[Dylan Haley]

Thanks guys.

I also got an email response from Kevin P McAuliffe (whose free tutorials here are awesome if you’re making the FCP to Avid switch like I am) and he only keeps 4 saves on the Attic, and I’m going to do the same.

I’m not sure about all this SSD stuff. Yes I’m seeing some improvement, but I’m afraid to write to a drive that cost me a lot of money…hmmm. I’ll let the Attic do its thing on my SSD with all the apps. If its the only thing writing to that drive, I have to take a chance that its OK. I mean, it IS a hard drive.

Anyway, as always, thanks to all of you.

If anyone else has an SSD with all your apps on it, and you run Avid MC, let me know what you do. Otherwise I’ll follow Kevin’s style of 4 copies to the Attic.

~Dylan Haley

[Dylan Haley]

Thanks Ben,

I have been selecting “External” on that menu, and also in the folder I choose the external drive where the media will reside. The only thing is on my SSD under Users>Shared>Avid Media Composer> there is a folder that holds Avid Attic as well as FatalErrorReports, DSMLogFiles, Etc…(which is great, I just don’t want Avid Attic to write to my SSD if possible.) Maybe its not as big a problem as I am being told to write to my SSD, but I’m trying to avoid it if possible, especially since I complete about 14 projects a week.

Everything else writes to the External that I chose, its just the back ups in Avid Attic. But maybe I’m looking at it incorrectly?

Thanks again;-)

~Dylan Haley

[Dylan Haley]

Thanks for all the information guys. I appreciate your time.

~Dylan Haley

[Dylan Haley]

Thanks Rafael,

Do you set your scratch disks to the SSD or to another HD? I was told to just run my apps off the SSD but to write/set my scratch disks to another hard drive.

Thanks again for your time.

~Dylan Haley

[Dylan Haley]

Jerry, do you set up fcp scratch disks to write to your ssd or another hard drive? I was told to not write to the ssd, only to keep your apps on there.

Thanks again for your time.

~Dylan Haley

[Dylan Haley]

Thanks Rob. I’m coming to the same conclusion. Compressor is where it probably shines, I guess I was just hoping for something more dramatic. My shows are around 30gb a piece when I start editing and I’m finding the time to be comparable. I think I did drink the SSD cool aid. This machine was expensive and seems to perform like my macbook pro, but hey, at least the design is sexy;-)

Thanks again guys.

~Dylan Haley

[Dylan Haley]

Jeff, thank you so much! I’m putting it out there to see if anyone has made DVD’s from a Tricaster with an external burner and whatever software that would require. If its at all possible to ask your demo guy what he would recommend for a Mac-based studio getting an authored DVD, I’ll buy you all the beer you can drink:-)

But seriously, thank you for your information; you guys are the only ones who actually helped and I really appreciate it.

[Dylan Haley]

Thank you Jeff,

The cable guys said I would be able to give them an Mpg2 on a data disk! Thank you! But they are still making me add that slate at the beginning. Anyway, I still have to get my 30gb show onto a 4gb DVD (any suggestion on that workflow?) but I’m saving some steps, thanks to you.

Would you also agree on the work-flow from the tricaster for DVD authoring for clients.? Export Mpg2 to an external hard-drive to compressor to DVD Pro?

Thanks again Jeff.

[Dylan Haley]

Thanks Michael. I must admit, I don’t have much experience making large DVD’s and I think my clients (although I shoot in HD) wouldn’t know the difference. The thing is we sell our studio as an HD studio so I’ve been assuming I need to deliver an HD DVD. And since I’m finally getting an answer from somebody who knows about this: does that mean when I deliver a DVD to my local cable company it wouldn’t be running in HD anyway unless it was on an HD channel? And if I give a client a normal DVD and they watch it on their HDTV, its basically like any other DVD they would rent, right? Because if it is I should just be making a regular DVD anyway, sounds like.

As far as workflow; would your advice be to take the file from the Tricaster and move it to my mac, edit in fcp, export and convert for DVD?
Anything I can do to speed up that process that you know of?

Thank you so much for your time, I really, really appreciate it!!!

[Dylan Haley]

You saved my ass. I love you! I think I lost a few years off my life. My client upped the deadline and I promised a deliverable product and then couldn’t open the project. Your response is the only one that saved me. If you are ever in Santa Barbara, the beer is on me. Seriously, thank you.