William Wedig
04-21-2008, 08:06 AM
I was wondering what storage solutions people are doing to work with Red footage.
For 40 hours of footage, working off the proxies in FCP, you need around 4 terabytes (very rough estimate, about 100gbs and hours X 40 = 4.000 gbs/hour).
The second option is using the L&T window to convert to proress 422 (non-HQ) but that's still around 2.7 terabytes.
Third option is using Red Cine to convert to something super low rent like DV NTSC in which case 40 hours runs about 500 gbs. Totally do-able on one external firewire 800 drive, but it could be hard to see sharp focus on a lower res file. Completely do-able, but not preferential. Plus losing the sound or having to retrieve it in some ass-backward way would totally suck ass.
The cheap version of storage is a stack of 1 terabyte (with 2 X 1 terabyte drives inside in a Raid 1 case) external firewire 800 drives that can be bought for around $500 USD. My question, is after you daisy chain that many drives, how well does it really react on playback? I figure it would take a long, long time to load the project and generally FCP just wouldn't be happy dealing with that much media.
What options are other people doing and has anybody tried to daisy chain 4 tera of drive space together to work on a feature shot on Red? Are there any cheap server/tower type storage out there that a small indie feature could afford (less than 4 or 5 thousand) to store all the media, backed up at least by a Raid 1? I checked out Drobo, but I don't think the access speeds on it are great enough to deal with the footage over a usb connection.
Thanks,
Will
For 40 hours of footage, working off the proxies in FCP, you need around 4 terabytes (very rough estimate, about 100gbs and hours X 40 = 4.000 gbs/hour).
The second option is using the L&T window to convert to proress 422 (non-HQ) but that's still around 2.7 terabytes.
Third option is using Red Cine to convert to something super low rent like DV NTSC in which case 40 hours runs about 500 gbs. Totally do-able on one external firewire 800 drive, but it could be hard to see sharp focus on a lower res file. Completely do-able, but not preferential. Plus losing the sound or having to retrieve it in some ass-backward way would totally suck ass.
The cheap version of storage is a stack of 1 terabyte (with 2 X 1 terabyte drives inside in a Raid 1 case) external firewire 800 drives that can be bought for around $500 USD. My question, is after you daisy chain that many drives, how well does it really react on playback? I figure it would take a long, long time to load the project and generally FCP just wouldn't be happy dealing with that much media.
What options are other people doing and has anybody tried to daisy chain 4 tera of drive space together to work on a feature shot on Red? Are there any cheap server/tower type storage out there that a small indie feature could afford (less than 4 or 5 thousand) to store all the media, backed up at least by a Raid 1? I checked out Drobo, but I don't think the access speeds on it are great enough to deal with the footage over a usb connection.
Thanks,
Will