[John Davidson]

Great info, thanks. I’m coming from Avid so having so many options for configuration is a little overwhelming. Could I theoretically get fw800 drives, stripe them together, and be done with the storage issue?

My understanding was the for true uncompressed I need at least a 10k RPM drive to handle the amount of data coming in. Is this a wrong assumption, of is that just for Avid?

FYI Walter, I was an editor at CNN from 97-99. Looks like I just missed you.
John

[John Davidson]

Thanks again!

Does FCP not offer 10 bit uncompressed? Is that based only on the I/O card?

[John Davidson]

Thanks! I do a lot of predating and I heard that trimming in FCP took a little time to adjust to.

Everything I see on FCP just looks so smooth compared to Avid. I waited for NAB to go by to see what Avid would offer in response to Final Cut, and it looked like more of the same old business model. If you want true uncompressed sdi video quality from Avid, you have to spend ninety thousand dollars, or buy used, which is still more expensive than FCP.

I think what sold me on FCP was the live switching mode for multicam editing. It looks to ridiculously easy and well thought out, how can I NOT get it?

j