[Jason Brown]

After effects does the best job of this…

[Jason Brown]

Regarding output, I’m afraid there aren’t many options for output ONLY. I think you’ll find common I/o cards used – matrox, and kona. I’ve used mxo2 and lhi and they both work for accurate color and frame reference (for my needs).

I’ll let others speak for storage and video card suggestions.

Also, I’m using dual apple led cinema displays for monitors.

[Jason Brown]

What format and directory structure? Are they disc images? I don’t believe u can run xdcam through log and transfer…u have to use xdcam transfer.

[Jason Brown]

1440 has a “PAR” – pixel aspect ratio. Meaning that each pixel has a shape, it isn’t square.

There are several dimensions that are non standard –

1440×1080 — 1280×1080 which both become 1920 when you multiply them by their respective PARs (1.33 and 1.5)

960×720 is an anamorphic version of 1280×720 (multiplied by 1.33)

In standard def, it’s the same way that the same dimensions (720×486 could become 16×9 or 4×3)…you don’t change the NUMBER of pixels, just the SHAPE.

This always creates an issue when played back in a media player, like Quicktime…because you are trying to interpret non-square pixels…and if that flag isn’t embedded correctly, it won’t play back right. It’s all about knowing what your source is and interpreting it correctly.

HTH,

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Did I just hear someone say “free LTO backup” 🙂

[Jason Brown]

I don’t see that any of the G-Tech drives have LAN support? Is that common? Is SAS a better connection to share in a workgroup?

I have about 3 machines I’d love to have all be able to access the same media.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I don’t have any comparable power supplies to test, but I thought that might be the issue…based on all the posts I was reading.

Since this initial post, I’ve had some luck.

I really have no explanation, because I ran disk warrior…and I wasn’t able to run any diagnostics on the drive in DW – it said there was a hardware failure.

I pulled out, and put back in one of the drives in the unit, and re-plugged the USB cable. DW was then able to do a directory rebuild. It found many errors…I saved the log. And I now have a properly mounted and working drive.

I’m over LaCie…their support sucks, and apparently so do their drives. What should be my next purchase? I’ve looked at MaxxDigital…also CalDigit…are there better RAID5 solutions? what is BEST in reliability?

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I came across this post as I’m searching…because I have a 6TB LaCie 4big Quadra that won’t mount the volume on it as well.

I have it setup in RAID5…so I could lose 1 drive and still retain the data. This isn’t my primary media drive…it was my time machine backup, but I did have some files that I put on it that I don’t have anywhere else.

I open Disk Utility on my mac, and I can see the drive connected…and even the volume I can see (but it is greyed out) and when I try to mount, it gives me an error message. I’ve tried hooking it up USB and eSATA, both give me the same experience.

Any ideas? Am I hosed?

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Send to compressor — using telestream plugin for compressor?

I didn’t realize episode could upload to FTP?

[Jason Brown]

Send to compressor — using telestream plugin for compressor?

I didn’t realize episode could upload to FTP?