[M. Venom]

If you are going with option go definitely include one Hyperdeck studio Pro, for the thunderbolt capture capability and as far as encoding you can run a computer with Telestream Wirecast, great encoding as well as live streaming.

“Do Not Under Estimate the Power of The Darkside

[M. Venom]

You can keep the Cache on your Export drive, firewire 800 is going to cause a bottleneck on your system. In Past Experience Hitachi drives have been known to die pretty awful deaths, As for the Western Digital Blacks, they are fast and reliable but only work with RAID if they are the older models, newer firmware on the WD Blacks are know for drop outs and disk failure when in the RAID Configuration, this is b/c WD has released their REDS which are specially for RAID and NAS Applications (google WD Blacks in RAID it will confirm). For Maximum Output I would sell all the drives and Get SSDs (triple the speed of WD Blacks), they are really cheap now for my raid drives, would increase the airflow in you Mac Pro so less heat, processor and graphic card fan noise and then a 4tb Western digital $99 at Microcenter for backup.

“Do Not Under Estimate the Power of The Darkside

[M. Venom]

Thanks alot, appreciate the detail, i have no choice but to try this out. i wish i had the option to edit in full res HDV then downcovert later on, but the choice wasn’t mine to make.

My only other question is if i have to deliver a dvcam which will be used to make their digibeta (this is their workflow not mine, my grief is almost over) should i still make it a 720×486 seq. output.??

thanks to all who have been giving me some input and insight.

[M. Venom]

OK here is the situation:

over 100 hrs of footage for a hour show, episode already approved, cannot re-capture…. edited 720X480 NOT 420 i wrote that as a typo. the reason we did not edit 720×486 for digibeta is b/c originally we were going to DVCAM. I did not make the original capture decisions, just edited what i was handed and in the format i was outputing (again DV)

so i need a solution:

I need to convert this to be a proper 4:3 Re Capturing is NOT an option.

there is no crop feature on the deck only squeeze or letterbox. plus 100 hrs of footage is not gonna happen twice.

i do have a blackmagic decklink card in my FCP G5 systems, is this a possibily

[M. Venom]

thanks for the info i did a lay off to dvcam last night via sdi video and audio.

[M. Venom]

do i have to create a new sdi sequence before i assemble to tape, and if so do i have to render my project over?