Chris Gordon
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I have the same problem. I’ve been able to go in and delete the clip with the effect before the crash, but it’s a race before the crash happens. It seems to me that the crash happens when the details of the clip are loaded in the inspector, so turning that off might help you get in there quicker. Of course, this means effects are essentially useless in FCP X and I’m not sure how useful the program is overall without them.
After getting used to the new interface, I think I like FCP X, but they have to make it stable before I’ll shell out money for it (I’m not going to pay for beta software). I’d rather something that is stable and has fewer features than something with a lot of features that crashes all the time.
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If you’re comfortable at the command line, you can use split to cut any file up into smaller chunks. You can recombine all of the parts into the original using cat (on OS X or other *nix flavors). I’m guessing you could use “type” on windows to do similar, but I’ve never tried.
As for transferring files, if you can do it over the network, you might be able to escape the limits you’re hitting with FAT32. FAT32 (and now exFAT) are very popular and the standard for pretty much all removable flash media (CF, SD, usb sticks, etc) and can be handy in many cases. Of course with that comes various limitations. It’s all a matter of choosing the best tool for the job and dealing with the less than optimal aspects of the tool.
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FAT32 is a filesystem just like HFS+ or NTFS. It has to do with how files are stored on disk, not anything to do with the actual transfer or copy of the files (or move as you say). FAT32 is, as you point out, limited to a max file size of 4GB – 1 byte (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat32#FAT32) and a max volume size of 2TB. If you try to copy a file larger than 4GB to a FAT32 you’re going to have problems (corrupt, truncated, empty file — depends on the OS and file system implementation).
Regardless of Pathfinder or any other tool, you can’t overcome the limits of the destination file system. It’s like you have a 1 gallon bucket. No matter how big of a hose you use and how much pressure you move the water with, that bucket is only ever going to hold 1 gallon.
Look for the convert command in Windows. It can convert a volume from FAT to NTFS without destroying the data, though I’d never go without a back up or other copy of the data. Remember that Mac OS X does not ship with NTFS drivers. There are various NTFS solutions out there like NTFS-3g (I’ve used that before on Linux but never had a need on OS X).
Maybe you can explain your setup a bit more and what you’re trying to do. Then we might be able to give you some better options.
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I install the OS X version through macports (https://www.macports.org/). You walk through installing the Macports system itself (needs Xcode, and has a couple of steps, but is otherwise rather straight forward). Once that is done, you would use ports to install iozone with something like “sudo port install iozone”. It builds a single binary and dumps it in /opt/local/bin/iozone by default.
This takes a little bit of work at the command line. I’m happy to give you the compiled binary that you can drop on any box and run without having to go through installing MacPorts, Xcode or any of the other steps. I can build it for 10.6 or 10.7 (don’t have anything earlier around). Just let me know if that would be helpful. Just let me know.
Chris
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Take a look at iozone (https://www.iozone.org/). It’ll take a little bit of reading, but will test IO over any mounted filesystem. You can adjust the number of threads, total file size, write size, etc. iozone doesn’t dig down into Fibre Channel or give SAN specific data, so you’d need to watch your SAN and array’s tools to correlate everything.
iozone runs on pretty much every platform: Linux (may be shipped by your distro), FreeBSD (it’s in ports), Mac OS X (it’s in MacPorts).
Good luck. Let me know if you have any questions.
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[Rafael Amador] “[Chris Gordon] “Since you own the rights to the material, I’m assuming you have un-encrypted DVDs. Breaking the encryption regardless of the rights to the material may be illegal in certain places and I don’t think anyone here will help with that.”
Why can’t you rip your own DVDs only when non-encripted?
Encrypted or not, if the stuff is yours, you can do whatever you want with it.”I’m not a lawyer, so take whatever I say with a grain (maybe several large bags) of salt. Some United States laws on this seem to be pretty crazy. I’m not sure if breaking the encryption on a disk you have, even if you have rights to the material on the disk, is necessarily legal. I’m going to guess if you made the disk and did the encryption it’s probably OK, but if someone else made the disk and gave it to you, it may not be.
Bottom line, I’m not going to post anything that may be construed as breaking a law or endanger the Cow in anyway with such material on the forums — I respect them too much to do so. I offered my original line only as a word of caution/disclaimer. If the original poster is worried about any legalities, time to get a lawyer.
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Since you own the rights to the material, I’m assuming you have un-encrypted DVDs. Breaking the encryption regardless of the rights to the material may be illegal in certain places and I don’t think anyone here will help with that.
You should be able to simply mount the unencrypted DVD and see all of the VOB files on the disk. Then you can use ffmpeg to convert it to a quicktime container with DV video. ffmpeg is very powerful, but has a somewhat complex command line (lots of options and things to tweak with all of the power). Hit google with something like “ffmpeg convert vob to dv quicktime”.
If this is just a couple of disks, you’ll probably spend far more time learning ffmpeg and getting it to give you what you want instead of just doing the work on your Mac. If there are lots of disks, then investing in learning some of ffmpeg may be worthwhile.
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Nothing looked immediately amiss there. I was thinking that they may have IP addresses on different subnets or just have wrong netmasks.
So let’s try these steps:
– Reboot each machine (I hate this as it’s sort of a cop out solution since you don’t necessarily find the exact cause, but sometimes the quick fix. You may have already tried this)
– Reboot the router (which make/model is it anywa
– As suggested earlier, can each machine ping the other. You can do this from Terminal or from the Network Utility (In/Applications/Utilities).
– Have you verified that file sharing is indeed turned on/enabled on both machines?And, no, you haven’t breached your security by posting that. We just know that you’re using the 192.168.1.0/24 network — along with the vast majority of the world.
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Can you open Terminal and provide the output from “/sbin/ifconfig -a” from both machines. I’m guessing these machines have somehow ended up on different IP subnets. Are they both talking over Wiifi or is one wired and one wireless?
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The answer to your question — exactly where something is written — is going to be very vendor specific. You need to contact HP and discuss that with them or find some IBRIX forums/groups and ask there. This is far from a generic SAN or generic storage question.