Matthew Lamond
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when you state your using green screen and HDV i assume your stating High Def Video correct? with that what file format are you using? becuase with .MTS premiere doesnt recognize those yet…
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how about Software to edit the video with? on a PC
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what would be a good recomendation for a PC. i priced out a MAC and the final price with software ended somewhere around 4-6k.
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any camera recomendations upon those stipulations?
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mlamond@transcriptiongear.com is one option or atomiccow3886@gmail.com is another option if the first one bounces any emails because they are too large. gmail usually doesnt put a limit on the emails. where are u and why is ur mac pro not with you lol
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ok so it sounds like i will be buying 4 1 TB drives. setting 3 up as raid using one as a system drive. using mac software to setup the raid. and buying a external 2 TB HD Raid 0 system. what software do you use to backup your raid setup and how often? and everything sounds good else wise thanks andrew! btw did u see my last line do u have any public videos out there shot with th HF100 that i can use to show the quality of the camera or no?
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i plan on buying the HF100 per your recomendation. Andrew is there any way i could see some of your work to show for example why my company should buy this camera?
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Everyone,
Thanks for all the info you have given me. this has been a very hard to task to accomplish for i do not know much about this. Now i plan on buying most of my stuff of a third party vendor. but still a few more questions. when you say no raid card and just stipe the drives in a raid 0. can i do that without a raid card? also, if i have 3 1TB hard drives setup in a raid where do i back up my data to if one fails? where do i keep my OS and software? and i can afford raid 5 since i will be buying all my harddrives from a third party. as long as you feel mac pro raid card is good i will get that unless you have a third party recomendation. and one last question. should i record my video onto the camera then use the HDMI to record it from the tape in case i have to film off location? i mean while in office i can have my pc setup next to the camera and can record straight onto my PC through HDMI. -
or should i get the four sata drives and do a RAID 0+1. lol i have been doing some research. and when you say harddrive failure does that mean i have to replace the entire harddrive or can i just reformat it or what i am lost? and how often does this happen?
The Mac Pro RAID Card brings data protection with improved performance to your Mac Pro system — up to 250MB/s of sequential read performance in RAID 5. Ideal for video and creative professionals with demanding storage needs, as well as for tower server applications, this hardware RAID option supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 0+1, and Enhanced JBOD. It has 256MB of cache and an integrated 72-hour battery for protecting the RAID cache. The card occupies the top PCI Express slot (slot 4) and connects to the four internal drive bays.
To enable your Mac Pro for hardware RAID, select the Mac Pro RAID Card option and two or more hard drives in bays 1 through 4. Each RAID level has minimum requirements for the number of hard drives:
RAID Level Drive Requirements Benefit
Enhanced JBOD One to four drives A non-RAID configuration with the ability to migrate to a RAID set at any time
RAID 0 (striping) Two to four hard drives Maximum performance and capacity for the most demanding I/O requirements
RAID 1 (mirroring) Two hard drives Maximum protection for critical data
RAID 5 Three or four hard drives Data protection, up to 250MB/s of sequential read performance, and efficient capacity utilization
RAID 0+1 Four hard drives A mirror of striped drive pairs providing performance and data protection
The Mac Pro RAID Card supports the creation of multiple RAID sets in a system and multiple volumes per RAID set. For optimal disk utilization in a RAID set, all hard drives should be the same size. Your Mac Pro system ships with each hard drive individually configured in the Enhanced JBOD level with Mac OS X installed on the drive in bay 1. Using Apple’s RAID Utility software, you can migrate the drives into a RAID set without reinstalling Mac OS X or reformatting the drives, or you can customize your RAID volumes to meet your exact requirements.
The Mac Pro RAID card occupies one of the available PCI Express expansion slots.
Please note:
The Mac Pro RAID Card occupies one of the available PCI Express expansion slots.
The Mac Pro RAID Card is required when selecting 15,000-rpm SAS drives.
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So is the info split onto all drives? and thats what speeds it up? and how do you backup your data? if one drive fails does the whole system come down because the data is split? and if that is the case should i have a RAID setup to hold all my data and stuff and have a seperate SATA to put my OS on and all my programs?
Is the Mac Pro RAID Card any good? Its 800$. also would 2 x 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s be best or would 4 x 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s be best. Also is there a noticable difference with a 300GB 15,000-rpm SAS that i should consider them at all for their INSANE Price.