Adam Levine
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RAID 0. I believe the earlier poster was talking about an XRAID with a stripe as well.
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[Bob Zelin] “You have made a great decision, and I greatly value your posting this info.”
As we value all your input, Bob. I’ll get more complete and vigorous results up on a web page later in the week.
PS. I love this freaking MBE
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Sorry, typo there: they are 300 GB drives. For a total of 2.4 (2.2 formatted) TB
Actually, I’ve even found that the drive speeds seem to INCREASE about 10% as the drives are about half full. Will perform full tests this week once I clear current projects on Tuesday.
AFA Burly vs. Sonnet goes, I chose Burly b/c Rick at MacGurus had them in stock and he said they had done extensive testing with this combo and everything ran smoothly. Look into it at MacGurus.com, you can get what I got for about $2k, with minimal installation (pop in a PCIe card, connect 2 cables and a power cord.)
AFA the speeds go, you can do much better with RAIDing each drive on its own channel. 8 drives over 8 SATA channels will get you over 400 MB/sec easily. I was even thinking of getting 2 SATA cards, and running each channel individually to a single drive, but I opted for expandability over speed (about the same price, when you add in the cost of port mulltipliers)
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Twofold issue, both having to do with having significant rendering in the timeline:
1) If you are rendering a lot of the program, then you don’t want to render in a DV timeline. This will do the DV 5:1 compression on the rendered section, adding all the usual issues that come from rendering to a highly compressed format, which will then be decompressed on the way out the SDI pipe (though the picture quality is not increased in any way by this decompression). You will see the difference most significantly in graphics, color correction and longer dissolves.
2) If you are doing a color correct pass, it is best to media-manage-decompress (or recap via SDI) first, then do the color pass. This way, you will see your color correction in 4:2:2 as well as the correct gamma, which DV does not have.
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One note: if there is a significant amount of rendering (anything more than a few transitions), you should make sure you output from an uncompressed 8-bit timeline. This can be achieved via Media Manager with recompress option, recapturing with an SDI deck, or the quickest, just drop your DV seq into an uncompressed seq. Make sure you offset it by 1 pixel in the Y axis to get your fields on sync (unless you pulled up your footage to progressive frames only and cut at 23.976, in which case it doesn’t matter).
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I’m actually a HUGE fan of the 36″ Sony XBR tube, it’s what I have in my living room. 1080 lines and just unbelievable picture with a quality HD signal pumped through it (still a problem, of course). The problem for the studio is that it is just a massive space killer. The thing is 2 feet deep
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Also, which Panasonic do you have. Is it their “Pro” line?
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So do you think that the combo of the plasma for the client along with a down-rezzed picture on my Sony PVM-20L2 CRT will cover me?
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Thanks or the info. I’m trying to stay away from consumer-level LCDs (other than the Apple 30″), as the angle of viewing is very poor and the black levels are terrible from what I’ve seen. One exception seems to be the Sharp Aquos line, which has an excellent picture. I will check out the ones you mentioned, thanks.
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I am pretty much in the same position as you, just getting into HD. I decided to spend the extra money (it’s not that much really), for the MB Extreme. It all hasn’t arrived yet (so far, just the new G5 and extra RAM), but my decision was based on my need to deal with whatever comes down the pike, given the proliferation of formats, etc. It’s about an extra grand, and I think the additional functionality is well worth it — I can capture/edit/monitor everything from 3/4″ to 1/2 film rez (so long as my drives can handle it).
Simply amazing what you can get now for the money. I remember back in the mid-90s looking at a Media100 XS system thinking how much it did for $25k