Dom Silverio
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Final Cut Server is an asset management software. These assets can be video and audio and as well as pictures, music files, documents, etc.
The comparable Avid product is Interplay. The Unity equivalent in Apple world would be XSAN.
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[walter biscardi] “Nope, don’t see Final Cut Pro mentioned anywhere.”
It is bunch of drives Walter – not a capture card. You don’t see Premiere, Edius, ProTools, etc, etc – it does not mean it does not work. There is nothing special in that box that makes it work only in Avid. That is marketing vs reality. It is 10 drives with a SCSI RAID controller. Buy it, use it. I have personally used on MacPros with ATTO UL5D capturing ProRes HQ and uncompressed 1080i 8 bit.
Anyway, would you think Avid would advertise a competitive product in their own marketing? I mean I don’t see Apple saying MacPros are FCP only. Where is Premiere or Avid?
The only real Avid centric thing in those drives is in the configuration tool. You can either set it to Media Composer mode or Symphony mode. But that is just a naming thing for a simple technical question – how do you want to partition your drives.
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export it as Blackmagic’s uncompressed codec.
Or use Avid’s DNxHD or DVC Pro HD codec.
Both are free and dual platform.
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Won’t work. Avid on Windows needs NVidia video card. This is because of the slight variation on the implementation of OpenGL between NVidia and ATi.
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It is likely the signal strength has degraded significantly because of the length of the cable. I would try another cable that is tested for that length. You can also try a DVI repeater.
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I just checked, it was 1990. That is $9.
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That is because OMF was created circa 1991 :/
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Avid UNITY is a SAN. Edit Plus is a NLE. 2 different type of products.
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FCP cannot address more than 2.5 GB of RAM as most 32 bit OS X apps. Motion is the exception as 64 bit environment was in mind when it was created.
The benefit of more RAM is best evident when you have multiple apps open. 4GB is a good sweet spot. I would not go over 8GB unless you do crazy amount of heavy Motion editing (at that point your CPU and GPU is probably a bigger bottleneck). More than 8GB would make more sense when apps move away from their 32 bit codes.
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Export it WITHOUT pulldown.
With pulldown by definition adds the necessary field/frame conversion to change the frame rate from 24 to 30.