[Barry O’brien]

Thank you very much for your configuration. I have one question: I couldn’t find the NVIDIA GTX680 Graphics Card. Is that an older card? Is there another version that would work?

Thanks in advance for your answer.

Barry

[Barry O’brien]

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer! So 32 Gbs RAM is needed… OK

[Barry O’brien]

May I ask you a question? I am setting up a Mac Pro 8 core to edit EDCAM footage in Adobe Premier.

two quick questions: to get the best efficiency out of the Premier Mercury Engine, whould you recommend the Quadro 4000? How much RAM do you think that I might need? Right now, the machine had 8Gbs.

I thank you for your time.

Best Regards,

Barry O’Brien

[Barry O’brien]

OK, before anyone steps up to help me on UDF, which I will be fascinated to discover, I want to add a bit more.

I have a shoot tomorrow and I have to edit tomorrow night, so I thought, “maybe I should try the FAT setting, instead.” The setting FAT wasn’t part of the EX-1 lexicon. Anyway, the test recording I made in FAT resulted in the familiar BPAV folder, which suggested that I might be good to go.

I just did a test. I opened a Premier project, but Premier would not accept the BPAV folder. To be more exact, it took it in but it didn’t like it. I found that odd, because it would accept BPAV folders from my EX-1.

Even more surprising, was that FCP 7 accepted the BPAV files from the PMW-300K1 via XDCAM File Transfer. They played back fine.

I guess I have to understand this first, before I move on to UDF. Does Premier require a plug-in of some sort?

Thank you!

[Barry O’brien]

I transferred the BPAV folder from my desktop of my laptop to another external LaCie Drive. It copied perfectly and quickly.

I backed up the suspect location drive, and was able to take all the media off it. (Phew!)

My conclusion: the location drive was developing some kind of read/write problem.

I was reminded as I did this back-up today of another drive that I have used as a Location Back-up drive, and how on one job it didn’t copy the BPAV folder on the first try and that I have rebooted the computer (twice I think) and it finally took the media.

Any how I had ignored that warning…

And how that location drive failed a month later, and I lost a very important shoot.

I think what I learned from this is – hard drive are cheap – if something suspicious happens during read/write – retire the drive.

Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. Case closed.

Regards,

Barry

[Barry O’brien]

I will happily tell you what I find out about the LaCie Drive. I have really benefited from individuals on the forums at Creative Cow over the years who have saved me when I was having real problems.

Here’s what I will try today:
1.) Transferring the files I have in my two desktop folders to my current external “editing” hard drive.
2.) I’ll also try to transfer directly from the Sony SXS XDCAM card to my current external “editing” hard drive. If that works, it would seems to me to say that the problem lays with the LaCie “back-up” drive.

More reports later today. Thank you.

Barry

[Barry O’brien]

That’s good information. Thank you.

In this case the drive is pretty empty: 413 GB left on a 499 GB LaCie External hard drive.

Here is what I discovered last night. Just for the hell of it, I created two folders on the desktop of my MacBook Pro, and copied that BPAV folder twice, one to each of the desktop folders.

I went smoothly, no problems and I’ll know later today if the copies are fine.

It seems perhaps to be something with that drive, or the way that drive sees the BPAV folder?

[Barry O’brien]

I’m kind of talking to muself, here, but maybe this will happen to somebody else, and this might be helpful.

So next, I created a folder on my desktop and copied that BPAV folder to the desktop folder. That went fast and easy.

I did it twice,, in fact.

So it’s something with that external Lacie that it creating these “in use, can’t copy” announcements.

Maybe time for a new backup drive?

I’d love to hear anyone’s theory, but in the meantime, I have a work around.

Barry

[Barry O’brien]

Juat when you think everything’s fine… The video was half-transferred when I got a new message: The operation can’t be completed because the item “YMCA0017_01.MP4” is in use.

So it seems to be saying is that it thinks that a clip I shot today, within the data I am transferring is in use.

How can that be?

Anyway, the transfer stopped, and I am back to Square 1.

Any ideas?

[Barry O’brien]

All you have to do is ask for help! I took everything apart. Turned everything off, and started again. Transferred fine. Go figure. Thank you all.

What would cause that?

Barry