[Kris Anderson]

The Apple Raid card has a battery powered cache. Once the battery is fully charged (72 hours) you will have your 240mb/s speeds. When the battery is low or empty it will drop off to about 50mb/s.

And yes, Raid 0 for me.

MacPro 8 core 3ghz – 8gig RAM – Mac OS 10.4.11
2.5tb internal RAID on Apple Raid Card
+ AJA Kona 3 + Sonnet External RAID

[Kris Anderson]

I have a similar setup.

1Tb system drive and 3 750Gb drives on the raid card.

System drive is exactly that…. use it for anything else and you’re courting major trouble.

I’m getting 240mb/s read/write times on my raid. Solid for everything standard def, almost ok for HD but a little to close for comfort. Absolutely killer for Pro Tools sessions.

[Kris Anderson]

I know a lot of Flame operators that work with the pictures anamorphic. They set their client monitors to 16:9 but don’t care for themselves.

If you knew what Flame could do, you wouldn’t care about it not accepting QT’s. I have worked with Flames in the building for years. Never been a problem cutting in AVID and then exporting a CMX3600 EDL for conform later. From a grading POV it is much better to conform the project and have access to each clip/shot individualy than to have to grade across dissolves/wipes etc. DaVinci does dynamic tarcking of windows/grades etc but it’s not the same.

Flame is a finishing tool of the highest order. There’s a good reason why they cost so much to buy and use.

[Kris Anderson]

When you step through frame by frame or field by field in AVID, GENERALLY speaking it only displays one field at a time on the playback monitor. This in itself makes great images look rough. Like using the duplicated fields option to make slomo’s instead of blended interpolated.

Walter, your viewpoint that shooting progressive but delivering interlaced makes your film an interlaced film is flawed. It’s like saying that I shot on 35mm but because I delivered it on video tape it’s not a film project anymore. It might get you through your tech check but that just shows that the tech guys are just checking the 50i light on the deck, not the content. Again, another problem with some tech guys.

[Kris Anderson]

Walter,

I’ve delivered masters to the BBC, National Geographic, SBS (Australia) ABC (Australia) and a host of other broadcasters around the world. At various times there has been progressive footage included in some of the shows. It has always been accepted.

I agree you should follow the spec, that’s a given but there are techs who reject things because they don’t like them, not because it’s a technical fault or outside of spec. That’s my point. Specifications are there to unify production standards. Techs who reject masters based on subjective, personal tastes have no place in the chain of command as far as I’m concerned.

Arc Nevada, nevermind. It’s a circular argument and I’m not going there with you.

[Kris Anderson]

Furthermore…

I REALLY hate it when technicians chastise me for a creative decision made long before we start shooting. Who the hell do they think they are?! Now, if the master fails due to luma/chroma issues etc then fine, but to say it’s not acceptable because it’s progressive is just lame, power tripping madness. Get back in your box with your oscillascope and pocket protectors I say!

Arc Nevada, is english your first language?… because you contradict yourself at almost every post.

MacPro 8 core 3ghz – 8gig RAM – Mac OS 10.4.11
2.5tb internal RAID on Apple Raid Card
+ AJA Kona 3 + Sonnet External RAID

[Kris Anderson]

This guy is an idiot. If he is the head tech guy and has never heard of a progressive source then he should be sacked. What a tool.

MacPro 8 core 3ghz – 8gig RAM – Mac OS 10.4.11
2.5tb internal RAID on Apple Raid Card
+ AJA Kona 3 + Sonnet External RAID

[Kris Anderson]

I’m doing the same thing.

First off, I wouldn’t be switching to Leopard for a while. Not until all my applications support it. But that’s just me.

I am installing a 1TB system drive with 800gb partitioned for my FCP work and all other software and then a 200gb partition exclusively for AVID.

FCP and AVID have vastly different Quicktime requirements. ie… FCP is ok with the latest version but AVID will need an older version to be happy (until AVID test/verify and approve). So, no itunes on your AVID partition. But otherwise, totally do-able.

Check the AVID website for correct system requirements.

MacPro 8 core 3ghz – 8gig RAM – Mac OS 10.4.11
2.5tb internal RAID on Apple Raid Card
+ AJA Kona 3 + Sonnet External RAID

[Kris Anderson]

If your audio dude is mixing in protools, send him an AAF. No 2gb limit. If he’s not, you’re going to have to break the sequence down into smaller portions.

MacPro 8 core 3ghz – 8gig RAM – Mac OS 10.4.11
2.5tb internal RAID on Apple Raid Card
+ AJA Kona 3 + Sonnet External RAID

[Kris Anderson]

Thanks.

The system was built as an FCP machine.

I think what I will do is upgrade my system drive to 1TB and create two seperate bootable partitions. One with all my FCP etc on it and the other solely for AVID with no nasty things to upset it. I need this primarily as a digitising station to feed other suites so I need i/o from the DNA.

MacPro 8 core 3ghz – 8gig RAM – Mac OS 10.4.11
2.5tb internal RAID on Apple Raid Card
+ AJA Kona 3 + Sonnet External RAID