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I have been thinking about getting an Effect* system, which uses O2 hardware, but I'm wondering... does effect use M-JPEG compression or would I be stuck having to rig together the bandwidth for uncompressed video? I'm pretty sure Jale02 uses M-JPEG.

Effect does not use MJPEG.

As to storage, you really are supposed to use the Discreet drive arrays anyway, so you don't really have to worry about rigging together a fast enough array.

If you were using a discreet array, there are plenty of single drives that can saturate UW scsi without an entire array. On my O2, I have 2 such 18 gig seagate drives on two buses striped for very fast performance.

Just bear in mind that effect can be configured to use any drive attached to the system as a framestore, which includes non-discreet drive arrays and even the system drive. A single fast drive, as mentioned, would be enough to provide realtime playback of uncompressed NTSC/PAL video, which requires about 30MB/s of bandwidth.

Hmm, not sure how I got it in my head that effect used mjpeg. Knowing this, though, I think I would rather seek out an Octane-based system, either Discreet or perhaps with IFX Piranha. Way less rendering time anyway.