[Ignatius Gorin]

Thanks again.

I’ll go for the ATI HD4870 + RAM upgrade (prolly Kingston, I’ve seen people reporting they worked ok here).

Then regarding RAID HD’s, if I don’t mind the noise and heat + hd lasting 4 years vs. more (I’ve seen threads where it said external systems last longer I believe), is internal ok?

Or do I gain much by going hardware/card based RAID (vs. internal software based using Disk Utility)?

I’m planning on getting 2x2TB 7200, either WD Caviar or Hitachi.

Again, thank you all, very informative thread.

[Ignatius Gorin]

Many thanks for your very informative inputs.

I currently use daisy chained external Firewire 800 hard drives.

I’ll check out a RAID external drive. I don’t see eSATA or SAS connectors so I think that would have to go with an adapter. Or maybe I’ll use internal slots, for current projects, then will copy to external Firewire for archives.
I didn’t know that would make a noticeable speed improvement.

My RAM seems to be evenly installed : 2x512MB + 2x1GB, yet the total is still an odd number.

Any recommendation for RAM brand and video card model?

Thank you again.

[Ignatius Gorin]

This means that I wouldn’t notice significant speed/comfort improvement upgrading from my Mac Pro dating back to 2006/2007 to a current Mac Pro ?

Quite depressing…

Maybe I could just upgrade the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT to a newer video card?

Thanks for your input.

[Ignatius Gorin]

PS : I’m mostly using 1080/50 (Z1/5/7) footage + more recently tackling AVCHD.

[Ignatius Gorin]

Thanks. He’s coming today. I will also try deleting the project’s render files and see how it goes.

[Ignatius Gorin]

Thanks for your input. You’re right.

Regardless of the format they will ask, is there a way to relink to the original files, so it can export from these (vs. PRORES files), regardless of export format?

TIA.

— AB

[Ignatius Gorin]

THANK YOU!

Duh…

— Ig.

[Ignatius Gorin]

PS: I’m using 5.1.4 on a Macpro and 10.4.11

Edit: It does the same with all (previous) projects I open now.

[Ignatius Gorin]

Replying to myself (in case someone runs across this thread later) :

I went to my local dealer, and in fact, the Z1 heads were (expectedly) misaligned somehow. The HVRM15 couldn’t read more that one of the two heads (thus we could see something in fast forward), but after trying a Z7 and a Z5, the Z5 could read the tapes, but kept dropping TC, and the Z7 would play pretty decently.

Bottom line, if that happens (at night…) don’t panic, there are good chances that the tapes will end up being read by something; and I can’t yet say hos they read in the same Z1 they were taped with).

Thanks.

– Ig.

[Ignatius Gorin]

Thanks for your input (and temporary hope).

I don’t want to expect too much, but I wasn’t able to find 1080/60 capture settings, it’s “HDV” (or “HDV Apple Intermediate Codec”), then I can set the sequence to be 50 or 60.

So I get the same thing in the capture window.

Thank you again.

— Ig.