Steve Freebairn
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Well, in my case, mine actually is my NLE Workstation, but if you wanted it to be separate storage, you could connect it quite a few different ways. Gigabit Ethernet, Firewire 800, Firewire400 eSata, Sata, even SCSI. I prefer to work with files directly on my system. I’d just use it to store files long term. In response to some of the other replys, yes, you would want to use a UPS, and yes, static electricity is a concern, but all you really need to do is ground your case to the ground in an outlet and then you won’t have any ESD concerns. Basically I’m suggesting what apples sales https://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/ , but just doing it for half as much. Of course their method has those cool little apple’s on them, but I don’t personally think that is worth 6K 🙂 I do know that apple’s xserve is reliable since that is what one of the local tv stations uses for 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 HD editing. The other nice thing about the CM Stacker (and no, I don’t work for them) and one of the reasons I bought mine, is that there is room for a lot of hard drives and a lot of DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray drives and room for a pcmcia adapter for the hvx200
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for the best results without having to rotoscope each field individually, it is much better to use progressive footage.
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Here is one option.
Get a CM stacker case https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811119039
put a basic computer together in it and then drop in 12 500 gb drives hooked to this raid controller https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816116033 and you’d have 5.5 terrabytes of raid 5 backed up space. Then just leave the computer off unless you are backing up to it or reading from it. That would run you about $6k. The stacker has excellent cooling ability too, I’ve got 9 drives in mine and they never heat up. The case is cool to the touch. -
dual core or more is the way to go. A dual xeon 3.6 with ht, or an opteron with 4 cores is going to be much better than a super fast single core.
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Are you able to import the Native HDV footage into AE 7.0?
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Yes you can export an animation as HD, but encore doesn’t accept HD.
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I’ve noticed that Time warp does some strange stuff on clips and their in and out points
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I’m not having problems with HDV in Premiere, what are your settings? are you sure that the project settings are right? What did you shoot it with? Was the camera set on Cineframe 24 or 30? if so, turn that off.
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Why not just use a 25′ fire wire cord? 🙂
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Can’t you just remove it in after Effects? Unless you are outputting if from FCP or doing effects work, why do you need the pull down removed? Just curious.