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High Definition Video for Independent Filmmakers
A How To Guide for Digital Filmmakers
Welcome all! This is my blog to share my latest research,
thoughts, etc. on utilizing HD for independent filmmaking.

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Contact me at mike@hdforindies.com

All content copyright 2004-2007 Mike Curtis.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

My DV Magazine Feature - "Build Your Own HD Workstation" is up on DV.com 

DV - Features - Build Your Own HD Workstation

Frequent readers may recall I mentioned some weeks ago I was busy finishing up a magazine article - well, it's gone live (link above).

It's all kinds of goodness on how to build your own HD uncompressed workstation, whether you're starving artist or modestly budgeted facility, there's an option there for you (including a "best bang for the buck" moviemaker's config.

There are illustrations of the configs and everything, breaking it all down by category:
-the box (workstation)
-RAM
-graphics cards
-Computer monitors
-Storage
-HD-SDI cards
-video monitors

UPDATE - there's a set of typos on the storage section that can be misleading - it says Mbps (megabits per second) instead of MBps (megaBYTES per second, an eightfold difference). It's being fixed in the online and PDF versions...

More articles to follow in future months...

-mike

PS - surfing around the front page, there are also articles on:

-DV - Features - First Look: Photoshop CS3 Public Beta - hits some of the video-specific functionalities in the beta.

-DV - Features - RAID! - a deeper look at RAID levels, but I have one quibble - RAID 50 is RAID 5's striped together, not RAID 0's in a RAID 5.

-DV - Columns - Exploring The Panasonic HVX200 - hihgly respected uber-geek Adam Wilt gets nitty gritty wit the HVX200

-DV - Columns - The Big Picture for the Small Screen: Trends to Watch an interesting overview I generally agree with, but I take notable exception that Final Touch is ready for freelancers (without considerable investment/sacrifice)

-there's more, so surf around over there. They don't have an RSS feed (hint hint guys!) so you have to go dig around manually

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Posted by: Mike Curtis / 2/27/2007 09:29:00 PM
Comments:
congrats;-)
# posted by Blogger Cord Frederic : Tue Feb 27, 10:42:00 PM CST
 
Mike,

Good write-up.

P.S. Popular conversion has Mbps = M bits per second, this is uses for descibing compressed data rate (e.g. DV 25Mbps, HDCAM SR 440Mbps), where for disk speeds you want MBps = M bytes per seconds.
# posted by Blogger David : Tue Feb 27, 11:21:00 PM CST
 
David - what, did they have mbps somewhere not MB/sec as I wrote it?
# posted by Blogger Mike Curtis : Tue Feb 27, 11:30:00 PM CST
 
Now fixed. Glad I could be a small help.
# posted by Blogger David : Thu Mar 01, 12:08:00 AM CST
 
Mike, this article is no small thing. Thank you so much. You rock the big world, dude. Have a Guerros margarita and pat yourself on the back.
# posted by Anonymous Christopher S. Johnson : Thu Mar 01, 11:20:00 AM CST
 
great report, Mike. Lots of useful stuff. One question -- in your data rate calculations for footage RAID storage, you didn't mention SheerVideo's product, which supposedly cuts down the need for speed without ill effect. Have you had a chance to evaluate Sheer's product, and check out the pros and cons?

Thanks,

Jules Redding
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : Thu Mar 01, 01:14:00 PM CST
 
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