Jeremy Garchow
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I don’t know what conflicts you are seeing, but my hunch is that they are non PCI-X G5s, although I thought the 1.8s were non PCI-X, not dual 2.0s.
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After you have selected the 8 bit uncompressed easy set up you need to make a new sequence, the existing sequence is set to whatever it is (usually dv).
Also, double check you have rendered out 720×486 lower field first, assuming that you are in NTSC land.
you should be able to drop a movie from in AE into FCP without rendering. Your settings aren’t matching somewhere in your workflow.
Jeremy
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Thanks for the clarification, Ramona. I guess I should have been more clear. I assume (and maybe that’s my mistake) that most people on this forum are talking about getting a couple of burly boxes with a cheap 8 port SATA controller and 8 drives and building their own SATA arrays. I am not talking about prebuilt and configured SATA arrays with dedicated hardware controllers and interface of choice. Also, I have not seen a ‘cheap’ SATA solution that offers RAID3 the way most pre built fibre solutions have on board. If you find one, let me know. The controllers I had experience with used RAID5 and the performance was not so great.
You say: ” BUT we are getting better performance on the 24 drive SATA solution than the 16 drive Fiber array”
I think you are in a different league than some or most of us here. 24 drive SATA? How do you interface to that? What box holds 24 drives and what controls them?
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It seems as if ATTO has released v2.30 of their drivers which in theory, supports the PCIe architecture of the new G5s and the PCIe cards (42es and 44es). They do say in the release notes, however, that power management is not supported on OSX for the 42&44es. i don’t know what that does or does not mean.
Kev, I am with Walter in that Fibre is the way to go. You get what you pay for when it comes to storage. I have had bad experience with SATA and I just could not risk betting my business around it. Ever since I switched to fibre, I have had much less issues. SATA offers little or no protection while fibre arrays do. I had a drive fail in my fibre array and I kept working while a new drive was shipped from the manufacturer overnight. I installed the new drive the next day and the array rebuilt itself in the background while I continued editing. All of this happened with no loss of data, and no down time, except the five minutes it took to install the new drive. Although SATA is getting there, there’s not a ‘homebuilt’ SATA solution that I know of that can handle this type of situation. It might save some money up front, but be prepared to lose some in down time and perhaps lost clients down the line. Sorry to sound so grim, but I just want others to learn from my unfortunate experiences. There are many people on this and other forums that have had nothing but good luck with their SATA arrays. I wish you nothing but good luck as well.
Jeremy
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre -
It seems as if ATTO has released v2.30 of their drivers which in theory, supports the PCIe architecture of the new G5s and the PCIe cards (42es and 44es). They do say in the release notes, however, that power management is not supported on OSX for the 42&44es. i don’t know what that does or does not mean.
Kev, I am with Walter in that Fibre is the way to go. You get what you pay for when it comes to storage. I have had bad experience with SATA and I just could not risk betting my business around it. Ever since I switched to fibre, I have had much less issues. SATA offers little or no protection while fibre arrays do. I had a drive fail in my fibre array and I kept working while a new drive was shipped from the manufacturer overnight. I installed the new drive the next day and the array rebuilt itself in the background while I continued editing. All of this happened with no loss of data, and no down time, except the five minutes it took to install the new drive. Although SATA is getting there, there’s not a ‘homebuilt’ SATA solution that I know of that can handle this type of situation. It might save some money up front, but be prepared to lose some in down time and perhaps lost clients down the line. Sorry to sound so grim, but I just want others to learn from my unfortunate experiences. There are many people on this and other forums that have had nothing but good luck with their SATA arrays. I wish you nothing but good luck as well.
Jeremy
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Hardware compressors are usually extremely expensive for good quality, and it might require putting in a whole other pc to do so. Look into sorenson squeeze for another software compression option, or perhaps bitvice.
For the record, compressor has worked great for me. If there was something wrong, it’s because I messed up a setting somewhere.
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Nope. That drive is a Ultra ATA, you need a Serial ATA drive (or SATA) drive.
I have good luck with Hitachi drives.
Jeremy
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Yep, that and a fog horn when compressor is finished would be nice as well.
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I’ve seen this when 24p stuff was digitized at 60p (or 60i) and then played back in a 60 fps timeline.
That’s why using the easy setups are most important. Hit contol-q and make sure that your set up is as you want it. If you need to alter anything, it’s easiest to duplicate an aja provided set up.
Glad to hear things are going okay now. Sometimes, a memory scramble is in order.
Jeremy
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre