Shotput pro vs silverstack12/19/2023 ![]() ![]() I've been made aware of the first copy's potential to corrupt the rest of drives by other DITs but unfortunately any faster alternative was not possible and I was told my only alternative was to trust the verifications at that point. Shout if you need McConville Thanks a lot for the advice, I'm currently halfway through the project and have been cascade copying onto Lacie drives with Silverstack since I had no other choice to adapt to the production's budget and try to keep offloads from slowing it down. Silverstack is amazing but even I'm not sure if I can afford it right now (and it's a steep learning curve) Would definitely recommend it over Shotput. The even quicker version (for transcoding) would be to buy 2x G-Techs for your backups, and have 1x SSD scratch drive (say a 1TB drive).īack up to all 3, then run your transcodes from and to the SSD.Īgree with Robin – Hedge is excellent. You need drives with a power supply, because Ruggeds or similar run power and data through the same cable. But the bottleneck of those drives is MASSIVE. That's an extreme statement and I appreciate that you might not have much in the way of budget. throw any Lacie Ruggeds in the rubbish bin.I know that Hedge etc will verify that one copy, but it's not worth taking the risk with any footage, IMO pfncopy file extensions so you should be able to spot them easily on finderĭon't cascade copy, that makes multiple backups pointless on one level (sure, you're protected if you physically lose one, but if there's a bad copy on your first generation, that gets copied to all other drives). Remember to quickly manually check the material too, silverstack can rarely mess up a transfer and claim that everything was ok. It is very important that the first copy is verified and generates the mhl files with the material so that you can save manual work when further backing up the material. If not in a hurry, you can so second copy to a normal drive and the third when you have time. ![]() ![]() This way you can do one copy from card to raid at full speed the card can read which may be for example 400 or 500mb per second, and then just do a second copy from raid to raid with speeds of over 1 gb per second, even unverified if you need to get the card back very fast. If it goes over about 1TB per day then I like to use dual raids which are 4 or 6 drive thunderbolt configurations. Normal means something from 400 to 700GB per day. If you are shooting normal amounts of material then the 1 raid configuration should be no problem. But generally it is much faster to make at least one copy to raid or ssd very fast and then just manage other fast copy so that you dare to reuse the card. A slow computer may cause additional delays when using verified transfers like on silverstack. Your biggest bottleneck tends to be the backup drives which are much slower than the camera card. Any other recommendations would be appreciated since I have very little experience in the field but would love to make my job and the camera department's job as easy as possible! I'm still unsure if the Stardom DR5-WBS3 is going to be that much of an upgrade, but I believe Silverstack might be. Is cascade copying a good option to free card faster? and, in a worst case scenario, is it possible to do without Silverstack? will building something like a RAID 0 or RAID10 on the Stardom connected through a USB3.0 protocol be faster than the lacie rugged (also connected through USB3.0 protocol)? I back up everything to lacie rugged disks, they run quite slow and average 70-80MB/s transfer speeds, I need to backup 2-3 drives per card and tend to always make backups from the card which makes freeing them take much longer. I'm trying to fix this by getting Silverstack installed on the machine. No dedicated DIT software, I'm offloading with Davinci's Clone Tool which keeps me from doing anything during offloads. ![]() Here's the two main issues I'm running into: I'm given a macbook pro (2017/2018) to work with but have recently gotten access to a Stardom DR5-WBS3 which I think may help. And yes they use the same SDK we provide to the Resolve team so any performance differences are down to the individual app.Hi, I've been asked to help out as a DIT for an upcoming student short film, although I'll be mostly just offloading and transcoding files I've tried to investigate since this will be my second time doing it and I'd love to speed things up a bit from last time. Baselight supports Blackmagic RAW (as does Mistika since it was mentioned) and has for a very long time and are they engage regularly on support. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply.AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |