Frank Gothmann
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Unfortunately, Grass Valley doesn’t do a great job promoting their NLE the right way. Most people consider Premiere or Avid as an alternative and even for those who think about a switch to Windows, Edius is not necessarily on their radar. Pity, because I believe it is an app that would make 70-80 per cent of the people here more than happy and would be precisely what they wanted.
If it was on OSX it might help spreading the word a bit more, but it would also loose some of it’s unique abilities and advantages as it had to largely rely on Quicktime.
Last week I had to output a pretty complex 90 minute timeline from Edius (mixed formats, frame rates, filters). Rendering into a QT File (either HQX, Cineform in .mov container or DnxHD) would taken about 100 minutes. Rendering to an HQX AVI took 18 minutes. That a massive speed advantage.——
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I think any kind of benchmarking involving X or related apps is a bit unpredictable and will give somewhat unreliable results.
I had to render a 90 minute project out of Motion 5 last week. It took three hours. I had to re-render it two days ago, no changes whatsoever, and this time it took only 2 hours. When I am sending the same project to Compressor (unclustered) it renders the thing in 45 minutes. It’s just weird and inconsistent. Same machine, fresh boot, nothing changed at all. Also render times went up and down with recent updates for Motion so I am guessing the same might go on with X.——
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– “Basic drag and drop drive”:
Doesn’t exist. A LTO5 drive is an LTO5 drive. What makes it “drag and drop” is LTFS, which is a file system. You can choose to format the tape with LTFS (just like you would format your hard drive) or not use LTFS at all use it with other backup-software (eg. Bru).– HP has LTFS support for Mac and Linux but currently not for Windows. IBM has LTFS support for Windows. Note: this only applies to LTFS support. For usage with other backup programms LTFS is irrelevant and you can use any drive for which there are drivers for the actual hardware (Windows 7 supports LTO5 drives out of the box, not drivers needed. OSX needs drivers. Linux has support out of the box).
– Cache-A uses also LTO5 but they have built a but more around their solutions. Eg. network access to the drive. You simply hook it up to your network and you can backup from any machine without a SAS connection. There is more, I recomend you have a look at the specs here (https://www.cache-a.com/productsprime5.php) and think of in the same way as you’d compare a hard drive connected via Firewire or USB vs. a networked drive allowing access via various protocols.
– You cannot connect a hard drive to the tape drive. You need to connect the tape drive to your computer. Again, think of it as a dvd drive. In order to write to it you need to hook it to your computer. Then you can use whatever burn app you like to write your discs.
-Yes, digitally.
Copied off easily? Depends how you wrote them. If you used a dedicated software to write the tapes (eg. Bru) you need Bru to read them back.——
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[jack wormell] “Would anyone be able to give me a break down of how they work, why they’re useful and which one I should go for?”
LTO5 is perfect for long-term archival. Hard drives are more expensive and more likely to fail over a longer period.
How they work? Well, you get a tape drive, you choose how you want to back-up (ie. software you want to use to write to the tapes, or you may want to use LTFS without any software) and then you just write your files to tape.
Think of it like a dvd drive and software you use to write your data to the discs. Same here. If you’re on Mac or Linux, Bru from Tollisgroup is a good choice, if you’re on Win Xendata is a good choice (although there are really lots of cheaper apps that write to tape, too).As far as drives are concerned: if you want to use LTFS (ie. backing-up without any additional software, just drag-and-drop) and you’re on a Mac, HP is what you’re looking for. If you’re on Win you want IBM. For Linux it’s pretty much all the same (also, LTFS works best with Linux).
Chache-A has also great solutions and it’s super-easy and convenient but 3 times the price of a regular tape drive.
If you need more specific info… shoot.——
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Avi, mxf and now also Quicktime.
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You have to get a user account at Grass Valley, then it’s a free download in their support section.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Media management is bad, multiple user environment is bad, conform is bad, basically many of the non sexy, yet really really important parts of editing is tough in premiere, especially at the end of the project, or if you need to move out of native, or you have projects coming back from archive. It just needs more work in order for me to trust it.”
Yep, the foundations are there and it’s all doable, but some stuff needs additional work to really run smooth. 6.5 might be the one, though I believe the times where there is only one NLE for every job are over.
[Jeremy Garchow] “[Frank Gothmann] “Would you ever consider trying something like Edius via bootcamp? If not, why?”
Sure, why not? Can you translate fcp7 projects to it, does it work with metaSAN, use standard capture/output cards, and allow interchange out? How about conform? Can it handle or manage multiple frame rates and frame sizes and consolidate to a unified format for use elsewhere? What is this format? Can it handle ProRes .mov for editing?”
It imports FCP xml just like PP does. Yes, works with metaSan. Doesn’t use standard io cards, but their own cards are affordable and io and timeline interaction is smooth and solid as can be plus you can have multiple cards in the same system withut issues. Works with everything native, including Prores, mixed frame rates and sizes no problem. It handles it all, better than even PP. Render and export times are the fastest I have seen with any given NLE. Does AAF or EDL out, you can conform to any codec you have on your system. Preferred one is HQX, their own intermediate codec. An additional Mac/PC QT version of HQX will come out within the next couple of weeks (it currently uses avi or mxf wrapper). That’ll be a big one for me because unlike DnxHD it does SD up to 4k and it’s free unlike Cineform.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “To be clear, I am not accusing Herb, or any one person of lying.
I want Pr to work so badly. The most frustrating part of Pr to me is that it looks and feels just like FCP7, right up until it doesn’t, and then things get weird.
So if I am going to switch, and CS6 is the reason, it’s not there so I might as well continue working on Macs and hobble until my foot falls off and I need a prosthetic.
The same problems had on Macs will be the same problems on Windows, they will just happen faster and they will be ray traced.”
Just curious, what issues do you have with Premiere? I have my own quarrels with stuff that still needs fixing in it but my workflow is probably very different from yours..
Would you ever consider trying something like Edius via bootcamp? If not, why?——
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Do you work with Red products exclusively Frank, from production to grade?
If not, why would you buy this?”
I don’t. And because of that I wouldn’t buy this machine. How is this different from an Avid turnkey system, ie. z820 with Nitris hardware? You obviously wouldn’t buy one of those if you had no intention of using MC or Symphony.
But it is nevertheless just a base z820 with a additional components. Nothing else is special there which is my point. A worksation is supposed to flexible and versatile, adding some stuff makes is perfect for something specific without limiting possiblities for other areas via design choice that might cause just that.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Frank, we are talking about the red Hp computer and nothing else.”
So do I. I don’t get your point.
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