Christopher Hill
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I have a colleague who is an A/V guy and he swear by the Drobo units they use at his studio. I don’t recall if they’re the Pro or Elite models, but if you’re the type that buys bare drives for a local NAS or consistently buying external drives this may be a good solution as you don’t need to have matching drives for the Raid.
As I haven’t personally used one myself in a studio environment I can’t personally recommend it, but like I mentioned my colleague swears by it.
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I commented earlier in this thread some months ago and as a follow up we ended up asking LaCie for 6 new power supplies which they sent us free of charge. They simply asked for the serial numbers on the drives. I doubt that any were still under warranty. We just told them that the drives were not mounting and it was a result of the Power Supply. Ours were hissing btw, which was a tell-tale sign of failure.
Since we’ve had the new power supplies we haven’t had any problems with the drives spinning up or mounting. My bet would be that you’re in the same situation considering you can see them in disk utility but can’t mount them. Either try a new(er) PSU from another LaCie to test or just ask LaCie for a new PSU.
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We have a custom setup of Apple ProRes 422(HQ) 1280×720, 29.97fps, which is also what the sequence I’m editing is set to. The same problem occurs on sequences we have which are set to an XDCam setup (XDCAM EX 720p30).
It’s also not just the Apple Matte Filters but also some of “Joe’s Filters” like Soft Stuff and Blur Filters. Anything with editable points or a center crosshair. Are they not compatible with a 1280×720 frame size?
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Nobody’s got anything for this? Really, any guesses or input would be helpful.
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@Michael Gissing – I honestly haven’t had much experience with Premiere since their CS2 offering and I wasn’t unimpressed back then, but industry standards at the time drove me to Final Cut which I’ve been using for the last 4 years exclusively. Our studio is very small and at the moment we don’t do any professional color-grading outside of Final Cut.
The things that intrigue me about the new CS5 are the ability to work with Final Cut projects in Premiere without any re-rendering or converting as well as Premiere’s ability to work with a wide variety of tapeless workflows natively and mixing and matching different formats in the same timeline without rendering. But the biggest draw as I mentioned is Adobe’s proven track-record of seamless round-tripping between it’s programs.
@Illya & David- The audience and client base we serve is such that they probably wouldn’t know or care if we were editing content in Avid, Premiere or Final Cut. Not to say that our quality is sub-standard or unprofessional but that our clientele is not of the crowd that would notice such a difference nor bring us content specific to one platform. We have tested media encoder in the past in our workflow and while Compressor works better for us at current, we weren’t unimpressed with the results.
@Rafael – Like you, I think it is time for Apple to get it’s act together. It’s just my opinion but I feel as though the many complaints that have been lodged against FCP by it’s user base in the past have gone largely unaddressed. I’m hoping that they have some stunning announcements coming, but I’m not holding my breath.
All in all, thank you everyone for your responses. Some have been enlightening. I’m hoping that there are some fellow editors out there who have had their hands on a Beta or RC version of CS5 to offer some insight. My intent wasn’t to start a flame war or intentionally “dog” on FCS but to ask a serious question and get some serious answers.
Thanks
Chris Hill
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Raid 1 would be nice strictly for backup assurance, but I’m hoping for a solution that would leave the drives independent so that I can send the extra drives off with our contracted editors.
Essentially I would like to capture 1st-To our main Raid, 2nd-To a backup Drive (non-raid) and 3rd-To and external or hot-swap drive for our Editors; all at the same time. Otherwise I end up capturing to our Raid and then copying the captured files over to the backup and external drives. Not the end of the world, just one more step I’d like to eliminate if I can.
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[Roli Rivelino] “I guarantee you’ll regret it when you’re sitting there staring at it rendering for all it’s worth and hardly making any progress.”
I completely agree here. I use an 8-core MacPro at work editing HD footage from our XDCam and it works wonders. On the other hand, I also have an early 2007 MacBook Pro that was good for it’s time that I use for personal projects shot on my Canon XH-A1, but it pales in comparison to the MacPro at work (and that’s the last model G5! [aka: not Intel]). So in essence, go for the better model and not only will your workflow actually flow, it’ll flow a lot longer than if you went cheap.
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[Kelley Tuck] “Maybe it is possible that one of the filters or organizational views could be ‘Unread/Unanswered Posts.'”
I really like this idea. Possibly taking it a step further and also implementing a feature much like on Apple’s Discussions forum where the original poster can mark their question Answered/Unanswered as well as give credit to responses they consider to be helpful, (though I guess we already have a rating system in place here).
This would allow the Filter to filter out answered and unanswered posts based on whether or not the original poster feels their question is answered, not just because the system detected that someone posted a response to their original post.
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I for one am glad that you came back and posted. Thanks, this saved me countless hours of frustration.
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