Samsung Solid State HD?

Grazie wrote on 5/27/2005, 10:59 PM

Presently at 16gbs . . but wouldn't this future option bring some amazing Post Edit options? I'm thinking real fast render and processor support with terrifying access and write support. Guess Sony has this in their sights for our Vegas too!?

THEN solid state capture cards for our camcorders too. Hope I live long enough . . . but I guess by then I'll Cell my filming straight to my edit deck WITH my on the fly edit decisions and spoken storyboarding from the event! AND get my invoice printed and sent even BEFORE I take my jacket off.

Grazie

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farss wrote on 5/28/2005, 1:52 AM

Making huge solid states disks isn't techincally that hard, making them so mere mortals can afford them is another matter, just look at the Panasonic P2 cards.
Bob.

Grazie wrote on 5/28/2005, 2:24 AM

I didn't say it was technically difficult . . and neither did you SAY I said so . . I also didn't say it was presently out of the reach of the financially challenged like myself - and no, you didn't SAY I said so either!

What I was attempting to bring to the Forum were the potential new horizons being lit up by this type of technology, and how we could envisage these being made use of in: camera-work; editing and the possibility that SONY might be directing our Vegas towards it.

So . . I'll try again . . what other possibilities could we see?

Best regards,

Grazie

farss wrote on 5/28/2005, 4:11 AM

I think most of the possibilities depend on how big it is, how quick it is and how much power it uses.
Sorry if I sound a big negative but after decades in the computer field and now the video field I think tape is going to outlast me despite ever year hearing about the imminent demise of tape.
Something faster would be nice though, I've spent the last week ingesting 16 hours of DAT and about 20 hours of video, all of it from tape so I'd sure like something that went into 'field' recorders that was quicker to work with.

As to how it affects Vegas, not a bit, I'm certain any mass storage device will look just like another disk so Vegas will just cope with it.
What I do see happening though is more cameras that record to MPEG2 and MPEG4, neither of which Vegas does a good job of editing, that's what's going to be the challenge I think.
The thing is, a $6 MiniDV tape holds around 13 GB of data, 13GB of flash memory is at least 2 orders of magnitude more expensive, imagine taking 5 of those on an all day shoot without a body guard.
Bob.

BrianStanding wrote on 5/28/2005, 4:48 AM

The biggest savings I see from this type of technology is capture time. This is already a huge timesaver to those who are using DV Rack or one of the other direct to disk video capture options. I'm sure the price of the solid-state media will eventually come down to earth -- if the demand is there.

One thing I'm not clear on: do these latest media options operate faster for random access than a hard disk does? I know Memory Sticks seem to be quite a bit slower than HD.