Charles Wannop
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Cool, thanks.
I probably should have explained workflow a bit better – doesn’t change the answer though 🙂
Conference Session – PC/Laptop VGA powerpoint presentation into scan converter (with desk audio for manual rough sync with head-shot of presenter), scan converter HDMI into Ki Pro at 720p50. Combine camera and Ki Pro source onto FCP time-line with some round-tripping through Motion for effects.
Anyway, I guess since the scan converter givers me 720p50 – that’s what I will have to work with 🙂Thanks
Charles.
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What Bob said + FW is hot plug-able so you don’t have to shut down between drive swaps.
C
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Erik, you are quite right, the Cache-a is a beautiful solution but one that is out of reach for me (esp. in Australia) at the moment.
So I have just added Retrospect and an LTO4 tape drive to my MacPro. My plan is to replace the shelf full of 1TB external drives with sufficient tapes (One per project/client) that can be taken off site and stored for posterity. I have *almost* got a Caldigit Elements for working files and a small no-name (RaidPro??) FW external for Timemachine backups of Work-In-Progress (just in case of accidental deletions etc.) I am still figuring out the best boot, raw data, render file distribution scheme (and welcome suggestions) but that is my plan for now.
Not sure if that helps….Charles.
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Hi Tom,
Thanks for taking the time to respond, but I just can’t let this go by without a bit of a squawk!
$US 6,995 (Bob’s figure) equals $AU 7,309 the list price here was $AU 11,841.36. Thats four and a half grand difference!!!! I can fly to New York ($1200) buy it over the counter and fly home again and still have change.. a lot of change. Someone somewhere is gouging. Or you are not allowing sufficient margin for your dealers to make an honest living. It may be that the US market is sufficiently lucrative that you don’t care about overseas sales (and that’s fine – it’s your business). But please don’t expect me to swallow the “Great Service” line with that sort of price gap. And don’t expect a huge number of sales down here, the fact is we are a small market, but this does nothing to open it up.
There! I feel better now…Respectfully,
Charles.
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Firmware up to date?
Class 10 support was added after the cameras were released. Check the JVC pro website.Charles
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Sorry Bob, I should have mentioned that I am in Australia 🙂
My dollars don’t work as well as yours 🙁
The local distributor (great people who supplied my KiPro) show a discounted price of $11,257 for the Prime https://www.new-media.com.au/Cache-A-Prime-Cache-LTO-4-Archive-Appliance.html
I really don’t blame the locals (in THIS case) and I wouldn’t think of grey-marketing a device that I might need fast support on if something went wrong.Charles
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Thanks Bob, I just checked the price locally and it is looking more like $12 grand (with a few tapes thrown in) so pretty scary BUT the whole appliance idea seems sooo much better than a bare drive attached to a server… Please excuse my ignorance but how portable are LT04 tapes across different drives and (apart from obvious management/interface differences) software?
Thanks,
Charles
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Grr.. how do you delete a post? Sorry Suzan I replied before checking the Caldigit forums myself.
Charles
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Hey Will,
Weird is right!! I first noticed it on my two new Sandisk 32 gig cards (I now see that it was the pre-use testing and re-formatting that I did in my Mac before use that must have caused it), then my older Sandisk cards behaved the same way (again, once I had erased them in my Mac). So I really cant blame the cards here, just my screwy workflow.Charles.
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Ok, this is going to take a bit of explaining, so just bear with me ☺
As I reported earlier, after 13 months of happy operation, I started to get clips that were damaged out of the HM-100. The damage meant that the clip would not transfer to the host (Mac or PC) on the Mac it caused the SD card to un-mount during the read/copy process. The clip looked all right and could be ‘quick looked’ safely, right up to the point of damage. Using MPEG Streamclip I was able export ‘around’ the site and so didn’t loose anything crucial…this time. It seemed to always be a single clip that was damaged, so less than a second’s corruption on a 1h53min card. I finally found a pattern and was able to reproduce the fault. It comes back to using the Mac to erase the card using the Disk Utility (I realize this might sound like a dumb thing to do – but as they say “It seemed like a good idea at the time). So…
1) Erase card using Disk Utility
2) Insert card into HM-100
3) HM-100 wants to re-format – Say ‘Yes’
4) Card *may* reformat OK, or show an error, if so I formatted again in the camera
5) Either way, use card as normal – No error codes reported during shooting.Now the crazy stuff, cards that showed the error worked perfectly, cards that re-formatted ‘correctly’ the first time ended up with clip damage. Damaged cards reformatted in the HM-100 worked perfectly subsequently.
If the card is erased in the Mac (haven’t been able to test on a PC) you must re-format it TWICE in the camera to avoid ending up with one clip on the card being damaged.
So the good news is that both camera and cards are alive and well and I can relax again.
Charles.