Joshua Helling
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Yeah, I was just going to post. That’s been an issue in that board for a little while (monitoring analog audio when capturing video with SDI audio). As Kristian mentioned that is fixed in the next driver/firmware release.
We’ve had a few people with this complaint, I know it’s a bit of a pain but the next version should not be too far off.
Sincerely,
Joshua
Director of Support
Blackmagic Design Inc. -
No problem. I’ll do so now.
Sincerely,
Joshua
Director of Support
Blackmagic Design Inc. -
No…I don’t think that getting a mappable client would be slim. But that would have to be done by Tangent (I believe). And as for it being sluggish in comparison to the Color/Wave combo, I wouldn’t expect it to be.
Though to be honest I haven’t tried them side by side. I will try to check into that a bit.
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Joshua
Director of Support
Blackmagic Design Inc. -
Of course.
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Joshua
Director of Support
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Okay..that is beyond crazy.
So the only other thing I can thing about is that the signal that is being output from the camera may not be supported by the monitor directly. Because the miniconveter doesn’t actually change the format maybe this is the issue.
Can you set the camera to do another resolution? Or can you try a different source?
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Joshua
Director of Support
Blackmagic Design Inc. -
Yeah, I think that is because we didn’t use the native Tangent software interface to integrate the Wave panel. I am relatively certain we are using our own Deamon.
Basically if Resolve is setup to use the Wave Panel then it starts in that mode when you start the computer. If you change the setting to “none” then it doesn’t start this and the Wave can be utilized by other software.
As to technically why we do it this way, I am not 100% sure but I think that it might have some performance benefit over using a typical HID interface. But again…not 100% sure of that.
Sincerely,
Joshua
Director of Support
Blackmagic Design Inc. -
If none of that works. Go into the Resolve software preferences and change the panel type to something other than Tangent Wave Devices. So I would check none.
This might stop the Resolve software from bogarting the wave panels. Of course you’d have to set those settings back to use them within Resolve again.
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Joshua
Director of Support
Blackmagic Design Inc. -
Yeah…depending on how that RAID is configured (with 32 drives) you could theoretically be up against how fast the ATTO card is interfacing with the Mac PCI-e bus.
So yeah…you could be hitting the cap there. What are you getting on that drive if you don’t mind me asking? Also what slot do you have it in? Slot 3 or 4 will give access to 8x lanes of PCI-e (which would be full bandwidth for that controller).
The Linux systems have not been tested with the CalDigit or Stardom arrays (other macintosh/windows drive systems we’ve tested), but that is because our testing has been fairly specific when it comes to drive configs on the Linux boxes. That by no means that such a setup wouldn’t work, but we haven’t tested it.
But I 100% agree, that once you’ve been bitten by ANY hard drive failure, it gives you big pause for looking at RAID levels with redundancy. When you are talking about 16 and 32 unit arrays, the idea of loosing all that data make you want to cry.
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Joshua
Director of Support
Blackmagic Design Inc. -
@ Ron,
Raid 1 would cut down on the speed significantly as that would simply be a drive mirror. Without an additional controller you could probably do a 0+1 (which would be 2, two drive raid 0’s mirrored together. That would be 50% efficient and only as fast as 2 drives.
Best thing in my opinion is to go with a Raid 5 if you want the redundancy. Raid 5 is a little more efficient than a RAID 3 with the trade off that it WRITES a touch slower (read time is the same). It will also remain working just as fast with one drive in the stripe completely offline.
Unfortunately this requires an additional RAID card to do. Which ties into the next part of this post.
@ Darin,
CalDigit’s HDPro2’s work quite nicely. We use them all the time at shows and in our labs. Easy to setup for both PC and Mac and have excellent performance. They have a great software tool that allows you to even make changes in your RAID type if you decide to change your mind later.
Sincerely,
Joshua
Director of Support
Blackmagic Design Inc. -
Well, a machines quietness is normally inversely proportional to the amount of moving parts it has. That and good thermal dynamic engineering helps too.
Good news is that the Ultrascope machines don’t really require alot of power. So smallish power supply, i7/i5 type processor and a solid state drive with no optical drive, you can get the sound level down pretty low. Throw a water cooler on it (WAY WAY WAY overkill) and you can make it almost inaudible.
Throw money at it and you can do a lot.
But I completely agree. Least expensive way to make to make it silent is to put it in a room with no ears.
Sincerely,
Joshua
Director of Support
Blackmagic Design Inc.