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DIT'ing and the RED

Dan Dumouchel

Dan Dumouchel

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Hi all,

This is my first post on REDuser. I worked on an commercial in Calgary this weekend shooting on RED #'s 0008 and lucky 0013. I basically handled all the data management through a Macbook Pro 2.16 and a Sonnet e-sata setup using a 266x card reader. http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusion500p.html

This setup for out in the field worked really well but I'm curious what other people have been using?

Thanks,
 
Dumo said:
Hi all,

This is my first post on REDuser. I worked on an commercial in Calgary this weekend shooting on RED #'s 0008 and lucky 0013. I basically handled all the data management through a Macbook Pro 2.16 and a Sonnet e-sata setup using a 266x card reader. http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusion500p.html

This setup for out in the field worked really well but I'm curious what other people have been using?

Thanks,
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What FW800 card readers are people using? I've been looking at Lexar's Pro Firewire CF Reader, but I'm sure there are others out there.

http://store.lexar.com/?category=22&subcategory=1&productid=RW024-001
 
Dumo

Nice to see ya here I must say you are one sexy looking bitch. By the way I heard through the grapevine that the camera crew you had to work with on that thing were a bunch of prick's. How did you deal with them?
 
Finner said:
Dumo

Nice to see ya here I must say you are one sexy looking bitch. By the way I heard through the grapevine that the camera crew you had to work with on that thing were a bunch of prick's. How did you deal with them?
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Haha,

The only prick I ran into was the First AC and he kinda looked like a very homely David Hasselhoff. =P
 
skipdivils said:
So, did you have your raid on Raid 5 setting? Did you keep the CF Cards, or did you erase them and re-use them?

How long did your whole process take (per 8GB Card)?

How did the on-set monitoring work?

Thanks.
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We did not have our raid on RAID 5. We usually do a basic mirror but have found it to be unreliable with our P2 work flow lately. (some footage was copied over and some wasn't) so I manually backed everything up to a second hard drive before deleting the cards.
Also we were unable to set that array up to do RAID 5. We're looking into portable/inexpensive solutions to allow us RAID 5 capability but right now I don't know of any. Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?

As for how long the process took? We never really filled up a card. Everyone was so nervous about this new camera that we only shot around 60% of the card before it was off-loaded and given to me to CHECK THE CHIP. Everything seemed really quick though. usually 2-3 minutes to download the cards at 40-60% capacity. but... again, I wasn't paying to much attention to the time.

On set monitoring was an interesting issue. Because the recent Firmware does not support HD-SDI AND on-board Monitor output at the same time we basically had to do HD-SDI out and down convert using an HD-link box from Blackmagic and an SD down-convert box from Panavision. It wasn't ideal at all but we made due. The HD-SDI went into two Panasonic HD monitors and out from the last monitor in the chain into the HD-link and then into the SD box which sent an SD signal to a clamshell DV-playback system and believe it or not, BACK to the camera for the operator to see framing. It was a little crazy but we made it work.

Sorry for the ramble it's late. Hope that chicken scratch answered your questions.
 
Dumo said:
Why? What's wrong with my RAID box?
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Nothing at all dude! sorry didn't mean any offence :-/

There is an option to do raid5 .. but you need to think about what other ports you could use ;)

S
 
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