[Dale Sandberg]

Martin,

I was able to test off a raid and get sustained speeds in the 200-300MBPS range so your advise is indeed correct. 1Gb simply isn’t enough bandwidth to keep the tape spinning. I’m working on getting a 10Gb pipe into the machine or possibly moving the iMac to another office where there is already 10Gb networking.

Thanks for all your help,

Dale

[Dale Sandberg]

Martin,

Thanks for your quick reply. Once the current tape is done transferring later today I will try a small backup from the internal HD. Since 1gb is 125MB per second it seems to me that there is still another cause of the slowness as we’re not getting even 25% of that.

I also now realize that since we were able to get the TB3 to TB2 adapter working I can test it on my 10gb connection too. I’ll report back with my findings.

Thanks again.

[Dale Sandberg]

Dan, thanks for the quick reply. I believe you are correct about the cache issue. I just changed the opacity of that 1 second to 99% and it seems to render those frames fresh instead of pulling them from the cache. The time is correct when opacity is set to 99%.

[Dale Sandberg]

Dan,

I want to start off by saying thank you for all the work you do answering question on these forums.

I’ve been using this countdown expression for some time now, but in a 10 minute interval. Without fail, the countdown always displays time “4:04” (four minutes and four seconds) as “5:14” (five minutes and fourteen seconds). I’ve tried change the delay to 0, 1, etc… but no matter what 4:04 always is replaced with 5:14.

Thoughts on why this happens and possibly a solution for the issue?

Here is a video showing my issue. 9880_countdownvideo.mov.zip

rate = -1;
clockStart = 600;
delay = 2;

function padZero(n){
if (n < 10) return "0" + n else return "" + n
}
t = Math.max(time - delay,0);
clockTime = Math.max(clockStart + rate*(t - inPoint),0);

t = Math.floor(clockTime);
min = Math.floor((t%3600)/60);
sec = Math.floor(t%60);
min + ":" + padZero(sec)