[Jeremy Garchow]

The only reason I can foresee to partition is if you are using it for editing uncompressed 1080i HD. Then you might want to lop off the inner 20% to save on the disk slow down when the array is 80% full. Although, Huge can do this automatically for you in the High Definition Turbo Mode. I hate to sound cliche, but it’s all in the manual.

i would suggest running Raid3. I had a drive go down the other day, and boy was I lucky I was running Raid3. Huge sent over a new drive overnight, I installed the new drive and it rebuilt itself in about an hour. I kept right on working throughout the whole process. You’ll be glad you spent the money on a nice array.

Jeremy

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

What format are you digitizing from and what easy setup are you using?

We need more info as to what you are doing exactly.

Jeremy

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

Why do you want to partition? Just run it in raid 0 or raid 3, and use it as one big stripe.

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

Revision plug-ins, and it’s called twixtor.

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

When you trashed your prefs, did you set up the second drive as your capture and render scratch disk?

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

This might help you:

https://www.aja.com/pdfs/how_to_ref.pdf

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

Use the widescreen filter in FCP or create a still in AE or photoshop and drop that on top of all of your video.

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

You should set your comps to 853×480 (which is a 16:9 ratio) and then squish (check the ‘stretch’ box) the file down in the output module for final render down to 720×480. These settings are if you are digitizing @ 720×480.

If you are using the uncompressed 8 bit codec the numbers are: create @ 864×486, then squeeze down to 720×486 in the output module for final render.

Jeremy

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

I get this on projects with many layers that have to be untangled or unrednered when I make a change.

What’s your timeline look like, and what resolution are you using?

[Jeremy Garchow]

The acceleration they speak of has to do with scaling of DVCPro HD footage, and the untangling of the GOPs with HDV footage. The Kona boards take this load off of the processor leaving the computer for more rt. It won’t do anything for your SD stuff.

As far as aja not supporting IMX, I have no idea. I have never worked with that format.