We copy everything to the Terrablock before linking with AMA, so the dualie idea should work for us... hopefully we'll be in a position to have that much source material!
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On Jun 2, 2011, at 7:49 AM, markraudonis wrote:
> Here's a little known fact:
>
> If you're using an NLE that DOESN'T tie the media to the project (FCP), you can connect TWO PDW-U1's to one computer and digitize two discs at once. Double the fun! Theoretically, you can triple the fun, but you reach a point of diminishing returns as the USB bus gets saturated. Two drives work great though.
>
> I'm a huge fan of the PDW-U1's and the XDcam disc based format. Using this little workhorse and file based ingest has been the only way that we can stay ahead of the
> ever increasing mountain of media coming in the door.
>
> Mark
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Ross Flint <rossf@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > If you use the PDW-1500 in File Access Mode it should be quite a lot
> > faster than a PDW-U1, because the 1500 has two lasers to read the disc
> > with and the U1 has only a single a laser. The speed isn't quite
> > double, but the difference is easily measurable.
> > The PDW-U1 has been solid in my experience though, and you have to be in
> > a real hurry before the speed boost alone is worth extra expense. On
> > the other hand, if you already have the PDW-1500 you can turn on File
> > Access Mode (FAM) in one of the menus.
> >
> > Ross
> >
> > On 02/06/2011 13:50, Scott Carmichael wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jun 1, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Greg Huson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Anyone using the PDW-U1? We normally sublet a VTR-style unit when we
> > > get XDCam discs, but we're seeing them often enough that it might be
> > > better for us to buy the disc reader - the VTR-style is less
> > > necessary, now, too, because we're using AMA most of the time. Please
> > > share opinions and other options for XDCam workflow, if you have them.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
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