Alex Gerulaitis
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[Bob Zelin] “oh, and just stop it with the Dell server nonsense for a Mac facility. “
Bob, will anyone in a Mac facility know or care there is an iSCSI target set up on a Dell server? Just curious.
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[Kannan Raghavan] “From Apple support I learned that the MacPro RAID card is to be left on 24/7 or else the battery fails. “
ATTO with CacheAssure is a good choice since it uses an SSD rather than a battery. Areca does use a battery and may enter a similar state as a Mac Pro RAID card after the system was off for a while.
Alex Gerulaitis
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[Johan Windh] “However, I do need a good card to handle AE in a decent way, or maybe OpenGL is not the way to go in AE..”
Could you explain, what you mean by “handle AE in a decent way”?
Possibly you are looking for a graphics, and not a video I/O card?
Alex Gerulaitis
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[Anhtu Vu] “I tried different playback settings in PP, they all yield the same result…for example, this particular file is in 1080psf @23.976, codec is DnxHD, i have the playback set at, 1080p23.98 custom with DnxHD codec. playback is still stuttery”
Anhtu,
Have you tried to re-encode the video into something else (e.g. H.264), and see if it still stutters?
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
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The .mov (QuicTime) file is encoded in a very exotic way. The codec shows “HDV 1080i50”, yet QT player shows actual res at 1888×1062 – and plays audio only. Neither Premiere Pro CS5 nor AME can load it: “bad codec”.
Converted to H.264 1080i50 (1440×1080) using Handbrake, Premiere Pro CS5 crashes importing it; AME reports “unknow error” trying to encode it.
Converted to WMV using Windows Movie Maker (WMM) into a 1080i29.97, the resulting file plays fine in Premiere Pro. Here it is.
I am mystified – and don’t have time to work more on it – maybe later. My guess – the file is encoded in an exotic way and even though Handbrake can see it, it encodes it with errors. WMM encodes it successfully, even if with a different frame rate.
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA -
[Sareesh Sudhakaran] “…. I don’t see the point of wasting money on SDI cards just to drive a monitor.”
Sareesh,
Have you found Premiere Pro full screen monitoring adequate? I haven’t: panning sequences have ripping in them, as if it’s a sort of a rolling shutter effect – absent when the same video is played through BMD Intensity Shuttle, for instance.
Not sure I can trust Premiere Pro’s FS output (along with the OS, graphics card driver and hardware and everything else involved) for accurate monitoring, even if they say it’s color accurate.
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA -
[Johan Windh] “The main monitor is a JVC model no. DT-V24L1D”
Love that monitor. If I remember right, the “D” model has SDI in and pass-through?
In that case, and assuming you don’t need hardware scaling or down conversion, Decklink SDI will do.
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA -
What is the purpose of the card? If monitoring, what monitor is it?
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA -
Can you make a small sample (under 30-40MB), upload it to Google Drive, Dropbox or a similar service, and post a link here so it could be downloaded and tested?
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA -
Don’t use 1607 – slow memory access. E5-1620 minimum.
Upgrading to 16GB RAM isn’t a lot more money – and really worth it.
My favorite base Z420: B2B94UT at $2199, also here fully configured.
Ideally, get it graphics-less and add a GeForce GTX-660Ti for about $300 – much stronger than a Quadro 2000. If you must, go with Quadro 2000, but not the SDI version – Premiere Pro does not need or use the SDI part of it.
What Blackmagic card do you have on the Mac and why do you need it?
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA