Article on System requirements for HD

Jarred Land

Jarred Land

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Hey I just whipped up a quick article on the requirements of editing HD on systems, mostly directed to wards storage requirements.

Nothing special, but the graph should be useful to some people that still have a hard time understanding bits and bytes and if they need Raid arrays or not.

http://www.dvxuser.com/articles/hdedit/
 
Once again, you rock - that was awesome - Im keeping it bookmarked and Ill look at it before posting questions :)
 
Thanks, Jarred! The part that scares me the most about the move to HD is the monitor. Sure, we can get the Dell 24" LCD for relatively cheap, but you can't really do color correction on one of those, right? I already have a Sony 14" Prodution calibrated NTSC monitor that I use for color grading... Is it possible to view 1080/24p DVCProHD on one of these, at a lower resolution? I'd use one of those Dell monitors to check for details, focus, framing, etc., but use the NTSC monitor to judge color accuracy afterward. Is this at all possible, or can SD monitors simply not display an HD image? Do they do downconverting on the fly?

Whaty about the Panasonic 17" Pro LCD monitor? Is a 17" LCD big enough to show all the detail of 1080p footage? Can we do accurate color grading on one of those? I can't really afford the $23,000 Sony 16x9 CRT HD monitor, but I don't know what other choices there are...

Thanks for the article!
 
When your looking at specs in print or on the forums, you might think people have gone nuts as one person says 100Mbps and other people say 12.5 MB/s. (damn you Barry Green). The larger numbers, like 100Mbps has become the standard way of saying computer speeds, Firewire for example is 400Mbps, and P2 DVCpro-HD is 100Mbps. If you see a small number like 12 MB/s, that is a method that still camera guys measure the speed of their storage (compact flash, etc.) so it adds some confusion. MB/s means MegaBytes per second, Mbps means Megabits per second. The difference is a bit is about an 1/8th of a byte.
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Man, that's the weirdest way I've ever heard that explained! Cool!

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Also, is there any way you can test a DECENT FW hard drive? I don't have the software you used for a direct comparison... but 2.5" (notebook) drives aren't the best choice. And is that read speed, write speed, big chunks or small...
 
Cheers Jarred, great factual article!

Once again, thanks for spending your time to help others! It is much appreciated!:beer:
 
Just one thing, please can you stick an "i" after the "DVCPRO-HD 1080/60" on the chart...

I can foresee questions about the HVX shooting 1080/60p


Also doesn't HDCAM -SR record at 1920x1080? I could be wrong though...
 
thanks mmm. your correct.


And as for color correcting, You could use the Dell if you really wanted too, and use a smaller resolution calibrated monitor as a reference.. as your looking for color accuracy, not resolution.
 
Jarred Land said:
And as for color correcting, You could use the Dell if you really wanted too, and use a smaller resolution calibrated monitor as a reference.. as your looking for color accuracy, not resolution.
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Thats my plan... I'm going to need an even bigger desk!!
 
Jarred Land said:
And as for color correcting, You could use the Dell if you really wanted too, and use a smaller resolution calibrated monitor as a reference.. as your looking for color accuracy, not resolution.
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That's exactly what I wanted to know. So I can use a big LCD for resolution-type stuff, and a regular NTSC monitor for checking color accuracy. Great. That makes it a heck of a lot more affordable than the $23,000 CRT HD monitor... :thumbsup:
 
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