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Joel Thiessen
April 6, 2011 at 6:52 pm in reply to: iMac RAID solution?

Okay so what would you all suggest. I am stumped as to what would work best for me!

I need a FW800 enclosure I can edit HD footage off of and implement an archiving process from.

I’ve been looking at these drives:
OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual Bay
or
OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro

And thinking I would use these to work from and then purchase additional drives (simple usb drives or possibly naked drives w/a dock?) to back-up and archive. Once it’s safely archived, erase that content from my working drives?

Also would there be a benefit to do a 2-bay enclosure with 1TBx2 vs a 1 bay enclosure with 2TB.

Thank you all!!
Joel Thiessen
April 2, 2011 at 5:08 am in reply to: iMac RAID solution?

Okay so I’ve done some browsing and have come up with what I thought would be some potential units. If any one product stands out as a good idea or a really bad idea please let me know. I hope I’m on the right track with these!

2TB G-RAID ($269.99)
– Decent size
– Fast
– Reliable

2TB iStoragePro Dock II ($335.00)
– Affordable
– Able to switch between RAID 1 or RAID 0 (can it do JBOD?)

2TB Mercury Elite-AL Pro
– Very affordable
– I’ve heard good things about OWC products

2TB Caldigit AV Drive ($358.00)
– Apparently very fast
– Caldigit seems to be very reliable

Stardom ST2 ($?)
– I can’t seem to find a lot of information about this product, but Jon Schilling seems to like them!
– Input on this would be appreciated
Joel Thiessen
April 1, 2011 at 9:48 pm in reply to: iMac RAID solution?

So with that mentality, what would be the optimal configuration of a RAID? RAID 0?

Also, how important (useful) is it to be able to remove and swap the discs in an enclosure?
Joel Thiessen
March 18, 2011 at 1:40 am in reply to: FCP Plays Unrendered Video

The sequence preset is ProRes 422 if that helps.
Joel Thiessen
March 4, 2011 at 8:55 pm in reply to: Strange outlines!!

Ah guys! Thanks so much, this is a breakthrough!

You learn something everyday!
Joel Thiessen
March 4, 2011 at 7:20 pm in reply to: Strange outlines!!

So if I am given H.264 files i should convert them totally before they hit the timeline? What is the fastest way of going about this?
Joel Thiessen
March 4, 2011 at 6:58 pm in reply to: Strange outlines!!

So when editing a clip that is in H.264 what are the ideal sequence and output settings?
Joel Thiessen
March 4, 2011 at 6:57 am in reply to: Strange outlines!!

It seems like it affects White Color Solids more than others…
Joel Thiessen
March 4, 2011 at 6:12 am in reply to: Strange outlines!!

It wont work to crop it out. The black line is the cropped image. If you crop it the line just moves with the edge of the crop.
Joel Thiessen
February 22, 2011 at 12:51 am in reply to: Export 16:9 issues!

Also, why is the video exported using Export>Quicktime Movie (left) not matching what is in my FCP viewer?

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