Alan Okey
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You’re VERY lucky that you didn’t hose your data or your motherboard by hot-swapping your drives. Hot swapping is most definitely NOT supported on the Mac Pro’s internal drives, and doing so could damage your system or your drives and void the warranty.
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The ghosting is most likely the result of frame blending interpolation due to the speed change. As was suggested in another response, it may be better to alter the audio speed instead.
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[Steve Eisen] “Make sure to resize your stills if they are high rez.”
This is great advice, even if it doesn’t solve your problem. Final Cut Pro WILL choke if you drop high resolution stills into the timeline. This happens even on fast multi-core Macs with lots of RAM. Not sure if it’s just a shortcoming of the FCP code, or if it happens with most editing software.
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[Shane Ross] “Do you need to see true broadcast colors? If so, this is the combination for you.”
I think it’s debatable whether or not Apple Cinema Displays show “true broadcast colors.” HD broadcast is ITU709, and as far as I know the only low-cost (under $20K) LCD or plasma displays that claim accurate ITU709 reproduction are Panasonic’s recently released Professional 1080p displays.
The Cinema Displays are SWAP certified, but that’s a print-centric designation, not a video-centric designation.
Anyone have any detailed info on this?
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Additional details:
https://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=373125
Judging from the comments on the thread, you might want to consider SoftRaid. Also, this could be useful:
“It is recommended to mirror the drives first and then stripe them(raid 1+0). This way if you lose any drive you only have to rebuild one drive after the swap. If you do it the other way around (stripe first), then you have to rebuild a striped volume set from the mirror and this means rebuilding 2 drives even if just one failed.”
Good luck.
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Yes, you can create RAID 0+1 on a Mac Pro using Apple’s Disk Utility.
Here is the proper procedure, from Apple’s support website:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304377
Good luck.
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Most of Apple’s production software came from other companies:
Color – formerly Final Touch from Silicon Color
Shake – from NothingReal
DVD Studio Pro – technology from Spruce/Astarte
Final Cut Pro – formerly Final Cut from Macromedia
Final Cut Server – formerly Artbox from Proximity
Logic – from Emagic
LiveType – technology from Prismo Graphics
Cinema Tools – formerly Film Logic from Digital Film Tree
Apple’s strength is in being able to unify these disparate products into a cohesive bundle and enhance their interoperability.
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There’s a tutorial for Shake’s Smooth Cam feature right here on the Cow:
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[Russell Lasson] “Shake is the way to go if you want to upconvert. I’m a little rusty with it and don’t have the time to dig in right now. It’s not exactly user friendly either. You could try After Effects first to see if you like the results. It’s easier to use.”
Upconverting in Shake is trivial. Simply add a file in node, a scale node, and a file out node. The scale node offers several different filter methods, so you can compare results to see which filter produces the best output.
You can also use Qmaster to render Shake’s output, which will make the most efficient use of all cores/CPUs on the host system.
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[easyease] “1280x 768 15:9 on the BT-LH1700W
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1366×768 16:9 on the BT-LH2600
Wouldn’t it be neccessary to have 1920×1080 for critical mastering?”
If you absolutely have to have full pixel-for-pixel resolution, you can always buy one of Panasonic’s native 1080p plasmas. Check out the TH-50PF9UK, a full 1080p native resolution display, for about $6K:
JVC’s 48″ D-ILA HD monitor is also highly rated – it’s reported to be equal to or better than Sony’s flagship HD CRT monitors. Oh, and be prepared to pay about $45K.
https://pro.jvc.com/prof/attributes/features.jsp?model_id=MDL101554
Good luck!