Hey Lance,
Just came across your post as I am researching a similar scenario.
I’m building two rooms at the moment. A simple capture/off-line room that will house 4-5 G4’s. And a main room with 2 Quad G5’s full outfitted for online and color work. Like you I’m working at DVCPROHD 720P mainly. Though I’m delivering to DVD and web mostly – SDTV ocassionaly. SO – I’m looking to feed all 6-7 machines from a SAN and keep the speeds fast enough for 4-6 layers of DVCPROHD. Also want to be able to capture/process to the same RAID SAN we are editing from without hiccups or problems.
I am totally new to SAN set-up, though I do understand basic gigabit networking and the whole RAID scenario. I was wondering if you would be able to post more details about your set-up. Specifically I am wondering how the set-up has worked for you since your post. Are you digitizing to the same SAN you are editing with at the same time? When you move to the RAID 0 for finish work are you using media manager to recap your offline edit at full HD REZ? How has the Sonnette gear worked out for you guys?
THANKS VERY MUCH FOR SHARING!
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