[Ed Dooley]

Tape or hard drive “backup” seems like a big step backwards to my workflow. Over a decade ago, we used DAT backup for all our programs (very time consuming), we switched to AIT, which sped things up a bit. But we never backed up all the hours of raw footage, of course, because we had it on tape. Just backing up mastered programs took forever! My last big project includes an ‘archive’ of 20 hours of footage. You can’t just look at the cost of a hard drive, you have to factor in the time you’ll spend backing all of it up for archiving. Then there’s the time in the field dumping (at 4 minutes a time) to the hard drive. I had thought that carrying the hard drive around was a disadvantage too, but it’s either carry that or carry a bunch of tapes around, so it’s a wash.
I would love for P2 to work, for all the benefits that have been discussed in this forum. Right now though, the benefits seem to be for ENG type uses, not for long-form video. Having said all that about the downside, having a real HD format may be worth all of those disadvantages 🙂
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

And did you just *forget* his question about the Control Panel? 🙂
Ed

[AJA Sales Department] “Hi-

Io is not a discontinued product! It is still our flagship product line!

Please keep in mind that Apple develops the drivers for Io, which means we have a very tight integration with everything they do. This is reason that the Io concept exists at all, as the technology to transmit 10-bit uncompressed data over Firewire 400 is theirs.

Do not despair…I promise you 😉

Nick Rashby
Director, Sales and Marketing
AJA Video Systems”

[Ed Dooley]

Flip4mac https://www.flip4mac.com/flip4mac_home.htm $100 or
Popwire https://www.popwire.com/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=7 $30

Ed

[Ed Dooley]

I have the FW version of it, sold by cooldrives, but the same exact unit. It works fine with ATA drives.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Sorry, I was thinking in terms of the hard drive capability, which in your case would allow far more DV streams than UC, not the overall system requirements. As for Apple not believing in benchmarks, here’s one of their own tests of how many streams FCP is capable of. Sure looks like benchmarking to me (I guess they’ll use benchmarks for marketing, but not customer support):
https://a448.g.akamai.net/7/448/51/7cf03f63961100/www.apple.com/finalcutpro/pdf/FinalCutPro4_PS_112003.pdf

Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Ouch! Sorry I can’t help, but I also can’t help notice that you’re getting more streams of 10bit (I assume UC) than DV! Something’s very wrong there.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

On my own long form projects, me either. On my corporate gigs, there’s usually a requirement to review a draft, which as I’ve said can be a good or a bad thing. On my very first project we had a focus group for a 1 hour kids film. One filmmaker friend reviewed it and said “It’ll be great when you cut it down to 30 minutes”. I totally ignored him, and the 60 minute film went on to receive great acclaim (and 200,000 units sold!).
Ed

[gary chavez] “Personally, I never showed anyone a work in progress.
2nd guessing yourself in the middle of an edit
can really derail the whiole project.”

[Ed Dooley]

Have you tried closing out of FCP, then reopening it? Whenever I move stuff around, the next time I open FCP I get a message saying, er…. I forget what it says, but the gist is “the media is moved or offline, do you want to reconnect it?” In my case it’s usually because I deleted a file intentionally, so I don’t choose reconnect. Just a thought.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

We always used this rule in the construction business (a past life). Building, electrical, and plumbing inspectors *needed* to find something wrong. We would leave a small, obvious error so they could feel good about themselves.
Ed

[Tom Wolsky] “Always leave something obviously wrong in it for the client (and wife) to find”

[Ed Dooley]

Re: Rule #1- Notice I said to show it to someone *not* involved in the project.
Re: Rule #2- It’s true, you have to pick your victim carefully.

A variation on the “never show a work-in-progress: I’m doing a video for my biggest corporate client, with an approved script, and a small group of executives who have final approval. One of them sent the final version off to a dozen people in the company who had nothing to do with the project, and naturally he got back a dozen different responses. Luckily for me it made them realize that they really need 2 distinct projects for 2 audiences, so I get another 3 days of shooting and another week of editing on an amended budget. It could have been a disaster though.
Ed

[Matte] “1- You must like to Live Dangerously.
RULE #1: Never show a “work-in-progress.”
RULE #2: If you ask for an OPINION from someone they will feel obligated to give you one, even if they don’t really know or care”