[Christopher Targia]

How can I fix fragmentation? Windows has DeFragmenter, how can I fix that with a Mac? The First Aid Section in Disk Utility?

Also its good to know they should not be Journaled, what software can turn that off without re-partitioning?

Also I have two of those WD Drives, would putting those on a Raid 0 be worth it to pick up the speed?

Also is it possible to Raid all my Drives together or do they all need to be the same drive?

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MacPro Octo Core Intel Xenon 2.8Ghz 6GB DDR2 Ram
FCP 7.0.2
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[Christopher Targia]

geez, there is no way my company would pay for 16 drives and a chassis, would I be able to connect these external HDDs through RAID on my eSata Card? it has Silicon Image’s SATARaid™ RAID, so I should be able to do Raids, its this card
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/DAT%20Optic/ESATAPCIE8/

or do all my HDDs need to be identical?

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MacPro Octo Core Intel Xenon 2.8Ghz 6GB DDR2 Ram
FCP 7.0.2
-I highly recomend el Gato Turbo264HD-

[Christopher Targia]

great thanks shane

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MacPro Octo Core Intel Xenon 2.8Ghz 6GB DDR2 Ram
FCP 7.0.2
-I highly recomend el Gato Turbo264HD-

[Christopher Targia]

I did both those things, Changes sequence to ProRes and Render Control to ProRes, I am still getting 2 hours to render a 15 min clip with Primate RT Key and some minor color correction. I know primate takes longer then Chroma Keyer but never this long.

MacPro Octo Core Intel Xenon 2.8Ghz 6GB 800MHz DDR2 Ram
FCP 7.0

[Christopher Targia]

I changed the settings in the sequence to ProRes 422 and hit render, the estimated time was the same, if not longer.

MacPro Octo Core Intel Xenon 2.8Ghz 6GB 800MHz DDR2 Ram
FCP 7.0

[Christopher Targia]

I imported the footage into a sequence and just auto adjusted it to the footage, so the sequence settings are :

Frame Size 1920 x 1080 Aspect HDTV 1080i Square

Compressor XDCAM HD422 1080p30(50mb/s)

MacPro Octo Core Intel Xenon 2.8Ghz 6GB 800MHz DDR2 Ram
FCP 7.0

[Christopher Targia]

I could see them putting it on the iPad but on the phone? that seems like a unnecessarily novelty, and not to mention it will be painfully slow.

MacPro Octo Core Intel Xenon 2.8Ghz 6GB 800MHz DDR2 Ram
FCP 7.0

[Christopher Targia]

reset your preferences

MacPro Octo Core Intel Xenon 2.8Ghz 6GB 800MHz DDR2 Ram
FCP 7.0

[Christopher Targia]

HFS will always be the fastest drive speed, FAT32 is slower, NTFS is faster then FAT32 but since you have to have a program running to do whatever decoding it needs to do to make it readible by your mac it will definatly be slower, how much? I have no idea, might be faster to use Fat32 for all I know, use AJA System Test to see which drives are faster.

MacPro Octo Core Intel Xenon 2.8Ghz 6GB 800MHz DDR2 Ram
FCP 7.0

[Christopher Targia]

Exactly what he said, only what I like to do is put each different camera angle in a different video track, then you only have to use the select track tool (press t three times) and select the whole track, then press option V for the pasting of whatever you need, also remember after this, if you change one of your filters, then want to change it on the rest of the clips, make sure you do remove attributes and remove filters, basic motion/crop/etc. will change when you paste attributes, but filters will stack! So you could end up with extra filters and unwanted consequences, hope this helps!

MacPro Octo Core Intel Xenon 2.8Ghz 6GB 800MHz DDR2 Ram
FCP 7.0