[Bill Nelson]

I have to confirm Walters statement about Avid and AJA. The driver they build seems to be perfect. It reacts even faster and more “natural” to my editing than FCP7 ever did.

When FCP X came out, I was very attracted by the idea of making Premiere to our main editing tool in Post Production / online edit (we use Avid Media Composer for offline-editing for more than 15 years now). RED support, DPX sequence timecode read, … all very nice features. But I was very soon down to earth when I had to deal with monitoring over my AJA card. Very slow, very unsteady, kind of finger-crossing if it will work today, and so on. It turned out to be no solution for me.

Here in germany 95% of the prime-time commercial spots are offline-edited in Avid, so with the new version I’m fine returning back to the “old lord Avid”. Goodbye Apple. We had a nice time.

[Bill Nelson]

Hi Walter,

nope…just tested it. Hiding Avid doesn’t work. AJA Control panel keeps telling “AJA device in use by avid” and I won’t get any monitoring in After Effects or Nuke or whatever.

Kind of a bummer…good thing that I just updated my system with a SSD drive so that Avid opens up in 2 seconds! 😉

[Bill Nelson]

Thanks for the quick reply, although it only confirms what I asked in the first place. This would be a nice thing to have. Any chance of a different approach in this matter in future driver versions?

Best

B.

[Bill Nelson]

Michael, Nate, Bob,

thank you for your input!

Michael – thanks for posting the video. Very informative and in fact – the Cache A seems to be a well planned product aiming at special post-production needs.

But for my needs it seems to have a lot features I won’t need. I understand the downside of using standard LTO procedure based on .tar compression but it’s not really a big deal for my workflow. We’re a small post facility with 2-3 operators and I’m in control of the projects and the structure. So what I’m going to do is backing up finished projects over night…this archived projects are really a long-term backup. I normally won’t need them anymore…they will be stored in a safe at a different place. So I’m not depending on fast archiving and re-archiving.

Even though it is a great feature to use the Cache-A like a NAS device, it’s really not a feature for me, because I really don’t want just ANYONE to use the backup archives. I’m kind of a organization-nerd and I’m checking the whole structure of our projects before backing them up. So it’s really ME that finally wants to press the “archive!-button! 😉

Anyway…do you see any more pitfalls that might occur with my intended setup? I’m trying hard to find facts about compatibility but this whole LTO-thing does really seem to be a very special matter…it’s hard to find useful information out there.

And Michael, you’re right…I’m from germany…so please excuse my bad english.

Guys…thank you again!

Bill

[Bill Nelson]

No. The AJA Support couldn’t really help me and then I didn’t try any further. 🙁

[Bill Nelson]

I’m already in contact with them…I keep you guys posted here…

[Bill Nelson]

Conflict checker can’t find any conflicts.

[Bill Nelson]

I configured my mac exactly as it is described on the AJA page.

I’m running a 2 x 2,66 Ghz 6 Core Intel Xeon with 32 GB RAM. I’ve got the 8.0 driver installed and the Adobe Plugins 8.0

[Bill Nelson]

Hi Michael,

in Sys-Info it says: “Slot-2@8,12,0”

What do you mean be “qualified config”? I’m using the current drivers…

[Bill Nelson]

Bob,

thanks for your response.

My point is that I’m having a hard time deciding which way I should go when dealing with clients sitting at my desk. To give you some more info, here’s my normal workflow:

– I get TIFF-sequences out of another post-facility where they made the grading with Lustre
– I do my compositing/online stuff in After Effects
– for final online approval the client comes to my office

Now, here is where the problems begin. In the post-facility the client was looking at the grading on a class-A CRT and when he is sitting next to me I have to decide what way to go. Should I show the final online in HD on the LCD or with a PAL-downconvert on the CRT. I’m expecting that the image in grading looked more like the desaturated image that I get on my PAL-CRT, on the other hand it would be nice to use the full resolution of the HD-LCD.

I’m not really shure if my problem becomes clear, also I’m having a hard time describing it – not being a native speaker. I mean, there must be a way to present the client an image that you are almost 100% sure of WITHOUT spending a crazy amount of money for a class-A CRT? Right? Not? 🙂