Christopher Tay
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Funny thing is over at the Singapore Apple webstore, when in the graphics card section of the configurator, if you click on Learn More…it mentioned of the ATI Radeon HD 3870 512MB card which is highly recommended for 3D, CG or Motion but you can’t select this in the configurator.
Weird…why mention it when not offered. And over at the Apple US webstore, it’s not even mentioned.
-chrispy
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I’ve tried DVCProHD, Uncompressed 8bit and 10bit and all came out the same so it doesn’t seem to be codec specific.
-chrispy
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Hi David,
At the moment I’m just gathering advise from experienced users like yourself so that I can feedback to my customers whom are planning to embark on projects of this scale in future.
I do have a customer at the moment and they are editing a 90mins animated feature film and their project size grew to about 90MB in size and it crashes often especially during rendering.
There are 5 reels in this single project and we’ve since split them into 5 different projects, which cut it down to 20MB per project. Each reel has a number of nested sequences as well.
However if we do a long render, it very often crashes. Another customer who was doing another feature film told me that when he tried to render the entire 1 and half hour sequence, FCP reported a “Out of Memory” error.
Is it a bad practise to set FCP to render a long sequence, say more than 1 hour long ?
-chrispy
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And also, you cannot take absolute MB/sec numbers from the storage devices and divide them equally among the clients to distribute the bandwidth. You have to take into consideration the seek times of the storage devices when all the clients are accessing at the same time and there’s also an overall impact depending on how many are doing reads and how many are doing writes. Bandwidth calculation is very critical and can be easily overlooked, more so if you start to go higher resolution like uncompressed HD.
It’s best to approach one of the established SAN storage providers that Bob has mentioned so that if you do run into issues, they can help you out and SAN is one thing that you wanna ensure that you get it right coz if it goes down, your entire editing facilities goes along with it.
And if you’re considering XSAN, make sure you have a good IT networking person available to maintain it.
-chrispy
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Hi Jeremy,
Try this. Create a 1920 x 1080 sequence, add a grey background and then a big bold white text.
View it on the SD downconverted output and focus on the outer edges of the text. On my side I can see a sort of ghosting like edge on the outer edges of the text.
I’ve tried this on several machines and they have the same results.
-chrispy
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Hi Jeremy,
Do you have problems with text on the downconverted SD ?
We’re seeing some ghosting on the edges of the text on the downconverted SD output and was told that it is a side effects of the filtering applied on the downconversion.
-chrispy
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The JVC HD LCD monitor you’re using does not support dual link 444 so what you’re seeing is only one side of the dual link 444 output from the Kona 3. I just check the specs and it doesn’t even offer dual link 444 as an option.
If you really need dual link 444 monitoring, check out the TVLogic series. They’re pretty decent.
-chrispy
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If your video monitor has dual link 444 input, you can at least determine that the dual link 444 output from the K3 is ok. If the K3 output is ok, then it is definitely the setting in the SR deck.
-chrispy
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Removing the plugins is a good idea…there have been instances in the past where plugins have caused FCP to go funky.
-chrispy
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What if you create a completely new project ? Maybe it has trouble reading something from the old project ?
-chrispy