Brad Bussé
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Fingers crossed. And Apple, please fix the gamma issues that are present in the Quicktime/FCP workflow.
I love my octo-core 3.2 when I need to run FCP, AE and Shake along with Fusion, but when I have a large FCP project I often wish I could utilize all of the RAM and CPU power. Instead I’m stuck with just a fraction of CPU, and on my first project on my new Mac Pro I ran out of RAM with 20 GB, because FCP can only address ~3.5 GB.
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Oh, one more question too; if I get the driver to let Windows see my FC card, is there any way to get windows to recognize a software RAID, because my X-Serve RAID is two RAID-5s striped together with software using RAID-0?
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Sean, thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge, it’s very helpful. Based on your responses I’m going to skip the internal RAID. My idea was that it would be an easy way to provide redundancy for my boot drives to minimize down time if a drive fails, while also providing extra speed as a side benefit. I use my X-serve RAID for my media, but I really wanted the extra space since my X-Serve RAID is constantly getting full and I want to be able to offload projects that I still need to be online, but are less urgent, over to the internal RAID. I figured it would be fast transfers moving projects between the two RAIDs, and I wouldn’t be loosing the redundancy protecting my data. I’ll probably just make my internal drives be a single Mac boot, a single Windows boot, and a software RAID-1 of the other 2-4 drives. Will I take a large CPU hit for running two software RAID arrays (the other being the RAID-0 part of my RAID-50 X-serve RAID)? Then I guess for backup of my system drive, I could use Time Machine, but I haven’t yet upgraded to Leopard so I’m not sure how well it works yet.
That’s great news about the FC card having Windows drivers available, I’ll hunt that down and give it a shot.
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If you’re only striping with hardware, then there’s no issue for sure, i.e. – if you have both controllers striped as RAID-5. But I’m not sure about the software side of things. I’m upgrading too and I have mine striped on hardware as 2 RAID-5s that are then software RAID-0 striped (RAID-50). I’m assuming that you just use Disk Utility to rebuild the two RAID-5s back together on the new system. Maybe someone else can clarify.
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Hmm, okay I have an HD10A that I use for capturing HD, but it doesn’t get a signal when I try and input 480p into it and set FCP to capture from AJA 525. Do I have to also purchase a D10A just for 480p SD component? I would like to capture 480p60.
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I read the LHe thread, but I need to capture 480p via component.
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“-filter pane of Inspector now includes Color tab for adjusting color space settings. Only available for H.264, Apple ProRes 422, Apple Intermediate Codec, and JPEG output formats. HOPEFULLY THIS FIXES THE GAMMA ISSUES!”
I just found this at hdforindies regarding a feature of the Compressor 3.0.2 update.
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Does Compressor do a true blended de-interlace? I’m talking about the 50% overlay on v2 w/ reversed fields, not the de-interlace filter set to blur.
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No, I haven’t found a solution to this that doesn’t involve some convoluted workflow. Apple should have a preference in the Preferences that gets setup when you install or setup your User profile; it could ask, “do you want to setup this profile to work with video or print?” – or maybe even a Spaces specific setting. Then just keep the video profile using 2.2 for everything without any special “fixes” applied to quicktime movies on export.
This issue became a problem once again for me today. I delivered .mov files (progressive DVCPRO) to a client. When he tried to view them he said they wouldn’t play. I told him to make sure to download the latest version of QT, or I said to save time he could change the .mov to .avi and view in WMP. Well, then I tested this and realized that the gamma of the .mov lost it’s “special help” with the gamma adjustments that were specific to the .mov wrapper. This is a real pita to deal with – I’m generally very happy with the workflow of Apple’s Pro apps, but this is one example of Apple letting consumer design infect the Pro workflow.
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I normally put the system’s audio out to separate channels on my mixer, but it’s interesting to know that the option is there for folks who don’t have a mixer.