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Bad Renders….
I have 5 different FCP wrk stations and all of them get bad renders…. Video flickers off and on, Using a garbage matte and the video under the clip is black. Alpha channels show though till you render them. We usually do something to force the clip to be unrendered then render again, and after a few tries it will work.
These are all HD projects. The Clips are ProRess HQ or XDCAM HD. All of the effects are stock FCP effects. The sequence setting are ether ProRess or Uncompressed. And all of the workstations have the ATI 1900 and lated and greatest MacPros.
The Renders are also kicking our buts. We have to let the shows render overnight. They usually take about 4 hours for a single show. Can I put in a fast graphics card for FCP?
Thanx for any input.
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What’s your storage situation?
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Everyone pulls from 4 xServe Raids, and 3 Seagate 750gig drives striped as one small raid on each work station for local storage… (Final Cut Pro Documents) We don’t have any playback issues when rolling off to tape in HD. So I’m not worried about drive speed.
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[Dan Nethery] “So I’m not worried about drive speed.”
It’s not that I am worried about. What are you using for your sharing software?
This seems like it could be a networking issue to me if all the computers are attached.
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We are using SanMP. “www.studionetworksolutions.com”. It works good as long as you know it’s limitations.If you have machine just shut off wile still connected to one of the raids in Read/Write permissions. It usually takes about about hour to recover Read/Write permissions to that raid. But besides those kind of things it’s great.
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Yeah, I’m not real familiar with that setup, but I have seen similar problems with shared storage on this forum before. I am NOT saying that it’s to blame, but I am suggesting that it’s somewhere to look.
If all of your machines are experiencing this, you have to look at what’s common to every machine.
Jeremy
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Sorry to butt in. In the olden days of SCSI-RAID on our media 100, any and all rendering issues were directly attributable to the data path. It was usually a SCSI connector or terminator but sometimes the SCSI controller card had to be flashed and the EPROMS reloaded.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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That seems quite odd. I work at a facility with a SNS SANMP. That disconnect does take awhile, but it only takes a few minutes here not an hour. The facility has 2 macs connected.
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