[Bob Zelin]

Jerry is correct.
Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

It REALLY does 8 bit (not 10 bit) SDI uncompressed, and so will any other FW800 drive. But don’t worry, with the heat problems, it will be dead in 8-12 months.

bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

Thank you Walter, and it’s always funny to see how a simple question gets twisted around, as the number of threads increase.

The only issue here is my LACK OF KNOWLEGE, and the operator error that I (and the editor) are doing with the FCP HD and AJ-HD1200A. The HD Option IS
installed in the VTR, and everything works fine EXCEPT “Assemble – Edit to Tape”. And obviously, since Walter is doing it right now, I am doing something stupid and incorrect (operator error), and on Monday, I will go back and try again (using weevie’s tips). The ONLY reason I questioned this is because we tried the exact process with an SD project using a Sony DVW-A500, and there were no issues in doing the Assemble Edit to Tape. But obviously, we are doing something stupid.

Thanks for clearing this up Walter.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

Hi Walter –
to respond to your comment about the CRT at home – home viewers (including myself) will be viewing HD images as DOWNCONVERTED SD images on their old tube CRT TV sets. I was trying to poing out that anyone viewing the actual HD image will be doing so on a Plasma or LCD, and NEVER a CRT monitor. Certainly, we will have tube CRT monitors everywhere for at least the next 10 years – but this will be SD images.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

Thank you Walter, and it’s always funny to see how a simple question gets twisted around, as the number of threads increase.

The only issue here is my LACK OF KNOWLEGE, and the operator error that I (and the editor) are doing with the FCP HD and AJ-HD1200A. The HD Option IS
installed in the VTR, and everything works fine EXCEPT “Assemble – Edit to Tape”. And obviously, since Walter is doing it right now, I am doing something stupid and incorrect (operator error), and on Monday, I will go back and try again (using weevie’s tips). The ONLY reason I questioned this is because we tried the exact process with an SD project using a Sony DVW-A500, and there were no issues in doing the Assemble Edit to Tape. But obviously, we are doing something stupid.

Thanks for clearing this up Walter.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

The software scopes on the AVID Mojo and Adrenaline are useless, and the request for scope alternatives is one of the #1 asked questions on the AVID-L list, so please don’t give the impression that AVID does it, and FCP does not. Even Eric Peters, one of the two inventors of the AVID, said that the AVID internal scopes were no substitute for an external set waveform/vectorscopes. Just for the record, the AVID scopes examine a SINGLE line of video, which can be selected with a slider. They do not examine the entire waveform.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

Gary –
with all due respect to you, you are incorrect – the AJ-HD1200A will NOT
do insert edits with the HD-SDI option installed. I do not know where you get your information from.

I am again asking for verification if the AJ-HD1200A will do an ASSEMBLE EDIT
via FCP edit to tape.

Thanks again –
Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

Well, apparantly Walter says the AJ-HD1200A CAN do an assemble edit to tape, and MPE says it CANNOT.

Who is correct?

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

your B-Y cable is bad.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

Hi Mitch –
Several SATA controllers have issues. Some work, some don’t, some are not reliable. Some take up too much space.

The bottom line here, is that the new Sonnet Tempo X eSATA 8 port card is just not reliable enough yet to recommend yet. I saw this card working at the ProMax booth, but in my own tests, and from what I heard from others, the reliablity is not there yet. Sometimes the drives mount, sometimes they don’t.

YES, you can use 2 SATA drives to do 10 bit SDI uncompressed, and now G Raid and Lacie are selling these (about $800 for 800 gigs including the controller card from Initio, but this is a 2 port card). I have not tried this yet, but I absolutely will try this.

Reliability is everything. I have a customer using a Sonnet Tempo X 4+4
with excellent results, but not in an 8 way stripe configuration. All the 8 way stripe configurations that I have tried with sonnet cards have not been reliable yet, although when they do work, they outperform anything on the market.

So I will certainly persue the new Lacie and G Raid SATA soltions (you can use anything). I cannot deal with the Highpoint 1820A rocket raid, as it still only has internal connectors, and the pass thru card takes up an entire slot, filling up the G5. For SD SDI, the new SATA solutions should be tried, as they are CHEAP, and more than enough for uncompressed SDI, or
DVCProHD. But for uncompressed HD solutions, at this time, I must still
recommend using the HUGE U320RX, as the only reliable solution (sorry to you
Apple XServe RAID owners).

Bob Zelin