[Ed Dooley]

David,
I was responding to your statement (the one I quoted, and again below), where you said Consumer level drives carry a one year warranty. That’s just plain wrong, not an omission.
I quoted Seagate’s warranty information as prove it was wrong. I also used Maxtor’s 3 year warranty to correct the wrong information. I had no opinion
about all the other, so no skirting either. 🙂
Ed

[Ed] “[David Roth Weiss] “Consumer-level drives carry only a one year warranty and an average life of only 100,000 hours, while enterpise-level drives carry a five year warranty with an average life of 500,000 hours — that’s a 500% difference no mater how you slice it,””

[Ed Dooley]

Just to correct/clarify,
The Maxtor consumer line, the DiamondMax, carries a 3 year warranty. The enterprise versions, the MaxLines, carry a 5 year.
And this from Seagate’s site:
“Now every Seagate internal hard drive for PCs, notebook computers and entry-level servers purchased from an authorized Seagate Distributor and Reseller will be covered under our unprecedented Five-Year Warranty.”

“The five-year warranty applies to all customers who purchase drives either directly through Seagate (distributors), or through the Authorized Distribution channel. This includes Channel SIs, System Builders, Retail customers, and Bare drive customers who purchase through Distributors. There will be no changes to our OEM/System Manufacturer agreements that purchase product directly from Seagate.”
Seagates you buy in retail kits still have a 1 year warranty, but bare drives that aren’t enterprise drives have had the 5 year warranty since 2004.
Ed

[David Roth Weiss] “Consumer-level drives carry only a one year warranty and an average life of only 100,000 hours, while enterpise-level drives carry a five year warranty with an average life of 500,000 hours — that’s a 500% difference no mater how you slice it,”

[Ed Dooley]

I can answer part of the question, DON’T USE CLEANER! It’s not a good MPEG-2 compressor.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Did you send this directly to Mat@Lacie too (or first)? I usually think of these sort of posts as last resort “they won’t
respond to my e-mails so I’m posting it here” posts.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

You’re right Jeremy! And it got me to DL the latest driver too. 🙂
Ed

[JeremyG] “I think this was an old/first version of the drivers. The new drivers have improved the latency and they have switched the offset from 7 to 5.

From the version 2.0 driver release notes:

This major release provides the following features and additions:

[Ed Dooley]

5 Jeremy? The IO LA manual says 7, which would be right in line with the 7 frame offset he’s experiencing.
BTW Jim, did you read your manual? It’s on page 55 “A Note About Synchronizing FCPs Canvas with IO’s Outputs”
The manual comes with the IO and is on the AJA site too.
It’s a FireWire thing.

[JeremyG] “You need to go to System Settings > Playback Control > Frame Offset and change it to 5. This should sync up your canvas, monitor and audio for use with the LA. The Kona 2 (and I’m sure the Kona 3) uses a value of 0. It would be ideal for you to use the LA for input and then monitor everything through the Kona. There’ll be less latency this way and you can keep the offset to 0.”

[Ed Dooley]

I’m not at all surprised that I don’t know about that one. 🙂
Ed

[ben] “there is a fcp-real plugin….

” target=”_blank”>https://www.realnetworks.com/products/realexport/specifications.html”

[Ed Dooley]

Compression Master is an encoder. Squeeze also encodes to Real.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

It’s a complaint I’ve seen on other lists (and maybe in a review or 2).
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Don’t know about the Acrobat part, but as for the other:
Cleaner, Compressor, Squeeze, Compression Master, Flip4Mac, ProCoder, FFMPEG, etc., etc.
Lots of posts if you do a simple search of this and other forums. 2-5 gig to 200MB is easy.
Ed

[criis daw] “Anyone know he best way to compressa 2 GB movie (and a 5GB mov to around 200 MB for playback on a computer showing a presentation in acrobat ?”