[Ed Dooley]

Lots of motion blur too.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Also think about your soundtrack. SloMo and poweful sound effects and music will help.
Add echo or reverb when a hit lands, use a sound that you wouldn’t normally think of as a
punch sound (anvil, for example)
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

No problem Bob, I just wasn’t sure where the reference came from. One thing I wish was freely available (and maybe
a software RAID vendor *does* in fact offer it) is what G-RAID does with their striped units, one drive reads/writes
from the outer first and the other the inner first. The maximum performance takes a hit (not a problem usually) but the average
performance stays higher than a plain vanilla stripe. Not the total solution for a full array, but in less than full situations, it
seems to outperform others.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Actually Bob, nobody blamed SATA for being useless, where did you get that from? The tests I did (years ago) were with ATA drives *not* SATA.
The context was full drives and performance loss, not whether SATA compared to anything else is useless (again, they weren’t even SATA drives).
Ed

[Bob Zelin] “I just used an Apple XServe RAID with 14 drives on it, that was over 90% full, and it’s write speed was only 44mb/sec on the AJA Kona System test. So don’t start blaming SATA for being useless when it gets full. So is everything.

Go to http://www.barefeats.com to see performance tests on the Firmtek. You can get it at Maxx Digital in LA. “

[Ed Dooley]

I don’t know what the logo looks like, or how you want to animate it, but I commonly take
one of my trade association clients’ logos into Photoshop, break it up into segments (selecting
or lassoing or magic wanding pieces) then importing them into AE as layers to add movements.
You could do the same with Ilustrator to FCP or PS to FCP. I usually create a new PS file with transparent
background in the size I want for video (720×486 usually) and drag the slected chunks of the logo into that new
file so each chunk is its own layer already.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

The 60MB takes quite a nose dive as the drive fills up. I did a test a couple of years ago that I posted here with drives empty,
and various levels of capacity used, right up to 90%. The performance went way below uncompressed needs.
Ed

[JeremyG] “Why yes I am using the FWdepot card. i don’t have all the materials now to do a speed test but it was around the barefeats numbers. I did a mobile edit at 8 bit uncompressed and had no issues. 60MB/sec is plenty of bandwidth for 8 bit.”

[Ed Dooley]

Jeremy,
Are you using the FWDepot card for that? Barefeats.com did a test with that card and although the sustained writes were 77MB (compared to their FW800 50MB writes), the sustained reads were only 60 (the same as FW800). Have you tested your speeds? They also reported the slowdown when raided.
Ed

[JeremyG] “i can get 8 bit UC on a single SATA from my G4 POWERbook. Due to the limitations of the PCMCIA slot, I cannot RAID the drives (the performance slows down to less than that of a single SATA).”

[Ed Dooley]

Have you tried turning your monitor upside down? And backwards you say? Don’t have a fix for that. 🙂
Microsoft has a pretty complete Support area: https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/knowledgecenter/search.aspx
Ed

[Chris Babbitt] “Do you know where I can find a good tutorial on Windows Media Encoder? I have tried a couple of encodes on my PC and they both turned out upside-down and backwards. Don’t know why. It seems terribly complicated compared to Sorrenson.”

[Ed Dooley]

Cleaner 6 won’t create high quality WM files without the Flip4Mac plug-in, which is a very good investment. Cleaner *does* create
very good Sorenson V3 QTs (with the SV3Pro).
I don’t know why it’s crashing, but have you tried trashing the prefs?
For WM, the only freebie is WM Encoder from Microsoft, but you need a PC.
On the Mac, Compression Master and Squeeze both do goodWMV and QTs, but you have to pay for them. 🙂
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Sorry, I have owned an IOLA for a couple of years and I have no idea what “this dropped frame business” means. Fast enough drives means no dropped frames.
For location editing, I use a 2 drive ATA FW800 unit, RAID0 with my PB. I can usually write 8bit UC to it, but it bogs down on reads. So I usually do a 8bit UC to DVC50
project using that combination. SATA drives (still need to stripe them most likely) will give better performance. The Firmtek card is apparently shipping,
and although there are others announced, I’m not sure if any others are shipping yet. There are a bunch of 2 drive SATA units out, but I’m not up on their
specs. As long as connectors are correct, any 2 drive unit would work. FW400 with UC works as advertised. FW400 throughput is plenty for that. There are a few reasons why a FW400 drive can’t play back UC, such as disk access times for reads and writes, but a pure signal at FW400 through the IO works fine.
Ed

[Dennis1949] “I have just purchased a Macbook (17″). Has this dropped frame business been settled with the AJA? I work in 8 bit rather than 10 bit. Was the dropped frame business ever a problem with 8 bit? I have a firewire 800 1/2 terabyte single drive (actually 2-250 drives). Can I digitize BetacamSP in full resolution to that drive or do I really need an array? If I need an array is the Firmtek Express Card/34 SATA host adapter really working now? Do I need to use the Firmtek SeriTek 2-EN2 or would another array work? Is firewire 400 port going to work okay with 4:2:2 full resolution BetacamSP thru the AJA io?
I realize this is cutting edge stuff, but hope someone has walked this way before me. Thanks for your help.”