which drives should I use for a P2 HD job??
by adrian califf
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Sep 3, 2009 at 12:25:20 am
Hi all I hope someone can advise on this. I am about to start a P2 HD job probably shooting at 1080 25p but we are trying to decide what drives to use for the edit. We would like to ingest the media at a high resolution so as to avoid recapturing the media at the end of the offline edit. But we don't have a raid array and would ideally like to start with FW800 drives as the job will start on an imac for a rough assembly edit and then move to a mac pro.
I could fit internal sata drives into the 3 spare ports on the mac pro and stripe them together. But I'm not convinced a 3 way sata stripe will be fast enough.
Also could someone please advise on the best resolution to bring the media in at. The systems will probably be running FCS3.
Re: which drives should I use for a P2 HD job?? by david bogie on Sep 3, 2009 at 4:50:58 pm
I think you're making some poor decisions up front without knowing why or what the unintended consequences might be. However, after you've been working on your project for a few months, please come back and tell us what you've learned and if the advice you received was of any value.
Re: which drives should I use for a P2 HD job?? by adrian califf on Sep 3, 2009 at 4:56:25 pm
The choices aren't mine to make unfortunately, the director gets to choose what format to shoot with not me. I suspect I will import the footage initially at dvcpro-hd res onto a g-raid3 connected to the imac.
And then re-import the footage at prores 422HQ on the mac-pro (hopefully with a g-speed fc or similar connected. If anyone has tried deleting and re-capturing p2-hd media at a higher res and has any advice I would like to hear it..
