[Don Wilson]

It must be something in my sequence. It consistently fails short of three hours elapsed. Either going to output to tape and bring back in and start a new project sans that sequence or output an Uncompressed QT file and start anew.

Sequence plays fine. Corrupted media somewhere? Should I run the new Disk Warrior or is that asking for it?

Hot as Hades in So Cal, feels like bayou home.

Don

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[Don Wilson]

PS. sorry for all the friggin’ typos…hurrying.

The FRC is not reasonable as each show will have upwards of 6 hours of 60fps stuff NFL Films style. 15 shows!!

Thanks again

Don Wilson
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AmericanaMediaInc.com
MississippiSon.com
818.660.2915 studio
818.207.6924 cell
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[Don Wilson]

Thank you all. The Apple thread did the trick. I’d used an App Delete program but obviously it didn’t delete everything. The re-install did the trick so again my thanks.

The Cow Rocks again!

Don Wilson
AmericanaMediaInc.com
MississippiSon.com

[Don Wilson]

I love you guys, and dare I say Mr Weiss Mr Weiss Mr Weiss…..just had to. Seriously though David, thanks for all your input.

And I must say that years ago I thought Bob was some crazy code writer dude living under a rock laughing uncontrollably (Like Morgus David) but now I shout out for his wisdom in times of trouble……I am getting old! And after meeting him in person, he is actually much the gentleman….sorry to blow it for you Bob!!

As well, you all try really hard to help and I, though often with feathers fluffed, pay attention and soak it all in. And David, I did the clone of each project I converted from old ones, they were all fine. What happened was maybe two weeks later that corrupted the “converted” projects. I did go back to those safe ones but they were missing much color work. It was in some sort of bad voodoo mode where no matter which project I opened, it became corrupted, and the autosaves as well. In hindsight, after the first became corrupted, I should have shut down and re-evaluated, but again, I’m an old live truck guy who’s attitude is ‘get it on the air” so I kept trying to “get something working.”

And my 2 cents on the Highpoint….

I did a lot of research, talked to the boys at AJA and an old pal from Huge and they all thumbed up the Rocket Raid. And again, this thing has been a rock. Not a single alarm and unlike many sata arrays, the speed stays consistent as it fills up. I have had FW 800 drive issues unmounting but I try and not use them much anymore.

And Bob is correct, we’re DVCPro HD 1080p24. Shot on the Varicam and HVX200, beautifully I might add. So throughput is no issue. I did just work on a big project at Cimarron uncompressed 10bit HD and though cluncky and slow, we crashed without any lasting problems, but we crashed. They are the beta house apparently, at least they claim so.

We’ve been editing this film since last October and we’ve had not one serious problem until this, so for us, that is progress.

And I can tell you horror stories of my 2 inch editing days when I looked out in the machine room and tape was a foot high and the reels still spinning…and I think Sherwood was laughing in the corner…

All the best to all,

Don Wilson
AmericanaMediaInc.com
MississippiSon.com

[Don Wilson]

Jeremy,

Thanks, Yes, I did know that but I find it quite cumbersome, but if that’s it that’s it.

And I must say to others that I’m a bit perplexed as to why everyone is going down the drive path, even some to say that I said Sata sucks. Never said it and to the contrary I am a big fan. My HighPoint controlled Sata SAS array kicks butt. The problem is the project corruption. I more think it’s to do with V5 projects in V6. I erred by not being cautious enough when everything appeared to be going well. Any of the older projects pre V6(and I mean that I make new projects when we’ve done significant changes to warrant it’s independence) work fine, the new ones converted from V5 are the problem ones. If it’s a drive issue I’d be very surprised, but I’m listening.

Again, the error we kept getting out of nowhere was:

“this project may be too new or is unreadable by Final Cut Pro”

and we then started getting: error:memory full

…when we tried to render. Both issues out of the blue upon start up in the morning.

Don Wilson
AmericanaMediaInc.com
MississippiSon.com

[Don Wilson]

Walter,

Jbod through Raid 5. Raid is controlled by the raid controller, the High Point 2340. Here is some info in it:

https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1037/highpoint_rocketraid_2340_controller_supporting_12_000gb_of_storage/index.html

Best,

Don Wilson
AMericanaMediaInc.com
MississippiSon.com
dwilson@americanamediainc.com

[Don Wilson]

Walter, Bob and all,

Thank you for your patience. Very tired on this end. Got the thing out to tape though we had terrible sync issues cross-converting. I went ahead and purchased a Gen 10 and it helped but the HDCam was sure touchy. Out to D5 was never an issue.

Walter, thanks for the offer. And to Bob, Dulce Duo Quad and a unit I built that has become my favorite. Here is the rack:

https://www.pc-pitstop.com/sata_enclosures/scsata12RMd.asp

and I use the HighPoint 2340 with very expensive cables. I get at least 415 MB/sec through the thing and it runs very cool. Stuffed with 12 750s, one which was bad initally and had to be replaced. The card has internal mini-sas connectors and I have a backplane on the computer to adapt mini SAS to SAS which then connects to multi-lane on the chassis. Very smart software management.

I have had issues with the Cal Digits. I saw recommendations here in the forum and bought them based on that and sorry to hear about all the issues. They really didn’t play in this senario as they are filled with an older project, thank god.

I really wish there were an “attic” like Avid has so a project can be resurrected by copying bins directly. In this case, it would have saved days. We basically would boot up each project until we got one that would not crash, started a new project, copied bins and necessary sequences into it, closed the old project and re-build from an offline output for 4 days. This project started as a 5.1.4 and when the picture was locked, we upgraded to 6 to be able to color-grade with secondaries using Color, which is awesome but has some growing to do.

Sorry for the rant guys, I knew I was sticking my hand in a scorpion’s pit, but then again you’re the only people on all the boards who I truly respect and are consistent with your responses. Please understand that I’m an old Kem editor who jumped to CMX50 to Grass Valley to Axial to Avid in 1989, yes, 4th one delivered to LA and have been and Avid guy since. I’ve had my share of Avid issues but I guess I’ve been incredibly lucky with Avid as it has always been a workhorse for me. But once I offlined on FCP I was sold. Very smart interface and very powerful. Finishing on the thing is another matter for another day.

Many thanks to all,

Don Wilson
MississippiSon.com
AmericanaMediaInc.com
dwilson@americanamediainc.com

[Don Wilson]

“I’m completely mystified by your continued hardware wars with your FCP system.”

Me too David. Ask Larry, I’m one of the old vets like him. I can’t remember all the systems I’ve built or been a part of building. I’d like to meet up after all this. I’m in Studio City. Larry and I are going to meld minds soon as well.

By the way, were you around in the TeleProductions day in NOLA? Worked there a bunch on concerts and The Final Four for CBS. That was a strange environment.

Anyway, I’m no baffoon is my point. I get this stuff. I solder and know how to use a scope….now that’s rare these days you gotta admit.

Thanks for your input. Shoot me an email sometime and we’ll meet up with Larry at Fox n’ Hounds or something.

Don Wilson
AmericanaMediaInc.com
MississippiSon.com

[Don Wilson]

I hear ya Bob. I never said FCP sucks, and especially never said SATA sucks, though my SCSSI Huge’s have never been an issue ever. In fact I never tried to imply that SATA was even my issue here, or in times past. I’m a SATA fan. Eveyone who assists me tells me I really push a system. And I will admit that I do push it. I grew up on trucks, live stuff, and have always had that “immediate” personality. I do a lot of feature length stuff which most people I come in contact with don’t. I use FCP on SpeedTV and Fox racing, short form stuff, with no issues really love the FCP way of editing, superb. But these 100+ hours of storage/feature projects are tough. It’s gotten to be a nervous time when it nears “finishing” with us. We become much more gentle and damn if we still don’t get bitten more than not.

I’ve talked with you in person and please don’t take any of this personal. You, Walter and the other guys are the ones who’re always coming up with the answers. And I appreciate it much. And I probably wouldn’t have posted the rant if I’d slept in the last week. The floor is developing a drool stain from me sleeping next to the decks listening for sync issues. But damn if it doesn’t get us every friggin’ time. We always think we’re ahead of delivery and here we are smellin’ and tired, again. I lept to FCP because of my frustration with Avid’s attitude and their HD bottleneck with the DS. Now the Nitrus Symphony, my freelance money maker, I think kicks butt. It fails, but I can be up and running in 30-40 mins by copying bins from the attic to the a new project. An I have the luxury of the Isis/Unity redundancy admittedly. But I consider that thing robust. I know, 85 grand before mass storage….but

I can’t give up, I’ve got too much into these systems. New Pro Tools too. Maybe after this is over, I could shoot you a chronology of events and problems and have you look over it when you can.

Regards,
Don

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[Don Wilson]

Must add that I’ve the utmost respect for and am a huge fan of AJA and all the people there. They’ve bent over backwards helping up over the years.

Don Wilson

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