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Jared Picune
February 16, 2009 at 6:04 pm in reply to: Seagate FreeAgent for Mac 1.5TB Hard Drive – any good?

CalDigit arrays are designed specifically for video editors. The entire system has been optimized for this purpose.

The CalDigit VR has an ambient temperature controlled smart fan that does not even run unless the unit needs the additional cooling. This reduces unwanted noise making the CalDigit VR a very quite array. Also the CalDigit VR has removable drive modules.

Jared Picune
Denver Final Cut Pro UG
Geeky Mac | FCP Tips & Tricks
Jared Picune
February 16, 2009 at 5:51 pm in reply to: ProRes422 Storage Solution

Walter I don’t know what drive you are referring to, but the CalDigit VR just started shipping a few weeks ago.

Jared Picune
Denver Final Cut Pro UG
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Jared Picune
February 2, 2009 at 10:46 pm in reply to: 2TB Sata Raid vs. 4TB Sata RAID – some questions about this stuff.

This chart will give you a good idea of what you get. The CalDigit RAID Card and HDElement might be a good fit for you.

https://www.caldigit.com/support/HDElement.pdf

Jared Picune
Denver Final Cut Pro UG
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Jared Picune
December 18, 2008 at 4:24 pm in reply to: External Hard drive advice?

You will end up paying a little more for the G-Tech or CalDigit drives, but they are also designed to last longer. Beyond that the CalDigit VR has removable drives which allows you to upgrade, replace or archive drives. Remember you get what you pay for.

Jared Picune
Denver Final Cut Pro UG
Geeky Mac | FCP Tips & Tricks
Jared Picune
December 18, 2008 at 4:14 pm in reply to: Mac book pro-which one?

[Shane Ross] “I like the Caldigit drives”

The CalDigit VR is great for the field. It has an LCD display so you can be confident that your RAID initialized properly and that the array is functioning properly.
https://www.caldigit.com/CalDigit_VR/

[Shane Ross] “MXO 2”
I also like the MXO 2. I’ve only used it at trade shows so far, but I really like what Matrox has done.

Jared Picune
Denver Final Cut Pro UG
Geeky Mac | FCP Tips & Tricks
Jared Picune
December 15, 2008 at 2:31 pm in reply to: External Hard drive advice?

I wanted to toss the new CalDigit VR into the mix too. It has some advanced features that you can’t find in the other brands. It’s worth checking out.

https://www.caldigit.com/CalDigit_VR/

Jared Picune
Denver Final Cut Pro UG
Geeky Mac | FCP Tips & Tricks
Jared Picune
December 10, 2008 at 6:45 pm in reply to: After Effects + Mac Pro set up

[Jeff Passetti] “RAID card:
yes or no? “

Check out the CalDigit RAID Card which is currently on sale for $349. While there are a lot of options for storage out there, the CalDigit RAID Card provides 100% hardware RAID protection, which is ideal for AE because it has it’s own processor, so it doesn’t take away from the recourses of you workstation.

https://www.caldigit.com/RAIDCard/

Jared Picune
Denver Final Cut Pro UG
Geeky Mac | FCP Tips & Tricks
Jared Picune
November 9, 2008 at 12:46 am in reply to: 10 bit uncompressed Quicktime doesn’t playback

For the fastest hardware RIAD speeds on a laptop check out the CalDigit HDOne and the eLane-1ex. It will give you speeds of about 190 or so MB/s on the MacBook Pro.

Jared Picune
Idea Spring Editing, Inc.
Denver Final Cut Pro UG
Geeky Mac | FCP Tips & Tricks
Jared Picune
October 25, 2008 at 3:56 pm in reply to: Need FCP/Kona 3 set up advice

I’m using a similar setup, Kona and CalDigit, but working in 1080i60.

For one of my clients, we’ve cut about 100 commercials, the older ones are all SD, and the newer ones are all HD. Since our media buyer has not gotten HD placement yet I need to deliver everything in HD.

First, we shoot and edit everything in HD to be 4×3 safe. The If all the spots that I’m exporting are HD I just use the Kona to do the down convert. We use the center cropped feature in the Kona control panel to get a full 4×3 image.

Now if we have to output a reel with SD and HD, it gets a little more complicated. Frankly, while it takes some time, what I’ve done is just used software to down convert the HD spots to SD and then output everything in SD.

Anyway I hope that answers some of your questions.

Jared Picune
Idea Spring Editing, Inc.
Denver Final Cut Pro UG
Geeky Mac | FCP Tips & Tricks
Jared Picune
October 11, 2008 at 5:41 pm in reply to: Need advice for upgrading storage and network

Since I’m very familiar with CalDigit I can tell you they make a PCI-x option for their HDOne (and HDPro). It is 100% hardware RAID, unlike the card you are currently using which is software RAID, because it has an independent CPU and cache built right in. The HDOne runs about 440MB/s in RAID 5. The other cool thing is if you upgrade to a PCIe MacPro all you need in another inexpensive CalDigit PCIe bridge card.

You should also look into metaLAN from Tiger Technology. It is a relatively inexpensive way to share media. I think someone already posted a link about this in the thread.

Jared Picune
Idea Spring Editing, Inc.
Denver Final Cut Pro UG
Geeky Mac | FCP Tips & Tricks

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