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Gregory Sheffer
10-10-2007, 08:00 AM
I just got back from shooting in Africa and the conditions and shooting would require me to have a ton of CF cards on hand if I was shooting with RED. By March I will get my camera and probably find myself in this predicament. Would an ipod be a good footage dumping station? Say have three cf cards and just dump them clean to a 160gb ipod until the evening when you could get them onto a HD?
Rob Lohman
10-10-2007, 08:07 AM
You will also have the ability to shoot on a RED-DRIVE, of course. You don't have to shoot on CF if that doesn't work for you.
Personally I like a laptop to check and copy footage....
Laco Zamba
10-10-2007, 08:10 AM
Will be possible to copy files from CF to RED-DRIVE in camera after shoot?
Greg M
10-10-2007, 08:15 AM
There are far better solutions than an ipod...check out the Nexto
http://www.nextodi.co.uk/index-3b.html
I just bought one of these, and it works well...it also verifies the data. It is very fast as well.
Gregory Sheffer
10-10-2007, 08:30 AM
I just don't want to own both the Cf Module and the RED drive. NEXTO looks awesome.
roryhinds
10-10-2007, 08:42 AM
when will the RED Drives be shipping and what's the hold up?
Peter Jackson had RED Drives back in April so I'm very surprised they aren't ready by now.
Greg M
10-10-2007, 09:01 AM
I just don't want to own both the Cf Module and the RED drive. NEXTO looks awesome.
I think you will need both.
Laco Zamba
10-10-2007, 10:06 AM
when will the RED Drives be shipping and what's the hold up?
Peter Jackson had RED Drives back in April so I'm very surprised they aren't ready by now.
Peter wasn't using RED_DRIVEs. He was using 7200 RPM external discs.
Colin Hubick
10-10-2007, 11:22 AM
another interesting storage solution
http://www.drobo.com/products_demo.aspx
Colin
Craig Schober
10-10-2007, 11:56 AM
Peter wasn't using RED_DRIVEs. He was using 7200 RPM external discs.
it's been documented all over that the red drive was the only capture method in use on the peter jackson short. in fact, that's how they ran into problems on the helicopter rig from excessive vibration.
if a 7200 rpm external solution existed, there would be a lot more threads about it.
Brent Copeland
10-10-2007, 11:57 AM
I think you will need both.
Why would you need both? I can understand it might be nice to have both, but need?
Laco Zamba
10-10-2007, 12:18 PM
Sorry. Not 7200 but 10000 RPM :-)
Read http://www.onfilm.co.nz/editable/DigiFeature.pdf
"...and because RED Drives weren't ready, off-the-shelf 10,000 RPM Barracuda SATA drives were used."
Michael Stanmore
10-10-2007, 01:14 PM
I like the Nexto ultra... will probably grab a couple of those...
Lexicon
10-10-2007, 01:26 PM
I like the Nexto ultra... will probably grab a couple of those...
Take a look at the Hyperdrive Space too. It supports all common memory cards and has low-level UDMA transfer capabilities. I have one and I love it. It copies whatever is on your cards regardless of the file type and it does full verification. You can get the new version with image viewing and card data recovery with up to 250GB capacity while the old one is available up to 160GB though you can buy the shell and use a 250GB drive instead.
Greg M
10-10-2007, 10:41 PM
Why would you need both? I can understand it might be nice to have both, but need?
I need both...most people will need both.
Why-
CF = 4 minutes
RD= 1+ hours
same reason you need 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 60 and 90 minute tapes...every project has different requirements.
Maybe you dont need both, but I bet most people do.