John Foley
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I don’t see a private email address anywhere! Where can you be contacted at?
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What about Color Finesse from Synthetic Aperature? It has 32 bit color and all and is approximately half the price?
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I am terribly sorry to hear about this but to all of those who are considering this setup – it is a RAID 0 and RAID 0 gives NO security if one of the drives in the set fails in any way. Just the same for a Firewire RAID (if it is a software RAID setup)
The two or four stripe (disk) is a fast and inexpensive way to get around purchasing a very expensive RAID 3 or 5, but it is capable of robbing you of any and all of the data on those disks.
I would never recommend that you store ANYTHING on a software RAID that you can not retrieve from tape or other similar backup.
It has been my good fortune that my four stripe 1.0 TB of RAID 0 has never let me down, but it can and will, if you let it.
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[mkramden] “Why put a lame excuse like, we replaced a $1000 chip on the board and passed the savings on to you!”
I can’t believe my eyes! Is this a BASH BM fest for no reason other than personal frustration?
Have you ever heard of restructing costs producing a product? Perhaps they were able to leverage a big cost saving with the PC board shop or perhaps that chip came down by 50% in price. What ever, you actually had an employee tell us in a non confrontive way that this WAS the reason that they could save us more money. What About That do you not GET?
Asking why someone from BM doesn’t come back here is like asking someone to keep being beating on and coming back for more. Lame – LAME!
If you don’t lke being treated like a child, then act like an adult and it will not happen.
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A BIG THANKS to BlackMagic again for building versatility into a great product so that it can be used in more ways.
Please – Keep on amazing us!!
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So, I ask, everyone who wants BlackMagic to RAISE the prices of their products and slow down software development — to raise your hands here and now. I am sure (not really) that BlackMagic would be glad to add an I AM A COMPLAINER tarrif to the pricing by individual.
There rest of us appreciate the work that BMD did for AJA a couple of years ago and that they finally got into the hardware business too boot. Competition is GREAT and always brings out both bad and good along the way.
If you want to continue to pay prices for video hardware like you did ten years ago, then get a time machine and go back to 1995. Yikes!
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THANK YOU BLACKMAGIC! Awsome pricing! Shame some people don’t understand business, although they claim to be in business.
All of you who are feeling raped, just remember, AJA just announced a capture card that does everything except 4:4:4 HD for $1800 so everywhere, prices are coming down.
Black Magic just keeps on pumping out better products for less. And don’t forget they are in Australia where the US dollar varies from week to week.
It is a shame that you can build a capture card for SDI video transfer for under $2K but a deck for the same is $50K???
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And the moral of this story is—????
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Hard to say. My dual 1.0 GHz G4 MAC had that card with FCPHD and I only changed the card out for an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro so that I could run Motion last year. FCP 5 runs fine on my system now, but I can’t really answer about the original card.
You an try it and I would bet that it will, but no bets please.
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FiberChannel is great and way more expensive that a home grown SATA RAID setup
A four stripe SATA RAID can capture up to 200 MB/sec for the first 2/3’s of the drive package.
Sure software RAID 0 is not SAFE by any means but if you need to capture and edit at those speeds, you can choose a FC $10K setup or get 2.0 TB of RAID 0 for about $2500.
And IF a drive dies somewhere along the way, you surely must have saved the project, render files, etc to another drive anyway and you could use Log and Capture to recapture the necessary footage which would probably be smaller in scope by that time anyway.
Seagate drives offer a 5 year warranty and no manufacturer will pass that on to you.