Kevin Wild
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Whoa, wait a minute! 🙂 We have had 4 Fusion 500 boxes from Sonnet and there is revolving door of sending them back for repair. I don’t know what’s going on there, but we literally sent one away to be fixed and had two waiting. So, since we didn’t have original boxes, we got one back and put the other one in the box and sent it back. We have another one waiting for the box to come back. This makes 3 within a few months.
The problems we’ve experienced (as noted on these boards):
-The drives all check out fine, media checks out fine, but we have had sudden unmounting of drives. Editing along, suddenly a click and bye-bye drives.
-Another Fusion Box had a faulty fan. The thing burned extremely hot one day before I noticed it…thanks, Sonnet. I’m still having problems with those drives now. I think they were damaged.I switched to leasing a 14 x 750 XRaid and just started using MetaSAN. I’m hoping I won’t have as many gripes about this setup.
Glad Sonnet is working for you, Walter! It did for us for a while…but the new units did NOT.
Kevin
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You will NOT get camera control out of your camera with the HD-SDI nor will you get audio as it is not embedded. For going directly from the H1 to the Kona, you’ll need a seperate audio out of the H1.
That said, you should seriously look at the Convergent Devices box. This box turns the firewire output of the H1 into an embedded HD SDI and an RS422 control. This is what we use and it works great.
By the way, I’m not sure if the RS422 would or wouldn’t work. The Intel Only mantra is really for people using the Kona LH or LHe with the computer doing most of the hard work. It’s possible that your computer will be fine if you buy an I/O HD, because much of the processing will be done by the card in the unit. BUT, that said, I’m not sure how this workflow will work with the above H1 workflow. I think we’ll have to wait and see.
Hope that helps.
Kevin
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I got mine today. I have to admit, opening color for the first time is a bit daunting. But one thing you can’t help but notice is how UN-APPLE it looks. The text on the opening screen is horrendously pc/linux looking or something. Not Apple at all.
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No problem. I (for some crazy reason) trust the people here to give good suggestions. Much better than searches where everyone has the greatest product…:-)
Hector, thanks for that. I should’ve looked around more to see who carries the empty boxes still. I have one on order from B&H, but might cancel it as it says “available” but not in stock.
Thanks again, guys. Onward!
Kw
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I’m fully aware no one is forcing me to buy anything. This string was started to make people aware of the change at Sonnet.
If you have a suggestion for another durable, solid, empty box that will work with Sonnet’s Tempo SATA E4P, it would be helpful.
FWIW, I have 3 edit suites and try to keep all equipment redundant. I have the same mixers, same Kona’s, etc. I would RATHER get another Fusion 500. We’ll see if B&H has them, like my original post said.
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Oh, I know why it happens and it’s unfortunate for those of us who (almost) know what we’re doing. 🙂
Okay, Bob. Sign me up for your army in the battle against the inexperienced hacks!
Seriously, it’s too bad. This Sonnet solution was the most affordable way in before. I may now go with one of the other suppliers like Cal Digit if I can’t buy the box without the drives.
KW
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Ordered it the first day it was announced and on sale. I’m in Raleigh, NC…US.
I’m not sure I’d plan any projects on it yet, though. Could have some bugs.
KW
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Thanks. Hopefully this new way FCP6 is doing Easy Setups will help, too.
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I just re-read it and I have to say that some of the new features are cool, but just integrated things from other apps. I guess that’s why it’s less impressive.
-Master Templates-code taken straight from Motion
-SmoothCamFilter-code taken right from ShakeYes, a slew of new codecs is good with the ProRes422 being (hopefully) great. But these codecs are only exciting if you need them. We have no need currently for almost all of the codecs they have added. Is it good they added them? Sure…but I’m not so sure we won’t still end up using DVCProHD and 8 Bit Uncompressed…just like we always do.
There are some good things, don’t get me wrong. Just expected more in this LONG wait…
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10 pages, but did you read it? It’s not the ground-up build that many of us were expecting after them missing NAB altogether last year. I actually had some pretty good info that the FCP6 team wasn’t in the same building as the old team this past year…so maybe I had MUCH higher expectations. Maybe it’s next NAB…
Thanks for the tip. We already do that on our systems with the whole “**” workaround. Just wondering if anyone has succesfully deleted others that go unused 99% of the time.
KW