Craig Alan
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For what its worth pulldown was deselected but did not help. What exactly is the difference between P and PN. I read that PN was the choice for slo mo.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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The SLOT SEL button offers a one-touch mechanism to select the slot whose card will be recorded.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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FCP X. (still miss FCP 7 in some ways). The cam was set to 720P 30p not PN. Will PN play back at regular speed but with the motion characteristics of 30p? Is there anyway to get FCP X to play these clips at normal speed?I do have a workaround but it’s a pain.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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I would clone the older system. And the old FC folders. Load the new system and see if it works. I found it was much improved and opened the old projects fine. But I would not count on it not having problems. This way you can go home again.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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Yes I know and I am on the fence. But like I said we back up important projects and the in class projects have a quick turn around. However, when this semester is over I’ll most likely back up stuff worth keeping and reformat the drives to raid 5. First time for me learning a P2 workflow and organizing this much media. In the past I was tape based and used 2 gig G-techs raid 0. Never had drives of this size or speed.
Do raids put more stress on the drives or is life span life span regardless? A will say the that pegasus runs very quiet and very cool to the touch.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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After it took all day to finish on the first one I set up, I was on the fence about this. I decided to back up any important original P2 files (and other) media on a separate raid 5 drive and backup any important library upon completing an important project. I formatted the raids as 0. That leaves more space and a faster system on the editing computers.
But as this is a school there is no money on the line if a drive fails.
Raid 5 really only helps if one of the drives fails within a raid. While this can happen, the drives are all fairly new and the same age. I think I’d be more conservative as the drives age. Also if this was mission critical storage, I’d replace all the drives after three years, give or take. Use them in some other capacity.
Maybe I’m just lucky but I’ve never had a drive fail before 3 years. File corruption … rare but has happened. My feeling is media drives need to be wiped clean and reformatted when possible. Keeps the speed up and less likely to get corrupted.
All that said our raids only have 4 drives which means I’d be loosing 1/4 of total capacity.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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Well the port is not damaged on the iMac since the iMac works with other drives. And it is not damaged on drive since the drive worked on my Mac Pro at home. It also did not work on another iMac of the same vintage. So something is amiss but not sure what. Since it connected on the Mac Pro I copied the files to a portable drive. Nice to know I can also connect via ethernet. Did they ever add firewire support to the Ki Pro itself. There was talk of that a while back. Been a while since I updated anything.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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I gave it external power. I was not using the thunderbolt port but 800 to 800 firewire cable. I brought the drive home with me and it worked on my Mac Pro also with 10.9.2. So it’s not the OS. Now the iMacs at work were using the thunderbolt port with a pegasus raid. Just the same, I’ve had no problems connecting other firewire devices to the same IMacs. Under ‘about this mac’ system report>firewire it reported an “unknown” device was hooked up but it did not appear in disc utility nor in the finder.
KI-STOR250-RO Rev C
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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I tried it wout pull down. I’ll try again. Thanks for your help. Never had a problem with P2 media before now.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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Maybe that’s possible but in X I import footage and FC just dealS with it. In the inspector it says its
960×720 29.97p DVCPROHD 720p60/30/24 linear PCM
In 7 I used to choose what I wanted In X it ewirther imports fine or it is “optimized” upon import.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
