[Greg Nosaty]

I’ve been using 3-Sonnet E4P in G5s and Quad Intels for over a year with no problems. But I’m only using Sonnet 5 bay raids with Seagate Baracuda 500GB drives.

Who makes your 10 bay and single drives? Maybe you should look at a eSATA card from the manufacturer of the 10 bay. I’ve heard of issues were drive and card mismatches have had issues.

Another issue could be the raid striping. Apple’s Disk Utility leave a lot to be desired for striping raid configurations. A friend of mine bought I think its called Soft Raid and was able to re-stripe his raid without loosing any media. It solved his throughput problems.

cheers,
greg

[Greg Nosaty]

I’m onlining in AJA Kona 10 bit uncompressed on my Intel quad. I don’t think I’ll ever work in 10 bit again, the benefits are seriously out weighed by problems like render times, out of memory errors and crashes.

Not to mention that after hours of rendering I have opened my project the next day to see it lit up like a Christmas tree and have to render all over again. I was able to restore my project to the last autosave and that has worked a couple time to recover the renders.

Another bug is that the sequence looks rendered but when you play you hit the odd blue screen “unrendered” in the canvas window.

cheers,
greg

[Greg Nosaty]

[David Roth Weiss] “You probably need to trash your prefs or pram. This definitely does not happen here. I just tested it.

David”

Your right, I just tested it on my laptop and it works fine. I guess a prefs trash is in order.

thanks.

cheers,
greg

[Greg Nosaty]

[Catama Productions] “So how do i just capture what’s in my timeline, and not the entirity of all of my lackadasical ten minute clips?”

Are you trying to recapture the media from tape or reconnect media from the excisting “10 minute” clips?

If you want to recapture ONLY what’s was in your timeline (possibly with handles) Then you need to the following:

Right clip the timeline of your choice.
set Media Manager to “Create offline” from the drop down menu.
Unselect “Include masterclips outside selection”
Select “Delete unused media from duplicated items”
Select “Use handles” and the duration you want (2 or 3 second is normal)
Unselect “Include affiliated clips…”
Base media file names on “existing file names”
Unselect “Include nonactive multiclip andgles”
Select “OK”

Then FCP should create a new project the a bin full of clips for you to recapture. I hope this helps.

cheers,
greg

[Greg Nosaty]

[mentalese] “What kind of problems have you had?
“

Our Firestore has been crashing or locking up in the middle of recording. Either hand held or just sitting on a tripod shooting an interview, it just randomly stops recording. Then we have to pull off the battery to power it down and once it restarts we then have to reset all the settings. Needless to say my crews no longer have confidence in the Firestore and refuse to use it.

cheers,
greg

[Greg Nosaty]

I’ve had many problems with my firestore and no longer trust it to do anything properly. So I would copy the MXF files to another hard drive first then try Log and Import again.

cheers,
greg

[Greg Nosaty]

Hi Rafael

Here is Graemes reply to my pluggin question:

There are some bugs in the FCP code for 10bit rendering, and every so often they get found, and it looks like you’ve found another.

I try to test all the plugs in 10bit but sometimes they fall through the cracks. let me have a play with this plugin here and get back to you with what I find…

Set the dissolve to RGB mode for 10bit video. Know that sounds strange, but it makes it render right. Looks like there’s a YUV bug in the 10bit rendering path in FCP which I can report, but I doubt if they’ll fix…..

Graeme

I hope this helps you.

cheers,
greg

[Greg Nosaty]

The first was the “G Film Flash” v2.5.1 the other was “G Film Dissolve – Teknocolor Positive” both were transition FX.

cheers,
greg

[Greg Nosaty]

I have switched back to “normal” and when I render my Targa files they still look aliased.

I think this is a nasty uncompressed 10bit think. Graeme Nattress has sent me a fix for one of his plugs and mentioned that Apple has some unresolved issues with 10 bit. It’s too late for me to recapture at 8 bit so I’ll have to make the best of it.

cheers,
greg

[Greg Nosaty]

I’m also experiencing very long render times. I have a 30 second credit sequence thats made in Motion with static pages of white text on black, no movement at all and it takes 8 minutes to render in 10bit uncomressed.