality drop?

Hope that makes sense, let me know if any clarification is needed. I just need it to look amazing when it hits that dvd, but thats a whole nother set of questions.

Cheers

Dave

[Vince Becquiot]

So, what will this footage be played on ?

If you have a BluRay burner, then, it is the obious codec choice, but if it’s going to DVD, you might as well export from AE to 720×480 at a 1.2 PAR.

You could also try using Dynamic Link instead if it’s available on the machine, that will avoid the AE render.

Vince

[David May]

Its going to be on a dvd, and as im submitting it for marking for my higher school certificate, im paranoid that it looks its best. To test, i rendered it out as a nice high quality HD MPEG2 and i got heaps of interlacing. But when i used nero vision and put the video onto a dvd, interlacing disappears and everything looks great (audio also looses some low level background noise which was a bonus).
I know it sounds silly, but i figured that if i export the final product as the highest quality HD 25fps picture i could find (doesnt make a difference if its MPEG 2bluray?), then put it onto a dvd, id retain a really great picture. Would exporting it to encore (dvd) as 720×480 at a 1.2 PAR achieve exactly the same thing? Ive got some spare dvd’s, so ill have a play around. I just really dont want to have to go through all the hassle of de-interlacing in AE.

Dave

(HOORAY FOR DYNAMIC LINK! Thanks for sharing that with me, its saved me alot of time and effort)