Lawrence Marshall
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Floh, you’ve mentioned in the past that you’ve experienced flakiness with arrays set up as one big partition, and that you would recommend two or more smaller partitions rather than one large partition? I’ve got a 5.6 TB Xserve RAID, and that was one of your suggestions when I was having some issues with digitizing…
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Thanks for the info. However, I wasn’t talking about crossfades. I was talking about changing audio levels on a single clip in the timeline. Example: clip begins at full volumn, then a couple seconds later I want to dip it to half-volumn. Two nodes are set: a full volumn node, then a few seconds later a node pulled down to half volumn. In Media 100, the line between the two nodes is a straight, linear line, and the audio falls off in a linear way. In FCP, the line between the two nodes looks like a Bezier curve. The audio doesn’t fall off in a linear way… it dips only a bit at first, then falls off rapidly as it approaches the second node.
Any way to make gain changes in a more “linear” way with FCP?
Thanks, LM
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Yes, I’ve had this problem. Going analog component in from UVW 1800, which I am blackbursting (also blackbursting the M100 HD junction box). Oftentimes M100 HD will just “decide” (for the heck of it, it seems) to switch back to internal. Really a timewaster to keep sighing, going back *up* to select the genlock menu, and resetting it to external.
Larry M
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What I am most curious about is why you are limiting yourself to 150kb on the Media 100? 150kb is 4:1 compression. With Version 6, you can take it up to 300kb (2:1) compression. Is it drive space? Drives aren’t fast enough? With inexpensive Firewire drives out there, neither reason would seem to apply…
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I have been editing M100 on single (i.e. – not Raided) 120-gig Firewire drives using just the Firewire port on a G4 for several years. My drives have 8mb cache, and they easily sustain 225-250kb throughput. Using 8.2.1 caused no problems with this workflow.
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I have a Wired MediaPress board that I don’t use anymore. It’s one I used in OS 9 (prior to OS X’s version of the card). I don’t remember if Wired came out with new cards specifically to be used in OS X or if they were (are) able to “flash” the older cards so they work in OS X.
Mine is component in, not SDI. Contact me off-list if interested…
Larry Marshall
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Tried that. Took clips digitized in M100 HD and imported into M100i XS Version 8.2 on my G4. The clip comes in, but only audio plays. Video is black. Quicktime plays the video OK, but when importing into a M100i XS bin, there is no video…just audio.
Larry M
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So apparently none of this has to do with the array. I tried digitizing to single Firewire drives at 200kb… same error messages, same kinds of crashing. I’ll get three or four clips successfully digitized, then everything goes downhill.
Going to hook up the old M100i XS in the G4 and I’ll be able to make progress there. Thanks to the fact that M100 HD doesn’t allow you to save to earlier versions of M100, I just lost a day digitizing since I have to start all over again. Thank God I didn’t do any timeline editing yet…
Larry M
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Hi Floh – –
Cards are placed correctly as you have advised. I’m using the Apple Fiber card. The Xserve is a 5.6TB RAID. The seven drives on the left are one Raid 5 array of roughly 2.5 TB, and the other seven drives make up a second Raid 5 array of roughly 2.5TB. However, both sides have been striped together as Raid 50, resulting in one giant 5.6TB array partition.
Not sure what to try next…
Thanks
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The amount of positive PR Media 100 has gotten from the un-paid Floh is incalculable. My hope is M100/Optibase at least recognizes and occasionally acknowledges that to him. That being said, I too appreciate his willingness to constantly share his time and incredible knowledge in a very non-threatening / non-ridiculing / almost “comforting” manner.
Thanks Floh!
Larry Marshall