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inkfx
08-20-07, 06:54 PM
So my friend is looking to build a computer pretty much dedicated to making of videos. Mostly gaming/frag videos for Halo. In his upcoming video he would like to be able to capture 720p ~60fps. I'm not very familiar with any of that stuff so I turn to yall. What kind of drive setup would be needed to do this? We were thinking two 80GBs in RAID 0 but someone said we would need 4 drives to do this. If someone can clear this all up for me it would be much appreciated. thanks.


his to be specs:

Q6600
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P
8800GTS 320mb
2GB Corsair
and I forget the name of the capture card he will have
bing
08-20-07, 07:12 PM
What is the ballpark number for the required bandwidth in MB/s to capture 720p ~60fps video ?
inkfx
08-20-07, 07:24 PM
105mb/s
thideras
08-20-07, 07:27 PM
105mb/sHow are you getting that number???

When I was capturing my drifting videos in Carbon @ 60fps (full res) it wasn't ANYWHERE near that number...

I just calculated some rough numbers and I'm getting around 12.5mb/sec.
inkfx
08-20-07, 07:30 PM
Here is the link my friend used to find it.

http://reviews.ebay.com/Storage-and-Data-Rates-for-Uncompressed-SD-HD-Video_W0QQugidZ10000000001627591?ssPageName=BUYGD: CAT:-1:LISTINGS:3
thideras
08-20-07, 07:35 PM
Here is the link my friend used to find it.

http://reviews.ebay.com/Storage-and-Data-Rates-for-Uncompressed-SD-HD-Video_W0QQugidZ10000000001627591?ssPageName=BUYGD: CAT:-1:LISTINGS:3Those numbers seem crazy high...not doubting it, but I was recording 1280x1024 @ 60fps no compression at around 12.5mb/sec...
inkfx
08-20-07, 07:36 PM
I guess there is a difference between the computer and the Xbox 360 Elite.
thideras
08-20-07, 07:37 PM
I guess there is a difference between the computer and the Xbox 360 Elite.Now you've got me curious. /suscribed
inkfx
08-20-07, 07:50 PM
Thideras, from what I understand if your 12.5mb/s number is correct there would have to be a LOT of compression going on with the recording.
bing
08-20-07, 08:09 PM
105mb/s

Just a guess though, dunno if this HERE (http://www.ocforums.com/showpost.php?p=5192497&postcount=290) (avg STR 250 MB/s) or HERE (http://www.ocforums.com/showpost.php?p=5116705&postcount=172) is enough for that job ?

Those are on new Seagate with 100MB/s platter.