[Marcus Lyall]

I have the multibridge 1.

Fan noise is really loud. Unless I give it a loving but robust ‘tap’ on the casing. Which seems to quieten it down for a few seconds.

But I don’t think this is in the manual.

It’s the loudest thing in the room.
I have another 2 8 bay raid running.
And an ‘air conditioner’ G5 or two.

Blackmagic just don’t reply to support emails it seems. Which is a little frustrating. Because I only wanted to know if my warranty was voided by replacing the fan. I guess it will have run out by the time I get an answer.

Has anyone replaced their multibridge fan successfuly? And if so, any ideas of what size fan will work?

[Marcus Lyall]

thanks for the help, but I’m pretty certain there’s no interframe compression in the DV format.
I’ll try it out though…
Looks like I’ll have to try a few things out…..Can’t put my finger on it yet.

Getting a ‘compressord’ process in th activity window, from qmaster, that randomly appears and crashes silently in the background when AE starts up. I think there’s more to it than meets the eye….

Sometimes you just get a lemon machine, don’t you?

M

[Marcus Lyall]

and I’m running blackmagic and dv footage. no intraframe business.

[Marcus Lyall]

ran the apple hardware test extended before phoning apple.
no bad ram.

it’s not that the machine is slow. it’s just thatit’s really flakey. flies through some things crashes on others. flakiest mac I’ve worked on. since a quadra 840av.

[Marcus Lyall]

ok. I just tried a ram preview with multiporcessing on and got this….

“unable to render multiple frames simultaneously”.

I thought that was the whole idea……

[Marcus Lyall]

I’ve got some problems here with multiprocessing too. AE 8.

A brand new 8-core. 16 gb of ram. Completely clean install. 3 days out of the box.

Been rendering identical projects on this machine and a quad-core sitting beside it.
Quad core is creaming it, to my chagrin, because the multiprocessing works without crashing. 8-core has been crashing continuously when using multi-processing. In the activity monitor, you can often see at least 2 crashed ae processes.

Also, Can’t stop a render in progress without the machine crashing.
Processes hang around in the activity monitor until you do a full shutdown.

Without multiprocessing ticked, it behaves like a gentleman. An elderly gent. Not much faster than my old g5.

Should I be testing my ram? Or are we still in beta testing here?
Does 8.0.1. make a big difference? First thing on the agenda tomorrow.
Is it all about memory managing voodoo? Does anyone have the correct incantation?

M

[Marcus Lyall]

Should have searched the forum more thoroughly.

Just adapt the expression from here.

The cow just saved me a day’s work. Sweet!

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_thread.cgi?forumid=2&postid=521802&univpostid=521712&archive=T

[Marcus Lyall]

I’d second the comments there. I’m just trying to do the same thing with moving footage.
The scaling in FCP seems to be pretty much unusable for broadcast work, unless there’s some setting I haven’t seen.

And if there is a setting, why the hell doesn’t it DEFAULT to best quality, instead of to crap quality?

I was editing the other day, doing a lot of resizing down to 70% and 80% , and there was huge amounts of artefacting. Like it was doing a bad ‘nearest neighbour’ interpolation. It would just repeat pixels.

?????

And then when you dissolved between clips, you’d get this weird ‘jump’ thing where it would move the picture up by a pixel or so during the dissolve.

Spent the next two hours looking for the magic button I had missed. Couldn’t find it. The only thing you can do is make your edit, then export the project to After Effects through automatic duck.

Can someone tell me I’m wrong here? I’m in the middle of a project that needs lots of resizing done. I’d love someone to point out the little switch that I’ve missed.

[Marcus Lyall]

Should have said.

Using the Highpoint raid 5 card. got some bad press but no problems for me so far.

And using 4 x 400 gb drives in a case. And one of those fancy sata multicore cables.

Don’t go 2 drives. Go 4. Then raid 5 them so if one goes down……

M

[Marcus Lyall]

SATA raids also very good for the money. Had mine for a month or so and very happy with it.

Went the hardware raid 5 card and bought an extra drive just incase of problems.
Working it hard. Took it overseas. Mostly unc. SD video. 180 mb per sec. No problems so far.

Can’t go past the price.