Since my work flow changed a bit and I sometimes need to edit on the road, in a hotel andwhatnot, I decided to build a portable editing suite and DIT station.
Screaming i7, 16 Gig of RAM, 2 Gig Nvida for Mercury, 1920×1080 display,
Two USB3 4 Gig RAIDs, multicard reader and HDD/SDD docking station, Laptop cooler plate with silent fan.
Everything in a nice (Chinese) Pelibox.
Hell I can even edit RED RAW and uncompressed HD in real-time on that baby.
Just need to make a sun/rain shield.
UPDATE
Just updated my suite-in-a-box with a BlackMagic Studio HDMI, SDI in/out capture and playout box.
So now I can capture, monitor and play back/out uncompressed, compressed (motion JPEG) and even Cineform via SDI/HDMI.
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Diego Sahagun
December 7, 2011
Nice station! Could you tell me what kind of RAIDs are you using and where did you bought the “pelican” case? THANKS!! (AND ALSO CONGRATS ON YOUR G-LOG!)
Frank
December 7, 2011
The “Pelicase” is from Ebay – 40 Euros. Just search for “waterproof plastic case”.
The Raids are ORICO 3529rus3 USB3.0+ eSata 2x 3.5″ SATA HDD RAID
(also from Ebay – around 99 Euros) – I love the fact, that they have those “drawers”, so you just can pull out the drives and bolt in (tool less) a new set, if they are full.
I use two enclosures wit two 2 GIG drives each. One box is for the Files and one is mirrored for backup. Both boxes are setup as RAID 0 and deliver about 180 MB per sec.over USB 3.
Diego Sahagun
December 10, 2011
Really really nice! good ideas, hope to get me one of those soon as I have the same Laptop. Thanks for sharing!
npeason
December 18, 2011
How do you do Realtime R3D? Red Rocket via ExpressCard to PCIe enclosure?
Frank
December 19, 2011
Premiere can handle R3D in real time if you are on a Computer with a Nvida cuda card – no reason to buy a Rocket.
AdamBarefoot
January 7, 2012
dang, i need a new editing station
George
January 10, 2012
I am very interested in the external RAID solution you used.Have you tested esata speeds?Anything else you can share about the raid?Must be the cheapest raid solution on the market and it worries me kind of.
Frank
January 16, 2012
eSATA should be faster – at least on paper – but I get more performance out of USB3.
Mark Hensley
March 30, 2012
Slightly off the topic, but can you give me a link for the knock off peli cases you mention above? Thanks in advance.
Mark
Frank
March 30, 2012
It probably doesn´t help, since I´m in Germany, but here ya go : http://www.ebay.de/itm/walimex-pro-Outdoor-Schutz-Koffer-M-wasserdicht-/350463529139?pt=DE_Kamera_Foto_Zubeh%C3%B6r_Taschen_Schutzh%C3%BCllen&hash=item51994110b3
A quick Ebay search for waterproof plastic box would probably do the trick, wherever you live.
George
October 29, 2012
So Frank how are these orico raids holding up?I am buying -for starters- one piece for Raid0
and wanted to know if you had any issues with them.Thanks.
Frank
October 29, 2012
They still work fine, just bought an other one – best bang for the buck so far.