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Hi Steve,
the company you’re after are called Proximity; you can get them here: http://www.proximitygroup.com
The whole thing about internet access reared it’s head with us but we convinced them, working for a broadcaster we’ve got a pretty thick wall blocking us in, we hope! We tend to have more problems with internal networks and DNS servers believe it or not…

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I have seen a similar problem but only after I had upgraded from 4.5 to 5.1.1 without upgrading my quicktime player/codec.
Have you recently done an upgrade Anders?

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Hi Steve,
Our beast is managed by Artbox.
I work on a system thats 180TB with around 40 users. The, so far, solution to this huge beast and all it’s users is to give all the users, 4 on-line editors, 7 graphic designers, 25 producers and 4 technical ingest assistants a Portable Home Directory. This is a remote, virtual kind of log-in which gives you permission to write to your partition of the san but not to others. In this directory you can store projects and files but no media as such. The ingest staff write all the media to a big partition of the san, this sits in Artbox as an asset which is picked up by the producers who rough cut their sequences which in turn are picked up by me or one of the other on-line editors to grade and finish. The beauty of it is that if a job I had started had to be picked up by someone else all they would have to do is open the project from my PHD, et viola! I have copies of each project stored in my PHD along with my AutoSave vault, along with my waveform and thumbnail caches. The render files sit on the san in their own folder. I’ve had no bother about read/writing to the san’s media volume even when there has been quite a few of us on-line.
You also need to think about RAID security. Here’s part of our set-up…
Raid 5 for data storage and data volume has 16 XRAIDS
3 XRAIDS for Archive
1 XRAID for Metadata/Journal which is RAID 1
Hope that gives you something,

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Try doing a non-additive dissolve to a white field, that sometimes gets the desired effect.

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Hi Wayne,
sorry, should have said. Source material 625 DigiBeta, captured as AJA uncompressed 10bit. Sequence setting AJA uncompressed 10bit. When the footage was put on the timeline there was ne need to render so capture and sequence did match. I also have had problems with the diffusion plug-in, same sort of result really, green and horizontal shift.