Throwing out the Kool Aid

[Mitch Ives]

[Bob Zelin] “Walter tested out the new SAS RAID 5 product, not the 500P port multiplier that you refer to. “

I take it that this is a new product that isn’t on their site yet?

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com

Apple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro 5

[Walter Biscardi]

[Mitch Ives] “I take it that this is a new product that isn’t on their site yet?”

It’s the Fusion family that’s on their website but I’m not exactly certain if this model number is for sale yet. It was a 4TB model and it worked extremely well.

https://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusionfamily/index.html

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.

All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html

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[Ramona Howard]

I would just like to add that many major facilities worldwide are using our SATA DDR solutions and would differ that SATA doesn’t work for 10bit RGB and below and these guys are pounding the hell out of the systems. The proper hardware in the right hands will yield excellent results.

We just introduced an 8 drive rig that handles up to 4:4:4 and yes, it’s SATA.

You can get Crappy controllers and drives and some companies may choose to go on the cheap side for what they use but please remember even SATA can be expensive and you do get what you pay for.

my .02 cents
Ramona Howard

[Jeff Bernstein]

Bob,

Right you are. Do as I think, not as I say! I meant the R380.

Jeff

[John Ladle]

[Ramona Howard] “You can get Crappy controllers and drives and some companies may choose to go on the cheap side for what they use but please remember even SATA can be expensive and you do get what you pay for.”

Well put!

[Terence Curren]

[Shane Ross] “Don, I think that you and I and David Weiss should have lunch sometime. We are all in the Valley…I am in North Hollywood and David is a BIT farther north in Woodland Hills, right David?

Sit down, chat…complain about Avid and complain about FCP. Praise both. Whathaveyou.”

Or just come to an Editor’s Lounge sometime. 😉

http://www.editorslounge.com

Terence Curren
http://www.alphadogs.tv
http://www.digitalservicestation.com
Burbank,Ca

[Jean-jacques Briquet]

I have noticed that FCP really does not like project created in different versions, this just comes from experience so I never change versions until I am fully done.
And I also noticed that FCP does not like huge projects, they tend to correct. So the workaroudn I used is to create a Master Media project where I dig all the footage. Then I create subprojects for different sections and only work with the projects needed. I do Projects versions and save back ups every day. These back up strategies tend to become big in file size but with the price of HDs and thumb drives today it does not really matter.
On way bigger projects I have even made raw footage section projects to keep things manageable, opening a 100MB FCP project can take a while.

Anyway, I am sure all you guys already know all of this.

Jean-Jacques Briquet

[Mitch Ives]

[walter biscardi] “It’s the Fusion family that’s on their website but I’m not exactly certain if this model number is for sale yet. It was a 4TB model and it worked extremely well.

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Thanks Walter. How many drives were in that model… 4, 5, 8?

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com

Apple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro 5

[Walter Biscardi]

[Mitch Ives] “Thanks Walter. How many drives were in that model… 4, 5, 8?”

8

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.

All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html

Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi

[Gordon Gurley]

In 6 years of editing and supervising FCP projects, I’ve only seen 1 project truly blow up. It seemed to be a combination of media management problems and editor style. The editor was an experienced Avid guy and I convinced him to work in FCP for this project. I believe it was his nesting style that he was so used to in Avid that caused problems in FCP. He would cut a sequence, then drop that into a new timeline and start cutting that. NOT cut/paste but drop the monolithic sequence block into a new timeline. He would go through this process 3 or 4 times to get through his selects. It’s my opinion that FCP doesn’t like to work this way.

But I feel your pain. I too miss the lumbering stability of the Avid. Especially when it came time to master. In the rush to continually add features, Apple ignores the core instabilities that persist.