[Ed Mccarthy]

I purchased the LaCie 12Big 72TB drive. I went with RAID 6 and I’ve been waiting for it to finish initializing for a few days. My initial assessment is that, while these LaCie towers are substantially less expensive than some competing TB3 RAID products, they are also clunkier.

For example, there are two different sets of firmware to be updated. One requires unplugging the TB3 connection, reconnecting via USB3, and powering on while simultaneously pressing a firmware update button with a paperclip on the back. It’s not the end of the world, but it’s clunky, and not something I’ve ever had to do with other RAIDS. I also couldn’t tell if I had completed this process correctly until after powering back down and reconnecting it.

Second, the LaCie RAID manager is clunky. For example, the progress meter measuring the initialization process does not automatically update on macOS. I have to switch menus within the software and then go back to the progress page in order for it to refresh. I wasted an hour researching why I was stuck at 0% before realizing this. In general, the software does not inspire confidence, and is clearly inferior from a user standpoint to something like SoftRAID.

As with many storage products, once it’s up and running, the tendency is to forget about the software. But having successfully rebuilt my two HDPro2 RAIDS many times (6 drive failures over the past 7 years) I’m a little nervous about the prospect of using this software to handle that task.

I will follow up with my experiences using the drive after it’s ready to go.

[Ed Mccarthy]

Many thanks Rainer,

Glad to hear that both of these work well. I will be picking up the 12big and reporting back with a review.

[Ed Mccarthy]

Thanks for your reply. I’m using whatever the last version of 10.2 (prior to 10.3) is, and I don’t seem to have that functionality. When I click and open a compound click, the playhead is frequently somewhere in the middle of the compound clip, but not on the same frame as the main timeline. And you had this functionality in 10.2?

I will update to 10.3 as soon as everything I have going in 10.2 is done.

[Ed Mccarthy]

Yes, I’m otherwise very happy with the update. Glad to hear I’m not alone on this. For my workflow, this missing feature represents the last vestige of the disastrous initial launch of FCPX. Couldn’t be happier with the software otherwise.

[Ed Mccarthy]

Many thanks.

[Ed Mccarthy]

I apologize for bumping this, but does anybody have any ideas? Sorry, I’m just under a deadline and the prospect of doing this by hand is not appealing.

To simplify:

I have a folder full of quicktime files. I need to grab the duration of each and bring it into excel. I could also do this within FCP if there’s a way to handle it there, prior to export.

thanks

[Ed Mccarthy]

Greetings,

Any update on this? I’m having the exact same problem, except mine is worse because all of my media originates in motion 5, so the colors look right in FCPX and wrong everywhere else once I export. Short of having to correct for the color shift in Color (not my strong suit), are they any options to fix this?

This is a serious problem. I’m using a client’s company colors, and they look completely wrong when I try to show them edits.

Thanks

[Ed Mccarthy]

UPDATE:

If I open the exported quicktime in quicktime pro 7 and check “enable final cut studio color compatibility” then the color shifts to the “wrong green.”

In other words, the color looks right with this NOT selected.

[Ed Mccarthy]

Thanks, Craig.

I would definitely upgrade to Episode Pro if it could handle more than two, but even then, that’s only utilizing about 40% of my CPU’s potential. I’m guessing most users are working with much larger filetypes that make 2 parallel encodes plenty. These files start as standard def quicktimes and end up at half-res h264 mp4’s, so they’re just not much to begin with.

The Engine demo did 8 of them at a time, so I guess I was just spoiled by that experience.

Nonetheless, thanks for your help.

-Ed

[Ed Mccarthy]

I’ve been trying to reset my installs using their automated form (to try re-installing again), and I haven’t received any automated emails from their site after almost 24 hours. I also haven’t heard back from their technical support team after more than three days, which seems slow based on what I have read about their usual response time.

Anybody know how recently google bought On2? Seems like they must be in the middle of the transition, or something.