Jiggy Gaton
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Marvin, that’s some great advice and we are literally on the same page about definitions and documentation. That’s why I build 2 weeks into the schedule to do that, plus ingestion setup and testing, before we even begin the shoot (august).
As a user of Live Capture, does it do the same thing video clips recorded direct to the hdrive, or is this just for tape transfers? I don’t think we will be going to tape if I can help it, as that will add more time for the digitizing. But I need to test Adobe On Location all the way in the next week or so. I expect we will still record to tape while we are recording to drives, just as a back up, but I don’t want to be capturing all that tape when we are done with the shooting (if it can be avoided).
And ur right about the prices for CATDV…I was looking at the network price list. Still, it’s 400+ usd…that’s 30,000 of our dollars!
Anyway, I do appreciate your help and will keep posting back here as I go along…
Cheers,
JigsPhoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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sounds right to me…did you or they keep the original project with source footage? i think that’s the preferred way to do an edit. We keep our projects archived forever just for this reason (using FCP project manager), although i do wish more of those clients would come back for editing 🙂
jigsPhoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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thx for that! understood. We already have a lan that is working for 3d render farm… I just wish compressor was that easy…
jigsPhoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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Free Tip
I believe this to be true, please correct if wrong: you can obtain a free defrag and backup at the same time using Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) from Bombich. Just clone your internal drive to an external (takes about 2 hours for a larger drive). Use a block level clone to the external. Then reformat your internal drive, and clone back the image using incremental clone. This will put all the files back in place on a nicely defraged internal drive, plus you now have a working backup. Total time spent: about 4 hours.
cheers,
jigsPhoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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Great comments all! So I guess the answer is really “not yet, stay tuned…” cheers,
jigsPhoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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Real world results
Well, I can’t set u straight, as we are plagued with these problems as well, but most all problems occur on machines where the internal drive is over 80% full…like macbookpros usually are (gotta get some 500 or 640gb internals there some day). Disk warrior is great for directory corruption and Drive Genius 3 does a good defrag albeit it takes a very long time. Repairing permissions is usually futile, but I would not trust anything but those three methods of disk repair. Anyway, I’m starting to think “that’s just apple” when it comes to maxed out drives in macbookpros.
On other machines like this imac with a 1tb internal driver and maxed out memory there are far fewer problems (occasional crashes), and the only real difference is drive size. Interesting enough, we have one imac whose sole purpose in life is protools LE and now M-powered, and it has no problems whatsoever. It’s used for music, and an occasional music videos in FCP, and I don’t think it’s ever crashed…not once. The files there are smaller then on my editing bay machine which is used for docus and 3D work, and crashes occasionally, but I am using C4D with plugins, and from what I hear, that’s just a way of life.
All these machines are 2008 era, and again, only the one’s with the maxed out drives trying to edit prores that have the kinds of problems you describe (assuming you are talking about general run of the mill random crashes).
So who knows, maybe size does matter after all…
jigsPhoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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Enjoyed this one…there is an old man here that talks of his ABC days in NYC, similar stories. As my grandmother from Brooklyn always said, “Never Forget.”
Cheers,
jigsPhoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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not to dilute this thread, but web gifs to the side of a house? that’s gotta look bad. but seriously, we just watched the world cup here on the side of a house, and that looked bad too.
what is the deal on projectors. clients come here, we give them a DVD that looks great on TV, and then they call and say it does not look so hot on new HD projectors. should I also give these folks a high-res computer file and tell them to play from a laptop or what? this is a new phenomenon, and not sure if projector technology has changed dramatically, as we don’t have HD projectors here…
Phoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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yes that’s what I always have thought too Jerry, if you can’t see it, don’t worry about it. but that was before i started losing my eyesight. now not sure what to think…except for the conundrum: if my new iPhone display resolution is higher then what the human eye can see, what am i missing besides phone calls?
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Crap, I’ve just ruined my “100% consistently wrong” post count. Cheers!
Phoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.