3 ms·
Plus the cost of a pretty high end desktop to grade the footage. And the cost of a pretty high end NAS to store the footage, sending it around to cloud service
by RNCTX 5y ago
Plus the cost of a pretty high end desktop to grade the footage. And the cost of a pretty high end NAS to store the footage, sending it around to cloud services isn't feasible due to the file sizes. Hint: ZFS is your friend here. If you can't back up data you have to make the medium bulletproof (as much as possible).
(I have no film production background personally but I did spec out a NAS setup for someone who does, just for them to cost analyze what it would look like to take RAW filming on the road with them to out of the way places, so I've seen the numbers once)
- prawn 5y agoMy M1 MBP is coping far better than my previous MBP. Worst case, I switch off the grade when I'm checking pacing/flow/timeline stuff, and I'm less concerned with those things if I'm doing the grade itself. Will get worse if 5K is the norm. I was mostly filming 2.7K@50, now 4K@25. Would ideally pick at least 4K@50. I bought 25TB in portable drives this week for a multi-month project. I have 3x 4-bay NAS boxes that I archive to, and then day-to-day I am connected directly to 7 external drives (3x 2-4TB standard drives, and 4x 0.5-1TB SSDs to work from). Sick of the cables and ejecting drives each time I move between home and office!
- RNCTX 5y agoMine is a Fractal Design case, it's designed for 6 mechanical drives but you can double up if you're using 2.5" SSDs, of course. There's room in the back for one PCI-e card, so you get one extra controller in the box that way to double up the number of drive connectors. It seems there were a lot more case options years ago before there was a cloud service datacenter on every other street corner. Not nearly as many being made today as there were 10 years ago.