[Jeron Coolman]

My Digi002 rack is firewire and it isn’t causing any problems.

[Jeron Coolman]

Yeah, actually I think I used the shift+JKL keys for the preview when evaluating Cineform. It basically just uses the PPro engine instead of the Cineform one. Scrubbing with a jog shuttle was better for preview in the Cineform preset, because using the PPro engine was too slow compared to just using uncompressed or compressed like HDV.

What I don’t understand is, why the Cineform preset can keep up rendering each frame with non-RT effects when I’m scrubbing, even if I scrub faster than real-time. Obviously if it can keep up rendering each frame with the non-RT effects when scrubbing, why can’t it just play them back when I hit the space bar?

I think Cineform’s developers need to revisit the preset. I suspect some of this logic has been there since the days of the single core chips. I’m sure they can “fix” it to work with non-RT effects, especially on my dual quad core machine.

[Jeron Coolman]

I’ve never used the Xena card to monitor audio, but I would suspect it is pretty much the same quality. If you only need 2 channels, use the Xena card.

I have a 5.1 surround setup (2 front, 2 rear, a sub and a center channel) active powered monitors connected to a Tascam surround monitor connected via ADAT to a Digi002 Rack for audio.

[Jeron Coolman]

There is a big difference when it comes to resources when comparing Cineform which is compressed and uncompressed HD.

It is easier to find a controller to handle a RAID 0 solution than it is to handle a RAID 5, but RAID 0 should handle it.

Another issue is that the built-in motherboard RAID controllers don’t offload any of the work from the CPU and they still use a lot of system resources. Where a lot of the time they will do the job, they might be doing so at the cost of something else (e.g. CPU cycles).

I’ve got a 16 bay case and a 1000 watt power supply with only 4TB of RAID 0, really good Areca controller, and it still isn’t enough in terms of space. It is plenty fast though! 🙂

I’d be running Cineform, if I could use Boris, Magic Bullet and Adobe’s Color Correction tools with the preset forcing me to render everything 🙁

[Jeron Coolman]

I’ve never had any problems with audio sync because I was using different audio hardware than the Xena. If audio is important to you, get rid of that Sound Blaster and plug in some active powered near field monitors.

I’d be surprised if you “needed” 444. I think if you really needed it, you wouldn’t have to ask the question if you did 🙂

[Jeron Coolman]

Heh heh, my next question if you were going to say the Cineform Prospect 2K, was is your source 444 or 422 🙂

[Jeron Coolman]

Oh ok, I see it in that second picture.

[Jeron Coolman]

The LH will perform down-conversion, just not up-conversion.

Which Cineform product are you using?

I’m pretty sure the LH will only do 2 channels of audio. I use a Digi002 for my multi-channel audio. There are many decent priced multi-channel audio hardware solutions out there that you could use instead of the Aja ASIO driver.

[Jeron Coolman]

If you want to edit uncompressed HD, you are going to need a very fast raid array. Remember that when pricing your machine. It is really hard to find a decent raid controller for under $800. The ones around $500 are very “hit and miss” (usually a miss).

[Jeron Coolman]

My eyes might be playing tricks on me, but I don’t see any “grey horizontal bars”.

The closest thing I’m seeing is what looks like field interlacing artifacts on number 2. Is that what you are talking about? You can really see the “jaggy effect” on the frames of his glasses and the side of his left cheek.