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Christopher Tay
September 23, 2006 at 8:12 am in reply to: New Kona LHe

Hi John Major,

You’re not the ex-British Prime Minister aren’t you ? Hee hee…

I don’t think you’ll need anything else other than what you already have. Just make sure you download the latest driver v3.1 from AJA website and there is a new firmware for the Mac Pro (see post further down) that fixes 2GB RAM issue. Get used to the Kona Control Panel especially on the donwconversion part but once you get the hang of it, you’ll love it.

Come back here if you run into any issues.

-chrispy
Christopher Tay
September 22, 2006 at 4:28 pm in reply to: 720p/25 or 720p/50 import into FCP via P2 Store

Are there any confirmation that FCP 5.1.2 will support 720p50 ?

-chrispy
Christopher Tay
September 19, 2006 at 3:14 pm in reply to: Software not taking control of Kona LH – no video coming out

Change it to Test Pattern and you should be able to see the video coming out from FCP. You also need to make sure that you have set the correct Video Playback in FCP Audio & Video Settings.

-chrispy
Christopher Tay
September 16, 2006 at 10:52 am in reply to: Media Performance Warning message during clip import

Thanks for the replies…however the clips in the SAN volume were newly created and not imported from another drive. It was captured with FCP 5.0.4 and we noticed that it only happened when we imported from a SAN volume is mounted as Read-Only. If it is mounted as Read/Write, then the message does not show up.

-chrispy
Christopher Tay
September 11, 2006 at 10:15 pm in reply to: All fibre channel SAN users – read this if your SAN starts acting strange.

Hi Francois,

We eliminating one item at a time to the point where SANmp is no longer involved and although we do not have any answer at this stage, it does sound like an XServeRAID issue. It happened on two different FCP systems with identical results. However, the other system, which is an Avid Media Composer, ran without problem at all…so it was difficult for us to fault the XServeRAID unit.

Initially we thought Autosync was turned on but we checked and it was off all the while. We did some research on the XServeRAID and was advised to update the firmware and check the controller setting and they were all set to the way it was recommended. Also, when we capture to the internal SATA drive, no problem. Given all the combination of hardware and software testing we’ve done, the only thing that is constant is the XServeRAID so it is likely there is something wrong with it.

-chrispy
Christopher Tay
September 11, 2006 at 7:09 am in reply to: All fibre channel SAN users – read this if your SAN starts acting strange.

Hey there Francois…sorry to hear about your woes…I have my own share with one site which we still have not found a solution yet.

SANmp 1.5 running on Apple XServeRAID (14 drives) and there are 2 x FCPs, 1 x Avid and 1 x Nuendo audio systems attached. On the Avid and Nuendo, it works fine but on the 2 FCPs, we kept getting dropped frames during injest and out of sync during playback and we tried all codecs, right down to DV. The Kona benchmark shows the throughput is more than sufficient for even 10bit SD uncompressed. So we tried all sorts of things …update to SANmp 1.6, unconvert–>initialize–>convert back to SANmp volume, swap FC HBAs (Apple & ATTO), new OSX installations, bypass FC switch…nothing works. It kept giving the same dropped frame error. We even bypassed FCP and use the AJA VTR Xchange…same problem. On the last attempt, we bypassed everything and connected the G5 straight to the XServeRAID as a standard HFS+ volume. Same problem…so we gave up…for now at least. The only thing we have no tried is re-do the LUN on the XServeRAID but I’m hesitant coz it takes ages for it to finish. Unfortunately they already have the XServeRAID there if not I’d sell them an ADTX which I’ve done a few installations and all are working fine.

If you have any idea on the above, I’d like to hear your opinion. Thanks.

-chrispy
Christopher Tay
September 5, 2006 at 3:28 am in reply to: Avid Xpress Pro and DPX/Cineon image sequences

Thanks Michael…just basically trying to figure out a workflow involving DPX/Cineon image sequences for offline with Avid Xpress Pro.

-chrispy
Christopher Tay
August 31, 2006 at 12:52 pm in reply to: edit to tape issues

If you feed the video & audio out from the Kona 3 to the VTR, put it to E/E mode, are you able to get any signal ? If you can, then it confirms the video & audio connection is ok. If not, check again.

-chrispy
Christopher Tay
August 29, 2006 at 9:05 am in reply to: Best VOLUME locking SAN for use with PictureReady and FCP on Mac

Hi Nate,

Thanks for your update.

Can the Sync feature be set to update a particular volume or volume(s) at a set interval ?

Say if one system is doing a capture and another system does a Sync on the same volume, will it affect the system doing the capturing ?

-chrispy
Christopher Tay
August 25, 2006 at 2:55 pm in reply to: Best VOLUME locking SAN for use with PictureReady and FCP on Mac

Hi Nate…does the Sync feature unmount & remounts the volume again or is it a dynamic update of the volume ?

And how much performance hit does it inflict with the AutoSync enabled ?

-chrispy

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