Playback software like RV and DJV have 64-bit versions, but the bigger problem is being constrained to 32-bit OS's..

That said, even with a 32-bit machine and the Linux bigmem patches, I've been able to load most shots into memory (bigmem allows the kernel to address more than 4GB of RAM, but individual processes are still limited to ~4GB each)

For longer sequences there was a review machine with a fast local RAID, and scripts to send shots to this machine

In an ideal world, a 64-bit OS with 64-bit playback software would make this a non-issue, but I wonder, could an average workstation decode Cineon files straight from a SATA II drive? Theoretically it should (~11MB * 24fps == 264MB/s, SATA II == 384MB/s), reality might disagree

By: dbr [ Editor ]