[Katie Gates]

My external is 2 drives in an external closure, so you concur that I should reformat so they are not raid 1–but rather, striped, raid 0 with Mac OS extended (HFS+) not journaled.

[Alan Okey] “All of the Firewire ports on the Mac Pro (both 400 and 800) share the same bus, so if you’re using a Firewire device for monitoring video output while simultaneously using external Firewire drives for video storage, you’re creating a recipe for potential bus contention.”

Does the statement above suggest that if I am not monitoring (I do not CURRENTLY have a video monitor hooked up to the system) the external drive SHOULD work? or is it safer/better to use the striped internal drive configuration?

At what point do I need the aja or blackbox card?

thanks again! k

[Katie Gates]

Thanks to everyone who has tried to help me so far. I am still struggling with this, though. I have found out xvid was the codec, and have downloaded it as per instructions. Still it doesn’t read in FCP, however it did read in Compressor. I tried sending it out of Compressor as a qt file and bringing it into FCP, but I still have unrendered video (!) This piece is an hour long, and rendering is going to be prohibitive.
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are there ANY other thoughts, tips, suggestions out there?

Signed

Frustrated, and don’t know if it’s me or memorex!

[Katie Gates]

Travis, I have FCP HD 4.5, and the disks for FCP Studio (but not the computer yet). But I don’t see any reference to QT Pro in either of them. Am I missing something?

I’ve also checked the FCP Studio info at Apple, and can see no hint that it is included.

Katie

[Katie Gates]

Okay, I am getting somewhere, and probably no where at the same time. According to my client and VLC(?) xvid was the codec. I am still trying to import to AVID, but I don’t think it will work. So I’m hoping for a solution back in FCP. Do you know if by downloading the xvid codec, I will be able to import into FCP?

I HATE learning curves….:-)

[Katie Gates]

No I do not have the tape, I am going to see if can import the avi into avid. I was hoping I could do this entirely in FCP. Thanks for all the insights again.

[Katie Gates]

Thanks so much for all your help! Having taken al the other input I’ve received before and after this post, I have decided I will recapture this (I hope) in my Avid, and do what I need there, it looks like. I don’t think I can get another version of the video.

Thanks to all for helping my learning curve be less painful, though!

Katie

[Katie Gates]

I notice that Perian warns you not to use this with 10.3, which is what I have. Do you have experience that contradicts this? I am going to try your other suggestion in the interim.

Thanks!

[Katie Gates]

I don’t own QT Pro. Is that the only way to do that? I know it’s not expensive, but I’m trying to save pennies.

I did download the DivX plug in, and I know have video but no audio. Does that shed any light on things?

Really appreciate your help

[Katie Gates]

I don’t know, and I’m not sure my client can tell me, either. They acquired the project from another developer who has not been forthcoming with information. Am I out of luck?