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Drive self eject?
Have been working for a production company recutting some short form work.
The system, adrenaline/ mc 2.7- hp tower, is in a bit of a mess as one of the drives had failed, so media recovered and moved, and so its getting pretty full.
So a large bunch of omfs were transfered to a maxtor firewire drive.
Projects reopened, relinked, recut to maxtor, working in 2:1. Via 400. Each spot is about 40″. Fine.When it comes to exporting, get halfway through doing qt ref and drive seems to eject itself?
Causing avid/ pcu to crash. When try to open qt’s, same thing.The only reason I can think of is the drive isn’t fast enough. There is only firewire400 card on pcu.
An 800 connection should be adequate for uncompressed though?Or maybe there is a bigger problem? Any help and ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Many Thanks,
Seb
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Dunno what’s happening, but (depending on the complexity of your show), exporting by ref does not always work. But 40″ should not be a problem.
Few tips:
Make sure all effects are rendered.
Do NOT have ‘avid’ black in your timeline. If you need black, make a short video mixdown of black and insert that.Do not open QT’s that are half finished, you can’t trust them.
If all fails, make a video mixdown and put it on top of the shows.
Having a drive self-eject sounds scary, and i cannot imagine how that relates to QT export.
Cheap drives are mostly sold formatted Fat32. I have seen that fail quite often. Format them as NTFS as soon as you can.
Bouke
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Had some black space in timeline, so will try the black mixdown thing, and/ or entire video mixdown.
Couple of other things I forgot to mention.
At some point there was ‘cannot export from this bin’
and a quaratined omf thing. What is that?Figured at 400 drive couldn’t do the write/ read speed needed for 2:1?
Will try to get drive reformated also.
Thanks again
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