[Ben Baudhuin]

Hi Glenn,

Sorry, no the footage isn’t AMA…it’s transcoded to MXF via RED Cine and then AAF’s are imported to link back to the MXF media.

Computer specs are as follows:

HP PC running Windows 7, service pack 1
Intel Xeon w5580 @ 3.20ghz 3.19GHZ (2 processors)
64 bit operating system.

I’m a little windows illiterate so if there are more specs you need let me know.

Also just downloaded the 6.03.2 patch from avid…no help there.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Ben

[Ben Baudhuin]

Yeah I’ll have to do some more tests at this point, but manully renaming isn’t an option because this is a 10-12 min short and there are about 15 reels of material, my other problem is that I’m running 10.4 OS still and clipfinder only works with 10.5 and I’d rather not risk the upgrade at this point as I’ve heard doing the upgrade install can affect your programs, has anyone else had those problems when upgrading or is it less buggy now that the OS has been out for a while? Thanks for all the help
Ben

[Ben Baudhuin]

Joe,
Thanks for the link, I was actually just looking at that article, so would you say that using rr to transcode will be better than doing it in fcp log and transfer, will it still be as easy to locate the original media when onlining at the end? As far as outputting to hd cam sr that’s just a guess at this point one thing for sure is that we will not be going back to film, but in my experience the better the starting image quality and the more pixel info the better the end result even when downrezed to hd cam, however if you’ve got any alternative formats that we should look into I’m all ears.
Thanks again,
Ben

[Ben Baudhuin]

Wayne,
Thanks a bunch for all your input, so does fcp only read multiples of 4 ram then? I wasn’t aware of that, I guess I’ll just get the 8 for now, the stuff’s so cheap anyway, but I’ve heard that maxing out your RAM board can be bad as well, any truth to that? From what I’ve heard ProRes is the way to go, and I think I’ll just have to deal with the transcode time not a big deal as we’re not really under a time crunch with this film.

Thanks again for your help,
Ben

[Ben Baudhuin]

Thanks Aaron,
I appreciate the feedback, I guess prores is the better way to go, and from what I’ve read in RED’s whitepaper and online in forums and whatnot, it seems that this is the most reliable method, also being that the footage raw is only a little over 300gb and I’ve got a lot of drivespace I think the prores space issues won’t really matter. The RAM is from the same mfg except what the computer came with, which is probably apple stock ram whatever they put in to ship it. But it is absolutely the same kind and I’ve never had issues with speed before even cutting HD uncompressed stuff, as well as some fairly processor intensive rendering in after effects.

Thanks again,
Ben

[Ben Baudhuin]

Dave,
Ha, yeah that might help huh? Actually the prores play fine with no choppiness even playing off the g drive using firewire 800, I’m going to buy a sata adapter and see if that helps as well. Really I was interested in feedback from people who’ve cut RED footage in ProRes and then conformed at the end using apple’s log and transfer tool, since I wouldn’t do the color correct at home anyway since I’ve no external monitor, I think we’ll have to go somewhere else which hopefully will have a system capable of handling the 2k files. Thanks for your help.

Ben

[Ben Baudhuin]

Wayne,

Thanks for your input, the G drive has a sata port on it, I’ll just have to buy an adapter for my Mac, that’s a good idea. As far as the ram goes, this version of the Mac Pro only holds 8gb, and I was told that I could install in pairs ie two 512 or 2 1gb cards so the ram would be evenly distributed, since the computer only came with 2gb standard I thought it wise to upgrade to 6 since these came in pairs and they are distributed evenly across my ram boards. As far as manufacturer goes I was under the impression that you could get ram as long as you were installing the same kind ie ddr2 fb-dimm and that would be fine as well, have I received some bogus info? Really I just wanted some input on whether people have had success cutting in prores since this works fine on the drive even with firewire 800, and going back to the raw for cc which I wouldn’t do at home anyway since I don’t have an external monitor. Any tips would be appreciated.

Thanks, Ben

[Ben Baudhuin]

The footage is being stored on a g drive firewire 800 connection, which I’ve heard can work ok, a Raid is ideal unfortunately I don’t own one as most of the post work I do is not out of my house, and I doubt the director wants to spring for one. Of the tests I’ve done it seems to spin fast enough to handle the footage. Do you think this is a horrible idea? Should I push for a RAID?

Thanks,
Ben

[Ben Baudhuin]

I’ll try that thanks

[Ben Baudhuin]

Ok thanks for the help I appreciate it.

Ben Baudhuin