P2 Genie and FCP 5.1.2

[Jeremy Garchow]

Bryan, for what it’s worth, I have not had any import issues with FCP 5.1.2. I just had to restore a project the other day that was originally cut on FCP 5.0.4. It was roughly I reimported everything with FCP 5.1.2 and everything came i rock solid, except for one clip. The clip had an error saying it was incomplete, I told FCP to try again and it came in. This was 13 8 Gigs cards full of material. Don’t worry about it too much, just be cautious. FCP 5.1.2 made some dramatic improvements in p2 import implementation that work nicely. If you are using a P2 store, just make sure every card mounts by going into the disk utility and mounting every thing that says NO NAME if it isn’t mounted already.

Jeremy

[Bryan Roberts]

Jeremy, great to hear. I’ll be giving it a whirl late tonight – thankfully though everyone decided against the slippery slope that is the firestore (which had me greatly worried) and they’re just using p2 cards like we’ve done many times before.

Shane – well count it at 2.5 people 🙂 , I have most of the pieces here for the popsicle raid but I haven’t actually assembled it OFFICIALLY yet – I’m still trying to hunt down the y splitters for the power cables (where the hell did you find those and what exactly do they look like) and figure out if there’s a way to keep my dvd burner (optical drive) still powered because I’ll be burning many dvd’s of my editors cut for producers etc. etc. and I’d rather not have to pop the case open and swap power cables just to burn one …

Any ideas?

[Shane Ross]

[Bryan R] “I’m still trying to hunt down the y splitters for the power cables (where the hell did you find those and what exactly do they look like)”

Like this:

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/BELKIN/F2N503/

Read all about it here:

https://lfhd.blogspot.com/2006/09/popsicle-sata.html

I take the power out of the Optical, plug it into the splitter, then one end of the splitter back into the optical, and the other end into ANOTHER splitter, and then add ANOTHER splitter (this is a lot of splitting, but it works) to get it to work with 4 drives. Look on the link for all the stuff you need.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Jeremy Garchow]

In my exploits, the p2 workflow is pretty stable, I have no experience with the firestore, and I’m glad you won’t have to deal with it either.

This is the power cord you are looking for:

https://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=706076

[Bryan Roberts]

SHANE: “I take the power out of the Optical, plug it into the splitter, then one end of the splitter back into the optical, and the other end into ANOTHER splitter, and then add ANOTHER splitter (this is a lot of splitting, but it works) to get it to work with 4 drives”

Ah, I’ll take your word for it that it isn’t too much of a strain on one power source for all these splits – and ofcourse that’s what the cable looks like (smacks forehead and stupid question). I just found them at Newegg and am getting all my components there (my favorite store and they’re in socal so shipping is 1-2 days usually). Gotta love it!

Thanks you guys!

[Bryan Roberts]

Oh, forgot to mention I’m on a dual core 2.3 g5 so PCIe and I’m going sonnet with just the 4 internal SATA ports (not the 4+4) since I won’t be going external anytime soon and if I do, I’ll rig up something to run the cables out the back anyways…

[Shane Ross]

[Bryan R] “I won’t be going external anytime soon and if I do, I’ll rig up something to run the cables out the back anyways…”

Like this:

https://lfhd.blogspot.com/2007/01/modified-quiet-tower.html

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net