[Joe Huggins]

Thanks, that’s good news. If we get an Avid it will be for OSX as we don’t have to match to any old versions.

And I guess, conversely, the FCP G5 with Kona, will not have a problem with Avid MC or Xpress (software only)?

Joe

[Joe Huggins]

Martin,

We solved the problem of crashes when recording 10bit HD material to FCP.It was not FCP, it was a setting in the cache of the Medea Drive Array that had to be increased.

All seems to be fine now. FYI
Thanks for your help with this. We did purchase the VTR emulation software also.

Joe

[Joe Huggins]

Martin,

Thanks for your response last week. We have a trial copy of the VTR emulation, but are having no luck with the 2-5 minute – crash problem. The settings are correct and we have a 10-way Medea drive array so it should have the width to handle HD correctly.

Here’s what we have tested: via Kona 2 -1080 23.98psf – inputA – 422
HD 8 bit – 422- no audio – records fine no crash
HD 10 bit – 422 crashes (error: time code breaks- but it is direct via 422 control and standard inputs from tape with no TC breaks)
HD 8 bit – 422 – audio 1&2 – crashes (same error)

Any suggestions? Joe

[Joe Huggins]

Martin, Thanks for the info. The VTR software from the UK seems to be a good solution.
In re to the short digitize, the input settings were OK. We got it to work after taking out one of the dual link inputs for HD 444. So now SD and HD 8 bit inputs seem to work fine no dropped frames that cut off the input.

However, we now can not get 10 bit to work longer than say 3 minutes before it stops with frame drops. Any ideas on why 10 bit shuts it down? We are using a new Medea Drive array- 10/2000 drives.

Thanks for your help. Joe

[Joe Huggins]

Andy thanks for the info and link. I know some film transfer houses go to FCP FW drives, but maybe they have to go to tape first. Hopefully this will work.

If not, any idea why our FCP will not sustain a direct digitize for more than 3 minutes? If I send it video, and say digitize, it should run as long as video is sent to it right? BTW we use a Kona 2 card.

Thanks for your input. Joe