Greg Golden
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I suppose different manufacturers use different color L.E.D.s for these, but my other MediaVault has ones that glow green and the L.E.D.s on this 2.5 TB MediaVault are glowing amber. Until I can get an answer from tech support at Ciprico, anybody know with certainty that they should be green? What’s the chance of both of them going bad (or showing bad) at the same time?
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I’ve been focused on just this immedate project and the deadline it has, but I decided to open a nearly identical project (4 video streams) and see if it would play back. It played flawlessly.
The video that I am working with on this project that keeps failing was uploaded as “capture now” (It was a “live” event and that was the logical way to get it digitized to the hard drive.) The capture didn’t abort with any dropped frame issue. Can this video be corrupt? How would I know? I haven’t had that happen in my three years with FCP.
Greg Golden
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I’ll start with that – I’ll post my progress and results. It’ll be Thursday before I get the firewire drive to back the files up.
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Jeremy – I have two edit desks here (I’m the media director at a church in Alabama) and I mentioned the wrong card. The other one uses dual G5. This one has the Atto Express PCI UL5D.
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I’ve done no recent updates. Ciprico says that if I’d had a drive failure within the array I’d hear a constant beep. With my limited experience, it seems like an issue of some bottleneck in the data transfer pipeline. I have had no trouble with four and five layers of SD video in times past. Today, a single lower third of text creates a dropped frame stall. I’ve done everything that I can think of that I’ve learned from reading other people’s problems on the forum. I haven’t reinstalled FCP yet.In thinking back, there have been an unusual number of dropped frames during playback of various projects over the last weeks, and it was getting progressively worse.
When attempting to export my timeline and the various pieces of video and audio on the timeline (trying to make one Quicktime movie out of it all) I would get 30, maybe even 70 percent completed and then the six beeps and everthing locked up. Only a hard reboot gets me out of that situation.
Thanks, Jeremy, for reading and for any help or suggestions you (and anybody else) can offer.
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In my woes today trying to get a project onto tape, when opening the project a box appears that is headed “Media Performance Warning”. Several random render files are shown in it. It seems that these change when I go ahead and open that project, then close it and reopen it.
That particular phrase doesn’t show up in the index of the manual or as an alert message or as a warning message.
Anybody have any experience with this or can you offer a suggestion?
Read the beginning of this thread to see my basic problem. Thanks.
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Greg Golden
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I suppose you mean a Tascam DA-88 with 8-tracks of digital audio? Recorded to Hi8 digital tape? If that is the request, I imagine you’ll need to route your audio through SDI and split it to those 8 audio tracks. If you need one, I have one in pristine shape that I’m about to put on Ebay. It has low hours on it having been used in my church perhaps an average of 100 hours a year over the past 6 or 7 years in a 24 track recording studio here on the church campus. We don’t do audio recordings like that any longer.
Greg Golden
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If you have selected RGB as the input to your tape deck, and if you are monitoring from your deck on the monitor out (composite output) you should be seeing the FCP timeline playback. You do not need the SDI card in your monitor to view your playback–composite will work fine. (There is an alternative way to monitor into a composite monitor using just one of your RGB cables and changing one setting in your Blackmagic control panel.)
If you aren’t able to view your timeline playback, it seems that one of your FCP preference settings is not correct. I’m not sitting at my system right now, so I cannot reconstruct what check boxes are checked for exactly what. I remember one check box that is labeled something like “mirror desktop…” that is an important selection for you to make. If you aren’t successful between now and Monday morning, e-mail me directly at gregwgolden@hotmail.com and I’ll give you some screen shots of my setup. I’m happy to help. I’ve been where you are and know the anxiety and frustration of feeling like the Lone Ranger. That’s the beauty of the COW.
Greg
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I have the same card and do the same thing with the same tape deck. To what is your video monitor connected? The Decklink SP card can be monitored via the SDI connection directly into an SDI-equipped broadcast monitor. That’s how I do it, but you should be able to connect your 3 component cables to the RGB inputs of your tape deck, flip the input select switch on the front of the Sony tape deck so that you are viewing the Blackmagic card output, and monitor your timeline playback that way.
Greg