Alan Okey
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Another update:
After a Pro App update and a restart, the field order on 720×480 sources is wrong again. Reinstalling the latest driver again didn’t help.
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Update:
I just updated to the latest Intensity driver and apparently this issue has been corrected. I still wish I were using my Kona, though…
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Update:
I just updated to the latest driver and this issue has been corrected.
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[Bill Thomas] “So, here’s a question on my S2VR drive: If it supports RAID 1, how can it mirror the drives if there are 5 drives inside? I thought it had to be an even number of drives for RAID 1. “
You’re absolutely right, RAID-1 needs an even number of drives. My apologies, I was mistakenly looking at the specs for the S2VR Duo, not for the S2VR Pro or S2VR HD.
The 5-drive S2VR HD appears to support either RAID-5 or RAID-3, but it’s simply called “protected” mode on the web page so I can’t tell which RAID level it uses. In either case, its protected mode would allow you to tolerate the failure of one drive without losing data.
I’d suggest that you post on the CalDigit forum for expert answers about the technical details and capabilities of your array.
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David,
The S2VR is a legacy CalDigit product that only does RAID-0, RAID-1 or JBOD. There’s no onboard RAID-5 controller.
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I don\’t trust them – they\’re RAID-0. If one of the drives In it fails, you lose everything.
One of my clients had a lower capacity model and he got hosed when the G-RAID stopped working. He had to pay a fortune for data retrieval.
What CalDigit RAID do you own? If it\’s RAID-5, then there\’s no comparison. You\’d be comparing a protected RAID to Russian roulette.
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No. Download and install MPEG Streamclip and use it to convert your source media to ProRes 422 first.
https://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
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[John Benton] “I’m working with footage that is coming straight off a cheap Aiptek HD camera.”
Unsurprisingly, what you get is a cheap recording format unsupported by a professional editing application.
[John Benton] “. The apple site lists 720P at 60fps as supported.”
Only if it’s in a standard editing codec like DVCPRO HD, XDCAM EX, Apple ProRes, Uncompressed 8 or 10 bit, etc. h.264 is a delivery codec, not an editing codec. It’s a highly compressed codec that’s optimized for low-bandwidth playback, not frame-accurate editing.
Do a quick search of the Cow FCP forum for h.264 and find out how to work with this format (if you must).
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Compressor, Shake or After Effects will do a much better job of upscaling than FCP. If you use Compressor, be sure to turn on Frame Controls in the inspector tab and select Best for the Resize Filter.
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What are your sequence settings? If you’re editing in an NTSC DV sequence, your graphics will look awful no matter what. Try ProRes 422 instead.