[Al Sinclair]

Hi,

I don’t even get as far as the Media Manager settings window – it’s taking all this time to build the list of used media…

I offlined at DV PAL, and am hoping to online at Uncompressed 10bit through my Kona 2. I don’t even get as far as selecting that, though.

FCP is version 5.1.4.

[Al Sinclair]

I read somewhere that this can be caused by some anti-virus software…

I get the same thing from time to time.

I usually just restart the render and things seem to sort themselves out.

Al.

[Al Sinclair]

Wow.

What a difference a driver makes.

Pixels have gone, and I now have realtime effects! Should’ve checked the drivers first – cheers, Jerry.

I have to say a big thanks to AJA support, who were great at guiding through the process. And were ready to despatch a new card/box tomorrow if the drivers didn’t work. But they did. Hurrah!

[Al Sinclair]

Hi there,

Also having this problem…

The blue pixels appear and disappear randomly all over the screen – only really noticeable when the sceen is mainly black, but if they’re going to get layed off onto tape, then we’re in trouble. Haven’t got a recordable deck in yet, so can’t check this.

Luckily the specks don’t appear to be on the actual footage – a frame-by-frame analysis shows that thay’re never in the same place on the same frame. They’ll even disappear when parked on a still image.

I’ve played a HD tape directly into the monitor (great big Sony multiformat thing), and the specks aren’t there, so the problem must be coming from the card. Yes?

I’ve noticed that they don’t appear when playing a slug or matte generated in FCP – only on captured footage.

I’ve checked my Easy Setup, changed it back and forwards, but the specks are still hanging around.

Anyone managed to fix this? …or are we looking at a dodgy card here?

Many thanks,

Al

FCP 5.0.4
AJA Kona 2
EonStor 1.7TB SCSI RAID
OSX 10.4.4
8GB RAM
2.7GHz G5

[Al Sinclair]

…well that’s positive, then!

So are firewire drives simply not happy when they’re chained?