Alex Gerulaitis
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[Tom Opdebeeck] “where can i find the preferences exactly? i already thought of this ;yself but couldn’t find the right files to delete (or I was a little too frustrated to keep searching…)”
Try this: hold down SHIFT+CONTROL when you start the program until the splash screen appears. (source)
Alex (DV411)
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[Tom Opdebeeck] “HDD2: WD Caviar Green 1500 GB (7200 rpm, 64mb) 2 partitions, 1 for source files, 1 for cache”
I am totally with Jeff on this one: WD Caviar Greens are rarely 7200rpm – mostly 5400rpm – on their good days. Partitioning them into caching and source segments for the purpose of editing high bandwidth video files is asking for trouble. It doesn’t mean necessarily this is the source of the problem – but it’s certainly outside of best practices.
Trash Premiere preferences, import one of the Windows sample video files (C:\Users\Public\Videos\Sample Videos\Wildlife.wmv), see if this one plays w/o stopping.
Alex (DV411)
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I don’t seem to have this issue (HP Z800, Win7-64, 12GB RAM, Quadro CX).
Are you running Pr 5.03?
You may want to post this question to Adobe Premiere forum, where it will likely get more attention from Adobe developers.
It’s been a long time since I wrote any code – so take my words with a grain of salt: Premiere most likely uses Windows UI API to draw menus, and possible causes for this delay may be: (1) Windows UI DLLs, (2) Premiere UI design, (3) corrupted or mangled Premiere preferences.
I’d start with (3): trash Pr prefs, see if it fixes it.
If it’s (1), reinstalling Windows may fix it; there is little you can do with (2).
Alex (DV411)
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[Shaun Gish] “Is there such a thing as an express card that connects to SAS? I have a tape drive that I’d like to connect to a MacBook Pro in the field (rather than bringing a tower with me).”
What’s the connector on the tape drive? Most likely it’s external MiniSAS SFF-8088 port, and I haven’t been able to find an ExpressCard-to-SAS adapter, so the PCIe extender solution from Magma (or a similar one) may be the only choice.
There is also one from StarTech for a bit less money; a matching ExpressCard adapter.
Alex (DV411)
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[David Payne] “There is a ridiculous heat sink in the way which is causing all of the problems. There is also no expansion slots above the PCI-E so that instantly rules out all double slot cards as I believe its always the case that the card is on the bottom and the spare slot above it”
Could you post a photo of your case open, maybe?
Alex (DV411)
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[Alex Geroulaitis] ” I doubt the next TBolt iteration will make the current one obsolete: that’s not what happened to USB – and even SCSI – or HDMI”
The issue however is not that the current version will become obsolete. It’s that it’s limited to motherboards with integrated graphics – i.e. laptops and entry-level nettops and desktops – basically making it unusable for heavy duty graphics applications – be it gaming, 4K editing or compositing.
Frankly I don’t understand the logic behind combining DP and PCIe in Thunderbolt. Separating them will make for an easy implementation of Thunderbolt on any computer with a PCIe slot. Combining them – confines Thunderbolt to systems with integrated graphics.
Your (probably not inexpensive) Thunderbolt storage box or broadcast IO device will not be able to connect to your main editing system – only to your laptop. Does this make sense?
Did Intel and Apple really envision Thunderbolt as exclusively mobile and light duty computer interface?
Alex
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[Bob Zelin] ” the next gen … will be … incompatible with what you already have (or it will slow down if you use your existing gear)”
Bob is right on the money – as we have yet to see any TBolt devices or killer app that make it more than just another bus, or a simple evolution of purely laptop based connectivity.
That said, I doubt the next TBolt iteration will make the current one obsolete: that’s not what happened to USB – and even SCSI – or HDMI. Because Thunderbolt is based on two protocols – PCIe and DP, there is no reason for future iterations to not be backward compatible, or to slow down with slower devices. PCIe is a switched bus, easily managing slower and faster devices.
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[Michael Kammes] “What about getting an 2 SSD drives in bay 1 & 2, and RAID that as mirrored (giving you full redundancy), then use standard HDDs in Slot 3 and 4?”
That’s a cool setup – about the best balance of performance, redundancy and capacity. The original poster seemingly wanted to get the maximum redundant capacity out of internal drives, and RAID5 is the only way to do it.
Stardom Pro Drive PD 2510 (2x SSD in RAID1) goes a step further putting two 2.5″ drives in one bay and hardware-mirroring (or striping) them.
If the budget allows, I’d rather not do a RAID5 on fewer than 6 drives – and then, I’d really prefer RAID6 on 8+. RAID5 is risky: it makes drives work too hard, and then when a drive fails, the load increases dramatically during rebuild. It’s fine for SSDs, but spinning drives are more likely to have another failure during rebuild, and then your data is really kaput.
So on mission critical data, it’s RAID6 – or RAID5 with daily backups.
Alex
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Someone elsewhere on this forum linked this CNet live blog:
10:19 a.m. (Dong Ngo) : The cable is not backward compatible with USB 3.0. Also you won’t be able to “upgrade” to this via add-in card. The only way to have it is getting a new computer/motherboard.
HTH
Alex
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[John Rowe] “Or is it just too dangerous with machines that are constantly needed for production?”
