Dave Gage
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[James Cude] ”
Believe it or not this has less to do with X and more to do with your system. Somewhere one of the drives you’re using either locally or networked is not authorized to be written to by you the currently logged in user.”Yes, and run Disk Warrior. Since I’ve started to use FCP X, I’ve had an external RAID become unusable twice. The first time I took the drives and out and re-built and it was then fine for awhile. The 2nd time, I bought and ran Disk Warrior, repaired permissions and have not had a problem since as I run DW about every month or two. By repairing the directory structure, it also fixed some misc. issues on my start drive.
Dave
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[Dave Gage] “At some point, I will need to get a second camera which I’d prefer be very similar to my Canon S100 (I’m running out of learning curve time), so I will take a look at the C100.”
Okay, never mind. I just Googled the C100. That’s a big boy camera and way out of my price range. I’m in the $700- $1000 range for my needs. Very cool though.
Dave
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[olof ekbergh] “But just a word of caution if you shoot 1080 29.97 progressive (and 25 frame as well I think). Canon does not use the same version of AVCHD as Sony and others, it is 24mb/s but they dont tag the PSF files so that FCPX can interpret them as progressive.”
Yes, I went through this about a year ago with my Canon S100-
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/6302I bought ClipWrap and have been using it ever since. It solves this problem and also allows me to pre-name my files, organize, and toss out the trash files before I edit. I still backup the original card and keep the file structure in tact, but I never use it. I also edit the files on my 2011 MBP i7 and external RAID 1 enclosure without optimizing and it works just fine.
At some point, I will need to get a second camera which I’d prefer be very similar to my Canon S100 (I’m running out of learning curve time), so I will take a look at the C100.
Thanks,
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[massimo verona] ”
My external AC FW800 only gets about 40-50 MB/s but it’s way too full.”I just received in the mail today the OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini- 750GB 7200rpm bus-powered external drive. I copied over my Events and Projects and needed media from my main RAID FCP X drive.
I ran QuickBench 4.0 on it when connected via FW800 and got:
[i]Write- 62 MB/s, Read- 82 MB/s[/i]Not too bad for a single bus-powered drive. I can edit with Proxy instead of my ClipWrapped AVCHD media if it feels slow. This enclosure also has an option for for eSATA connection which I can do with my 2011 MBP. I will need to buy an extra $6 cable though that goes from the DC IN of the enclosure to the FW port of the laptop to power it since eSATA is not bus-powered. This should be a good solution until I can do it right and replace the optical drive.
[massimo verona] “Just upgraded to 16GB mem, but with shorts I haven’t used more than the 8GB I had before. I think a feature would eat more.”
I’m still on 8GB of RAM, but hope to go up to 16 after the first of the year. Prices are really coming down now. I don’t know how necessary it would be for me as I only do 2-10 instructional videos for the web, but for less than $100, it can’t hurt.
[massimo verona] “Battery life sucks if I’m trying out color correction or FX;”
I’ll be editing with the external drive on battery in the next couple of days. I am curious to see how much time I get with it.Thanks,
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[Jason Brown] “Running AJA system test, I get 84.8MB/s write and 90.4MB/s read from this drive. I edit ProRes and usually work off proxy, but have had no problem with ProRes LT in FCPX from that drive. (I haven’t worked on a BIG project yet, just small one off kind of stuff).”
I appreciate the extra details, it is helpful. That seems pretty good for a 5400 drive.
Because of the extra cost involved with the internal upgrades, I just ordered a bus-powered 7200rpm 750GB drive. With FW800, I will hopefully get similar read/writes to what you’re getting, but if not, I’ll just stick with proxies. Since it’s only the “away” editing drive, it should be fine. I decided to wait until after the 1st of the year for a big upgrade, when I can do it right and possibly put in 2 SSDs. I’m hoping the prices on SSDs will keep coming down, if not I’ll get the Seagate Momentus as a media drive. I will also do as you did and put the SuperDrive in an external enclosure (I still occasionally burn CDs).
Thanks again,
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[Jason Brown] ”
That is the only internal drive that can be ejected…obviously u can’t eject ur boot drive.”With all the research I’ve been reading the last couple of days, it appears a lot of people are moving their boot drive to the Optical slot and putting their 2nd drive (media drive in my case) in the original HDD slot for a true 6G connection.
With my early 2011 i7 MBP, the Optical drive slot won’t be as fast as the HDD slot-
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Mercury_Electra_6G/
“2011 MacBook Pro 17″ Now 6G Capable!
Thanks to Apple’s Macbook Pro EFI Firmware update 2.2 released on 9/14/2011, OWC has test confirmed proper operation of OWC 6G SSDs in all 2011 MacBook Pro 17″ (Model ID MacBookPro8,3) models. After successfully applying this update, your Boot ROM Version will be: MBP81.0047.B1E. Please read our very informative Blog Post for additional information.”More details here-
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/DDAMBS0GB/
“Testing has demonstrated that Apple factory hardware does not reliably support a 6G (6Gb/s) Solid State Drive or Hard Disk Drive in the optical bay of 2011 MacBook Pros (ModeI ID8,1; 8,2; 8,3). If your OWC Data Doubler bundle comes with a 6G drive, you should ONLY install that drive in the main drive bay and utilize the Data Doubler to re-task your existing drive or install a new 3G SSD or HDD in the optical bay. PRE-2011 models can utilize a 6G drive in the optical bay, but will do so at a reduced 3G (3Gb/s) speed.”Yet more details here-
https://blog.macsales.com/11895-2011-macbook-pro-sata-problems-resolvedDave
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[Andreas Kiel] “This allows to run the system (MBP + HD + FW camera – running 6 streams) for more than 8 hours – compared to less then 1 hour
It’s some additional weight, but it’s worth it for me.”Very cool solution. I literally only need an hour or two, so that would be way overkill for me. What kind of HD solution are you using with this setup? Bus-powered or AC?
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Jason,
Perfect! That was all I needed to know. I’m glad to hear ejecting worked in the Optical drive slot too. As I said, I was getting mixed opinions on whether it would work or not.
Thanks again,
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[Michael Garber] “If it’s bus powered, it’s probably a 5400rpm drive. I have found that it’s better to edit from proxies on that drive when using FCPX.”
Actually, this drive/enclosure combo has a 750GB/7200 rpm in it. I would likely go the proxy route also. I’m happy to know this solution works for you. I just need something that will work for when I take the kids to soccer or water polo practice and I can then sit in the car or at a Starbucks and get a little work done.
[Michael Garber] “Just did a side piece from the same footage about one of the stores, Wombleton Records.”
I like the main shot of Ian. It looks to be a wide angle, but doesn’t have a distorted wide angle look to it. Boy, there’s a niche out there for everyone. Who knew a whole store solely devoted to British music was out there. It’s a bit of drive for me, but if I’m ever in Highland Park, I’ll have to stop in and take a look around.
Dave
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[Jason Brown] ” U can eject the 2nd internal drive when u aren’t using it. Then remount in disk utility when u want it online.”
I did a Google search on this subject yesterday and got mixed answers on this topic. I also talked with OWC today and the tech said he didn’t know nor could he test it there, but didn’t think you would be able to eject an internal drive in a MBP. It makes sense to me that you could.
Have you tested this yourself? I haven’t been able to take with anyone that has actually done it.
Thanks,
Dave