[Jake Hawkes]

Do you have any idea how long it tok to re address/index the volumes once the reboot occured? At first I thought so what need to change a drive go around close all running programs and turn off all the Mac’s. Then I remembered that there some implications that may occur such as the index of the IO block and partition/’s. Since NLE’s use these addresses as pointers to cuts effects and keyframes would the addition and re write of volumes ruin project files?

I realize this is an old post so I am going to put it back up on top…

Thank you,
young gun seriously looking at the TerraBlock, or just setting up a Tiger Server with fiber connections on my own.

[Jake Hawkes]

The point you make about the benefits of the MetaSAN/MetaLAN is very interesting, and what I will require. I have access to the Fiber transport and switches as a close friend is a network administrator with HP. I am more interested in is there a real benefit to investing in the SAN storage solution, over GigaEthernet, or the solution you outlined. The footage will not only be DV but will include mixed content HDV or DVC Pro. I am still concerned about the true viability of HDV and am leaning heavily towards the P2 or even Reel-Streams uncompressed option.

It is very easy for me to set up the server with storage, and I appreciate your recommendation to use Tiger Server.

I was under the impression that I would need up to 120MB sustained data rate to support DVC Pro streams (4x). I am hesitant to buy into the Mac XSAN because when it comes down to brass tacks the storage is way over priced.

My intention was to use a parity RAID with my Sonnet card to achieve approx 250MB sustained to the Front Side Bus. My confusion is what the network can actually provide to the workstation. I am not very proficient in Network performance, I live in the application world and have seen very significant flucuations in performance that you mentioned with traditional TCP/IP over ethernet. This is why I mentioned Fiber as it would seem that gigEthernet would be inconsistent as well.

What is important is that investors in the film can come in and see the edit, and I have some viable previewing for them. Even with no network on a pair of seagates in my G5 I get pretty slow RAM Previews with HD 1080i. I am hoping the networked machines will improve workflow and increase my ability to work on many (3 to 4) streams of HDV or DVC Pro with similiar functionality that I have now with several DV streams or a couple 1080 streams.

MOOVER

[Jake Hawkes]

I had similiar problems with Pro Coder and so now I export my movies and then encode them from outside the Premier Pro application. This is usually not an extra step for me as I always want a full resolution ‘proof’ for my movies final out.

[Jake Hawkes]

Please reply if you understand this problem.
de-interlaced progressive frame, hmm pixelation artifacts on edge of seat…

progressive frame from progressive project no compression…

[Jake Hawkes]

I attempted both interlaced and progressive capture and export at a 640×480 aspect and the same problems are apparent. I don’t understand this, I thought a progressive project would need no field interpolation from within Premier Pro and would exportt at the hiest resolution.

The ony way to limit the huge fields seperation is to set de-interlace on the export setting which makes absolutely no sense to me.

[Jake Hawkes]

I used the noise reduction system and AAA a couple of weeks ago with results. The render speed was very very slow and so the boards will be a nice addition to speed up workflow from stagnant to useable. (I did apply several effects to the timeline first which is a no no, as they ask if your going to apply certain combinations of effects to use subcomps.

The noise reduction as I understand it is for M-Peg2 quality improvments. One aspect I never quite understood is if I apply the noise reduction before compression then what or how is this effective. I believe you need to be able to import you mpeg2 video into AE or other and de-noise for this to be effective. Otherwise your AVI to mpeg2 process will reintroduce noise.

Also the upresolution feature was someting I never quite understood, and the reason for my purchase, lukily they do offer the one week purchase which I think is the coolest and best software licencing idea I have ever used. I was glad to plop down 30.00 bucks to test my footage against there toolset.

I also should mention that the support was excellent. I had a question one day later I had a responce. What more can you ask for.

[Jake Hawkes]

Better yet, take a track of the movement you should be able to track her eyes or nostrel if she doesn’t look away. Anyway see if there is somthing you can track. Then create your vector paint (bruash, Blur, and opacity) and map this to the track.

It will skip a litle so after you map render and fix any keyframes that are way off.