Colin Mcquillan
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[Ben Northenor] “Is it hard to put an E-Sata drive in? “
Not really. You just need to follow the instruction manual that comes with the array you buy. If you are not comfortable opening up your tower and inserting PCI cards and/or Hard Drives into it, you may want to look into having someone do it for you. But it really isn’t that difficult. Just be sure to put the cards exactly where the instructions tell you to put it. If you run into a conflict, like both your capture card and port multiplier card need to be in the same place, it is best to call customer support to help you work through it. Some instructions will give you alternate slot spots for these situations.
[Ben Northenor] “How many extra gigs will an E-Sata drive get me?”
this is the model I have
https://www.g-technology.com/Products/G-SPEED-eS.cfm
As you can see, you can go up to 16TB (4TB per unit, up to 4 units) if you want to spend that much. Depends on your needs. I bought a 2TB unit at first. Then quickly out grew it and bought a 4TB unit. Will soon repopulate the 2TB unit to 4TB then stripe it with the other 4TB that I have.*** This particular RAID array wont work with G5’s. Only intel Mac Pro’s. There are many out there, so make sure any that you look at will work with your G5 tower.
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[Ben Northenor] ” I will also need a small Raid or a couple TB’s. Any suggestions?”
Depends on what codec you will be working with and the type of work you do. If you work in DV-50 then you can get away with adding an extra internal SATA drive, and upgrading to a RAID when it is economically warranted. If you want to work in 8-bit or 10-bit Unc. or do tonnes of multi-stream layering then I’d look at something meatier.
An affordable e-Sata RAID is probably the best way to start out. I’m using a couple G-Speed e-S units, and think they are great. Others will swear by (or at) many other brands. e-Sata raid arrays are very reasonably priced. Start with one of those, then move into a fiber array when your business grows.
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[Ben Northenor] ” I think I’ll go with the AJA Kona LH”
Be sure this is the right one, and not the LHe. Which G5 tower do you have? is it PCI-X or PCI-E
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[Ben Northenor] “You said I can still convert HD footage with it?”
With the LH you can capture HD, and down covert HD to SD, but not up convert SD to HD
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[Sean ONeil] “There are still Media 100 guys??”
ooooohhhhh…. just about fell out of my chair there!! LOL
Colin McQuillan
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The next two columns (Media Start and Media End) should show you this info. Unless/until you set an in or out point it will say “not Set.”
Perhaps not the solution you are looking for, but a quick alternative to having to go the beginning and end of each clip to set your in and out, double click the clip, then hit “x” this will set an in and out at the beginning and end the clip.
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[Shane Ross] “but that only sends out a DV signal…that is degrading the image”
Definitely. Capturing via a proper capture card will always yield far better results.
If your budget wont allow for a capture card, the J-30 is one way to go, and comparatively a very cheap rental. Another would be to take your field tapes and a hard drive to a post house and have them capture the media for you. Expect to pay upwards $200/hour, but deals can be made. Be sure to know exactly what codec you want your media captured to, if you are unsure and you get something a little too weighty for your drives, you may run into performance issues.
By all means though, I would also recommend grabbing a capture card. You can probably find a decent second hand one at a good price for a PCI-X G5 (if thats what you have.)
Having a capture card also gives you the ability to hook up your G5 to a TV monitor.
For you, the Kona-LH has my vote.Colin McQuillan
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As long you don’t work too much with Motion Jpeg, then not much there for us FCP’ers. Sure single-pass H.264 encoding quality improvements are welcome, but definitely not mission critical.
The Media 100 guys are jumping up and down for this update though!
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You will need a capture card of some type, unless you rent a deck for ingest that can output VIA firewire. I believe the Sony J-30 is one of these, but double check that!
If you need to lay back to Betacam once complete, you will need an appropriate capture card. Aja, Blackmagic, and Matrox all make various solutions for this.
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do you have any audio in the timeline underneath the file you are trying to speed-change? If so, either lock the audio tracks, or move the video you are trying to speed-change to an area of the timeline that has no audio underneath.
If you lock the audio tracks, down-stream clips in the timeline will shift out of sync with their respective audio clips.
Colin McQuillan
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