Francois Stark
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The array did spin up the drives, but would not mount on the desktop of any mac – more likely the control card. It could have been the power supply supplying a low voltage, but I have no spares to swop out – I’m not the distributor!
Thanks for the tip.
Francois
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Hi Mat
I spoke to my account manager at the distributor, Maxtec, this morning and they would not commit to repairing the array locally. She claimed that they are not allowed by La Cie to open any array once it is out of warantee.
However, it seems my reseller is now ordering the spares direct from La Cie USA, bypassing Maxtec, and will implement the repairs themselves. I hope it works out.
I find this whole situation deplorable. The array’s serial number is 905 404 050866.
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Hi Chrispy
Our automount program “Quicksan” is not very stable because of the variable time SanMP takes to bring up the login window. There is no way to get feedback to Quicksan form SanMP. Most of the time it works, but about one in five times we have to quit it and log in SanMP manually. Still work in progress…
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Last option: Export Quicktime reference movie. Go to Export Quicktime Movie – same as source and make sure “self contained” is off. This creates a reference movie, which refers to all your video render files and original files (where they were untreated), but it contains all audio, mixed down.
I have had a few cases where FCP freezes up after it finishes the export of such a long project, in which case a force quit should work.
Next thing to chack is to make sure that you can play this Ref movie in quicktime.
Then you open up FCP, close all projects, open a new project, drag only this ref movie in and edit to tape. Bulletproof.
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The only difference between DV and DVCAM is that the PD150 runs the tape faster for DVCAM, thus recording he SAME data over a larger tape-surface, reducing the chance for tape dropout. There is NO diffirence in the data being recorded, and this can not be the cause for (or absence of) grain.
When you digitise a tape that was shot on a PD150 through firewire, it either works or it does not (you can’t introduce distortion or grain in this step of the process). When you capture NTSC like this, the SAME data that was on the tape gets tranferred to the machine. It does not get transcoded or re-compressed. So this can also not add any grain to your picture.
If your picture is grainy, that is what was recorded in the camera. Sorry. To get rid of it, re-shoot. Sorry.
Why is it post-production people always apologise so much? Because we are so often asked to fix errors made earlier in the production, and quite often it is just not possible.
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Regarding the expandability of a volume-based SAN – we are running 7 users on a SANMP based system. I would say that we are close to the user limit, since we have 11 volumes on the SAN already.
4 FCP suites and 3 Pro Tools suites. Pro Tools can be tricky – version 7.0 doesn’t like SAN volumes, but 7.1 is fine.
By the way – we are not even close to the performance limit, lots of overhead still available. It just gets cumbersome to mount and do data management on so many volumes. Setup was extremely easy and the system is very solid – doesn’t fall over at all.
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This is axactly the 60 minutes that I want to streamline. The program is being sent to a proper final mix. But this export is just for subtitle approval, and they need to hear clearly. I export a self-contained QT movie which the executive director then views on his own PC over the network, direct from our media drive.
I was hoping for something like premiere’s normalise filter which I could just apply to all clips in one go. Isn’t there an Apple audio unit or something similar that would do this?
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Hi Jeremy
I don’t know who told you adtrenaline would do uncompressed HD but they were smkoing something…
Adrenaline is connected to the host workstation through a standard 400mbit/sec firewire connection. This connection is too slow to carry uncompressed HD. Will never be fast enough. End of discussion.
Sorry.
The only way for adrenaline to do uncompressed HD would be if they add a PCI, PCI-X or PCI Express card to give them the bandwidth between the host and the I/O.
Francois Stark
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I think your audio is not compressed. Compressor has two options for the audio: AIFF and Dolby 2.0. The AIFF is actually uncompressed and will take up 650 MB for 72 minutes. the Dolby will take up MUCH less space. Remove the AIFF from the DVD project and use Dolby. If your video is only 3.89GB, it will fit with the Dolby audio.
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