would be nice if you could….

[Dom Silverio]

Any Avid. Press JKL while on Frame or thumbnail view.

[Shane Ross]

[bogiesan] “ood lord, Ross, you actually READ my stuff? “

Heck yeah. Cookman is teh main Grump, but you and are are mini-grumps. I like your stuff.

[Frank Pledge]

here here!!!

now that everyone FINALLY got their multi-cam editing it’s time to get serious about the media manager. i personally think it’s the number one thing keeping FCP from moving foward in a big way. Every ‘Avid person’ i speak to who is hesitant ALWAYS talks about the uprezing/’consolidating’ things they’ve heard or experienced.

that coupled with really reliable layoffs. a complaint i’ve heard across the board as well (and experienced) is the uncertainty of layoffs (drop frames, skips and jumps WITHOUT error report). this btw – occurs with regular old DV FCP self contained movies on roomy drives.

so we can do hd of all kinds now let’s step back and re-do the MM…. for real

fp

[Walter Biscardi]

[frankpledge] “that coupled with really reliable layoffs. a complaint i’ve heard across the board as well (and experienced) is the uncertainty of layoffs (drop frames, skips and jumps WITHOUT error report). this btw – occurs with regular old DV FCP self contained movies on roomy drives.”

Dropped frames is a symptom of drive issues not getting the media throughput to FCP. I’ve never seen a report of dropped or skipped frames that didn’t come back to the drives and / or controller card. Having plenty of room on a drive doesn’t mean the performance will be there. Fragmentation and the speed of the drive itself will give you more or less performance. Too many folks take the “speed test” of a drive to be absolute law of performance and that’s simply not the case in real world editing. You don’t know how much performance a drive is really going to give you until you start pushing it. I run 8bit and 10bit SD and HD using a combination of FW800 and Fibre Channel arrays to ensure plenty of overhead in speed.

I’ve also never experienced a layoff that didn’t give me a warning if it dropped frames so that’s a new one on me.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
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[Frank Pledge]

dropped frame warning – yes

skip/jump – no. it’s like a digital skip or maybe like a frame or 2 jump. very agonizing on long (20-30min) layoff. a friend of mine had created a checklist of ‘workarounds’ that essentially prepped the computer to do a layoff. it was involved and taxing.

in terms of drive performance, i agree, but i have experienced this with drives that have been de-fragged, directory repaired etc. what else can one do short of a raid array? it was dv…

i’m just thankful that i haven’t had to do it in a while and sata and FW800 raids have become cheap and available in the event that i do.

fp