Open Cut v2 – It has arrived

Well, I just received my G-Raid mini (250Gb) with my Open Cut v2 footage.

For those that don’t know, Open Cut is a competition where professionals, to ametures can get some pre-recorded Red One footage, and edit it together.

What is Red One? Well Red One is a new, fully digital, very amazing video camera that can shoot up to 4K resolution. This is the start of the end for Film.
The body of the camera alone costs USD$17,500 and a semi-decent setup with lens, hard drive, and other bits will set you back around $30,000. A lot?Not really when you are making a 5 million dollar film.

Anyway, back to the G-Raid hard drive.
The external 250Gb drive accepts both USB and Firewire, and doesn’t need an external power source, unlike my 500Gb external drive.

Unfortunately however, the drive came pre-formatted with a Mac OSX partition.

Thankfully I had previously installed Ubuntu (a Linux distribution) on my Laptop that can read the partition,
and I am currently copying the 120Gb of Red One footage onto another external HDD I have, so I can format the G-Raid drive for windows (likely NTFS), and then copy the data back again.

Instead of booting into Linux I could have installed the trial version of MacDrive, on one of my Windows PC’s, however the reviews I read of that particular program were rather bad, with people having to boot into safe mode to load a previous system restore point.
Aren’t computers great…. when they work :P

Anyway, for anyone in the Adelaide (South Australia) area that is interested in editing some RedOne footage let me know and you can get a copy of it from me.

For more information regarding the Open Cut competition visit http://www.opencut.org/