John Rofrano
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I thought that JBOD was just concatenating disks so different sizes were allowed. It’s odd that you didn’t see all of the space in a JBOD setup.
It’s important to point out that you don’t really loose any space. If you make a RAID 0 across 4TB+2TB+2TB you will have a RAID 0 equivalent to 2TB+2TB+2TB (6TB) because the RAID 0 could only use 2TB of the 4TB disk BUT you will still have a free 2TB partition from the unused portion of the 4TB drive that you can format as another disk partition.
Said another way: RAID does not have to use the entire disk! You can make a 3TB RAID 0 by using 1TB each of 3 larger disks.
BTW, if you just want one big disk, JBOD is safer because if one disk fails in a JBOD array you only loose that one disks data unlike RAID 0 in which you would loose all of the disks data.
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[john whiteway] “…everything I’ve seen about 10 makes me want to stay with 7”
Care to elaborate on what you’ve seen because I only use FCP X and you couldn’t pay me enough to go back and work with a track based NLE. It’s too restrictive now.
Using FCP X is the easiest way to work in 4K. At some point you need to resign yourself to the fact that FCP 7 support ended 5 years ago and it’s just a matter of time before it stops working entirely on new Macs.
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[Ted Irving] “And by Christmas I’ll bump up the system drive to an SSD”
It’s important to note that the 2010 Mac Pro only supports Serial ATA 3Gb/s (SATA2) hard drives and almost all new SSDs are Serial ATA 6Gb/s (SATA3) so they will only give you 1/2 the throughput that they are capable of if you plug them into the existing internal Serial ATA bus.
If you really want to increase performance in your 2010 Mac Pro, do what I did and get an OWC Mercury Accelsior E2 PCI Express SSD. These plug into am open PCIe slot, run at Serial ATA 6Gb/s speeds and are actually two SSD’s in a RAID 0 so they are scary fast and work as a boot drive leaving all 4 bays free for other drives. As an added bonus, the card has two external eSATA ports that also support SATA3 speeds. So you can buy external eSATA enclosures now too.
Here is my Disk Speed Test results for my Mercury Accelsior E2 boot SSD in my 2010 Mac Pro 12-Core:
These gave the old machine a new life. It boots from the chime to the desktop logon screen in 21 seconds! 😀
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[Jacqueline Nauman] “I was leaning toward the GTX 980 but I’m concerned about its stability with my setup. “
This is why I stick with the cards that Apple originally offered. The Apple developers are testing with Apple hardware. If you add other hardware you might not get the same stability and performance.
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[Seb Mackintosh] “Would you recommend any of forced resampling, flicker reduction or ‘Adjust source media to project settings’ “
That should have fixed it assuming it was a frame rate mismatch. Not sure why it didn’t.
[Seb Mackintosh] “And do I need a de-interlacing method or not?”
If you are dealing with interlaced video then it must be set to something other than none. If your footage is progressive and your project is progressive and your target render is progressive, then you don’t.
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You’re welcome. I should point out that it clips instead of compresses so anything outside of legal gets clipped to legal which can cause you to loose detail so it’s always good to use the Levels filter to bring your video into range first and use the Broadcast Color as an insurance plan (which Is why I usually place it on the Master Video Bus).
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[Robin S. Kurz] “Simply consolidate all your projects and used media into the library and archive THAT. Simple.”
+1
That’s what I do. That’s what I LOVE about the Libraries in FCP X. Everything I need is in one neat little package that I can drag and drop onto my archive drive and know that everything I need is in there if I ever need to work on the project again. Dead simple!
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[Andy Wood] “I’m importing jpgs into FCP7…”
If you are using FCP 7 you want to post this question in the:
forum. This forum is for Final Cut Pro X. (sorry, I never used FCP 7 and I know it’s very, very, different)
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[Ty Ford] “I can choose dual mono instead of stereo and make the gain changes, but then I end up with mono audio and I can’t figure out how to separately pan each mono track. “
You want to change the Pan Mode for your mono audio from None to Stereo Left/Right.
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You might want to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition. It is original Apple equipment and it’s 2x as fast as your Radeon HD 5770 that it would be replacing. I have one in my 2008 Mac Pro and it works great with FCP X.
I also have a Sapphire HD 7950 Mac Edition in my 2010 Mac Pro but it is twice the price but not twice the performance so I would stick with the Radeon HD 5870 as the best price performer. The Sapphire HD 7950 does have 3GB of memory and is slightly faster but like I said, the price is very steep for what you get.
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 will probably be a lot slower than the 5770 you now have. You will be disappointed. It’s more in line with the GeForce GTX 280. No where near the powerful GTX 980 in your other link. I personally, would not get the hacked NVIDIA cards and stick with the original cards offered by Apple but that’s just me.
~jr
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