DIT Tell All - Creative Cow article

[Von Thomas]

Creative Cow has just released an article I wrote around my workflow and gear. Please check it out, http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/a-dit-tells-all.

It will also be released in print in the NAB issue of Creative Cow.

Von

 

[Kwan Khan]

Interesting

 

[Jan Schuster]

Great article, thanks for sharing your workflow!

 

[Eugene Martin]

nice!

 

[David Carstens]

Thank you for the spectacularly detailed info on your cart setup and workflow!

 

[Will Keir]

nice article and some good info, thanks

 

[Will Keir]

I am curious. With a new mac pro in the, hopefully, near future and thunderbolt built in. How will this technology change things for you? Can you use the added speed of thunderbolt, or is eSata sufficient?

 

[Thomas Koch]

Cool write up!

Thanks Von.

 

[Jonathan Carbonaro]

I am curious. With a new mac pro in the, hopefully, near future and thunderbolt built in. How will this technology change things for you? Can you use the added speed of thunderbolt, or is eSata sufficient?

SAS is still the fastest. i don't see a reason for Apple to implement T-bolt in a MacPro because SAS is still faster and more robust than T-bolt. Your bottleneck at that point is still your camera media.

 

[Jon Jones]

Hey that's very good Von! I have the Bigfoot Mac-N-Rac mobile cart, it's a tad bigger than the standard cart, but fits my dual 27" Doublesight monitors better. Very well written Von, thank you.

 

[Dustin Cross]

I am curious. With a new mac pro in the, hopefully, near future and thunderbolt built in. How will this technology change things for you? Can you use the added speed of thunderbolt, or is eSata sufficient?

Will,

Thunderbolt will be more useful for connecting things other than drives. Things like a Thunderbolt Red Rocket or Thunderbolt QIO or Thunderbolt MXO. Thunderbolt drives will be useful for some, but SAS and Sata/eSata are perfect for storage and will continue to be the standard for high end work. Current 6G Sata can do 600MB/s, Thunderbolt is 1000MB/s and SAS is 2400MB/s, but normal spinning drives are still under 200MB/s. Connect a 150MB/s drive to SAS and it will still only do 150MB/s. We need raids and solid state drives to fully take advantage of current speeds.


Dusty

 

[SUNILPREM]

Great article,thank you very much

 

[Bob Gundu]

Thanks for taking the time to write this up. Very informative.

 

[A_Love]

Thanks Von, loved the arcticle. Great Info

 

[Wes Howell]

Thanks Von! Great read.

 

[Lliam Worthington]

Excellent article. Thanks for sharing Von.

 

[Cory Schulthies]

Good Article Von, I hope to see you at nab. It's really important for D.I.T.s to own and configure their systems themselves. That way they know the system inside and out and can quickly detect and correct any issues that pop up. Yeah, custom carts are the way to go.

 

[Mike Garrick]

Hey Von,

Great article thanks for the hint on apple ram upgrades ....i was wondering why it was so expensive......... I now have alternate solution.