Kevin Dooley
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I just had this same issue – couldn’t reorder layers, drag new layers on, or drag an object to replace a current layer. Tried everything mentioned here and nothing work… Then I had another oddity with my workspace (the project window disappeared while dragging it). I reset my workspace and everything went back to normal.
Kevin Dooley
Media Director
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It’s not just DNxHD. I had the same issue last night with ProRes footage. Somehow the corrupted footage has also messed up the original Final Cut project as well. I was able to transcode all the clips except one to Animation, which AE corrupted as well upon re-opening the project.
Kevin Dooley
Media Director
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The last update I see to Twitch on VCP’s website is from 2010 – do you have a link to this newer update?
Kevin Dooley
Media Director
Pantego Bible Church -
This exact reason is why I am buying a Ross Carbonite over a BM ATEM. The Grass Valley 2200 in our installation just died and I want to replace it with something that is supported by top notch customer service. I don’t want it covered today and not tomorrow and I want someone to be available when my equipment needs some kind of support, when I’m actually using it, which is always nights and weekends.
Kevin Dooley
Media Director
Pantego Bible Church -
I lied… Well, I didn’t realize when I posted… This doesn’t really work. I ended up using the code below from Dan Ebberts’s website.
https://motionscript.com/design-guide/auto-focus.html
target = thisComp.layer("Focus Pull");
v1 = target.toWorld(target.anchorPoint) - toWorld([0,0,0]);
v2 = toWorldVec([0,0,1]);
dot(v1,v2)Kevin Dooley
Video Director
Lake Pointe Church -
This worked very well. I modified it some slightly so that I could use a null object’s position…
Also, I’m in CS 5.
p1 = thisComp.layer("Focus Pull").transform.position;
p2 = position;length(p1, p2);
Kevin Dooley
Video Director
Lake Pointe Church -
Clearly using one of the systems offered above would be a more ideal solution – but I was wondering if anyone has any experience at all using a DroboElite iSCSI san unit?
Being only 8 bay and the max drive size for this application being 2Tb, it looks like it would only give us 16Tb, so we would need 2 units to start – so it’s already looking like something I don’t really want to get into. However, in the interest of completeness I need to be able to say I looked at and asked for advice in regards to lower cost solutions.
If there are those out there that have used it:
Would this unit be able to handle multiple clients running multiple streams of ProRes or ProRes LT 1080p footage to multiple clients or would it be more of an offline storage solution?
Kevin Dooley
Video Director
Lake Pointe Church -
Jordan,
Excellent information – that definitely helps me talk intelligently to vendors/integrators. Thanks!
Kevin Dooley
Video Director
Lake Pointe Church -
Bob,
Thanks for the warnings – though I believe you are mixing part of what I was asking about and part of what I was saying I saw recently. The 100Tb system was at a facility I recently toured and included several (I believe around 10) edit stations. This is way more than we need (and indeed the cost is way more than we could afford).
I am looking for something much smaller (though maybe not simpler). We do have a dedicated IT staff at our facility to help us administer it, but we definitely will be paying someone to engineer whatever system we end up going with.
Again, I was trying to lay out what I believe our needs are and was hoping to get some knowledge and contacts to move towards an implemented solution. I appreciate the warnings, but would more appreciate solutions. The contacts with Small Tree and Maxx Digital are helping me explore options – what are options you feel I should look at?
Kevin Dooley
Video Director
Lake Pointe Church -
Oh no – I wouldn’t think of trying to edit on it, I’m just wondering how Final Cut Server fits into this whole thing…
Kevin Dooley
Video Director
Lake Pointe Church