[Keith Koby]

This is one of the more ridiculous things i’ve heard on the subject. If you are going talk picture, then why would you even think of bashing fcp x? Besides the organizational stuff, X is going to give you the editor something you never had in 7. That is the ability to dare: To try something new out without the penalty of killing time to see your results.

To bash metadata is a shallow, shallow argument and tells me that the original poster hasn’t spent any time actually playing with X. The new tools for tagging whole clips or parts of clips and sorting those tags into bins is extremely useful.

Keith Koby
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[Keith Koby]

This ended up being a hardware problem. The graphics card was dying.

Keith Koby
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[Keith Koby]

Yeah… Well the rest is all standard 1080i 29.97 ProRes etc. It’s all projects on this system, not just the one. And all user accounts, although I was temporarily able to fix the issue on the admin account, it came back.

It has to be system or hardware related. We’ve pulled the cpu and put it in time out on the workbench. Removing san connections to see if it is a connectivity issue etc.

We’ll figure it out.

Thanks,
Keith

Keith Koby
Sr. Director Post-Production Engineering
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[Keith Koby]

Its jumping from HD to SD between the ctrl panel and fcp when we get the pop. When it stays HD to HD for example, no pop.

Keith Koby
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[Keith Koby]

Thanks for the vouch Gary!

So I re-seated the card and ran the expansion slot utility again and it’s fine now.

The ram is labeled similarly. I started out with 6 GB of ram and then went to 4 equally distributed and paired across boards and risers…

Jeremy – thanks for your help! The “high” option in rt playback is available.

10bit uncompressed is working and all flavors of prores are fine.

[Keith Koby]

two things i forgot to reply about… yes we have a san and we have tried both versions of the drivers.

[Keith Koby]

long story about staying on tiger… we have a lot of workflows that are fine on tiger. we bought up as many tiger capable computers as possible at the beginning of the year to preserve those workflows. We were planning to upgrade later this year, but other needs have started the move early. email me for the details if you want.

I agree, pci-e expansion slot utility seems like the likely culprit. I’ve gone there twice though. After the initial upgrade of the system to leopard I installed the LHe. That automatically brings up the utility. Yesterday we blew away the system and did a clean build. Again, I brought it up to check that we had 4 lane and 4 lane on fibre channel and LHe (1 lane on nothing and 16 on gpu). I’m going to call it up one more time and I’m going to reseat the card. After that I’ll swap for a different LHe and then I’ll report back.

For these tests, there has been 4 gigs of ram. 8 x 512, so it would be hard to mess that up. I’ll let you know what we find and thanks again for the all the advice.

[Keith Koby]

thanks jeremy. We do have some experience with FCP. ;). I thought configuration problem at first, but after a day of checking, I’m not seeing anything obvious.

FCP 6.0.4
10.5.4
Qt 7.5
AJA 5.1 (regular not ndd)
Xsan 2.1

The CPU:
3.0 GHz quad core 2007 (we bought a bunch so as not to do what we are doing right now… Moving to leopard new San etc).

And yes, the original poster and I are talking about the same CPU.

Thanks man!
Kk

Keith Koby
Head of Post-Production Engineering
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[Keith Koby]

control panel showed 1080i 29.97 in. Incoming video is the correct format bc dvcpro hd 1080i60 and 1080i 8 bit uncompressed is fine. It’s not bandwidth bc we are testing 300 MBs read and writes, plus we have no problem capturing 8 bit uncompressed.

[Keith Koby]

we get the same results using the aja vtr exchange utility. 1080i 8bit to uncompressed or to prores hq is fine. 10bit to anything doesn’t work. Altering the fcp setting to 8 bit defeats the purpose of using prores somewhat. I think the idea is to oversample on the way in even if you are using an 8 bit source like an hdw2000.

Keith Koby
Head of Post-Production Engineering
iNDEMAND NETWORKS
Howard TV!/MOJO/Movies On Demand/iNDEMAND Pay-Per-View