Marcray
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I am not sure there would be because that is why you have the different setups. I constantly have to change setups depending on if I cam coming from component, svideo, composite, or firewire. It is just part of the editing.
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Are you using the same beta deck as you have always used? It
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What type of sata drives are you using?
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Lee thanks for the info. They even mention it on their website that an external sync box may be needed. I just wanted to verify from those with experience.
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That is going to be true for any time when you are mixing codecs and timelines without some sort of hardware accelerator. Do you have an external HD you can use to export too? Then you could export to 10bit uncompressed which would be much better than even animation.
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Can you just export it as 10bit Uncompressed quicktime? When you use an aja box it captures it to a 10bit uncompressed file using the Quicktime codec. I think the blackmagic boxes use their own 10bit codec, but it is very similar to the Quicktime one and can be transcoded quickly to the quicktime version. If you do use a compressed video format, such as dvcpro50, on an uncompressed timeline you will have to render material.
Marc
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I have emailed firmtek and have tried the setup on 2 different macbook computers. Also they are the same drives that barefeats used to test on their review of the firmtek card. I am still not sure how Bob thinks 80mb is not enough four 10bit SD uncompressed. Even AJA has documented how to capture this to two striped firewire drives using a PowerBook. I will wait and see what firmtek says.
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Forgot to mention that I also did check out the barefeats article on this before purchasing which shows 146mb sustained, close to my 120mb sustained:
https://www.barefeats.com/hard71.html
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I must be confused because the AJA docs say that 10bit uncompressed is 30mb per second well within the 80-120mb per second my drives are capturing at. 99% of the time the drives are fine but for a few frames they drop to about 80mb per second capture. This is done by looking at the graph and text readout on the Kona system test tool. I do agree that it could be a problem with the firmtek card, the macbook express bus, or a needed fix for OS-X. However I am trying to feel out what should be possible if everything were working fine given my system specs. This helps me to diagnose issues. I have found out I can do 8-bit fine but 10-bit seems to be the issue.
Thanks
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I have tried that already too:) I am emailing them now to see if they have any advice.
thanks
marc