Bob Zelin
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https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/note/9685
you have chosen a correct, supported graphics card for your system.
but I must ask, you are in one of the largest post facilities in NY city, and you are the editor. WHERE IS YOUR ENGINEER ?
uninstall the driver. Reboot, and reinstall the driver, that you have downloaded from the Blackmagic website, and try it again.
Do you have any other PCIe cards in the PC besides the Nvidia and the Ultrascope ? What are they ?
Bob Zelin
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what is your digital source footage ? A Hard drive ? A VTR ?
Does it have an SDI output ? If it does, you need this –if it’s a file, this is done in software with products like
Telestream Episode or Adobe Media Encoder.Bob Zelin
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the Cal Digit Super Share is an older Accusys system, that is no longer supported. Cal Digit never made this product – only rebranded it. It was a teriffic system, but your new Facilis is even better !
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the power supply has a current rating. This means that the drive requires a certain amount of amps to operate. For example, you keep plugging in lamps, and a vacume cleaner into your wall outlet of 15 amps. After a certain point, the circuit breaker will blow, because it does not have enough amperage to power all the lamps, vacume cleaner (and air conditioner).
Same with this – the drives take 12 V. I assume that the power supplies (you did not specify exact models) take 1.5 – 2 amps.
If you have a G-Tech that takes 3 or 4 amps (I doubt it), then the power supply will get very hot to the touch, and eventually stop working. But I am guessing that these are all 1.5 to 2 amps, so you should have no issue.And when smoke starts to bellow out of your drive array, well, I really make sandwiches for a living and just stalk on Creative Cow.
Bob Zelin
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I went to google –
the Lacie power supplies are 12 V power supplyand look, here is the result of the google search on the
G-Technology power supply –
https://support.g-technology.com/kbase/users/kb.php?id=161&print=1so it’s 12 V also !
so yes, it should work.
Bob Zelin
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Rescue 1, Inc.
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Hi –
replies below –Our production requirements are: RAID storage (40TB+) for online editing (PP), grading (Davinci), 4k, raw formats, occasional 8k (raw), processing multiple image sequences (tens of thousands of individual sequence files in various formats and up to 8k). Those are minimum requirements.
REPLY – any 10G system that you see advertised here on Creative Cow will work. 8K ? Are you kidding ? Do you own a Sony 8K camera or Red Weapon ? I don’t know anyone doing more than 6K.
6K .r3d at 5:1 compression is 143 MB/sec. Everyone can do this with 10G interface.As a bonus and future-proofing, we could benefit from network capabilities and being able to have more than one computer connected to the storage but it is not essential for the nearest year.
REPLY – there is no future proofing. Everything you buy now will look like a joke 4 years from now. Every modern system you see advertised on Creative Cow will do exactly what you want. Every system can share with multiple computers (not just one computer) and do exactly what you want.
We base our post workflows on PC but have macs to deliver prores. By editing I do not mean feature-film-length sequences, rather short clips.
REPLY – everyone can do this. Connecting via .smb3 is no issue for any system you see advertised here on Creative Cow.
Most mainstream storage solutions use Thunderbolt 2 and 10 Gbit Ethernet. I keep hearing from some video professionals that TCP IP (or anything running over ethernet cable) is not a reliable protocol for online editing, and thunderbolt 2 is not a future-proof interface even when we talk about ~5 years.
REPLY – this is nonsense. Everyone is doing 1G or 10G Ethernet. A few are using Fiber channel, but even those (Facilis, Studio Network Solutions) mostly recommend 10G today, because of expense. Certainly 16G fiber is faster than 10G, but it’s more expensive, and more maintenance intensive. There is nothing wrong with TCP-IP. You can accomplish everything that you want. Nothing is future proof, including ALL the computers that you own and all the software that you own. Thunderbolt 3 will be released main stream in 2017. No matter what you buy in 2016, by 2020, or 2021, it will be a joke, compared to what is available by then. Every year, newer, bigger SATA and SAS drives come out. The 10TB SATA drive is about to be released. That will be 160 TB in a single 16 bay chassis. And if WD or Seagate succeed in buying SanDisk this year, you may see cheap large SSD drives in the coming year or two.
Main question: Given our requirements, do I understand correctly that iSCSI over 10 Gbit should still be sufficient?
REPLY – yes, it is sufficient. Don’t you have video facilities in Australia that you work with ? What do they own ? 10G via TCP-IP is also sufficient in a conventional NAS product.
By the way, can 10 Gbit iSCSI be aggregated (2 cables)? Or should we look into PCIe-based solutions such as those offered by Accusys to guarantee reliable speeds?
REPLY – you can’t link aggregate at the client. Only from server to switch, or switch to switch. You do not need 1600 MB/sec per client, no one has that requirement. And your drives could not keep up with this, under multiple client usage.
Accusys has multiple systems. The more expensive system uses QSFP (40G Ethernet) which is very very fast (faster than 10G Ethernet).
The Thunderbolt based system only accepts 3 client computers, and requires the fourth port to go to an Apple XSAN Mac Mini or a Tiger Share server. There is no expansion for this system (clients, you can have multiple drive arrays). The larger Accusys systems can be
expanded with the # of clients, because you use their QSFP switch.Bob Zelin
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Hi Joe –
try putting 50 gig of media on drop box. See how long it takes.
Then try to download it. See how long it takes.This will help you determine if a cloud site is the right thing for you.
Bob Zelin
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and what happened RJ
I bet your speeds did not increase, right ?Bob Zelin
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I know the answer –
you contact EVERYONE.
Everyone from the President, to the studio manager, to the receptionist.
Your goal is to bombard them with your name. So when the President throws out your information, and the head of production throws out your information, the receptionist will now ask “I have this email/post card from Hashem Ali, what should I do with it”. Your name as (whatever you do for a living) gets bombarded into all of their heads. And 2 months from now, when “that person” that they use all the time quits, refuses to work for them, gets sick, raises his rates, etc, etc. then they will all say “where is that idiot’s Hashem’s phone #”.That’s the game – that is the way it works. And when you do this to 20 companies, only one of the twenty will call you. And the day that they hire you, you contact all 19 of the other companies, and say ” I am now working freelance for company x”, and go thru the same process.
bob Zelin
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Rescue 1, Inc.
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hence my aggravation on these forums.
A BVH-2000 was in fact $60 – $80,000, and of course, you needed THREE of them to do a simple dissolve from VTR A to VTR B (and record it on VTR C).
If you told anyone on these forums (damn kids) that anything cost $80,000 – their entire facility, including all their software, all their computers, all their Macs, all their desks, their couches, their phone systems, and their first year rent would cost $80,000, they would say FOR GET IT. But alas, we have posters saying “I am looking at this drive that costs $110, but I can get another brand for $90 each, is it really worth it” –
That is why I have gone crazy. When I started to build 3/4″ linear edit rooms in the 80’s and the cost was “only” $250,000 compared to the $500,000 to a million for one of these rooms in NY, people said “wow, how can Bob do it for so cheap”.So the fact that my weekend cocktail costs more than the difference of what the “professionals” want to pay these days – well, what can I say anymore.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com