[Jon Bothun]

Thanks for the welcome Wayne!

We have looked at the blue ray in the past and it isn’t quite cost efficient enough right now to make the move. We’re paying around 250 for 2tb drives right now. last time I checked on Blue Ray 25 discs(minimum buy)cost you around 450 and you get around 1250gb of disc storage(at least that was the priceing when I last checked last summer.)

On top of that most of the projects we work on are larger than 50gb and we would like to keep the project files backed up as well. Although, burning the P2 to BR could eliminate all P2 hard drive storage…. Hmmm. Now I’m thinking. Thanks for the Idea!

Jon

Jonathan Bothun
Media Director
Parthe, Inc.
Superior, Wi

[Jon Bothun]

I have had a 150 for about 9 months and never had an issue like this. One thing I would check is if the extra graphics card is turned on. To check this you go to your apple preferences and under the energy saver icon make sure you check “higher performance”.

My work flow from avchd has been to dump the avchd to an external drive (7200rpm with an 800firewire port) and trans-code the footage to prores422 back on to that drive in a separate folder and edited in fcp from that. Has worked like a charm.

Also, no reason to to use proresHQ unless you are working in a 4:4:4 color space, which you most likely aren’t due to the 4:2:0 color space native to the 150.

Good luck!