Malcolm Matusky
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Scary thought that my Raid may “disappear” because of driver software. One preventative measure I have been taking is to “clone” my C-drive monthly so if the worst case scenario happens, I have a chance of going back in time to a point where the system was stable and working.
Any comments on this strategy? I am interested in making my system as fault tolerant as I can reasonably afford since I only have one edit system to work with. My thinking was that with a cloned c-drive and an external raid 5 array I would have a greater degree of system resiliency than relying on everthing being in the tower.
One thing I did not consider was the controller card! Would a new mini-sas controller card not work with my existing raid 5 array? I would consider buying a spare, identical card, if this would insure my ability to preserve my raid. Any thoughts on this?
Cheers,
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Malcolm
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How about saving money and using 2 60D’s with Magic lantern installed, you can then get some audio and lighting gear to make a decent production. Why spend all the money on a great camera and leave little to none for audio, lighting and post?
My 0.02
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Malcolm
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To RAID or not to RAID, that is the question!
I was using a drive dock with pairs of bare drives (raid 1) that quickly became a PIA. Went to a “hardware” raid mini SAS card and a sans-digital 4 bay enclosure. When I “add or subtract” drives, I do it with another 4 bay enclosure and never touch the drives themselves. I thought about an 8 bay enclosure, but the 4 bay units hold a lot of material and are easy enough to transport or store in a fire proof cabinet, the 8 bay units are too large for that. The enclosures are cheap and I am not overloading my PC’s power supply or chassis cooling system by adding drives internally. The raid 5 configuration works fast enough for me for working with 1080P HD. 4K may be another issue, then it’s time for more high performance controller cards and raid 1 or raid 10 configurations.
Good Luck,
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Malcolm
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I am just learning Resolve now, and am using VP12, which “should” import and export AAF files to “rount trip” with resolve, has anyone tried this yet with success?
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Malcolm
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I had trouble as well. I thought it would be “easy” to apply the LOG lut to the project to view Log footage, but it looked worse and I had to re-synch a project because I did not try the feature on a copy! Ugh. Obviously not working if you cannot revert back to “none”
I have been using a color managed system for photography since 1999 and am still waiting for this workflow to be incorporated into video!
Hopefully in the next update it will be functional.
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Malcolm
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Is anyone working with “Canon log” footage with SVP 12? Any workflow suggestions?
Cheers,
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Malcolm
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So I applied a LUT, and it looks terrible, so I wanted to “undo” it but cannot. No matter what settings I used the project keeps reverting to the lut on the preview monitor and will not hold the changes even though the drop down boxes enable me to select the original settings, very strange, could be a bug.
I am at the point where I deleted the project and have to re synch the footage, “my bad” for not making a copy of my project to test this “new” feature!
Live and learn.
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Malcolm
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I looked at the other jog/shuttle controls, but decided to go for the Bella as it took up less space on the desktop. With a track ball and the preSonus fader port, I have a great interface for VP12. One very nice feature on the Bella is a volume control and audio cut out button, very useful. In/Out buttons, and trim buttons assigned to the keypad. The keys are color coded and printed just for Vegas or other NLE’s so make sure you order the right one.
Malcolm
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