2k compositing equipment?

[com-user]

Hello all,
We’ve worked on broadcast SD resolution over 7 years. Now my friends decide to shoot a feature film about 1 hour long. Telecine & 2k to final film processing (machine does i think it take less time and clear price) will be done oversea. About offine editing and 2k compositing that my friends and I will do it, but we actually unclear about 2k. The cheap price equipment systems to do 2k resolution is our prerequisite. So now we plan to purchase DeckLink HD Pro 4:4:4 card to work on.
So please recommend me about PC machine, display card, HD monitor, and hardrives (I’m thinking about MediaVault of Huge system or any cheaper if impossible) and all relative things how to do it.

Thanks in advance

[eltopo]

Speaking of economical, I would suggest a MacPro system with 2 dual core xeon running at 3Ghz with an Nvidia FX4500 + the Decklink card…
For a monitor the 30′ Apple Cinema Display can show full 2K…
And About the Hd an Xserve RAID can do the trick although you might want to check out SGI’s infinite storage system…
The MacPro running at 3Ghz with 8GB RAM a SATA 250HB HD Nvidia FX4500 an Apple 30′ Cinema Display + Fibre Channel card will cost you U$ 10K
The Xserve RAID with 7TB will cost you U$ 13K…

As for software Final Cut Pro Studio + Shake will cost you about u$ 1,800
It can work in full 2k from start to finish.

[kuban]

if you are going to do heavy composites, I wouldn’t go for telecine, since you will be scanning your film while moving. You would want to pin register for heavy composite work. But depends on what you want to do, and how fast you want it.

[flameopV2]

Will 1 xserve-raid be enough to play back “full” 2048×1556 10bit though? pretty sure your gonna need 2 raids..

[gary]

you could also look to the likes of something like the new cards from Fusion I/O.

http://www.fusionio.com/products.aspx

these cards have no moving parts and are non-volitile ram drives (that means you can use it like any other drive, turn off the machine and the data is there when you reboot).

sustained, non-sequential read of 600mb/sec with one card.

at SigGraph this year i was demoing Autodesk toxik and we had two of these cards striped as raid0 and it was set to be toxik’s mediacache. this gave us 320gb of 1200mb/second sustained which was way more than enough to do uncompressed 2K in floating point color space. way more than enough in fact.

…and no moving parts. just two PCI cards at $2400 each and Toxik for 3500 (which now includes unlimited free network rendering).

//gD

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