Fred Jodry
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It`s probably which slot the Intensity Pro card is in or a setting in the bios. Ubuntu is not as prone to not finding units as Windows because Windows needs more or fewer copies of drivers and hubs inside its list. Borrow a second hard drive and get experimenting. How does “Ubuntu Studio Alternate (not an alternate) 9.10” do?
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P.S., you might have to turn the motherboard`s PCIe x 4 slot from PCIe x 1 (or off) to PCIe x 4 with a manual setting in the bios.
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Ryan, your latest post shows an arrangement with some signs of new life. Older versions of the motherboard may have had a PCIe x 16 and a PCIe x 1 without the additional PCIe x 16, mechanically, PCIE x 4 electrically. Your MB like mine has enough ports and features for different options. Personally though, I think that even though you have nice NAS storage as backup available, you`ll still feel the agony when your pair of 2 GB hard drives pick up a crash mistake and you spend more than a week`s spare time utilitying them back to shape for another trip to sea. Instead, consider buying at least 3 premium 160 to 250 GB (SATA?) hard drives for big time Raid striping, maybe your X25 is the OS drive or a specialty, and the pair of 2TB hard drives are Raid 1 or JBOD projects and backup drives basically (in duplicate purpose not parallel use) to your NAS storage. Still, keep enough money in your pocket to buy a controller and it`s cables in case the motherboard`s Raid functions turn out to be defective and you should fill that PCIe x 4 slot in the usual way. If you go to an external array when editing video, see if you need to serial port time code to the editing controller in their own cables.
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Ryan, I looked over your hardware more closely. Your Intel X25 SSD is capable of regular professional editing with an almost perfect lack of dropouts. What it is connected to, is not. Hooking it to a PCIe x 1 slot certainly gives you the chopped data you see. hooking it to a SATA 150 socket will give you less performance than the drive is capable of, but good for regular work, much better than what you have. Hooking it up to a SATA 300 socket, moderately better still. Using a pair of these SSDs in a Raid 0 controller ported out of a PCIe x 4 slot would give you plenty of room to grow. For the money you mentioned though, avoid Raid 1 and Raid 5 and settle for burning DVD backups of your editing work in stages of progress. Your money says that you`re not ready for big gigabytes editing. Instead, if you need a big gigabytes output, combine the saved edit segments onto a single large, regular, SATA or ATA 133 hard drive, then you can make your (guess, future, blu-ray) burns poured ready off it. My next guess is that your motherboard is a junk PCIe x 16, plus PCIe x 1, plus PCIs, plus not enough SATAs game motherboard. Since you don`t need a square frisbee, it can be your copier, (dailies or rushes sendoff machine). I bought a PCIe crossfire motherboard for $18.95 a month ago and am migrating hardware into it.
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Ryan, 100 MB per second is quite alright for arraying some hard drives to edit home movies, but if things start to stop being a hobby, you`ll find out that a PCIe times one slot is just a glorified PCI slot. Drop your “device connector” or controller card in a PCIe x 4 slot or move your DVD burner, DVD “player”, and maybe OS (operating system) hard drive to the ide slot so you can loosten up some SATA sockets to make a Raid array there. If your electric bill were up to me, I`d feel like putting a Raid controller in the PCIe x 16 slot and the video card in the PCIe x 4 or AGP slot to make the hard drives seriously open for business. It`s better than editing at the speed in which the monitor sunburns your face in an editing session. Old Simon at Today Video had a neat editing trick he used. He almost always used split screen effects or split screen software to do two monitors worth of editing on one monitor.
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Bob and Ryan, I notice that Ryan`s asking for a suggestion on the enclosure itself at a budget that goes with the, in this case like most, hard drives, that are in the controller setup. Ryan, after you have emptied your wallet getting the Raid controller you want, you can either ask a computer storage worker to give you a “5- inchers tape backup box” and then mount your 3-1/2 -inch hard drives in floppy cradles, then in it, or worse yet, you can grab a computer off the curbside, empty out the usual guts then put the hard drives in the 5- inch and 3-1/2 -inch slots in the same way. Wiring the box`s fan to tap electricity from your computer is up to you. The price is free assuming you don`t consider the cost of giving the box a scrub, first.
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Backup and archive can be in different forums but it is also mainly in the new “Arrays and Raid” forum because the original and design ideas discussed for it in this Feedback forum from February 24 onward a week was “Raid and Storage”.
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FAT16 volumes have a size limit per partition of 2GB; FAT32 volumes have a limit of 128 GB per volume. FAT32 formatting and partitioning is recognized by both 32- bit (or 64-bit) Windows, and by Mac. Format your transfer (portable)drive freshly to FAT 32 (you might have to “zero it out). In Windows, a Windows 98 floppy can prepare the boot (beginning) of the drive with the FDISK command and it`s various sub- commands, then you can format after a reboot. Windows ME and 2000 have somewhat similar ends by a different process. Windows Server or XP has some ways to do it too, but fewer ways. After this ask Mac and PC friends how to work with file- sharing, attributes, etc. , the little things. Don`t try to use NTFS formatted drives for moving files sneakernetted between computers.
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Sam, selling your AJA-io-HD should require giving out workable contacting information. In the meantime here`s my e- mail in case it, or similar parts get aimed under my nose. educationalbroadcasting@hotmail.com
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Do this:
1. Buy 4 MultiBridges and hook them to your 4 cameras. One of the output methods on each has to be FRAME SYNCHRONIZED to the other 3 so your LiveVideoEditor, your LiveAudioEditor, and probably your FloorManager can make production, not sour soup on the audio, video, effects, and lighting mixer boards. Ask more questions (here, Broadcasters, etc) about Frame Synchronization. The two main outputs, video, and audio, complete with enough RELIABLE, UNOBJECTIONABLE effects can then be outputted into your main power computer. This could require a fifth DeckLink or something else.
BlackMagics and AJAs can`t coexist in the same computer if you run across a guess for needing it.
2. At the same time each Multibridge and if, any other extra sound recording in particular, should output to it`s own recorder computer (or stand-alone recorder, easier) in case your live mixer editing is a blow-up and needs editing. Also some live results are inappropriate for a given use even though they are successful.
3. You`ve opened up a can of worms but if you are succesful, then you are a major live producer. By the way, Broadcasting this stuff live can take advertising and arrangements that are awfully steep.
Mixers mix and therefore use “no” time delay doing this. Computers compute, and what does computing take? Time (delay)! Therefore you can`t use a computer as a practical high quality live mixer. Neither video nor audio in complete practical terms. I haven`t looked at the fine details of HDMI streams in particular but this is probably most of your answer. Fortunately, QuickTime is essentially red, green, blue, and audio; and lends itself easily to live mixer boards. By the way, if your live streams are remotes or especially internets, your idea of perfect productions could be completely impossible.Creating a PVR
by Phil Hadfield on Mar 25, 2010 at 7:09:15 amOk I know this sounds like this might get asked here alot but I want to create a PC or Mac that can record HDSDI streams (4 Cameras) and transcode them to quicktime (HD or SD) for editing in FCP and DVD (For the client to take with after the show) at the same time.
The idea of having a machine with 2 or 4 decklink cards in with fast raid or have 4 small (Shuttle Pcs) with decklink cards in.
I need recording software that can transcode the HDSDI stream to Quicktime and DVD at the same time? Can anyone help?