Mike Ebner
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Just an update here…
We went ahead and purchased a Kramer FW800 hub (https://tinyurl.com/y8dlg42) from B&H a few weeks ago just to test out the situation. We anticipate having our renewal budget slashed next fiscal year so we need to cover our assess when the Trustees ask why we need expensive MacPros. In other words we need proof that this setup will not work.
It’s been about 3 weeks now and so far so good. We hooked it up to a 20″ imac (2008) and have had the students use it every day to capture HDV footage to their LaCie rugged drives. I’ve informed the advanced class to let me know if anything weird happens, dropped frames, crashes, stuttering, but nothing yet. I’m not saying it won’t happen but I figure you guys might be interested in how we fare. I’ll keep updating this as it goes on.
I’ll be trying capturing from HDV to ProRes next.
Thanks again for the input.
-Mike
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What about a server based solution? We have a gigabit network at the school would it be possible to capture to a server? I’ve tried just setting my scratch disk to a share on our network before but I didnt have much luck.
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Crap. That’s what I thought.
Well I’m going to give it some tests anyways. But I think you guys are right. Who knows maybe we’ll still get our funding.