[Benny Christensen]

Almost fixed. I wound up restarting the Terrablock server and rebooting my Mac to 10.6.8. After many hours I was able to use Disk Utility to rebuild all of the partitions except one.

Somehow I managed to get one partition into a Read Only state and I haven’t been able to change it back. In the Terrablock manager on both the server and the Mac it says it is writable everywhere except the SYS column.

Can someone walk me through the steps to get this partition back to a Writable state?

Thanks in advance.

Benny Christensen
Producers Playhouse
Oklahoma City, OK

2 x 3GHZ Quad Core Intel Xeon – 10.5.8 – 16Gb RAM – FCP 7.02 – KONA3 – ATTO UL4D – 2 x HUGE 320RX – Facilis Terrablock 12D

[Benny Christensen]

Okay, so right out of the gate MC 6 is a non-starter for me. Too bad.

I guess they need to borrow more from FCP 7.

Benny Christensen
Producers Playhouse
Oklahoma City, OK

2 x 3GHZ Quad Core Intel Xeon – 10.5.8 – 16Gb RAM – FCP 7.02 – KONA3 – ATTO UL4D – 2 x HUGE 320RX – Facilis Terrablock 12D

[Benny Christensen]

Good luck with recovering the footage. I know how much that sucks.

We routinely use ShotPutPro to get the footage off the cards and onto a hard drive (twice ultimately) and import from that rather than the cards in the camera.

I would set up a routine of backup before importing. And we only bring the footage in from the camera if we have no other choice.

In fact, we have high hopes for the new card reader from Panasonic. We expect it to speed up transfers significantly. And since it is USB we won’t be limited to using a Dual Adapter card in a MacBook Pro for transfers.

Benny Christensen
Producers Playhouse
Oklahoma City, OK

2 x 3GHZ Quad Core Intel Xeon – 10.5.8 – 16Gb RAM – FCP 7.02 – KONA3 – ATTO UL4D – 2 x HUGE 320RX – Facilis Terrablock 12D

[Benny Christensen]

In this case the footage was coming in from the cards in the camera (firewire Bus) to hard drives via an ATTO UltraSCSI card. So that couldn’t have been it.

I used ShotPutPro to copy the cards onto a hard drive and used P2CMS and P2LogPro to export clips that had the glitches to my Terrablock drives and there weren’t glitches in the clips exported this way.

I believe there is an issue between Log & Transfer and the P2 cards firmware/software versions.

Benny Christensen
Producers Playhouse
Oklahoma City, OK

2 x 3GHZ Quad Core Intel Xeon – 10.5.8 – 16Gb RAM – FCP 7.02 – KONA3 – ATTO UL4D – 2 x HUGE 320RX – Facilis Terrablock 12D

[Benny Christensen]

Another possible solution is to use something like P2 Log Pro. They also have a clip repair option.

I’m not sure if Panasonic’s P2CMS software has that option as well, but I would definitely poke around on their site for a solution.

Good Luck,

Benny Christensen
Producers Playhouse
Oklahoma City

[Benny Christensen]

Actually, that’s the thing… it is NOT RECORDED IN THE FOOTAGE.

I have used other methods to export the clips from the same Contents Folders (P2LogPro) and the glitch is not there.

I believe that it is related to either 1) Changing the number of audio tracks during the Log & Transfer process or 2) it is a bug in a mismatch between versions of FCP and the P2 camera/card software or 3) some other mystery component I have yet to track down.

Thanks,

Benny Christensen
Producers Playhouse
Oklahoma City, OK

Intel Octo Mac FCP 7.0.2

[Benny Christensen]

First – Here is the error message After Effects Warning: Class ‘global’ has no property or method named ‘start’. Error ocurred at line 18. Expression disabled.

I found that if I start the render somewhere after 3 or 4 seconds it would work.

Second – Here is the expression

tMin = .25; //minimum segment duration
tMax = 1.0; //maximum segment duration
minVal = [0.*thisComp.width, 0*thisComp.height];
maxVal = [1*thisComp.width, 0*thisComp.height];

end = 1;
j = 2;
while (time >= end){
j ++;
seedRandom(j,true);
start = end;
end += random(tMin,tMax);
}
endVal = random(minVal,maxVal);
seedRandom(j-1,true);
dummy = random(); //this is a throw-away value
startVal = random(minVal,maxVal);
ease(time,start,end,startVal,endVal)

Thanks.

[Benny Christensen]

First – Here is the error message After Effects Warning: Class ‘global’ has no property or method named ‘start’. Error ocurred at line 18. Expression disabled.

I found that if I start the render somewhere after 3 or 4 seconds it would work.

Second – Here is the expression

tMin = .25; //minimum segment duration
tMax = 1.0; //maximum segment duration
minVal = [0.*thisComp.width, 0*thisComp.height];
maxVal = [1*thisComp.width, 0*thisComp.height];

end = 1;
j = 2;
while (time >= end){
j ++;
seedRandom(j,true);
start = end;
end += random(tMin,tMax);
}
endVal = random(minVal,maxVal);
seedRandom(j-1,true);
dummy = random(); //this is a throw-away value
startVal = random(minVal,maxVal);
ease(time,start,end,startVal,endVal)

Thanks.

[Benny Christensen]

The video and audio are being converted to SDI through the SD Connect. The RS422 runs from the machine to the KONA through a DNF Controls RS422 Switcher. This set up worked fine until FCP 5.02 and AJA’s 1.1.2 Driver. The problem is also very intermittent. Last Thursday it happened on almost every clip. Today, I have only had this problem once.

Benny Christensen
Producers Playhouse
Oklahoma City, OK

G5 Dual 2 Gig – 10.4.2 – 4 Gb RAM – FCP 5.02 – KONA2 – ATTO UL4D – HUGE 320RX – Convergent Designs SD-Connect

[Benny Christensen]

Yes. I am using the Kona 10bit Uncompressed, Sony 29.97 VTR setting.

I am using the latest drivers from Aja and everything else is the latest versions as well.

Benny Christensen
Producers Playhouse
Oklahoma City, OK

G5 Dual 2 Gig – 10.4.2 – 4 Gb RAM – FCP 5.02 – KONA2 – ATTO UL4D – HUGE 320RX – Convergent Designs SD-Connect