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Hi,
I manage the production facilities for a client who does film restoration. Right now the entire workflow is built around DPX. From scanning to mastering, everything is DPX. We also archive all of the scans and masters on LTO tape, and have gathered a petabyte of data.
I was wondering if we could change our workflow to something more modern, that utilises some mathematical compression to save space. DPX is entirely uncompressed, and it just seems like something we would do in the old days because CPU power was the bottleneck and DPX was universally adopted across software packages. Now the bottleneck has become storage and bandwidth. Our SAN environment is ageing and will soon need replacement, and the budgets are tight. I started looking at alternatives, such as a NAS. Unfortunately the data troughput of a NAS is not as high as that of a SAN, and doubt it cloud handle more than one 4k DPX stream. 10gbe also has not enough bandwidth to transport even a single 4k DPX stream.
So long question short: is there something else we can use other than DPX that is a lot smaller in size, but retains the original quality?
I come looking for some advice, all is welcome!
Kind regards,
Nick
I manage the production facilities for a client who does film restoration. Right now the entire workflow is built around DPX. From scanning to mastering, everything is DPX. We also archive all of the scans and masters on LTO tape, and have gathered a petabyte of data.
I was wondering if we could change our workflow to something more modern, that utilises some mathematical compression to save space. DPX is entirely uncompressed, and it just seems like something we would do in the old days because CPU power was the bottleneck and DPX was universally adopted across software packages. Now the bottleneck has become storage and bandwidth. Our SAN environment is ageing and will soon need replacement, and the budgets are tight. I started looking at alternatives, such as a NAS. Unfortunately the data troughput of a NAS is not as high as that of a SAN, and doubt it cloud handle more than one 4k DPX stream. 10gbe also has not enough bandwidth to transport even a single 4k DPX stream.
So long question short: is there something else we can use other than DPX that is a lot smaller in size, but retains the original quality?
I come looking for some advice, all is welcome!
Kind regards,
Nick
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Core i9 7920X, 32GB RAM
GTX 1080 Ti 11GB
Blackmagic DeckLink Mini Monitor 4K
Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera
Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve Studio 15