[Kevin Wild]

Ouch, CharleyX2, I would hardly call Apple’s FCP software a hybrid pro-sumer app. That’s pretty harsh. I work nearly every day on both AVID’s and FCP and I would say short of a VERY few things, they are pretty close in their “professionalism.” Not bad for Apple considering their compretitor had a 10 year headstart.

Keep positive about FCP 6. It’s going to be big. It’s the thing I love (and the thing that drives companies crazy) about Apple, they keep moving forward. I remember I took about 3 or 4 years off of AVID editing (’98-’02) and I couldn’t believe how little had changed when I sat down with it again. 🙂 Good thing or bad thing? Both…

[Kevin Wild]

I’m with you guys! Bob, no need for self-slapping. 🙂

I always thought that if Apple was going to get into the true turnkey edit system biz, they would buy AJA. That said, I hope you’re right, Bob. I personally don’t think they need to get into that game. Again, I’m guessing, but I don’t think this would be a true “turn key solution,” but just a bundle of their existing products. (Computer, storage, software, high-end graphics card, display…)

I’m looking forward to FCP6 and hope some of the few pains have been resolved.

[Kevin Wild]

First of all, I do know that FCP has been re-built groundup, so it will be big. The team working on it has not even been in the same building as the FCP5 team. So definitely expect a vast improvement over the old versions.

My next is a guess: I personally think that this whole “extreme” thing will probably be just a bundled version. It’s about time Apple gets it together and sells entire systems, especially if they debut a card/hardware for I/O (which I’m not sure I believe). Anyways, put their top tier Mac, an XRaid, FCP suite and you pretty quickly get into the $10k-30k range they’re talking. My guess is it will just be a bundled package.

Now, I sure would go for a few other things before I ask for 4k media (improved capture window to log as it loads & see meters, better media management, etc.)

[Kevin Wild]

Not yet. It will be a couple weeks…my fingers are crossed.

[Kevin Wild]

Good to know. I may do that for the next round of purchases, but for now, it is the Sonnet host card.

Thanks.

Kevin
http://www.drawbridge.tv

[Kevin Wild]

Not to hijack your question, but component works perfectly fine. I have Component out going to a VAC D.A. and the HD feed going to several places and it all looks great. I wouldn’t pay the extra price for SDI, though others may disagree.

Kevin
http://www.drawbridge.tv

[Kevin Wild]

I have both the Dell 2407WFP and the Panny TH-50PHD9UK and I can say that I barely ever use the Dell any more. (Also, you should know that you need the BlackMagic DeckLink as well, to get a good SDI-DVI converter into the Dell…I guess an MXO would work, too, but I use the Decklink).

I’m with Bob that SD looks horrible on the Dell and is small on the screen as it’s pixel-pixel. 720 is also smaller on the screen. Only 1080i/p fills the screen. I’ve had trouble setting up the black levels as the Dell is very bright and the utility that comes with Decklink is pretty bad, imo. Also, with 24F footage from the Canon, the screen flickers a little bit. I’ve never gotten to the root of this problem as I now just use the Panasonic.

By the way…that Panny is down to $1799? Sheesh…take a breath…don’t look back, don’t look back…

Kevin Wild
http://www.drawbridge.tv

[Kevin Wild]

Okay, I redid the test on the 5 x 750 Gig array using AJA’s system test with 1920×1080 10 bit RGB and got significantly different results and probably more on par with what Walter mentioned he got:
-Extended, non-journaled, striped
-WRITE: 188.9 MB/s
-READ: 222.3 MB/s

I reran the 720×486 8-bit tests and got the same as I posted before…significantly slower at 167 and 173. Very strange. I wouldn’t think file size would make such a difference, but I guess it does.

Bob, the info on one of the drives:
Seagate 7200.10, 750 gbytes
S/N: 3QDOPE8N
ST3750640AS
p/n: 9BJ148-308
Firmware: 3.AAJ
Date code: 07251
Site Code: AMK

Thanks, guys. I guess we’ll just go for it and see how this puppy holds up with 5 streams of uncompressed SD multicam for this gig I have coming up for Discovery Health.

Kevin Wild
http://www.drawbridge.tv

[Kevin Wild]

Bob, I specifically referred to 24F. They will not play back in anything other than Canon’s cameras…which yes, is ridiculous. Canon is just lucky that their products are so good, because I think putting out a proprietary frame mode that works with nothing else is insane. We have the H1, the A1 and HV10…none of which can we use any deck in existance for when shooting Frame mode, which we do 100% of the time. Ugh…drives me crazy.

[Kevin Wild]

Unless you have a Canon camera and are shooting 24F. Then go with the Convergent Designs SI combined with a Canon HV10 and use it as a deck.

Kevin