[John Ladle]

xraid is nice–it is my understanding the entire array needs to be filled to handle 10 bit 1080i, however…did something change on that?

[John Ladle]

kona 2 has up (any day now!) and down convert that is hardware based and very high quality among other things. the card earns it’s keep!

[John Ladle]

my point is the desktop portion is ready to go today. for people doing SD, a kona, fast drive and fibre/scsi cards w/a G5 is not entirely out of reach. so, in context, my guess would be this guy is already doing SD since he has been on the boards he likely has FCP–so he would have fcp with a free upgrade to FCPHD. if i had it correctly, he was merely looking for a drive to to HD…and as far as the size of the drive, i think i covered long and short form in my original post.

You can cut HD without on an cinema display, thats about $2 grand of that–i have even seen people do it.

so for around $9k you can do short form…even according to your own figures which are list and assuming you own nothing which will make to to your new suite and that you get nothing from ebaying or tax free donation of your previous system. if you are scrimping to buy a system, why would you not be renting a deck and camera?

will you leave that alone or is there some nit-picking you need to throw in?

[John Ladle]

Guy, OBVIOUSLY NOT PROPERLY CONFIGURED. are you nuts?

Obviously not vectorscopes, textronix color correcting HD monitors, the actual HD camera itself and decks…

LIST PRICES-
Dual 2.0 G5-$2499
Kona 2 & Kbox $2789
Atto UL4S-$249
HUGE HMV 320 S600M-$2349

$7886 USD–

then you have to add a cheap monitor and some cheap 512s of ram…again, just to do the editing…but the point is, it is really not much more to actually edit uncompressed HD these days…and i would guess a guy in this end of the pond would be renting the 1200a deck for $300-500 per weekend…but the desktop portion of HD is here for sure….

wonder what another NAB will bring?

[John Ladle]

good question. the reality is that for $8k you can edit uncompressed HD on FCP using name brand products with real warranties….for $13-15K (USD) you can edit long for uncompressed HD. a decent HD camera costs you 4-5x that high end number!

[John Ladle]

you can fit (capture and playback) almost 2 full hours of uncompressed 1080i 10 bit 29.97 on a single channel huge S series…it is only $3800…probably not too much more than renting it twice! model HMV 320S 1250 M…