[Elijah Lynn]

Oh, btw, there is also a sequence preset in FCP for this exact same setup. It basically makes a HDV 1080 60i sequence but changes the render codec to ProRes (interlaced upper field first).

[Elijah Lynn]

I am working with Native HDV and rendering with ProPres 422. I am seeing some sluggishness but am unsure as to why. I am running an 8 core with fast enough drives and 10 GB Ram.

Everything I have read suggests that it is common practice to capture native HDV and render with ProRes. Hopefully my HDV + ProRes work flow gets some Pep!

[Elijah Lynn]

Also ever since I switched to using the ProRes codec, I get a bright green bar on my timeline and those sections don’t render, at all.

[Elijah Lynn]

Thanks Rafael,

I will take a look at those. Is Graeme involved directly with RED?

[Elijah Lynn]

Natress articles and posts rule too! Although I get lost in them very quickly just reading one of his articles tells you he knows his stuff!

I still have to buy some Natress stuff (demos right now) but posts/threads like these take me closer and closer.

[Elijah Lynn]

Rich – Thanks for the suggestion! I just read the description and story behind how and why it was created and it was quite interesting!

I am going to download it and play with it some.

Here is the link for everyone.

[Elijah Lynn]

Thanks Steve!

[Elijah Lynn]

[walter biscardi] “[Sean ONeil] “The idea is to use Time Machine to backup media, but make it work kind of like a Drobo. ”

Time Machine was a complete failure here when it came time to actually retrieve and restore stuff so I just use the Backup function of Carbon Cloner which works extremely well so far. “

This is good to know. I have a Raid 5 (1.5 TB, 4×640 GB WD) that I use a Seagate 1.5 TB to backup to and have been wondering about how that was going to work when restoring all my data to a new Raid 5 array.

I will be switching to a CalDigit Raid card from the current Apple Raid I am using. We have another computer using it for a 2 drive Raid 1 and I think they can get by with the Apple raid and I can abuse the CalDigit. My idea was to just take the time machine and wipe the Apple R5, build a new CalDigit R5 and then restore backup. Maybe I will just wipe the Time Machine and do a Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to the 1.5 TB instead.

[Elijah Lynn]

Sorry to hear that buddy. Hopefully a firmware update will fix this like the 1.5 TB’s.

I am gearing up to get some 1.5’s in a Drobo 2 (eSata) and really want to believe in Seagate. Maybe WD will come out with a 1.5 TB soon, I would feel better with them.

[Elijah Lynn]

This was a good read!