[Andrea Stewart]

Ummm, yeah…

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

Thanks Michael. Yes, I figured I’d have to re-capture. Basically I just wanted to verify that its okay to do the convert on ingest rather than work in a sequence with multiple codecs. I didn’t want to have to render every time I hit one of the DVCPro50 clips in the sequence.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

No, I decided to just go in firewire. Perhaps I should have done SDI.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

I’m in NTSC, monitoring on both an NTSC monitor and an LCD client monitor.

I tried the shift fields – to no effect.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

Thanks Jeremy. I have the original Io. No Kona, No HD.

When I eventually get a Kona and hook up via HDMI, is it more likely to keep sync then?

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

Absolute newest – LE 2.3.2

https://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=372311&ssdFilterCommunity15=1408&ssdFilterCommunity13=0&ssdFilterCommunity11=0&ssdFilterCommunity10=368&ssdFilter_SearchKeyWord=codecs&page=1&ssdSearchOperator=0&ssdFilterCommunity3=1083&Hilite=codecs

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

For the internal RAID, out of 1.36 TB, I have 790GB left., and for the eSATA, I have 1.7 out of 1.8TB available.

Sometimes both connected, sometimes not. Generally I only have one project open at a time. And I did turn off the dropped frames pref b/c it was bothering me while editing with the client.

Ran the AJA system test (thanks for pointing me to it). Of course I have no idea how to interpret the results, but I found that Read rates on the internal drive dropped below 60MBsec and even down to 9 for a frame. I’m working in a ProRes NTSC timeline with media encoded the same. On average Read was 160MB and Write was 112MB. Similar results on the write. They also seem to start slow for the first few frames of the test.

I suspect those 9MB/sec moments are when I’m experiencing dropped frames and audio stops playing.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

No render files on the system drive. Used Spotlight and see that I do have multiple Audio Render folders on the appropriate drives. (you know how you always end up creating extra instances of FCP Documents folders when setting the capture scratch drive.) I don’t think that should matter. I can move them all together, but I think that will confuse the system even more.

Is there a way to test the throughput of your drives? I don’t think I can de-Frag a RAID, but I have run verify and repair and everything has been reported as fine.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

Also, are you viewing them fully rendered in an NTSC monitor? If you are judging based on what’s in your canvas, they can look soft, especially if the canvas size is not set to 100%.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

George, I’m presuming you mean DE-interlace for the web, no interlace, since the web is only progressive.

First, Do not use the de-interlace filter in FCP. Compressor will do a better job, but be warned it can add extra hours to compressing when set at BEST.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC