Jean-christophe Boulay
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I just asked a friend of mine who uses a Tascam DAW about this. He doesn’t own a DR-680, but says on his system the markers are in a proprietary format recognized by Tascam machines. There is a good chance the DR-680 is the same. The DR-680 does have a Divide feature, though, so you could place markers on the recorder and, before transferring your audio to FCP, cycle through the markers and Divide at those points. You’d get separate files, cut at your marker points. Or you could just use Divide while taping instead of markers to begin with.
IHTH
JC Boulay
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One of the cheaper solutions mentioned above would be Perian. It’s a free Quicktime extension that includes a few formats Apple decided you didn’t need, including FLV. The options are limited compared to the full Flash software or Episode, but it’s always been enough for the small FLV’s I’ve had to output. Once Perian is installed, Export To FLV should appear in your export options in QT.
At 0$, it’s worth a try.
JC Boulay
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Everything should work fine. I have two such setups here that run very smoothly. Even working with SD uncompressed is very smooth. It start coughing a bit with some HD codecs, but it’s still workable.
Just keep in mind it is now an unsupported machine, so don’t go asking Apple Tech Support for help. Ask us instead.
JC Boulay
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It’s still a bad idea to use SSD’s as media drives in Mac OS. Apple still hasn’t seen fit to include true TRIM support in the OS, so you’ll be hitting the block-rewrite limit hard and fast. SSD’s make great system drives, but until TRIM is fully-implemented, it is a really bad idea to edit on SSD, as you’ll be writing and erasing a lot. It’ll work wonders until you hit the block-rewrite limit, and then watch it sllllllloooooooowwwwww dooooooowwwwwwnnnnn.
SSD’s do not necessarily have a shorter lifespan than spinning drives, the block-rewrite limit is the main factor. Remember that most benchmarks you see will be on new drives on a PC. Your mileage will vary.
JC Boulay
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While the Big Knob is the answer almost everyone will give you to this question, it may be over the top for your uses. If you have only one source and only one monitoring system, you can pick up a TC Electronics Level Pilot for a quarter of the price.
https://www.tcelectronic.com/levelpilot.aspNothing exciting, it’s basically just a volume knob for whatever you plug it in-line to. It looks sleek and works as advertised.
JC Boulay
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SCSI is clearly not the interface of choice for most consumers these days, but is still very relevant to high-priority pro applications, such as backups. One SCSI buss accepts more devices than any other protocol, has bandwidths that completely eclipse eSATA or 1394 and SCSI devices, being aimed at the pro market, are generally of higher standard. eSATA and FW800 can have uses in the pro market, but are designed as consumer standards. Anyone plumping down for a tape backup drive is serious about his backups, so offering him a device with a consumer interface makes little sense.
There are very simple, very affordable backup solutions. When you go for a tape system, you decide you want a professional, reliable system. They’re just different solutions for different people.
JC Boulay
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i’ve had issues with the Tuxera NTFS driver in the past. I think that’s the one you refer to. If you ever have trouble with it,Paragon Software make a Mac NTFS driver: https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/
I’ve used it for quite a while and it works well. You get full priviledges on the drive, which may help you. There’s a free-to-try period, so you can give it a go. If you work with NTFS drives often, this driver is worth it. Don’t install both drivers at the same time, though. Trust me.
IHTH
JC Boulay
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Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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I’ve got a few 10k drives in a DAW PC and their main advantage over the 4 7200 drives I could’ve bought for the price of each 10k drive is bragging rights. Access speeds and throughputs are a little faster, but nowhere near enough to justify the price difference compared to 7200RPM drives. If you need super-fast drive access, especially for video work, you need a RAID. And don’t even think of stocking that RAID with 10k drives. That’s useless. Burning the money would at least produce some heat. 10k drives have been around for quite a while and the adoption rate has been very poor. There are good reasons for that.
Unless impressing your too-nerdy friends is a top priority, the money would yield better performance elsewhere.
JC Boulay
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Audio Z
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Get a nice sensitive mic and head on down to Chipotle’s!
Seriously, that’s a tough one. My first instinct would be to search through my sound library, but you probably don’t have access to one. The most obvious way is to directly record a gurgling stomach. That happens all the time on VO sessions with sensitive mics. No need to starve for two days if you have a good sensitive mic. If you only have dynamics, well yeah, you’ll probably have to be groaning real hard to pick it up well. Then the Chipotle might start to actually be a serious idea. This would give you a realistic sound, which may not be what you want, in a comical setting for example.
If I had to design the sound, I’m not exactly sure how I’d go about doing it, but I have a vision of myself over a kitchen sink full of water with plastic bags and bottles. I’d try and record lots of different kinds of bubbles. I’d probably edit the best ones together and downpitch and EQ them.
It’s a proper sound design job, but I think it’d be worth it if the sound is important to your story. If it’s just a filler sound, maybe don’t spend too much time on it.
IHTH
JC Boulay
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Montreal, Canada
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Well if you’re reinstalling, it’s too late, but zapping the PRAM could’ve done the trick. You have to hold Command, Option, P, and R at bootup and wait for the startup chime to sound again (I let it sound a few times just to be sure). If a piece of hardware the system expects to find at startup is missing or has failed, zapping the PRAM can get you into the OS when most other tricks fail.
Here’s hoping you never have to do that!
JC Boulay
Technical Director
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
http://www.audioz.com