Darren Peister
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The system is playing MUCH better; thank you!! I downloaded and ran Disc Warrior on the hard drive with the media. I’m waiting for the DVD with the application/OS to arrive. Should I run it on the CPU as well? Thanks.
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Mac Pro 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
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Rafael; 30%? Nope! According to Disk Warrior, 37% of my files were out of order! Thanks; I just ran the application on the media drive and hopefully that will put it in working order. Wish me luck.
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Mac Pro 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
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Below are screen grabs of the information requested. It seems that HDV is not some foreign H264-type of format to the software. Yet it’s choking on this HDV media like crazy! Help!
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Mac Pro 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
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Im editing on a Mac Pro: os 10.5.8 2x 2.26 GHz quad-core intel xeon computer; 16g RAM. 3 internal 1tb drives were striped as a single raid 0 drive using disk utility as mac OS extended; i reformatted them just before beginning this job. HDV files were provided to me from a client who has fcp express; Im running FCP v6.0.6. I just ran Aja’s system test on my drives. The read/write of a 1gb file with a video frame size of DVCProHD 1080i/60 was 266mb/sec. Not shabby! YET: as I play down my timeline of HDV material it stops and gives me the warning box. This morning it played fine; this evening it wont play more than a couple of seconds without stopping. It is a fairly simple timeline; the project is 11megs. All effects were rendered to the raid and yet it wont play. None of the effects came up as red; but even bright green effects wont play. It simply stops and gives me the error. I dumbed down the playback to safe/med playback/half rate on the frames and that helps it play- but it’s absolutely absurd for a such a robust editing system. I should be able to switch multiple cameras in HD with this thing! What is going on?? Any suggestions?
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Mac Pro 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
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Your bet was correct. I’m having serious problems playing a sequence of HDV material. My system is new and rather robust so I’m scratching my head why this would be happening. Any thoughts?
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Mac Pro 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
16 GB RAM, 3Gig internal Raid -
Rob: TAH DAH! Thanks; I also had to go back to the AV Settings/ AV Devices tab and turn on “Mirror on Desktop”. Much appreciated. And to Rafael; no I have not been crashing much at all (the entire system is about 3 months old!) but I had accidentally formatted my hard drives as Mac Extended Journaled which I believe was responsible for dropped frames/freezing during playback of my timeline. I figured a reformat and a trashing would be wise to do in tandem. Thanks again.
Geek/Nerd/Odd Duck
MacbookPro15″ 4gigsRAM -
It”ll end up as 1080p/24- as the interviews were done. The footage from Africa is 1080i 50 so am I dealing with a standards conversion as if mixing PAL and NTSC together? Will I actually be able to take the .MOV coming from Africa, drop it into Compressor and get a 1080p Pro Rez file? Seems unfathomable to me but I’m more than happy to go that route. Should I then also convert/media manage my XDCam footage to ProRez as well? Thanks. Really appreciate the help.
Geek/Nerd/Odd Duck
MacbookPro15″ 4gigsRAM -
Bought the official version and it works splendidly. I wasnt aware that it had to be purchased. Thanks.
Geek/Nerd/Odd Duck
MacbookPro15″ 4gigsRAM -
OK! OK! You beat me down: I hooked up a TV monitor. It ended up being very easy; Firewire out to a camcorder and then A/V out of the camcorder to the TV. MUCH better. Thank you. Tremendously helpful advice. And genuinely appreciated!
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BINGO: simply changing the Canvas monitor to view it at 100% and not 108% brought it back to what I had hoped to see! Thank you! I’ve actually done a series of projects on FCP but I have to admit the layout of this software is in many ways not intuitive and bogs me down. Thank you for your help.
Geek/Nerd/Odd Duck
MacbookPro15″ 4gigsRAM