Bruce Schultz
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Good information on that link Tim.
If I use BRU in 2014 and my client (whom I made the LTO tapes for with BRU) needs to access those tapes for a re-edit or other need to restore the data, do they need to have BRU software to read and restore from those tapes?
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Atto H680 was installed and shows up in Sys Info as a valid SAS device & PCI device.
The HP LTO is recognized by HP Standalone software and dropping files onto the mounted cartridge is working. Reading those files on the cartridge is also working properly.
Switching to an Atto card is what worked for me.
Question: What is the advantage of using the software tools like BRU Producers or PreRoll Post vs the HP Standalone software? Aren’t the files all recognizable by the OS once they are written to the drive? Is it for a more robust indexing and for better recovery options? Is there an issue with reading a cartridge written to by say OS X on a Windows machine?
Curious about this. If I were to just use HP Standalone to copy R3D or other video files to the cartridge, would there be a potential problem on the read side on another computer later in time? Lastly, are files written to the LTO cartridge by either BRU or PreRoll Post only accessible to be read later using those programs, or are they readable and recoverable without the client having either one installed?
I don’t have an issue with buying either one of these programs, just wondering what the main advantage to them is.
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I will do that Tim. The Atto card is arriving later this week and I’ll be installing then so I’ll post my results here.
Thanks for all the good tips.
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Not all Frankintosh computers are dual boot. I’ve built plenty that were, but since this one is using mostly OSX software as a DIT workstation ( Pomfort LiveGrade & Silverstack among them), I didn’t build it as dual boot nor did I intend to add that capability.
I’ve ordered the Atto card as recommended and I’ll replace my existing one with it to try and make all this work under OSX. I’ll post results when I get that done. If it turns out that Windows works better then I’ll reconsider adding a Win 7/8 boot drive to the system.
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Why does everyone think that building a hackintosh is always about saving money? In 2013 I needed a Thunderbolt enabled MacPro which didn’t exist. I had to build one so that I could outboard my Red Rocket card in an external unit so it could be used with a desktop as well as a MacBook Pro laptop – of which I own three. I make no excuses for being able to build a better computer than Apple (at least until the new MP’s arrived earlier this year), and up until this LTO install there hasn’t been a single hardware or software issue with my built unit. The “debate” is really over about this since Apple moved to Intel – it’s a done deal, hacks are here to stay. Somewhere in my garage is a box with an old Apple II in it. That was the last Apple computer to “officially” allow third party devices to be installed in it., until the very latest MPro’s. No GUI, 8 bit, but it started the revolution. Unfortunately for Apple, Scully closed all the next generations of Apple IIC, Lisa, and most Mac’s and it cost them a market share drop from over 40% to less than 5%. They are making a comeback with those numbers, but accepting that people will use their (now free) OS for purposes other than what they imagined should be something that Apple accepts and embraces. It’s not about saving money, it’s about making a better computer. I’ve built about a dozen of these hacks based on Intel architecture, each one better than the last and more stable, with features that Apple hadn’t included in theirs.
About the Atto cards then. It appears from these first two posts that I will need to switch to a dual connection Atto Express H680 card to make the LTO work. After that I will try the BRU software because it seems like the most recommended and stable LTO software available.
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Forgot to mention the computer is running newest version OS X Mavericks
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Oops, just noticed with a flyout menu that the words have been replaced with the two symbols. Busy synching now.
I would still love any advice about system setup vis a vis transcodes constantly crashing.
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Rohit, I sent that info yesterday with the tar file attached but it didn’t post. I’ll try and re-send it today to you.
I am using an NVidia GTX 570 graphics card.
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Thanks Matt, I’m exporting to MOV because I’m editing in FCP with Neo3D and not on the Windows platform.
I am using Vegas 10E to break out the L/R eyes from Sony NX3D1 24p footage, which is pretty much the only software that will do this. There is a program MVC>AVI that works with 60i files but not with 24P as I have discovered.
I did find the Cineform HD codec just now, it’s in the Custom dialog drop down under Quicktime export.
Trying it now to see if it works. Exporting to MOV save the whole transcode from AVI process.
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Ok, the split screen was a product of the “split screen” button being in the ON position, toggling it to off fixed that issue. I was unaware of this feature.
I think the playback issue is one of an inadequate graphics card, so I’ll ask now for any CUDA card recommendations as I have seen that Vegas now seems to support them in this version.