David Roth weiss
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Nope!!!
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[Mike Gilligan] “I was told that the firewire was quirky by an apple consultant who does a lot of FCP, (including editing.) We’ve worked together a lot, and I trust him totally, (so that’s not an issue.)”
Mike,
Sorry, but this is absolute rubbish. I can say with 100% certainty that your Apple consultant is mistaken.
DRW
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[Don Greening] “Using your startup drive to capture and edit media is generaly considered to be very unreliable.”
Worse than that, it simply doesn’t work.
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Mody,
See my post below. I posted a link to a test that used WD Raptor drives, which I believe are their fastest drives. Maxline beats them. Meanwhile, hard drives are a little like golf clubs, whatever gives you confidence is the best for you…
DRW
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[Wayne Carey] “Hitachti drives are the best and the fastest for the buck.”
Wayne,
I’m sure your Hitachi drives work quite well, but they are not the fastest, and therefore one would tend to doubt your claim that they are indeed the best. As I stated before, tests comparing comparable Maxline, Seagate, Westen Digital, and Hitachi show the Maxline drives to be clearly the fastest. Check out the following, it compares everything except Seagate (another test I can’t find right now includes Seagates): https://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2094&p=12 .
DRW
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Mike,
Seems to me the way you’re doing it is unreliable. Who told you firewire deck control was unreliable? Why the heck are you capturing DV through a Kona board anyway? Just plug the firewire into your MAC with deck control and capture audio, video, and timecode through one wire.
DRW
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Greg,
The most important thing is to attend the meeting with bells on and a twinkle in your eye. If you did a good job last time out you’re their man, and you should impress upon them that you’re on their team. Later, depending on the lay of the land you can always bill them for your time or at least discuss it with them.
DRW
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Art,
I have their 2-drive Seritek setup myself and its great. Check out Maxline III 250gb SATA drives at http://www.newegg.com. These are Maxtor’s “enterprise” drives with 16mg cache and a 5-year warranty, and rated faster than Seagate and Hitachi. Newegg has them for only $104.99, the best price on the web. And, they’re is no problem at all using 4 drives to create a 1 terrabyte stripe set.
BTW, newegg has 300gb Maxline SATA drives for only $125 each…
DRW
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Did you make certain that anti-aliasing was turned off in PhotoShop???
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He’s already got a 5.1 mix…