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FCP connected to UNITY issues
I’m working at a post facility that has about 6 fcp workstations running fcp 5.1.4 on Mac OS 10.4.9. They are connected on a Fiber Network to a UNITY somewhere in the next building over. Here are my major beefs and I’m wondering if I can suggest a fix to tech support:
1 – Switching applications
When I switch to any other application and then switch back into fcp, depending on the size of the project I’m working in, it takes upwards of 30 seconds for the beachball to go away so I can finally work with fcp again. The editors I’m working with hate it, and I would love to be able to fix it for them.2 – Renaming/Splitting of quicktime files
When capturing files to the networked storage, sometimes what would normally capture as a single QT file will be split with a “-v” and “-v-1” appended to the file name. I’ve been told this is because of how the physical drives are formatted, and that nothing can be done to avoid it.Anyone share my pain/have a solution.
Thanks,
jack
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I’m at a facility with 4 Avids on a Unity, and 6 FCPs that we would LOVE to put on the Unity (or other SAN) – but we’ve never been able to get satisfactory performance out of the Unity on FCP. We had issues with media going offline WAY too often.
Avid claims they fixed that in unity ver 4.2, and we currently have a demo version of Unity v5, which their “Open Storage Initiative” claims it will work with 50 applications – but we have not even been able to log in to the new systems. We’ve been on tech support with Avid for 3 hours, we’ve swapped fibrecards, we’ve reformatted everything twice, and they eventually told us to send the demo version back and let them rebuild it from the ground up.
So… sorry, no solutions, but I definitely feel your pain!
Dave Jahns
Joint Editorial
Portland, OR
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