[Kareem Farooq] " I need to somehow fit the footage onto 4TB of space. The footage is averaging about 250GB/day, and it's already the 4th day of an 18 day shoot. I have little time to solve this issue. "
then you need to be working in DVCPROHD to get higher compression on the HD side.
[Kareem Farooq] "their answers were get more hard drive space because ARRIRAW was designed to be cut offline in HD and AJA is unable to down convert footage at "true" 24fps. AJA told me their products are mostly used for broadcast, not filmmaking, which is why I only have a 1080spf 24fps capture option. "
firstoff--- the S,two recorder can handle arriraw, but FCP and the AjaCards do NOT- there is NO RAW workflow for the arri codec from the d21 camera. I work with both companies and all 3 products regularly and the capturing from the Idock is the best way to handle the footage.
NO ONE FROM AJA would Tell you their products are not used in the film industry- your dealer may have,. but AJA products have been used on literally hundreds of movie sets - and even for finish of a number of movies recently such as "No Country for Old Men", "Alien vs Predator" and specifically with Arri d20 captures for "The Bank Job" and award winner at the Dubai and Sundance film festivals "Capt. Abu Raad"
I am quite sure that the cost of more storage is far less the the weekly rental of the D21 package (with accessories and lenses that could easily be 10x your cost for storage.
If you quoted the project and did not take the shear file size into account that is your mistake,you can save disk space by capturing at 720p for your offline instead.
gary adcock
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