Bob Zelin
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you have partially answered the question yourself. You can index the external drive (the QNAP) and Spotlight will work, but as you add new material, you will need to re index the drive. Spotlight was designed for AFP and Mac local networks that connect with AFP to a MacOS Server (which in 10.13 no longer works).
So if indexing is unacceptable, you can simply use the free QSirch application on the QNAP from the QNAP App Center (free). But to search, you have to open the QNAP GUI, and open QSirch and search that way. You don’t get to hit the magnifying glass on the Mac. Every computer on your network will be able to access the QNAP GUI just using Safari, Chrome, Firefox, etc.
iSCSI – no no – you don’t need iSCSI for anything. This is 2017.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
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Hi Lance –
I will never forget that I owe my current career to you !!!!!But please don’t give people false hope that they will buy a Titan X from NVidia, pop it into an Akitio or Sonnet eGPU box, and BOOM, it will just work. Even the AMD Vega at this moment is having issues. By spring 2018, we should see a stable AMD external GPU working – but as for NVidia without all sorts of hacks and terminal commands – well, I would not hold my breath.
Please correct me if you feel I am wrong.
Bob Zelin
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Hi Lauren –
ever go shopping ? Ever buy shoes, and more shoes and more shoes ? You have 2 choices – (3 choices) –
1) throw out your old shoes (delete your old files) – (but I can’t do that – I LOVE those shoes)
2) get a bigger closet to hold more shoes (I can’t afford a bigger closet)
3) stop buying new shoes.SO – you have 3 small RAID arrays, and you keep shooting and you keep getting more and more footage. Welcome to the club. This is EVERY PERSON on this forum (and all these forums). You can either DELETE your old footage, and if you can’t because it’s valuable footage, then you need to buy ANOTHER RAID ARRAY, because you are out of space.
When will this end ? NEVER. Until internet cloud upload speeds are up to par (both you and I will be dead by the time this happens), you will ALWAYS need to buy new and larger RAID arrays, particularly as we continue to work in 4K, 6K and 8K. And when your company decides to shoot in the non existant “12 K and 16K” in the future – when the bosses say “what do you mean you need more drive space, we just bought more drives 5 years ago at your suggestion” – you have them call me, and I will tell them what idiots they are, and they have no concept of what it takes to be in this business.
You need more space. Can you buy larger drives (10TB and 12TB) and reraid your system – sure, but you will lose the media that you currently own. You need a new LARGE (probably VERY large) RAID array from Promise, G-Tech, or some company making thunderbolt RAIDs that is compatible with your system. Ultimately you will want a large shared storage network attached storage system, so that all your computers will be able to share media. But this, too, will ultimately run out of space, which is why you ALWAYS choose a NAS system that you can expand with.
Bottom line – your company needs to budget in for a new larger RAID array.
Bob Zelin
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Rescue 1, Inc.
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Hi Joshua,
this is the correct answer to your question. I am actually surprised that everyone doesn’t know this, as it’s such an amazing product.
You already own a Blackmagic card. You say that you can’t get Skype to recognize it. Well you can with this product !https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicwebpresenter
$470 at B&H, and I suggest buying the extra $85 from control panel/monitor. Work with up to 4K UHD images.take the SDI or HDMI output of your Blackmagic card, and stick it into the Blackmagic Web Presenter. Stick the Web Presenter into the computer you are going to stream with. You do NOT need to load any software, or drivers for the Blackmagic Web Presenter – it will emulate a web cam, and turn your Media Composer output (with embedded audio) into a stream for YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Periscope (Twitter) or Skype (they do more as well). It ain’t gonna get easier or cheaper than this. And if you can’t figure out how to do it, go down to the local junior high school, where all the 13 years olds are putting themselves up on Facebook Live all day long. They can show you how to use it.
Bob Zelin
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not a daft question at all. A great question. You CAN run an HDMI cable from your Mac to the TV. If the TV supports multiple frame rates, you will get a very nice image. It is very common for people to get a thunderbolt dock with an HDMI port and send that HDMI signal out to a 4K consumer TV.
HDCP is HD Copy Protection – you cant RECORD from this. So the Ultrastudio or any HDMI input will not allow you to COPY the signal (record it onto your computer). A perfect example is this – take a cable box, and send the HDMI out of the cable box to a Blackmagic HDMI to SDI converter, and you won’t get an image (and you can’t record it).
But take that same cable box, and take the analog component outputs (the RCA jacks) and go into a Blackmagic Analog to SDI converter, and you can record all day long without issue.Bob Zelin
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The QNAP can run as a virtual machine (you load windows onto it when you create a virtual machine) and you will then have 3 monitors. The HDMI out’s are for playout, if you want to use this as a plex server, or use Video Station. You don’t have to play back on your computer monitor. With that said, I have never tried to use the HDMI ports ever, and I actually don’t know how to setup a VM on the QNAP.
No, I don’t recommend the M.2 for caching for video for 2 – 3 people. I have not tried Qtier, but I have tried normal caching with the QNAP many times (with TVS-1282T, and TS-1685) and it does not increase performance for video editing.Bob Zelin
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and it looks like Startech is making a dual port 10Gbase-T card for even cheaper than Sonnet. I have no idea if it actually works, but if you are looking at every penny, there is your solution for very little money.
Bob Zelin
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the Pegasus is not the correct RAID for a Window 7 or Window 10 System. And you cannot plug in a Pegasus directly into the QNAP.
The solution is simple if you want to use a QNAP. The TVS-1282T comes with a 10G port. Buy a Sonnet Presto
10Gbase-T card for $340 on Amazon, and you now have a 10G port that will connect directly to your QNAP TVS-1282T, and you will get super fast speeds. As fast as a direct connected Thunderbolt array like the Pegasus (perhaps faster).bob Zelin
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how will you connect the Dell 34″ monitor to the iMac Pro ?
or is that for your HDMI out for your “program monitor”.Bob Zelin
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Scott Thomas is still active on Creative Cow, and is the proud owner (in 2017) of a QNAP TS-531X. I don’t know exactly what WINK is using at their facility, but I hope that the idiots from 2009 that were so protective of their jobs are either dead or have become managers at the local McDonnald’s at this point. My distain for IT managers that refuse to new things (the way that Scott Thomas has continued to learn new things through today !) has not diminished. In 2009, were they running Windows Server 2008 – they probably still are ! There is only one end to the story – and it will continue forever. You either keep up with technology, or GET OUT OF THE BUSINESS. Period.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com