[Mark Laslo]

Bret,

I tried to recapture and it came in with those Bars in all the formats I tried so it seems to be a shooting error…

Any suggestions on how to go about it in Compressor. I don’t own after effects or any kind of hardware. I know in avid there was a resize function. On the positive side the web is our final outlet and we don’t have the best quality flash player at current so blowing it up isn’t the end of the world for this one piece. In order to get it to fit the frame I have to blow it up to about 130%.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Mark Laslo]

I just want to double check – could the “external” drive be a separate internal SATA drive if using a Mac Pro?

[Mark Laslo]

I have a quick question along these lines.

Does it matter which drive I store my project files on. Right now I have them on the same drive as the media. My system files and program files are on a separate drive.

Thanks,

Mark

[Mark Laslo]

Thanks all for the response. I think I will go with these drives- may not RAID them and if I do I have a 2 TB time capsule that I can use to store the original AVC-HD footage and then use the RAID drive as my primary edit drive – using the three drive bays open in the mac pro and disk utility as was suggested to me in another thread. I think 6 TB worth of ProRes422 should be less than or about 2 TB of AVC-HD

Thoughts?

[Mark Laslo]

Hi Nace,

Thanks for the quick response. Do you think that the drive I posted would work. We’re making a big purchase and I’m trying to save a few bucks and that will save me over $300 if I buy the drive above as opposed to a RE 4 drive but I don’t want to do it if it won’t work.

Thanks,
Mark

[Mark Laslo]

One more question,

Would 3 of these drives work together. I was readings something about the drive requiring TLER in order to support RAId. I’m not sure if this is just for windows or for OS X as well.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136456

[Mark Laslo]

I saw somebody’s signature that said hindsight is 1080P and I noticed with the AVG-HMC150 that it seemed like there was more of a stutter in Final Cut Pro when moving the camera in 60i but when I put it into 30p it seemd to work a lot nicer. Maybe my eyes were playing tricks.

[Mark Laslo]

Would it make sense to get two 2 TB drives and raid those together and leave the 1 TB alone since I already have 300 GB of media on the 1 TB drive that came with the Mac or should I try and move it around and try and get 3 2 TB drives or 3 1 TB drives?

[Mark Laslo]

Hi Zane,

I am interested in doing a RAID setup inside of my Mac Pro. Would this idea work with two 2 TB drives and a 1 TB drive for a total of 5 TB of space or is working with a 2 TB drive too big? Let me know what you think.

Thanks,

Mark

[Mark Laslo]

First off I have to say that finding Creativecow.net was one of the best finds in awhile. As a new member I really appreciate the community sense here – none of the typical web forum sarcastic and degrading answers, just honest people lending a hand.

Zane – Sorry I forgot to mention. I am using a Mac pro with two open hard drive slots. I like the idea of getting 3 TB of internal space though I do already have one drive populated (besides the primary drive) but I think I have enough disk space to migrate. What is the benefit of RAID’ing these three drives together besides having one uniform space. Would you recommend setting it up as a RAID 5 solution (striping, correct?) or just leave it to make one big drive?

I have already learned that progressive seems to be the way to go. What is the file size of 1080/30p (since the AG-HMC150 doesn’t support 60p, does anything?)

Ron – Thanks for the recommendation to Caldigit. Do you have this connected via firewire or eSATA. If firewire do you work with ProRes 422 and how many streams to you get. Right now I’m only expecting to have to work with 1 or 2 (depending on how final cut pro handles 2 video tracks with the second tracks video fully covering the first track. I looked at the specs and the thing seems pretty powerful. If it works well on firewire I may go for the 4 TB version if at all possible just to not have to purchase new drive space for another year or so (hopefully).

Cheers,
Mark