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Hi Jon!
I’m using a ProAvio 800MS with Areca 1882x in a Sonnet Echo Express on Mountain Lion with no problem. In fact, it’s feeding out to 4 rooms over ethernet using a Small Tree 6 port ethernet card. If any system should be kicking up errors, it’s mine!
Life on the bleeding edge….
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I’ll check that out!
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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I should clarify I’m copying and deleting from the source which prevents duplicate FCPX identifiers from confusing the program. This essentially does the same thing as Event Manager X. So far so good.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Yes, you can work that way but if you’re accessing the same media at the same time you will get dropped frames. The small tree card eliminates that issue. However, the server machine cannot be an editing machine. Its a bit confusing at first, honestly.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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For archival purposes or migrating to a NAS, I think this is an example of when it would be acceptable to create the disk image and then use finder to copy projects and events over. When making the image first and then the event as you described, FCPX is fine to manage it. Just doing a test seems to confirm this. Not really sure why FCPX doesn’t like it.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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It’s a Mac-Mini FrankenNAS! Craziest thing yet and it totally works!
The ingredients are as follows:
1 Mac Mini server with as much RAM as you can get (I got 8 but need to upgrade it to 16).
1 Areca 1882x with Thunderbolt Driver updates
1 Proavio 8MS with 8x3Tb Hitachi Deskstar Drives
1 Small Tree 6 Port Ethernet card
1 UPS w battery backup
1 Sonnet Echo Express PCI to Thunderbolt Box
All systems are running Mountain Lion. I wanted the Magma box but they’re backordered for 6-8 weeks so I got the Sonnet.
Installed the Small Tree gigabit ethernet drivers. Installed the Areca drivers and thunderbolt update. Took the Areca out of a mac pro edit suite as well as the ProAvio box. Plugged them in. The system worked. 600MB/s up and down on the AJA test, although the test gives some odd outputs from time to time, it’s mostly consistent.
Really can’t say enough great things about Matt, Steve, and Chris at Small Tree for their help. It takes a little settings work to get this thing running correctly, but it’s good. We’re editing off of the media drives and I’m still pinching myself about it. We digitized HDCam using Blackmagic Media Express over ethernet. The fact that we were able to recycle some of the hardware elements we already have like the Areca and ProAvio make this an affordable option. If you’re buying all new equipment it might be smarter to to get a ThunderNet or something similar.
We also have a Promise Pegasus that would have eliminated the need for the Areca/Proavio box, but our storage is much larger than what the 6 drive Pegasus can offer.
This is a great interim solution for us in the meantime to stream video to four separate rooms. Just sharing after effects projects and media is fantastic. Apparently this Mac Mini Server can do a whole lot more. I’m tempted to get another one and start hosting our own email and contact sharing info.
One other thing, the two Mac Pros we have are using both ethernet plugs. One port for external internet and another for the NAS. I’m pickled tink!
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Awesome! PS – Chris wants a raise. He team viewed with me last night at about 9pm his time and now we’re all set up.
Thanks!John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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We started in May hardcore with it and each successive project gets better and simpler to manage. I have a wish list obviously, but I pretty much really like it a lot.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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I do. We do everything to avoid FCP7 now.
It’s forced us to think in a different manner about editing. With 5 updates this far in a year, I think it’s getting more and better features added with each release. As soon as XtoPro offers handles (and perhaps strips filters off audio clips) that will be perfect. Audio export is currently our least favorite part.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Do this. Start a new project. Hit Opt-W to add a gap clip to the primary storyline. Then, Cntl-D to change the gap duration to whatever lenght your piece is. After that, put everything else on secondary story lines as connected clips to the gap clip. Staying out of the primary will keep everything working like you want. You’ll lose some functionality with transitions and trimming, but this works.
I tend to think of the primary now as a timeline marker for cutting specific duration projects (like commercials or promos).
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
