[Alisa Placas]

I uninstalled Version Cue CS2 and that seems to have fixed the problem. So far so good…

Alisa Placas
Lucid Animation
Cambridge, MA

[Alisa Placas]

Finally got it all working. Thanks for the advice!

Alisa Placas
Lucid Animation
Cambridge, MA

[Alisa Placas]

I forgot to add that I AM able to digitize via FireWire with iMovieHD. However, this is not the application that I wish to use.
Any ideas on what settings are wrong? Or how to fix this “missing” apple DV setting?

thanks..

[Alisa Placas]

That is the setting I selected.
Under A/V devices, however, it says [Missing] Apple FireWire NTSC (720×480)

This used to work.

[Alisa Placas]

Whew!
I downloaded Kona’s VTR XChange app and my DVCPro renders look beautiful.
I was hoping they had their own app. I have a Blackmagic at home and tend to use their native viewer to watch animations since I’m not needing to edit anything.

So, I don’t know what I am doing wrong with the Final Cut settings though. I’d still like to figure that out.
I started a new project with the Easy SetUp of Kona LH- 1080i 29.97 DVCProHD.
I imported a DVCProHD animation and the image looks the same in both the viewer and the canvas. The motion is still stuttering.

I wanted to try a fresh project with captured video rather than the rendered animations.
We tried connecting an HD camera to digitize from (the decks are out on jobs), but weren’t able to get either Final Cut or XChange to recognize the video source.

Thanks sooo much for all the help.
I have what I need to continue working. I will continue try to help their guy here try to figure out the Final Cut issue though.

[Alisa Placas]

I erased 100GB of media and now the G-Speed has 699GB of free space.

I rendered out small 5 sec clips of some of the animations so that the final DVCProHD quicktimes are only 70MB each. They are still stuttering in Final Cut.

I tried seeing if Disk Utility would ‘fix’ anything on the G-Speed, but it was not able to unmount and inspect the disk.

what should I try next?

thanks..
alisa

[Alisa Placas]

Thanks, Bob.

I realized pretty immediately that this system would not playback the TIFFs or the uncompressed Kona media.
I was pretty confident that it should be able to handle DVCProHD media though.
As I mentioned, they have previously done an edit in here with DVCProHD with no problems.

The G-Speed was set at Raid 3, but I changed it to Raid 0.
It is a SCSI connection.

Yes, this is frustrating and I am not much of a tech specialist. But, I am a freelancer and am used to being left on my own to figure stuff out…with the aid of the amazingly helpful people on this site.
This is my husband’s company. They really only shoot video (he’s a cameraman), but they just bought this system to archive their stuff and to rent out to freelance editors. Their tech guy is a college student that they just hired and who is currently out on a shoot for the next three weeks. SO, if I want to use this equipment, I am the one that has to figure out why it isn’t working. It is worth it since they are letting me use it for free!

Could the G-Speed have too much media on it? I am currently copying 100GB to something else so I can dump it off the G-Speed.

I could digitize some stuff and play it back, but not until Monday. They’ve got a huge equipment room full of stuff downstairs, but no one is here to direct me to the decks. And I’ve got to head home to feed the baby. troubleshooting on all fronts…..

Alisa

[Alisa Placas]

Gary,
I apologize. I didn’t know what the problem was related to, so I wasn’t sure which forum to post my query. I didn’t realize you guys monitored each forum.

This time, my Kona Test with the file size set to 512MB and the Video Frame size set to DVCProHD 1080i60, I got a write: 196MB/s and read: 166.3MB/s.

My quicktimes were rendered with the DVCProHD codec, 1080i, 29.97, upper field first.

My Final Cut easy setup is DVCProHD 1080i.

The card is a Kona LH video card with an SDI out to a Panasonic HD flatscreen monitor (BT-LH1700W).

I am not sure what you mean by this, “Your Gtech array should be able to play back 1080 DVCPROHD content, if it is not DVCPROHD – no it cannot. ”

If this 1TB G-Speed is not fast enough to playback DVCProHD, then what array would they need to upgrade it to?

Thanks for your help.

[Alisa Placas]

Sorry. When I said “new,” I meant that they bought it about three months ago, so I’m working on a new system with the most up-to-date apps and drivers and such.
It is a 1TB G-Speed.

I did the Disk Read/Write test with the video frame size “DVCProHD 1080i60” and file size 128MB and got write=202.6MB/s and read=244.3MB/s

with a file size of 256MB, I got write=134.4MB/s and read=162.9MB/s

with the file size set to 512MB, I got write=159/1MB/s and read=152.5MB/s

I did a “Desk Read Existing File” test on a quicktime that is 247.2MB in size.
I got a read of 171.9MB/s
And the same test on a file that is 357.1MB and got a read of 167.2MB/s.

So, it sounds like it is too slow to play files of this size, right?

I know that they went back and forth quite a bit when buying this system, trying to ensure that they were purchasing something that would be fast enough to edit in HD.
If this system is too slow, what DO they need?

thanks for your help..

[Alisa Placas]

Hi!
Where are you? Will you be there long?
I am at DGA on 50 Hunt Street in Watertown.
Alisa