[Bryan Roberts]

SHANE: “I take the power out of the Optical, plug it into the splitter, then one end of the splitter back into the optical, and the other end into ANOTHER splitter, and then add ANOTHER splitter (this is a lot of splitting, but it works) to get it to work with 4 drives”

Ah, I’ll take your word for it that it isn’t too much of a strain on one power source for all these splits – and ofcourse that’s what the cable looks like (smacks forehead and stupid question). I just found them at Newegg and am getting all my components there (my favorite store and they’re in socal so shipping is 1-2 days usually). Gotta love it!

Thanks you guys!

[Bryan Roberts]

Jeremy, great to hear. I’ll be giving it a whirl late tonight – thankfully though everyone decided against the slippery slope that is the firestore (which had me greatly worried) and they’re just using p2 cards like we’ve done many times before.

Shane – well count it at 2.5 people 🙂 , I have most of the pieces here for the popsicle raid but I haven’t actually assembled it OFFICIALLY yet – I’m still trying to hunt down the y splitters for the power cables (where the hell did you find those and what exactly do they look like) and figure out if there’s a way to keep my dvd burner (optical drive) still powered because I’ll be burning many dvd’s of my editors cut for producers etc. etc. and I’d rather not have to pop the case open and swap power cables just to burn one …

Any ideas?

[Bryan Roberts]

Jesus! This is worrying me. I’m about to start editing a feature that’s being shot on the HVX using a firestore at 1080/24p (well, you know, 1080/60i) which starts shooting MONDAY and didn’t even realize the changes to the P2 import function. I edited three features successfully last year using version 5.0.4 and the HVX at 720/24p without a single hitch, ever…

PS. thank you Shane for your great popsicle raid solution – I had to throw one together for the added storage requirements of the film being shot 1080 this time around instead of 720 and a huge Graid firewire scare I had on the first feature early last year which made me swear to never edit off of firewire drives again…

1. So is there any solution yet other than putting an old version of FCP back on my G5 tower!?

2. What’s the better choice to leave options open, 1080/24p or 1080/24pA? 🙂 Thanks guys…

[Bryan Roberts]

Hello – I’m currently in the beginning stages of editing an indie feature shot with the HVX in DVCPRO HD – Our injest center on the set of the film is creating 2 copies of all our MXF files and giving a third copy drive to me for shuttling back and forth between my bay. My question is, if I convert the files in FCP to QT files, then erase my copy of MXF files (the third dub of them) and for some reason, my QT media files become corrupt, is the only link to the original MXF files my naming conventions used when I convert in FCP? IE: we’re following Shane’s exact workflow and I have bins in FCP with each shooting date and then sub bins with the exact name of the P2 card files (P2_00A13 etc.).

So it would be safe to erase the MXF files with two other backups of only the MXF files in place?

If they choose to do an “online” to some higher resolution, will reconnection to the MXF files be necessary or is DVCPRO HD used as a final output format (even though it’s called an “offline” format?

Shane, you’re online postings of P2 workflow have been invaluable to this project, thanks!