[Jeremy Minton]

Make sure the direction handles at the vertexes of your motion path they aren’t twisted in the wrong direction. That usually does the trick for me.

Rove across time only applies to keyframes between the first and last keyframe. So if you only have 2 keyframes on your path then Rove Across Time will be unavailable.

[Jeremy Minton]

I believe Dave’s solution might be quicker…

Alternatively, you could also use a light emitter in particular and copy the mask path from your stroke layer to the position of the light.

[Jeremy Minton]

Though I am not a RAID expert, I have been a RAID user for over a decade and perhaps the recent death of my external 4TB RAID 0 media drive will be of help.

First my Q’s,

I didn’t see a raid card mentioned, will the raid be supplied from the motherboard? or are you planning software raid? Also is this for your workstation at a company? or a work from home computer. Are you responsible for the reliability of the data stored? Are you the one who will have to fix it if the drives fail?
If so are you ready to be a RAID expert.

I have recently been daydreaming about RAID 5 for my own system. The idea of having a system that magically rebuilds my data sounds awesome. But then I read the following link from a forum of server admins. Make sure you read all the comments lots of interesting opinions.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/raid5-vs-raid-10-safety-performance.html

Basically I learned:

RAID 10 is superior to RAID 5. (But for me, seems to break the rule of keep it simple.)
And the down falls of RAID 5 are; When theres is a drive failure Raid 5 has to be rebuilt, this can take a while (there is computation involved), and a chance that the rebuild could fail, especially if there were multiple problems with your disk. So you may end up with nothing except tears. They also talk about the pitfalls of using motherboard RAID chips, and how the amount of money you throw at the solution tends to dictate how successful your RAID recovery will be.

Personally I have given up the dream of magically repaired RAID arrays.

Currently my drive system on my home workstation looks like this:

Internal:
1 TB System drive,
1 TB Project Drive (All non moving images) backed up to 1 TB Scheduled with sync software twice a day.
1 TB Personal Drive, Scheduled with sync software twice a week.

2TB Drive, Partitioned into 2 1TB drives, For System back up (Mac Time machine), and Personal Drive.

External:
Caldigit VR 4TB RAID 0 (Video Drive), Backed up to External drives with sync software twice a day.

When the VR drive just recently failed, I just copied my back up drive to a new drive and kept editing and designing. I had to relink to a few files and lost a few renders, but nothing 12 threads of processing couldn’t take care of quickly.

I’m sure there are lots of RAID 5 success stories, so I guess it depends on your technical comfort level and the quality of the RAID System.

BTW. Looks like an awesome system.

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MacPro, 3.33 6-Core Intel Xeon, 24 GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5770
2 x DELL U2410 via displayport.
NewerTech MAXPower eSATA 6G PCIe 2.0 Controller Card
Matrox MXO2 Mini
CalDigit VR 4TB RAID 0,(with external back up)
Mackie Onyx Satellite FW
Yamaha HS50M monitors

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[Jeremy Minton]

I’m accessing P2 files off an external hard drive, in the original P2 file structure.
So not consolidated, it doesn’t matter if I have external “avid” hardware attached or not.

But this is definetly an Avid workflow. When working in FCP did you transcode to ProRes?
Or leave native. I only have FCP 6 so I’m not sure how 7 handles the demands of AVC-I 100 .

But as I said Premiere CS5 works great.

Anyway how does native AVC1-100 work on your laptop?