Joe Murray
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Having the same problem here, and my media wasn’t even moved from one drive to another. There are four clips out of about 25 clips that consistently don’t reconnect properly, and I have to reconnect each one individually, as described above. The project work fine in 5.1.4…all I’ve done is install FCS2, on a completely separate drive, make a copy of the project and open it up. There were no timecode breaks with this material.
Joe Murray
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“Final Cut is not After Effects. Saying “No Easy Ease on keyframes” is like saying “Why does each element in my After Effects Comp have to have its own video track.”
Actually this one is a very valid complaint. Other keyframes in Final Cut have the “smooth” option with handles to adjust the accel- and deceleration. Not having that option on position keyframes is just useless.
Joe Murray
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I’ve used Raylight in Premiere with MXF files, and I always have to render the files in Premiere before they’ll play realtime. This may be a limitation of my system; I don’t know for sure because I don’t use Premiere very often. Seems to take about the same amount of time to render a file in Premiere that it takes to import the file into FCP, so not a great timesaver for me. Does anyone have different experience with Raylight, i.e. native support and realtime playback in Premiere?
Joe Murray
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I have had this same issue while using a 5-drive RAID with 350 mBps playback speeds, so I don’t think it’s necessarily a bandwidth issue. Although Bob is right that you’re expecting too much from that drive. In my case the fix was to reinstall the Kona driver. On my system the picture from the Kona would get completely scrambled if set to 10 bit, and switching to 8 bit display looked fine.
Joe Murray
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Bob,
Since your a Caldigit fan, have you had a chance to work with the HDPro yet? Or which Caldigit unit are you installing these days?
Joe Murray
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Hi Darren-
I use an engineer here in Charlotte who’s very good and reasonably priced. He’s very up to date on SAN technology and FCP integration, as well as general broadcast engineering. If you’re interested, email me via my website – use the contact link.
Joe Murray
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I’ve just started using the Caldigit HDPro over the last couple of weeks and so far am impressed. The PCIe connector is a very stable physical connection compared with SATA, and the speeds are as advertised. I’m only about half full on a 4TB unit right now (usable space is only about 3.2 due to RAID 5), so I can’t say if performance changes as the drives fill up. Haven’t seen the GUI yet, and there is one other limitation – I can only use 2 Gigs of RAM at present due to a driver conflict. But the redundant power supplies and fault tolerance are great for peace of mind.
Joe Murray
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Just a couple of specific notes on the differences between the two. I own both, but use FCP daily and Premiere only occasionally. FCP is on a dual-dual core Mac Pro and Premiere on a dual-dual core Xeon PC, so the platforms are very similar.
FCP renders faster, and Premiere has some RAM issues right now that supposedly will be fixed soon. Also, even though the integration between Premiere and After Effects is better than FCP and AE, it takes longer to render these sections in Premiere than if you step out to After Effects and render there, which negates some of that benefit.
On the plus side for Premiere, if you have to deal with MXF files from P2 cameras, the Raylight plug-in allows you to do so with more flexibility than in FCP. You can just import individual MXF files without having to have all the supporting files FCP looks for when importing P2.
FCP definitely has far greater market acceptance right now than Premiere, but I’m really glad that Adobe is putting in some effort on this as the competition is a good thing for users on both sides.
Joe Murray
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Just a couple of specific notes on the differences between the two. I own both, but use FCP daily and Premiere only occasionally. FCP is on a dual-dual core Mac Pro and Premiere on a dual-dual core Xeon PC, so the platforms are very similar.
FCP renders faster, and Premiere has some RAM issues right now that supposedly will be fixed soon. Also, even though the integration between Premiere and After Effects is better than FCP and AE, it takes longer to render these sections in Premiere than if you step out to After Effects and render there, which negates some of that benefit.
On the plus side for Premiere, if you have to deal with MXF files from P2 cameras, the Raylight plug-in allows you to do so with more flexibility than in FCP. You can just import individual MXF files without having to have all the supporting files FCP looks for when importing P2.
FCP definitely has far greater market acceptance right now than Premiere, but I’m really glad that Adobe is putting in some effort on this as the competition is a good thing for users on both sides.
Joe Murray
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Follow-up:
Received this email from AJA regarding 10.4.9.
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Thanks for your message. Yes, the Kona drivers work in Mac OS X 10.4.9 and the newest version of Quicktime (7.1.6). Let us know if you have further questions.
Regards,
JimJim Schroeder
AJA Video Technical Support