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  • Ben Holmes

    April 26, 2013 at 10:32 pm in reply to: Ultrastor RS16 + MetaLAN versus “SAN-in-a-box”

    Thanks Eric – that’s a very helpful response.

    I’m planning on using a xMac with Mac mini as server, and also ingest / media management station, so yes, I have costed the extra bits and pieces. It’s still half the cost of even Space. I just don’t know if I need the same level of support that a 24/7 setup has – and I’m going to be out in the field as I said, so to a large extent I’m on my own anyway!

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  • Ben Holmes

    April 23, 2013 at 7:32 pm in reply to: Tiger Technology is showcasing some hot new products at NAB 2013

    Hi Bernard

    Do you have tBox resellers or offer support in the UK?

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  • Ben Holmes

    February 20, 2013 at 12:17 pm in reply to: FCP7 and Retina MacBook Pros

    Hi Anja

    I can’t answer that – what version of FCP are you running, what OS are you running, and what codec video are you editing with?

    All I can say is that with normal codecs at HD resolutions the rMBP is fine. If you are trying to do this, then I’d suggest you have a bad install.

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  • Ben Holmes

    January 15, 2013 at 3:36 pm in reply to: MXF files from the Canon C300 and Final Cut Pro 7

    Please note anyone reading the above post is spam. No paid converter is necessary to import and transcode this footage if you do it from the cards or image them properly.

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  • Ben Holmes

    January 15, 2013 at 3:30 pm in reply to: Import Canon C300 in FCP 7

    Just a note to say I’ve flagged the post from “Matty Smith” above. Spam replies and Google SEO is clogging up the internet with rubbish information about needing MXF converters to deal with this footage (and for many other Sony Cameras). It’s plain spam, wrong and very annoying.

    I hope someone from the Cow will take the time to remove it.

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  • Ben Holmes

    November 6, 2012 at 11:40 am in reply to: FCP won’t recognize my ATI Radeon HD 5770 Graphics card (Blackmagic HD)

    Hi Vlad

    Not sure what your Blackmagic card has to do with your ATI video card?

    If restarting the Mac Pro doesn’t work, then download the latest drivers (making sure they are supported by your OS – this may not be the latest driver) from the BM website and reinstall (making sure you uninstall the old ones first using the tool provided).

    It’s not unknown for the BM card to disappear occasionally, a restart usually fixes it.

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  • Ben Holmes

    November 6, 2012 at 11:15 am in reply to: Restoring lost media in FCP 7

    Hi Paul

    If you captured using a device that gives tape timecode via LTC or VITC (so you had a deck connected with an RS-422 remote lead), AND you entered reel numbers when you captured the footage (or you can fathom out which is which from multiple tapes and FCP clips) then you can re-capture offline clips and the media will re-link in the timeline. This method is used when you capture material at offline quality and then subsequently re-capture at full quality after making the media offline.

    Make sure all the media is listed as offline in FCP, then open the log and capture tool and ask it to batch capture ‘all offline clips’. If you has multiple clips on multiple tapes and you didn’t bother with reel names/numbers then this won’t work properly – the system won’t know that you need to change reels. I think (never been in this position) that you can highlight the clips from one reel, and then ask it to capture just the highlighted clips. Give that a try – it will allow you to manually change reels as required.

    Be warned – it may not be totally frame accurate. If you captured from DV tapes using firewire, I don’t think these carry accurate/any timecode, so footage may have to be re-synced in the timeline.

    Good luck!

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  • Ben Holmes

    October 22, 2012 at 7:06 am in reply to: Can a drive be too fast? (waste of money.)

    If you’re working with compressed video, like ProRes, you are way over specced on drives. You need a Raid protected array, which you could easily achieve with 4 internal SATA drives and a PCI Raid Card, or an external drive enclosure (4 or 8 drives, your call based on capacity).

    I’d consider an SSD as a system drive – it will improve boot times and app opening times. Not render times though.

    If you plan to work with RED media, or uncompressed HD video then by all means spend a fortune on SSD arrays.

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  • Ben Holmes

    October 22, 2012 at 6:58 am in reply to: FCP7 and Retina MacBook Pros

    There is a good chance they’re right about FCP6 – I think it’s incompatible.

    However, they are 100% wrong about FCP7. It runs fine on Mountain Lion. Anecdotally I’d say my rMBP is more stable than under Lion.

    Get hold of a copy of Final Cut Studio 3 and install FCP7. And don’t panic!

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  • Ben Holmes

    September 17, 2012 at 7:17 am in reply to: FCP7 and Retina MacBook Pros

    Hi Cris

    I’ve been unwilling to update my rMBP whilst there were still clearly battery life issues with Mountain Lion. I read that 10.8.2 apparently fixes these, so I will most likely update once that is out. Anecdotally I hear FCP7 runs fine under ML, so I look forward to testing it soon.

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