David Chabashvili
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Hi guys,
Before I get to the questions, I wanted to say that there are partial answers to my questions all over the forum here (which as be a great help), but I was not able to find the info in a single thread (though I could have missed it). So I decided to post it here.
My questions are mainly about hardware and storage requirements for RED shot feature. This will be my first use of RED so I want to be prepared. As I have understood from the forum the average RED shot RAW footage for feature film will be around 2.5-3 TB with average of 3:1 shooting ratio. The backup of RAW footage is the first step, i know. My concerns are the following steps, when I start to edit and add VFX and do a color grade and mastering at the end (for cinema projection).
1. I do have to have that 2.5TB footage somewhere and somehow attached to the workstation i will be editing on. So this is how I imagine that: On my workstation I have 2 HDDs: the first one (500GB-1TB) for the system and software and the second one for some local storage (1TB). I also should have an external storage where I hold that footage and from where I edit - like Capture disk and Scratch disk. My questions are : (i) what kind of external storage you advice that would be budget friendly, (ii) what is the best way to connect it to workstation, (iii) how should the drives be configured considering the size of entire footage, in order to also have a mirroring so that is any disk will fail I will not have to start the work all over.
2. As I understood the best way to get the footage to VFX software (After Effects for instance), is to use RAW (or whatever this RAW has be transcoded to if the software does not work with RED RAW), do the VFX, export to image sequence or any other lossless format and ingest it in the editor timeline before the final transfer to color grading. Is this correct? Any advices or tips?
3. So after the grading is done (AE or Color or some plug-in) I have to render it presumably DPX (am I correct?). The thing I am concerned with is that DPX takes up a lot of space and for a feature it could be over 10TB or even more as I have been told. If this holds true I will be needing lot of hard drives and quite a budget to have hardware that could reliably hold that volume and have it backed-up and mirrored. (i) Could you guys please let me know what is the best budge friendly (to the realistic extent) wayt to have DPX? (ii) or is it better to have the render (and maybe digital cinema package) be made by a render house? If yes how can I bring the edited, VFXed and colored RAW footage from editor timeline to them?
I apologize for the volume of questions, but these are the issues I am very concerned with and I do not want to make a mistake. And again if I missed something important here or you have any good tip or advice, I will be more than happy to hear them.
Thank you guys in advance for your assistance and support.
Before I get to the questions, I wanted to say that there are partial answers to my questions all over the forum here (which as be a great help), but I was not able to find the info in a single thread (though I could have missed it). So I decided to post it here.
My questions are mainly about hardware and storage requirements for RED shot feature. This will be my first use of RED so I want to be prepared. As I have understood from the forum the average RED shot RAW footage for feature film will be around 2.5-3 TB with average of 3:1 shooting ratio. The backup of RAW footage is the first step, i know. My concerns are the following steps, when I start to edit and add VFX and do a color grade and mastering at the end (for cinema projection).
1. I do have to have that 2.5TB footage somewhere and somehow attached to the workstation i will be editing on. So this is how I imagine that: On my workstation I have 2 HDDs: the first one (500GB-1TB) for the system and software and the second one for some local storage (1TB). I also should have an external storage where I hold that footage and from where I edit - like Capture disk and Scratch disk. My questions are : (i) what kind of external storage you advice that would be budget friendly, (ii) what is the best way to connect it to workstation, (iii) how should the drives be configured considering the size of entire footage, in order to also have a mirroring so that is any disk will fail I will not have to start the work all over.
2. As I understood the best way to get the footage to VFX software (After Effects for instance), is to use RAW (or whatever this RAW has be transcoded to if the software does not work with RED RAW), do the VFX, export to image sequence or any other lossless format and ingest it in the editor timeline before the final transfer to color grading. Is this correct? Any advices or tips?
3. So after the grading is done (AE or Color or some plug-in) I have to render it presumably DPX (am I correct?). The thing I am concerned with is that DPX takes up a lot of space and for a feature it could be over 10TB or even more as I have been told. If this holds true I will be needing lot of hard drives and quite a budget to have hardware that could reliably hold that volume and have it backed-up and mirrored. (i) Could you guys please let me know what is the best budge friendly (to the realistic extent) wayt to have DPX? (ii) or is it better to have the render (and maybe digital cinema package) be made by a render house? If yes how can I bring the edited, VFXed and colored RAW footage from editor timeline to them?
I apologize for the volume of questions, but these are the issues I am very concerned with and I do not want to make a mistake. And again if I missed something important here or you have any good tip or advice, I will be more than happy to hear them.
Thank you guys in advance for your assistance and support.
