[Dan Riley]

The first thing I know about the 1800 is it’s finicky and also there are not
very many things you can select on the front panel, thus the lower cost.
Second is, like other Sony pro decks, there should be a menu selection
to reference “input video”. You shouldn’t need a BB generator if you
select that menu item. Do not connect the Y connector to ref.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Not to sound like your dad but, how many times do people here
have to say NEVER CHANGE YOUR SYSTEM IN THE MIDDLE OF A PROJECT
ESPECIALLY IF YOUR PRESENT SYSTEM IS RUNNING JUST FINE,
before you listen?

If you backed up your system and could now revert back to
your configuration before the update, do that now. SuperDuper and an
external firewire drive is my choice for this very thing. It’s totally automatic
and can be scheduled to work while you are sleeping. And if you
did not backup your boot drive on a daily basis like you should,
now you’ll have more trouble than you need to have.

These two solid operational requirements for professional content creators
are the cornerstone of having a smooth editing situation.
Sorry if this is harsh, but life is harsh dude.

Now, try this:
go to apple and download the update and re install.
https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/finalcutpro601.html

See if that helps. And this time, while your machine is updating,
DO NO OTHER OPERATIONS with your computer…..NONE.
Let it set there and update. This is also a common thread
from people who have trouble after updates. They were
using their computer for many other things and this has been shown
to cause problems with updates.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Mackie 824s.
Can’t go wrong.
Sound like Genelec at half the price.
Everybody uses um, from mixing houses to broadcasters.
The entire plant, every studio at Sirius is all Mackie 824s.
More than your budget, they will cost you about $550 per.
I’ve auditioned audio monitors for years and worked with
record engineers who loved their Genelec monitors,
and many of them have Mackie 824s in their home studios.

dr

[Dan Riley]

Wonder where I heard this was a not a good idea.
I’m I also mistaken that you shouldn’t partition your boot drive?

dr

[Dan Riley]

More RAM is better, but I have a question for you….
Are you getting the RAM from Apple in the config you mentioned?
Because if you are, you are paying twice as much as you need to
for 8 gigs of RAM. Don’t do that. Buy great RAM from transintl.com
or macsales.com Maybe if you do this, you can get both the QUAD 3 gig
and the RAM. Even so, my advice is get as much RAM as you can.
8 gigs is good. 4 gigs, not so much. The problem is you computer
will use it’s virtual RAM feature (meaning it uses your system hard drive
as fake RAM) much more often. This is obviously slower than RAM.
You can’t turn this off in OSX, so the only thing you can do is
purchase more RAM if you are going to be using apps that like to use
RAM to operate, like Motion, FCP, Photoshop, After Effects, etc.

Just one man’s opinion. Let’s see who else chirps up.
Dan

[Dan Riley]

Are you saying you want to capture to hard drive LIVE?
If so there are a number of ways to do it.

1- the simple way, connect your firewire cable from your camera
to the laptop, open FCP, do the easy setup for whatever flavor or
dvcprohd you are doing, change the control to capture as uncontrollable device.
Then you hit capture now.
You will not have camera timecode this way. Every time you
start and stop the recording on the laptop the timecode will
start over but you will have a new clip each time so it’s not too bad.
You would record to your internal disk in this situation
which isn’t the best idea. Or you could purchase a express card
with a firewire port (400 or 800) to connect your external hard drive.
Do not daisy chain your camera and your hard drive together…ever.
And the two ports on your laptop go to the same buss in the computer
so it’s the same as daisy chaining.

2- Purchase (or demo) Scopebox.
https://scopebox.com/index.html
This program allows you to monitor and capture from the HVX200
with camera timecode. It’s a great little program.
You will still need an express card to capture to your external
hard drive, but scopebox will allow you to get timecode and
have a waveform monitor.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

You must be kidding.
It’s not silent at all.

This unit sits right next to the new Mac Pro which,
except for start up and heavy processor use, (and fans running
faster) is very quiet. But not the D800.
Like I said, it’s not like a DigiBeta deck or something,
but it’s noticeable and noise I don’t want in the suite.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

More testing and comments from others here point out I was mistaken to
worry about the spikes in the speed graph. Turns out this is typical
behavior for all drive arrays with that AJA speed test. So far the RAID
have been performing great.

Never mind.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

I got the book out (yeah I should have earlier) and saw what you are talking about.
I didn’t configure the RAID or install the card myself, my VAR did, so I wasn’t
as familiar with it’s operation as I should have been.

OT for you Walter… the fans on this D800 unit, while not bad, are louder
than I expected. I want to do what you did with your new install and put
the RAID and the Mac Pro outside my edit room. I’ll need to run computer
monitor and mouse controls into the room and was wondering what you used
to do that? Did you use Gefen for that?

Thanks again,
Dan

[Dan Riley]

Walter,
I’m having trouble finding the setting you mentioned.
I don’t see it in the ATTO Configuration Tool.
Where is it?

And you say if I change it, I have to do a rebuild of the RAID?

Thanks,
Dan