[Dan Riley]

What’s “Personal Backup”?

Dab

[Dan Riley]

Walter,

Would you mind mentioning what company that 75 ft DVI cable
was from that did not work correctly? We are looking to do the
same thing; move the G5 and drives out of the edit room.
Been looking at Gefen cables and extenders.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

One of the nice things about SuperDuper! is the scheduling of scripts.
Overnight SuperDuper! looks at my media drive RAID and copies over
to one of my Firewire 800 backup drives, whatever has been added or changed
while editing that day. I set it to look into a folder I call “FCP Media”
on my SATA RAID. In there are the audio render, auto save, capture
scratch, etc. files. I then set SuperDuper to look at only the folders within
those folders that have to do with a particular project I’m currently working on.
This means I can backup an entire project to one firewire 500 gig drive and
keep it as a separate backup for each project, from the entire 2 TB RAID.
Generally my shows take up about 450 gigs for all offline, uprez,
graphics and audio. So this works out quite nicely for me.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Is the Lacie External a firewire 400 or 800 RAID?

Is it connected to the G5 via one of the firewire ports
on the back of the G5?
If this is the case, you are going to have trouble.
Your AJA IO is already using up your firewire bus.
Even though there are extra firewire connectors on the G5,
they all go to the same bus.
You need a PCI firewire 800 board and use that as your
firewire port for the drives. They cost about $60 or so.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

NO NO NO.
Do not crash digitize. This is not something that’s unique to FCP.
AVID and any Pro edit system is the same. You need to playback
your tape and log/name each scene. This is how any good editor
would do it. This makes for much faster editing.
Then you batch digitize all your logged scenes.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Thanks Matte. Great info.
I think I’m going to try doing something in Photoshop
and bringing it into FCP. I’m not a graphics guy,
just a lowly editor/producer/director/writer,
so I’ll have to play around with it to get it to work.
I think I remember seeing a post somewhere that
explained how to do titles using Photoshop.
I’ll look around for it this weekend.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

I’ve bought many firewire drives from these people and all of um
have been great. Best service and price. These are FW800 drives
but you can connect them to FW400 ports too. They work either way.
https://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Category=2000&RequestTimeOut=500

I only use Firewire for backup. I never edit with it. but some people
like to so that’s your call. I use a SATA RAID for that.

[Dan Riley]

JNeo25

Sounds pretty nice.
How do you have it hooked up to your edit system?
Which PCI video card (AJA/BM/etc.) are you using and which inputs to the monitor?
Any hiccups from FCP playback to this monitor?

Thanks,
Dan

[Dan Riley]

I don’t want to be harsh, this being the holiday season and all,
but you really should read the manual. It’s very clear how all the
multicam stuff within FCP works. If you are going to spend
this kind of money on software and you want to get your
money’s worth out of it, read your manual.
Having said that…..

If you have a sequence loaded that you have cut from
a multiclip, go to the top of the canvas. There are three
buttons. The middle one select “open”. Now when you
play the sequence, the viewer will play all three of your
cameras in real time. If you want to see all three cameras
out your DV feed, go to the view menu, the last item,
show multiclip angles. This toggles the cut version
or the three cameras out to your NTSC monitor.

dr

[Dan Riley]

Pat,
I have the Pipe Studio too, like David. It’s a great product.
As far as your questions go,
1), no Aurora does not have a PCI express version as yet.
Maybe we’ll hear something at Macworld.
2), the breakout box is rack mountable. If you don’t
have a rack, just set it in back of your Mac. It’s nicer than
just having a bunch of cables coming out of the card because
everything is labeled and you can change connections easily.
I don’t think Aurora sells Pipe Studio without it.
3) it’s not a PCI express card so, no.

As far as the price goes, you really need to put the Pipe Studio
up against the full IO from AJA, at $2000 or more.
All the connections are live on output.
Additionally, with the Pipe Studio, there is no delay for
control or video output like AJA’s firewire connection.
With the Pipe Studio, you set your FCP offset at “0”.

Unfortunately, if you are buying the new Quad G5, the Aurora solution
is not available to you because of the PCI express situation.

Dan