HD editing

[Da_elf]

Looking for a good quick solution for a Raid enclosure thats well priced that i can edit HD footage with. A friend of mine suggested Drobo and the drobo S seeeems to be what i need but not sure. their BeyongRaid technology confuses me. from what ive read up online i need Raid1,0 for good editing

[plastic_]

In my experience harddisk is not the bottleneck when editing 1080p. How much bandwith do you need?

[Da_elf]

what do you mean by bandwidth? whats that got to do with the speed of a drive?

[plastic_]

I mean, are you really streaming more than 50-100mb/sec, so that you would benefit from raid? Isn't the CPU/RAM/GPU crapping out before you reach the limit of how fast a single drive can stream the data?

[Da_elf]

well some clients give me red footage to work on so i might need it

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Umh... if U have a 32 bit comp guide and files are 5-20 mb a file. Then 30 frames/s = 30x20mb = 600mb to transfer in 1 second + any filters color correction etc etc u need very fast ram&cpu (Id suggest 1900mhz speed) a CPU that run at 200 bclock atleast and 1gb data transfer. I guess U will have more than 1 file to load from hdd.

Also a 48 gb minimum ¬ 96gb of ram...

GL

[beestee]

I don't think drobo is the way to go here. It is a good way to keep large amounts of data stored with little worry of drive failure, but I wouldn't say it is the optimal solution for moving large amounts of data quickly. I could be mistaken since I have not kept up with them since their second generation though.

Umh... if U have a 32 bit comp guide and files are 5-20 mb a file. Then 30 frames/s = 30x20mb = 600mb to transfer in 1 second + any filters color correction etc etc u need very fast ram&cpu (Id suggest 1900mhz speed) a CPU that run at 200 bclock atleast and 1gb data transfer. I guess U will have more than 1 file to load from hdd.

Also a 48 gb minimum ¬ 96gb of ram...

GL

Interesting that Corsair just released this amazing (at least I thought so) $1K set of RAM and it still doesn't meet those qualifications:

http://www.corsair.com/dominator-gt-...m4x1866c9.html

Hopefully video editing pays well enough to afford a 'filled to the brim' Ivy Bridge build when they are available.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Yup I've seen it, but a 98 gb of ram is quite cheap comparing to what it was 2 years ago... so gogogogogo !

[MoonDoggie]

General rule: If you're working with an uncompressed file type your HD will be your bottleneck, if you're using a compressed image format, your cpu will be more of a bottleneck (relatively).

I'd go with a raid0+1 or a raid5 setup for an editing station. Redundancy is nice but if it's just an editing station then I wouldn't prioritize it #1 (personally). Store your frames on another server, and move them over when you're ready to edit. Just 0.02cents.

[Da_elf]

more to0+1 rather than 5.
where do you live moondoggie that they have 0.02of a cent thats smaaaaaallll. just my 0.02dollar hehehehe

[joconnell]

What's the final delivery? Would you be better transcoding to a smaller format for editing and then remaster? Most folks seem to go to prores (or cineform on the windows side) and edit from there. If you do a decent job of setting your exposure from the r3d's when making your quicktimes, you can probably grade from those too.