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Chris Baldwin
September 22, 2010 at 5:25 pm in reply to: AVC Intra 50 to ProRes in Log&Transfer taking FOREVER…Why?

The first 16 gig P2 card took one hour to log and transfer which is much longer than DVCPro100 or even the AVC Intra100 clips I normally shoot.

The second took 5 hours over night before we decided to try to restart the whole system and try again. It is now 2 hours in again and not making very good progress.
Chris Baldwin
February 11, 2009 at 8:35 pm in reply to: Fiber Channel Shared Network solution for FCP

WOW!!!

Actually I’m writing in to say thanks to everyone for their feedback and thoughts…

I can’t say I’m anymore convinced of a solution at the moment but I’m more educated now which is why I started the thread in the cow.

My main motivation is to stop wasting time transferring media from one external to another and trying to manage multiple projects on different computers with different local storage solutions.

My second desire is to speed up encoding and compressing time with whatever the options are for group network processing.

I’m well aware of the equipment not being the state of the art past a handful of years of purchase but I certainly want to make sure I’m not buying a technology that only serves the powerpc macs out there instead of the intel macs or that since I’m new to researching the post solutions that there isn’t some drastically different tide to industry is about to take. It sounds like 8Gb is the next step and really its the same solution but just more bandwidth.

As far as putting these solutions myself and maintaining them myself…
Forget it! I’m a shooter and and editor NOT a backend tech savy IT guy… I need a solution that is simple(mac simple) and is supported if need be.

Again thanks for all the feedback and I’ll be contacting a few of you who offered a more one on one consultation. Wish there was a provider here in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Thanks,

Chris
Chris Baldwin
February 10, 2009 at 2:26 am in reply to: Fiber Channel Shared Network solution for FCP

well gosh…

so I did get a “solution” quote built for me from Promax and a similar company up here in San Fran. these are just the raw parts that i’ve listed.

So my question still is …

Is this solution a good one? and Is it going to be outdated by the new 8Gb cards? And even if it doesn’t get outdated is it going drop in price iminately as another poster mentioned?

Because its so expensive I’ve been thinkning about leasing the equipment for 3-5 years. Do people think that would be wise? Is this going to be a dead weight investment in 5 years or will it still be suitable?

Thanks,

Chris
Chris Baldwin
February 9, 2009 at 8:09 pm in reply to: Fiber Channel Shared Network solution for FCP

Thanks,

I’ll do that.
Chris Baldwin
February 9, 2009 at 8:08 pm in reply to: Fiber Channel Shared Network solution for FCP

yes just under $20k
Chris Baldwin
February 9, 2009 at 7:34 pm in reply to: Fiber Channel Shared Network solution for FCP

I’m not perfectly sure but these are the line items from the quote that apply to your question.

QLogic SB5600Q08A SANbox 5600 8 Port Switch
4 Gigabit (4Gb) RoHS Compliant Short-Wavelength SFP Transceiver
FCDISKS4-12 / 12TB 4Gb FC Raid 2U Rack Mount Cabinet 16 750GB Drives Single
Controller
4GB Fibre Channel PCI Express – Dual Port with cables and SFP
Wiring Diagram
LC to LC 50/125 micron (Short wavelength) Fibre Cable – 10M
SANmp Admin/Client- Mac OS X or Windows 2000 and XP
SANmp Client only – Mac OS X or Windows 2000 and XP
ATTO CTFC-42XS-0R0 Celerity FC-XS 4Gb Fibre Channel Dual Channel PCI-X Host

HOW SOON!?!?!?! Yikes!

I was told that the 8Gb confgs were to come out soon. would this you think drip the 4Gbs?
Chris Baldwin
February 9, 2009 at 7:13 pm in reply to: Fiber Channel Shared Network solution for FCP

Just to fill in any gaps…

I mostly edit DVCProHD content. Multiple streams per project.
Chris Baldwin
January 22, 2009 at 4:59 am in reply to: buying new Mac Pro’s before Macworld

Yes I’m talking about when the new MacPro’s coming out again…

Why?

Because I’m waiting for the new tower to come out before I buy a new computer.

Why?

Because I don’t “need” a new tower…I REALLY REALLY REALLY WANT ONE!!!

This article got me pretty fired up and I thought I’d see if people think it sounds legit or not.

https://macosrumors.com/2009/01/09/next-for-apple-mac-pros-and-xserves-based-on-intel-core-i7/

When the heck are these going to hit the market?
Chris Baldwin
January 15, 2009 at 11:53 pm in reply to: exporting a 16:9 still

I certainly appreciate it.
Chris Baldwin
January 15, 2009 at 7:01 pm in reply to: exporting a 16:9 still

Any 16:9 sequence SD or both HD varieties create a 4:3 image with the export function of FCP…

Am I to understand that the niffty people at apple haven’t been asked to create a function that exports a still in the same aspect ratio as the sequence? What would the function be of exporting a squished still? They have obviously overlooked this.

So I’m suppossed to export from apple’s FCP and open say an Adobe product to resize it? That’ll be interesting to see how long it will take me then to just not open the Apple programs up in the first place and go to their outsourced subcontractor.

There really isn’t a way to export a still correctly?

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