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Al Williamson
August 20, 2009 at 5:15 pm in reply to: New Mac Pro with RAID 5 crashes using FCP…Help???

I have just acquired a Mac Pro with three internal 1 TB drives (four drives total but one is for the OS/Apps) along with a Mac RAID controller. I have yet to set the RAID up because I’m debating over going with an internal RAID 0 or RAID 5– I’m very aware of the pros/cons of RAID 0 but I’m also wondering about going RAID 5, as this Mac Pro will be a Final Cut station working primarily with footage from our new Panasonic HPX-300. While we might shoot some on AVCIntra-100, more than likely we’ll be shooting DVCProHD in most cases. But I want to be sure RAID 5, with the Mac RAID card, can handle it. I’ve read the many detractors about the Mac RAID card but guess I should have looked into it before I made my purchase– it was purchased with “move-or-you-lose” money so I had little time to do heavy research.

Thanks for any suggestions!

BTW, I did check the CalDigit RAID and on their web site it says “The CalDigit RAID Card does not support use of an internal RAID on (Early2009) Mac Pros, but use of HDElements is fully supported.” Does this mean the CalDigit card would not work with the Mac Pro internal drives if I was to look into it?
Al Williamson
May 11, 2009 at 12:35 pm in reply to: Photoshop TIFFs won’t work with Final Cut

It was the preset. I copied all the original layers to a Photoshop video preset and it worked. Thanks so much for responding!
Al Williamson
May 7, 2009 at 1:33 pm in reply to: Problem importing a TIFF file into FCP

Oh yeah, I’m using Photoshop CS4 and Final Cut 6.0.4 on a Mac Pro running OS 10.5.6
Al Williamson
May 7, 2009 at 1:30 pm in reply to: Problem importing a TIFF file into FCP

I have this seen this same issue.

Using Richard Harrington’s “Photoshop for Video” podcasts entitled “Making Lower Thirds – Part 1 & 2”, I followed the directions explicitly (well, I was using my own graphics and not the podcasts) and when I tried to import the resulting TIFF into Final Cut, I got the message “File Error: 1 file(s) recognized, 0 access denied, 1 unknown”

Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks!
Al Williamson
August 6, 2007 at 4:46 pm in reply to: HVR-1500 Not Accepting FCP 6 Output

Thanks for your input!

After posting my request for help, I continued to dig through the manual/deck menus and found the same menus you mentioned and was able to tweak our 1500 into accepting DV from our FCP.

But your post was very helpful nonetheless– if not only to me, to others experiencing the same issue.

Thanks again!

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