Jessica Mantheiy
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Hi,
Why I don’t advise holding onto FCP 7, it seems that it will continue to with on macOS 10.12.
Is FCP7 compatible with SierraFCPX you shouldn’t have any problems with.
Final Cut Pro XAdobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 is supported on macOS Sierra 10.12.
Find the detailed system requirements and recommendations for Adobe Premiere Pro for Mac and Windows OS.You’re going to experience issues with Adobe Photoshop CS6 on macOS Sierra 10.12.
CS6 – MAC OS SierraLiveType, DVD Studio Pro, and Compressor 3 seems to work.
Mac OS 10.12 Sierra – Pro Audio Compatibility Update
What’s the latest MacOS I can safely upgrade to which will run FCP 7 and DVD Studio Pro?Compress 4 will work as well.
Compressor 4I also think that it’s time that you look into upgrading from FCP 7 and Adobe CC 2015 into only the latest and greatest.
Jessica Mantheiy
Sales Operations Manager
Chesapeake Systems
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Hi,
Are you using LTFS to mount the Cache-A as an LTFS volume to archive and the Cache-A has an HP LTO-6 drive installed? Do you plan on continuing to use the LTFS driver on Windows?
If you’re looking for software that provides you with more robust features for archiving such as proxy viewing, basic metadata tagging, archiving and retrieving, Archiware P5 is a good resource Archive.
If you’re looking to stick with the LTFS driver on Windows, then just stick with that.
Jessica Mantheiy
Sales Operations Manager
Chesapeake Systems
http://www.chesa.com -
Hi,
Yes, figuring out what you need to have the best storage system that meets your needs and your budget is quite overwhelming. As Bob Zelin stated in his post, you have a bunch of options that will work with all the major NLEs and still be cost effective. Depending on how much your budget is will impact that configuration of RAID capacity and bandwidth you’re able to sustain from the editors to the system.
Few questions that you would need to ask yourself are:
• How much data do you have on your SAN currently and are you going to need to preserve that existing data and have it transfer to the new SAN/NAS?
• Do you want a SAN or a NAS? There is a difference. SAN is fibre channel based while NAS is Ethernet based. Based on your requirements, you mention 10-Gigabit Ethernet but have an existing SAN.
• How much video are you producing on a yearly basis? What codecs and bitrate are you producing? What cameras are you using? Do you have a house-codec that your editors use for editing and/or exporting?
• Do you have a backup solution in place in case the main volume goes down? Or even archive to preserve your data long-term? What plans do you have in case of data loss? This is key to ensuring that you have your’s and your client’s data protected.There are many more questions that can be asked but these type of questions are starting points that can lead to more fruitful discussions to determine the best solution for your needs.
Jessica Mantheiy
Sales Operations Manager
Chesapeake Systems
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You two are great. Thank you. Avid could not tell me this directly!
Jessica Mantheiy
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Hi Brian,
I am the Sales Operations Manager at Chesapeake Systems based out of Baltimore, MD. We are a video integrator that does the exact thing you are looking for. We specialize in workflows, storage, media asset management, backup and archive, in all aspects of video ranging from post-production companies to the private sector. We have helped many clients transition from Final Cut Server to a new media asset management in a very seamless way. We do a lot of business up in NYC and we would be happy to learn more about your environment and see if we could help in anyway.
I couldn’t find your company’s contact information, so if this is something you’re still interested in, please feel free to reach out to us directly at prosales@chesa.com or you call me directly at 410-752-7729.
Thanks!
Jessica Mantheiy
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Phillip,
Feel free to reach out to me directly. The company I work for, Chesapeake Systems, may be able to figure something out as far as swapping the drives out. I would imagine that possibly since your unit may be older that the MDCs may not support the larger capacity drives, hence their suggestion of purchasing a new unit.
But Active may be right that you won’t be able to upgrade the drives and you would have to purchase a new system. Feel free to message me on here and I can see what I can figure out for you.
Jessica Muth
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Check to make sure that when you are exporting your MPEG streams via Sorenson Squeeze that your frame rate hasn’t changed. A lot of times, it will get switched to 29.97 fps, which will cause it to speed up the duration of your stream, but the audio won’t change. So double check your frame rate for both your audio and video before exporting.
Jessica Muth
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You need to have your clips conform to your sequence settings. It won’t matter the properties of the video file are different from your sequence as long as you conform to your sequence settings.
Jessica Muth
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You will get artifacting via software going from HD to SD. The best conversion is hardware down conversion, via Teranex.
I would assume that your footage is upper or progressive. Depending on what it is, you will need to set your fields to the appropriate lower or progressive if you want to put it on DVD because DVD takes that. If you are doing a conversion and switching the fields, try going to the Frame Controls tab and change the “Deinterlace” option from “Fast” to another setting. It will take a much longer time (depending on a number of factors, but it may help with trying to remove some of the interlacing you are seeing.
ALSO, I would just trying exporting your .m2v and .ac3 stream just as upper field (if your footage is set to that) and just burn the DVD that way and see if you have the same result. Ultimately, you should switch your fields if you are authoring a DVD, but I have experienced that if you are trying to downconvert from HD to SD onto a DVD, leaving the fields alone sometimes produces a better result than trying to fix the fields.
It’s better to just keep messing around with it, but unless you have access to a hardware encoder that can downconvert for you, you may continue to experience artifacting.
Jessica Muth
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You need to make sure that you have your VANC turned on the control panel via AJA. From within FCP, when you edit to tape, you have enabled the closed-captions in the 2nd tab of the edit to tape window (sorry I forget the exact tab name) and select either a .scc or Quicktime CC track to add to the tape. Then play it back via Edit to Tape and as long as your timecode matches with the video, you should be good to go.
Another option since I always run into issues writing closed captions via FCP and AJA, use the AJA VTR Xchange. It’s free from their site to download and seems to cooperate more when adding captions. The only thing is that it only allows you to insert edit when writing to tape, so just make sure that you have your tape time code on your tape setup correctly, other wise, it will stop writing to tape midway through if you don’t have it set up correctly.
Hope this helps.
Jessica Muth
jmuth01@gmail.com