[Gary Adcock]

[David Battistella] “My guess is that they never even ran tests with this deck with FCP 5 and that this is more than likely an FCP issue. If you are routing the embedded audio it should “theoretically” work, but there is a chance that support has not yet been implemented and tested for this deck. “

David
Dual Link has been tested more than you realize. Both Apple and AJA have hammered it for awhile now.
I have been able to lay 10 tracks down to SR, (FCP-5.02) the only issue I had was telling FCP to do the job correctly {in the audio out preset}. I was only able do it over HDSDI however.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation

[Gary Adcock]

[JP Driscoll] “My boss wants this working as it’s been two days since the stuff came in and I’d rather not pay $200 for support.”

AJA does not charge for support calls

why not contact AJA tech support?

gary adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation

[Gary Adcock]

[Walter Biscardi] “With the K2 it’s a pristine downconvert from HD to SD on the fly.”

I want to add to that I am finding the HDV edits down-converted to SD look great. and In some cases using the ZU1 that I have gotten near beta quality on the down-converted footage.

do the conversion last then you have an HDV master for the future

gary adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation

[Gary Adcock]

[Ramona Howard] ”
Cool, It’s nice when I understand this crazy stuff….”

I don’t worry about it
me, I am just a parrot….

gary adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation

[Gary Adcock]

I like the animation codec it has Alpha’s

ga

gary adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation

[Gary Adcock]

[Ramona Howard] “One thing to check out is: Do all Sony decks only pass psf, I think the answer is yes, “

that is correct –
it is also my understanding that monitor playback for 1080psf is really 48i on everything but SR displays

[Ramona Howard] “It seems to have been a standard that has been passed down for generations that in order to display to a monitor psf was how it was to be done, that is until the SR and 4:4:4 came along”

Yeah – Sony realized that PSF was not going to be forced down the throat of hollywood so – 4:4:4 was the rebirth of Progressive for sony (editorial comment)

gary adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation

[Gary Adcock]

Nate

there is a lot of info left out

Board -AJA or BMD,
Audio – embedded or AES

and you have mapped the channels correctly for audio output of more than 4 tracks?

it is very hard to help without an idea of what you are using.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation

[Gary Adcock]

[JD Funari] “What is the best route to go when using 10+ FireWire drives?”

shared network storage- you are wasting time more than money.

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Studio37
HD and Film Consultation

[Gary Adcock]

[Mariusz] “Firewire 800 and 400 is backward compatible.”

Only for Hard Drives
Panasonic recommends that you DO NOT use a FW 800 -FW 400 conversion cable.

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Studio37
HD and Film Consultation

[Gary Adcock]

[Charles Simonson] “The only way to test this out is by actually using the type of movies and files you expect to be working with on those drives. And I can tell you through my experience that the throughput of just 2 drives striped in the real world is not that great of an advantage over single drives. Yes, you should notice some speed increases, but it will not be dramatic”

I agree and disagree. YES you should be testing your hardware with content like you will be working with, and the best for that is a job you have already worked on.

But I disagree on the drive speed, Many factors are involved with drive speed from CPU to the types of drives you are working with (FW drives are notoriously slower due to the FW to ATA bridging) Native drives like SATA and SCSI are going to be faster hands down.

Based on a single drive on a single bus (SATA)

2 single drives on a single buss is 10% slower
4 single drives on a single buss is 25% slower

2 drives in a Raid config on a single buss will be 50% – 75% faster than a single drive
2 drives each on on separate buss in a RAID config +180% faster than a single drive

these numbers are for extrapolation and very on every machine I have worked on.
I currently have 2 identical SATA arrays in for testing and I am seeing differences between where the SATA card is placed in the PCI bus on G5’s ( hint: Slot 4 is always faster — DOH!!)

gary adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation