Fred Jodry
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If your wireless camera edit is in your truck at a news site your signal quality could suffer when broadcasters also taking in the scene fire up their one watt (or – – watts) intercity microwave feed with the signal just about going right through. I`d feel like going the opposite direction in technology and use fibre cable for it`s isolation quality. Just like Bob Zelin says, there`s no point to it.
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It gets ironic that the most practical way to capure from the new video camera is to go back to magnetic tape. It catches Bob Zelin out of style!
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Santiago, sometimes, the fix software is your keyboard. Try writing the corrupted files to a folder, rename them in substitute proper filnames, pointer filenames, or batch- names. Then burn them to separate media. You will probably lose the meta-data inside doing this but you might save the files. Then find out what you are doing wrong before the terabytes fly by. Good luck. Fred Jodry
Quicktime corrupt file
by Santiago Escudero on Dec 29, 2011 at 4:17:27 am
Hi, I’m working on an important project (drama series). We are recording with Alexas on QT Apple ProRess 444; and when the post studio it’s going to do a Color Correction find a corrupt file. We are editing with Avid MC in DNxHD 36 and copy ProRess only for backup and CC. This file it’s corrupt in all copies but not in DNxHD 36.
My question is if somebody knows what software can recover this files. Thank you. -
Jack, the Cache-A is an external high speed, high powered data to tape back-up(, restore) unit. It features a xeon booster cpu which turns on and off with the tape unit and it`s job, lessening the slowdowns to your system that would otherwise be severe when it it turns on. Also, turning the xeon on and off with the tape unit saves lots of electricity and heat. Software bundled with the unit opens up some features but you`ll still need to reach right now for your own pencil notebook on metadata tricks which you can start filling with hints gleaned from Bob`s “GlueTools.Com” and some older entries of the ARRI forum, amongst other places. The new LTO-5 tape cartridges have a small flash memory inside to record the directory of the data from the tape, and the previous tapes (LTO-4, etc) don`t have this separate memory. (Network, or stand-alone). Fred Jodry
Some advice about the Cache-A by, jack wormell on Jan 3, 2012 at 9:09:43 am
Hi There- I’m not exactly sure if this is the right forum but I would like some advice on the Cache-A. Has anyone used it before? I work for a small TV company and we will be shooting and editing almost simultaneously and our producer and directors will want access to the rushes while the edit is happening.
The Cache-A stores things on tapes on a network, I think. If someone could explain to me how it works a little more in detail I would be forever grateful. I’m not sure if it’s rushes that are stored on tape or meta-data, but we need to know whether its a good device to back stuff up on as well as have it available on a network so we can look at rushes simultaneously. It costs 5K so we want to know whether it’s a worthwhile investment.
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Chris, it sounds like an Active Storage Inc. unit is a great match for you. It has some video specialities like metadata monitoring already built in, while compared to the price of its 16 to 24 hard drive bays that typically get maxxed out after some years, the price of fibre card hookup is negligible. You should have no grief with its type of networking. Ask how to integrate backup, and delegate some money for that. Fred Jodry
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Rex, you could try this:
Back up your data on borrowed storage.
Make one of your existing 3 Western Digital half- terrabyte hard drives your boot hard drive; you can make “folders” on it too, import your daily or project data on this temporary folder, then delete it fully when through, and make a new folder for the next project.
Your other two half- terrabyte Western Digitals are spare or shelf data storage awaiting the day when you have enough money to buy/ make a tape backup system.
Take your existing hard drive controller whether internal or external, Active Storage Inc., Maxx Digital, or Small Tree etc. and just replace the 3 Western Digitals with good SLC SSD “hard” drives, probably RAID 0 is just fine with SLC SSD, and watch your controller speed and editing renders speed up through the roof. Even if you can`t figure out how to make RAID configurations right away, j.b.o.d. on SSDs will give you nice speed, a plus. It`s no harm flattering your customers and controller manufacturers alike with data size changing renders, like into and out of H.264.
To continue, when I looked at my e- mail this morning there was a web attachment showing that the new 6 GB per second data SSDs from my favorite vendor are now just about in line in price and practicality with their 3 GB per second line. If you try looking at 120 GB size drives first then look only a little bigger or smaller in GB sizes then you`ll find good practical considerations and parameters like price, without your eyeballs falling out of your head from fatigue.
Fred JodryRAID 5 with SSD and HDD by, Rex Polanis on Nov 26, 2011 at 3:49:07 pm
I have never set up a RAID before. Lately my editing needs require a speed boost and I don’t have a lot of money to build a whole new sytem. I am considering replacing my current HDD boot drive with a SSD boot drive and then combine the old boot drive with my additional drives to RAID 5. My current system setup is as follows:
AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 3.21 ghtz
Asus Motherboard
3 WD 500gb HDDs
Windows 7 64
Sony Vegas Pro 11
Adobe CS5.5 MS
BCC 7Would setting up my system up as a RAID 5 with a SSD as my main boot drive and three HDDs in RAID 5 work? Would it speed up, say rendering H.264 to mpeg2 and avc? Also, would it improve preview editing? Thank you.
One man with courage makes a majority.
Canon 7D Sony Vegas Pro 11 Adobe CS5.5 Master Suite
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James, the bandwidth to transport good video and audio over the internet from day to day is rather problemmatical. Surely I don`t see Alexa producers exchanging large samples without mailing. So rather than deal with the hard or impractical why not concentrate on mailed to and from you data? One of your I guesses is the question of quantity versus quality or professional quality versus what someone wants to pay you on these projects. In point of fact the amount and types and qualities of work that needs to be done in television, film, publishing, and some other maedia can best be described by the words of Walt Kelly the creator of the comic strip, Pogo. “We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunity”. In my area of the business there is certainly more work than I could ever try to do in the category of restorations alone. More than half of the work is done in analog not digital form and some is physical restoration,like hand carving missing record grooves or film cementing new sprocket holes, others synthetical. E- mail your e- mail onto mine and we can trade sketches of what could be set up for.
Fred Jodry
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Normally, RAID is not a good substitute for back-ups but something comes to mind: Why not use a RAID 1 (usually RAID 1) card to drive 2 back-up tape drives to make 2 back-ups at the same time? Fred Jodry
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Aidan, to repeat my answer,
if the voltages coming out of your power supply feeding the insides of your computer are sagging, the oscillators inside the Kona card could get forced to go out of frequency tolerance whereupon you see exactly what`s described. Grab a fresh power supply and a voltmeter and do a little testing. I had no luck going to TekServe in N.Y.C. The cause was a Manager who had an ever- changing story. -
– Actually since my directions are to pre-build the RAID externally instead of internally and reassemble, setting the BIOS from AHCI to IDE or IDE/SATA in step 3 should be easier.