Fred Jodry
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(My guess below the repeat).
Multibridge Pro and Vegas 9
by dean weily on Mar 21, 2010 at 6:30:33 am
The subject says it all, I have to render out a project and just installed BM multibridge pro. does not seem to show up, any suggestions greatly appreciated.1. Most modern Windows hardware and their programming installs require that you delete what the new Pro`s predecessor, (hardware, software, or anything previously in it`s slot or device) if any, is.
2. When you reboot the machine, go into the setup bios and make sure that you try to use settings that are reaching for your new hardware and any “hub”, “slot”, or “device” in between it and your Pro, if any. Words like, IRQ (number), or address, are common terms.
3. As you exit the saved setup it`s time to pray against running into the detection conflicts you just tried to avoid.
4. As Windows boots, usually you kill off “found new hardware” icons or windows then drop in your installing software for the MultiBridge Pro until the software tells you to stop, remove the software, shut down the machine, plug in and turn on your Pro, then continue the hardware installation by following the directions on hand. There can be minor exceptions to killing off all “found new hardware” icons previously described such as if the machine (usually Windows or Vegas) discovers you`ve plugged in the PCIe hub card and installs it before you hook up the Pro.
5. If there are no conflicts, you are probably somewhere towards finishing the hardware installation; If you hit a conflict, then you might have to remove the hub card and Pro then delete their conflicted install, then look into the bios for a next try of adjustments or even moving the hub card to another good slot if possible. Sometimes adjusting the bios between “optimal performance” settings and “regular performance” settings adjusts IRQs and other conflicts off the conflicts icebergs in the blink of an eye. These are typical modern installation directions. Usually you should install your machine this way without being hooked to a network or internet, otherwise competitors installing problems or problems getting reinstalled repeatedly can be common. -
How many bits define the gray-scale of each color channel? Too few causes an increased noise effect. Are you getting a display card mismatch? If you are overclocking the video (PCIe? AGP?) bus driving both the video display card (if not a DeckLinkStudio pickoff) and the DeckLinkStudio card itself, you could turn the video into vertical line noise ringing and some really horrible transition effects, like crashing, exploding edits, just what you don`t want. Get a computer sage next to you.
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Bob`s right. The shortcut to success is to fix it right away instead of undergoing unexpected bleeding. Save the remaining SCSI hardware for a downgrading machine like bumping a video production SCSI set down to a publishing computer, or another example would be taking a SCSI Raid internet set, drop it down to a new employees teaching computer, and moving a couple of jumpers on the card or similar, to turn off the Raid and use JBOD with SCSI utilities still turned on. I hope that I described something in your area of use.
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Stuart, much of what you are describing is sour batteries, amongst a wobbly power source, with obvious temperature changes, bumping and vibration, and more. Since you`ve made a list of problems, go after them regularly. Replace your Raid battery. Get an Uninterruptible Power Source unit and replace it`s battery with a fresh one if needed, and also replace the tired- out battery of your RV with a good E K Richardson, Varta, Traveler, or Interstate. Now befriend someone who knows their onions about electricity so you can put the charging system of your RV in custom shape. This is often an electrical (not necessarily electronics) hobbyist or friendly professional away from the city. (Railroad restorers have telegraphers so they`re good). Put a pair of brass wing nuts on the side of the UPS I recommended so you can use it as AC power with an external battery easily. That`s enough of that.
Now for the data part:
The Raid array you now have can be put in storage for reuse when you get the gasp, “real” AC. I`m sure you could find yourself later still using that array on another Mac Pro in a medium-power editor; while the JBOD data rig you`re now building could continue to be for your little or chop editing mobile camera, while a super CalDigit Raid beast with all those “Lattice” controller chips smiling at you goes into play whenever the customer wants the job done yesterday, on your third Mac Pro. We have a special term for this, we call it growing in the business.
One way to maintain a JBOD set at a bargain is to put your OS (and DVD burner sotware later)on a plain main drive, then put your capture and editing software on the drive or drives you`ve chosen for their peak power arrangement. What you record and edit will stay migrated on these drives. Then when you`re done you back up your sendoffs to folders on the first drive and can burn those sendoffs and archives, erase the folders, then format the peak power drives to be ready to get the recording and editing software reinstalled and be fresh for the next use. There are other ways to do this too. Welcome to the Forums. Fred -
Another thing to try, since the problem shows up after 8 minutes, try this:
take that single hard drive of yours and mount it in a stand, card and motor up, magnetic or lid side down. Fan the card with plenty of cool air. Fan the lid side with plenty of air at body temperature. If the fading on the next recording try doesn`t get as severe then you`ve demonstrated that the hard drive is getting weak in the typical way. -
Fred`s rule of logic in the matter:
If, your hard drive setups draw mentionably less electricity than your editing room CRTs then you`ve got a problem in priority and inefficiency.
If your editors sit in front of the same slow moving panoramas hour after hour while your editing machines and their one or two hard drives run and run, then you still have the same problem.
If your camera teams shoot for their lives then can`t unload yet because the editors are all in the middle of their projects then this is all too familiar but is not good. Shoot slow, edit fast.
Some of us as we solder new condensers in the power supply to kill the hum problem rolling into the LTC cards are reminded by the smell of this slow moving dust that we`re the Owner.
Adaptec didn`t realize how badly they cut off an area of their business and usability when they dumped Mac compatibilty lately. See, their cards are still good, really? In my case my small operation can run in a good sneakernet fashion, openning up some possibilities. I tossed a favorite Adaptec card in my “pentium 1 PC”, it doesn`t even need an operating system, now wait. I just gave away a Mac G4 that had only one PCI-x slot. It`s after I just got one that has all it`s PCI slots as PCI-x`s, openning up some new usability. So, it`s going to get maybe a nice Atto card from a friend and I get to do this: I`ll set up the Operating System on the only ide drive. My scsi box gets prepared on the pentium then it`s cable goes right onto the G4 to get it`s editing software and the rest of the software, and can do a fresh job. After the editing work is done, the work is tranferred to a folder on the ide drive, the scsi box gets removed and can go back to the pentium if needed, and the now back to low power G4 can burn the sendoffs off the burner software then delete the folder. Some of you have much more setup and operations than this, and some, less, but this should describe the story well. Fred
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Ah! My previous guess is much more likely.
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Run don`t walk to a camera professional (Broadcaster or similar) with a stairstep color generator. Make a recording from that input signal and analyze it properly through your suite. If it`s bad, your suite`s out of whack, if it isn`t, what`s wrong with your input video source or it`s way of hookup?
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Jay, if you have a “PC” motherboard ( new Intel or Athlon 64 processor based motherboard) running your Mac Operating System, it may have a frequency wobbler called, “spread spectrum” that you can turn on and off in the computer`s setup bios. A Motorola processored power pc (G5 and previous) probably never has it. Spread spectrum`s wobbling of the main clock frequency 1/4% sometimes gets past the steady crystal controlled buffers of the output cards. This problem is not likely, but mentionable. More likely, there`s something wrong that you can find if you make the video output into analog then examine, synchronization and all, on an oscilloscope with the oscilloscope`s display showing say, about two horizontal scans and the oscilloscope`s synchronization input running off an independent steady source (clock or synch generator). Sometimes a bad input/ output video/ synch level reeks the havoc even though the frequency isn`t wobbling, such as if the video or synch is two volts instead of 3/4 of a volt or so, or if frequency distortion turns a square- edged synch pulse into two peaks, or if the synchronization pulse is way too small. There are other possibilities so keep asking other people (“If you check something wrong twice but it isn`t wrong, it isn`t that. Check something else.”) but we can check here tomorrow if someone doesn`t fix things overnight. For now for me, nearly bedtime.
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Be sure to back-up your work. This sounds like the down- side of running your production machine hooked to the internet. That, or see if someone installed a game or RealPlayer sort of CD.