John Baldino
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Update: I went with a Libec LS 38 and not the manfrotto…very happy!
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For what it’s worth I just bought my HMC-150 from Amazon.com. It shipped yesterday and I get it tomorrow. Paid around $3250, I think.
I too did a LOT of research and shopping comparisons and I found Amazon’s to be the best price from a legit retailer.
Anyway, I can’t wait to get my hands on the thing…I already have a green screen type gig coming up that I need to prep for 🙂
(from reading these forums it seems that chroma key with this camera should be okay as long as it is properly lit…even with 4:2:0 color space…which it will have to be, since I don’t have the ability to capture HDMI yet. But nice that the camera does that, too)
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Makes sense. I think that will probably be my solution. Thanks for all the great info!
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If I were using Boot Camp, which is what I figured I would do, I don’t understand why it would cripple my system’s speed? Aside from the fact that I’d have to partition maybe 50 GB or so of drive space, how would I be hurting my system’s speed by running windows? If I were running it with Parallels I would understand, because that is like running two OSes at the same time. But if I were only running one or the other, what difference besides hard drive space would it make on system resources? I guess I don’t understand why OS X would run slower just because I had a win 7 installation on the hard disk. Or what if Win 7 had it’s own HD? Does that even matter? I mean, in any case, the system would only be running one OS at a time, so I guess I’m not sure why you think it would slow anything down. Wouldn’t the system resources (ie cpu/gpu, RAM, etc) simply be fully dedicated to whatever OS is running at the time? I admit that maybe I’m profoundly ignorant here, so tell me what I’m missing…but it seems like the only issue should be the hard drive space, which, in today’s world of 2 TB drives, isn’t really an issue at all.
Incidentally I’m not married to having the dual boot…I could always keep my PC active, but I’d prefer to not have to. I also kinda just want to see Win 7 in its full glory since I do own it and haven’t had a chance to really use it much yet.
At least your mom is PROFICIENT with a piece of software…better than many of us can say 🙂
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Greg I know exactly what you are going through. I myself got an MFA from Chapman last year in directing, with hopes of moving to LA to land entry level gigs while developing a feature script, but finances dictated otherwise.
Now I’m back in my hometown of Portland, Oregon. I’m setting up as an event videographer, but even this is an uphill battle.
Looking at your website I think you have a lot of good things going. I hope you can stay the course and make some stuff happen. It is true what these other guys are saying though…the business is about people and whether or not they like you. Which can be a depressing thought if you are like me and tend to be more introspective and not so into the “selling yourself” part…
In any case, best of luck.
John Baldino
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Yeah, I may decide to do 1TB drives instead.
I’m curious about your friend who edits HDV off drobo…do you know which interface on the drobo unit he uses? I’d also be curious about which flavor of hdv it is. Those two factors would play into it quite a bit.
To be honest I don’t know exactly what my average project disk space toll will be, because I haven’t even purchased the camera yet. I’m doing a few gigs prior to getting the gear with a borrowed camera and brother in law’s iMac, but the camera I’m using won’t be the one I get most likely, so it would probably be too early to judge. This will be my first ever real workstation/studio and while I’ve been pretty set on a p2 workflow up to this point, I’m starting to have second thoughts. I was planning to get an hvx or hpx 170, but I’m starting to wonder if I shouldn’t just wait to see what else hits the market in the next few months. Someone from a rental house told me today that panasonic is eventually ditching p2 and that they might offering something new soon that mediates the cost factor of the media a bit (and to compete with sony), so I dunno, I may just wait on the camera and borrow or rent one for gigs for a few months and just focus on dialing in my edit suite.
Re: windows 7….I happened to get a copy of the 64 bit version for cheap several months back but i ended up not being able to use it because my laptop, despite having a 64 bit cpu, had a sound device which had no drivers for win 7. Also, my entire computing life, up to this point, has been in windows, so it seems hard for me to envision ditching the pc world entirely. I guess the question for me is more of, “why not?”
Thanks again for weighing in.
John Baldino
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Thanks for the helpful advice, Jeff.
Whew, there’s a lot to consider. I’d never heard of the Drobo solution before but I checked it out and it seems interesting. Although from what you inferred it sounds like I could only use it for backup only, because it would be to slow to work off of, I’m assuming? It says that it comes with an eSata interface in addition to usb 2 and 1394 but even eSata is probably too slow I would imagine to work off of in FCS?
So it sounds like what I really need in this case is both a raid array and the external (drobo) solution. Which would mean getting around 8 drives total (ouch!).
Two related questions about the system (OS X) drive (actually I’ll probably have win 7 on it as well): a) can it be part of the array? b) if so, is that even a good idea?
If not, I assume then that the best solution would look something like this:
INTERNAL:
-1 TB System drive for OS X / Win 7, all apps, personal media collections, etc.3 x 2TB Raid array for speed only (all active media for current projects)
Blu-ray burner for BD-data disk archiving of project files and footage (long term storage solution)
EXTERNAL:
4 x 2 TB Drobo-type storage for media backup with single drive fault tolerance (which, in actuality, is dual drive fault tolerance considering it is all a backup to begin with)
1 x 1 TB firewire 800 drive for system drive backup using Time Machine
Effectively what this would give me is a very fast ~6 TB of available space for projects, as well as a very robust backup solution, but man does it sound expensive…I will have to run the numbers on it. I want to ensure maximum lifespan and upgradability so I would need to also consider getting 4 GB memory modules vs. the standard 1GB.
But man, 9 drives…
John Baldino