James Clark
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Not sure broadacst monitors can be bought cheaply, especially if you need HD. Those things are pricey as far as I’ve seen, we have an SD one that we use just for colour grading, but as far high quality monitors go that are very good but not ‘broadcast monitors’ Eizo’s are good. They’re more expensive than a regular computer monitor, but still fairly cheap and cheaper still, than broadcast monitors. They have a large range of options so you can spend just under grand for their cheapest ones which are still pretty great or as much as 10 grand for their top of the range options.
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To anyone who stumbles on this thread. It WAS daylight savings and Michael Gissing was right as was the poster of the similar thread that I’d not seen.
Set the clock back to before the last DST change and transcodes are named correctly.
Quite annoying that this is the solution because it was the first thing that occurred to me but I decided it couldn’t be it since the timecode would be an absolute value since the media’s already recorded and so why would the metadata change depending upon the conditions at the time of transcoding? Anyway, just goes to show you can’t always expect the answers to computer problems to be logical.
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I guess that’s definitely what it appears like, but it seems strange to me that such a miscalculation could occur, the broadcast industry had adopted Final Cut Pro to an extent so it was usable, where as FCPX has taken features out which has caused the complaints, this means a deliberate decision not to include things presumably some users needed rather than a case of building a program from scratch and not adequately anticipating the needs of the consumer. It’s interesting, I can’t quite figure out the decisions making process that has lead to the program as it is, it doesn’t seem to be right for anyone.
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well yes, I’ve seen that much of the debate on this forum centres around if FCPX is really suitable for professional video editing, but taking that assumption as given for the sake of argument. What then is it suited for? Could a consumer pick it up and use it and why would they want it in place of imovie?
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Interesting, I’ll have to check on those, after effects had however been working seemingly fine on projects just prior to now
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Good point, I’ll update as soon as I can
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Looks like the roto brush is what I’m after. Shame, was hoping this plugin would make the animator’s job much easier for this purpose. Thanks for the help guys
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The highpoint (3522) has a problem specific to this exact model and snow leopard. Seemingly from the very first versions of snow leopard onwards. In the case that as we did, you have a rocket raid 3522 attached to a machine running snow leopard, kernel panics will occur at random intervals when the card is not in use, just attached and an sas volume mounted. If you actually use the volume like copying via finder the chances and frequency of kernel panics increases and if you use it for something like final cut pro or the animation programs that we run also, then kernel panics are very frequent constant events making work impossible.
As a further development, we’re still not out of hell yet, the R380 card created my array without a hitch everything worked quickly and beautifully, I formatted the volume to Mac Os Extended Journaled and even copied media to and from the volume. Then I tried to stream media (open media file in quicktime) from the array, all that could display was the first frame and then on subsequent attempts you could get occasional uninterrupted playback punctuated by several second long freezes. Rebooting has seen numerous drives become unavailable in the atto configuration tool which are then apparently completely fine again on another reboot but now other drives from the array are busted also. These are 8x500GB Seagate ES 2 7200.11 drives. Atto revealed that these particular drives had had firmware issues with their card which was supposedly fixed by a firmware update from seagate SN06, but which Atto later revealed had in fact not been a fix.
Now we have some 24 useless drives but working cards whereas before we had useless cards and working drives. Fantastic.
Incidentally, though the kernel panic issue was specific to the 3522, there’ve also been problems with a 4322 we had attached to an ultrastor 16 bay array in which we’d created a RAID6 which has failed to rebuild after only one drive failed. Hate highpoint so much.
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Thanks so much man, seems so obvious now but I was very confused. Hope you’re right about the ATTO, looking forward to a card that actually works, haven’t had access to this proavio for probably about 6 months now.
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Interesting thought, just checked. All footage is Apple Pro res 422 and the audio is .m4a AAC format 44.1 KHz 32 bit floating point. Why it’s in .m4a I don’t know and that’s probably not ideal, but it wasn’t presenting itself as a problem before.
I tried trashing the preferences when the problem first occurred on Friday but this didn’t help. This morning I opened up the project to double check what you were saying about the audio and video and it’s miraculously fixed itself. I guess I should point out that the project was in it’s later stages and that this problem had not occurred before friday. It’s good that it’s working now, though I hope it’s not due to happen again. If anyone thinks they know what caused this I’d appreciate the help.