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Don Wilson
July 23, 2011 at 6:00 am in reply to: Color bars?

We 3D guys have to deliver several different file formats and a left and right eye HD master with bars and tone to EVERY 3D broadcaster. Used to be SR, I guess we could use the deck if the were tape anymore. Bigger question is that do you guys ever calibrate your monitor from your edit system bars? Sure is easy and smart the way it was….just saying.

Don Wilson
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Don Wilson
June 22, 2011 at 1:28 am in reply to: Don’t want to be the one to say it but…

My fellow Cow professionals….

We’re screwed.

(honey, where’d I put that Media Composer 5.5 coupon???)

Don Wilson

Don Wilson
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AmericanaMediaInc.com
MississippiSon.com
818.660.2915 studio
818.207.6924 cell
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Don Wilson
September 23, 2010 at 8:33 pm in reply to: Flashed GTX 285? Dare I ask if they work?

My 2cents…

I’ve purchased several cards from Dave Pirinelli as someone mentioned above. He recently upgraded our older 285s for brand new ones at no charge. Very pleased with him and his service and whenever he comes up with updates etc. he lets us know right away. He let me use an ATI 5870 for eval recently with no deposit or anything and in the end I went back to the 285. Now with the software enabling the Cuda power to work on the new Westmere I have, all is good!

Don Wilson
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MississippiSon.com
818.660.2915 studio
818.207.6924 cell
818.760.1828 fax
Don Wilson
September 17, 2010 at 11:23 pm in reply to: Internal Raid Card

Just recently purchased a new 6-Core Westmere and my old HighPoint SAS/Sata raid controler won’t friggin’ work with the new MP designs. Nice right. We had just bought it to replace another HighPoint card that went bad after several years of brutal labor. The new cards to get are the Aceras and the Attos. I went with the Acera as it was available in town. Had to copy material off the existing raid and copy back onto the new one but speeds are nearing 985 MB/s. Using a iStorage 16 bay SAS Expander chassis but also works on an older 8 bay chassis with great speeds too. The Acera’s are the 1680 series and the 1880 series and the Atto is the R380.

Lots of raid experience if you need any questions answered.

Best,
Don Wilson
dwilson@americanamediainc.com

Don Wilson
donwilson.tv
AmericanaMediaInc.com
MississippiSon.com
818.660.2915 studio
818.207.6924 cell
818.760.1828 fax
Don Wilson
September 15, 2010 at 8:05 am in reply to: Is a RAID array the next step up from multiple FW800 Lacies?

My 2 cents…

I just put together a 16 Bay SAS Expander iStorage unit with Areca 1680ix-12, increased the controller Ram to 2 gigs and this thing is topping speeds over 950 MB/s…new 6-core Westmere with 16 gigs ram. Chassis is very good build quality and Patrick at CI Design/iStorage is near AJA support in responsiveness. And listen to Bob about those LaCie dogs… And again he is correct about the internal drives. We put three 1.5TB Satas in each computer stripped together and get over 350 MB/s from them, perfect for most workflows. We’re pushing lots of 3D multicam and big fat 3D files and nary a cough on the iStorage…yet!

Now when the hell is Apple gonna catch up to the rest of us with an FCP update??

Don Wilson
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AmericanaMediaInc.com
MississippiSon.com
818.660.2915 studio
818.207.6924 cell
818.760.1828 fax
Don Wilson
May 13, 2010 at 9:36 am in reply to: Multiclip nightmare

Here ya go Jeremy:

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000004
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Thread 0 Crashed: 0 com.apple.FinalCutPro 1 com.apple.FinalCutPro 2 com.apple.FinalCutPro 3 com.apple.FinalCutPro 4 com.apple.FinalCutPro 5 com.apple.FinalCutPro 6 com.apple.FinalCutPro 7 …ple.CoreServic 8 …ple.CoreServic 9 com.apple.FinalCutPro 10 …ple.CoreServic 11 …ickTimeCompone 12 …ickTimeCompone 13 …ickTimeCompone 14 …ple.CoreServic 15 …ple.CoreServic 16 …ickTimeCompone 17 com.apple.FinalCutPro 18 …ple.CoreServic 19 com.apple.QuickTime 20 com.apple.QuickTime 21 com.apple.QuickTime 22 com.apple.FinalCutPro 23 com.apple.FinalCutPro 24 com.apple.FinalCutPro 25 com.apple.FinalCutPro 26 com.apple.FinalCutPro 27 com.apple.FinalCutPro 28 com.apple.FinalCutPro 29 com.apple.FinalCutPro 30 com.apple.FinalCutPro 31 com.apple.FinalCutPro 32 com.apple.FinalCutPro 33 com.apple.FinalCutPro 34 com.apple.HIToolbox 35 com.apple.HIToolbox 36 com.apple.HIToolbox 37 com.apple.HIToolbox 38 com.apple.HIToolbox 39 com.apple.HIToolbox 40 com.apple.HIToolbox 41 com.apple.HIToolbox 42 com.apple.HIToolbox 43 com.apple.FinalCutPro 44 com.apple.FinalCutPro 45 com.apple.FinalCutPro 46 com.apple.FinalCutPro Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0x0043b92b VideoPipe::SequenceTimeToMovieTime(double, unsigned char*) + 27
0x0045f12e SetupSrcCanvasN(XXGlobals*, EffectTree*, long, long, Output*, bool*) + 182
0x00460bc1 DecodeEffectFrameN(XXGlobals*, EffectTree*, long, unsigned char, Output*, bool*) + 267
0x004619c3 DecodePipeTree(XXGlobals*, Output*) + 633
0x0042b9b5 FCPMediaHandler::RenderFrames(long long, bool) + 3981
0x0042c01b FCPMediaHandler::Idle(long, long, long*, TimeRecord*) + 657
0x0042d0e5 FCPMHIdle(FCPMediaHandler*, long, long, long*, TimeRecord*) + 45
es.CarbonCore 0x96f2a9b1 callComponentStorage_44444 + 49
es.CarbonCore 0x96f1f6f0 CallComponentFunctionCommonWithStorage(char**, ComponentParameters*, long (*)(), unsigned long) + 54
0x00425ea9 FCPMHDispatch(ComponentParameters*, char**) + 59
es.CarbonCore 0x96f17d87 CallComponentDispatch + 29
nts.component 0x948c022b MediaIdle + 61
nts.component 0x9413cd22 doGenericIdle + 2991
nts.component 0x9413eb57 GenericMoviesTask + 357
es.CarbonCore 0x96f2a9b1 callComponentStorage_44444 + 49
es.CarbonCore 0x96f1f6f0 CallComponentFunctionCommonWithStorage(char**, ComponentParameters*, long (*)(), unsigned long) + 54
nts.component 0x9413e2aa GenericComponentDispatch + 182
0x00425ec5 FCPMHDispatch(ComponentParameters*, char**) + 87
es.CarbonCore 0x96f17d87 CallComponentDispatch + 29
0x97b9ca3a MediaMoviesTask + 61
0x97b9b7d3 TaskMovie_priv + 4808
0x97bae625 MoviesTask_priv + 101
0x001ba8ba DoMoviesTask(KGPlayerRec*) + 2388
0x001cd5e3 DisplayMovie(KGPlayerRec*) + 2201
0x001d1ada pKGPlayerUpdate(KGPlayerRec*) + 196
0x001bac26 pKGPlayerDelayedUpdate(KGPlayerRec*, double) + 54
0x00068a77 pKGClipFinishEdits(KGDictInt*, double, KGErrorCode, unsigned char) + 1971
0x00240289 pKGInvalidateFilesInClip(KGDictInt*, KGFileRec**, long, unsigned char*) + 205
0x00240424 pKGInvalidateFilesInBin(KGDictInt*, KGFileRec**, long) + 318
0x002403e1 pKGInvalidateFilesInBin(KGDictInt*, KGFileRec**, long) + 251
0x002403e1 pKGInvalidateFilesInBin(KGDictInt*, KGFileRec**, long) + 251
0x00243223 VerifyFileDateStamps() + 711
0x001598ea DoEvent(OpaqueEventRef*, KGDictInt*) + 7640
0x00414213 Events(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*, void*) + 67
0x903110a9 DispatchEventToHandlers(EventTargetRec*, OpaqueEventRef*, HandlerCallRec*) + 1567
0x90310370 SendEventToEventTargetInternal(OpaqueEventRef*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, HandlerCallRec*) + 411
0x903101cf SendEventToEventTargetWithOptions + 58
0x90344d10 ToolboxEventDispatcherHandler(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*, void*) + 3006
0x903114fa DispatchEventToHandlers(EventTargetRec*, OpaqueEventRef*, HandlerCallRec*) + 2672
0x90310370 SendEventToEventTargetInternal(OpaqueEventRef*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, HandlerCallRec*) + 411
0x90332b55 SendEventToEventTarget + 52
0x904bbdf7 ToolboxEventDispatcher + 86
0x904bbf2f RunApplicationEventLoop + 243
0x0015396f KGMainEvent(void*) + 51
0x002c10e8 main + 54
0x00002d7b _start + 209
0x000

Don Wilson
donwilson.tv
AmericanaMediaInc.com
MississippiSon.com
818.660.2915 studio
818.207.6924 cell
818.760.1828 fax
Don Wilson
May 6, 2010 at 10:34 pm in reply to: Multiclip nightmare

Hi Bob,

Old ProRez422 works just fine. I was given the project with most of the material already captured sans a few audience shots etc. Just finished a 3D concert film where we were “provided” a workflow by a vendor and it too was PR LT(right eye) and lots of the same issues there too, fiber to server drives. Were told by their “expert” that it was our project and not the workflow…NOT. Tried moving a song’s worth of footage to my internals and it had same problems. Walking lightly and turning off all unnecessary things to lower the processor demands. Did do the PR422 test with one song, worked find, and if I didn’t have to deliver so soon I’d recapture it all to avoid long stares at the second story ledge…

Cheers there in sunny Fla.

Don Wilson
donwilson.tv
AmericanaMediaInc.com
MississippiSon.com
818.660.2915 studio
818.207.6924 cell
818.760.1828 fax
Don Wilson
May 6, 2010 at 6:20 pm in reply to: Multiclip nightmare

Jeremy, it’s the first line of the crash report, often says Video Pipe…

We’re finding the ProPes LT codec problematic. Tests with it vs others is showing it acts like the Red Proxy problems stated on the Cow. Sure wish we’d known about it before 60 hours of material was digitized…

Cheers,
Don

Don Wilson
donwilson.tv
AmericanaMediaInc.com
MississippiSon.com
818.660.2915 studio
818.207.6924 cell
818.760.1828 fax
Don Wilson
December 5, 2009 at 7:09 am in reply to: FCP 7 and Kona and “timeline cursor” problem

I have always gotten this error regardless of the version. I’ve found that with long or complex timelines, no waveforms or thumbnails but large V1 and V2 track view this happens. I have always believed that the processors and GFX card spike momentarily and I now believe that to be true. Watch the Activity monitor in the CPU setting. It is does not appear to go over the limit but FCP does what it does because it wants to…the true meaning of a love hate relationship.

How’s the weather in Fla. Bob? How bout’ my Saints….Who Dat!!

Don

Don Wilson
donwilson.tv
AmericanaMediaInc.com
MississippiSon.com
818.660.2915 studio
818.207.6924 cell
818.760.1828 fax
Don Wilson
November 6, 2009 at 5:54 am in reply to: Media Manager weirdness

Oh, I’ve been down the MFX dark path for years. It’s a love/hate thing for sure. Anyone any idea about the Media Manager crash with multiclips included?

Don

Don Wilson
donwilson.tv
AmericanaMediaInc.com
MississippiSon.com
818.660.2915 studio
818.207.6924 cell
818.760.1828 fax

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