[Mark Raudonis]

Great idea. Why didn’t I think of this?

Mark

[Mark Raudonis]

-AvB,

Walter’s correct. It’s probably a menu function. But here’s some questions for you that will help us troubleshoot your problem.

Have you ever used this deck before? Did it work? Do you have a user’s manual for the deck? Do you know how to access the menu?

Do you have the J-30 connected to an external NTSC monitor to confirm that it’s working?

Are you positive that your firewire cable is good?

What are your digitize settings?

There’s a million things that it could be. That’s why tech support costs so much!

mark

[Mark Raudonis]

Gary,

As you’ve discovered, yes this works. On one of the shows we do we have our entire story department accessing our X-SAN via Gig e. The media is at off-line RT resolution, so the bandwidth needed is not that high, but they’ve been working like this for months now… no complaints.

Your limitations are the switch and the other users on your net. If you’re just doing this at home, no problem.

Mark

[Mark Raudonis]

Joe,

If you want to REALLY maximize your color correction capabilities, investigate a program called “Final TOuch” by Silicon Color. It’s a separate program that uses XML to take timelines in and out of FCP. However, once you’ve got the info in the program, the degree of control and manipulation rivals that of a daVince color correction suite. (Minus the realtime capabilities, of course).

Final Touch lists for $999 for the SD version and goes all the way up to a 2K version.

Mark

[Mark Raudonis]

Morten,

Go to the AVID forum here on “the cow” or the “Avid L-2″ on Yahoo and ask the question,”Are you happy with your Adrenaline?”. Follow that with, “Do you think it’s a good value for your investment?. Then ask, “how much of a premium can you charge to work on an AVID vs FCP?” With the answers to these questions in hand, you can make an informed decision.

My opinion would be to stick with FCP, but add functionality like “Final Touch” by Silicon Color for color correcting, or “Shake” by Apple for complex compositing. Here in Los Angeles at least, the pendulum is swinging TOWARDS FCP and away from AVID.

Mark

[Mark Raudonis]

[John Pale] “It took me less than a minute to find this stuff.”

Amazing what happens when you type a keyword into the help window.
A prerequisite for posting on this forum should be, “Did you check the ‘help’ file?
The results are certainly faster and often more accurate that what you get here.

Mark

[Mark Raudonis]

[gary adcock] “Even Xsan has some issues with 2 users having the same video file open at once. “

Gary,

Not true. We’ve had many users hitting the same file on a regular basis. I’ve never done an exhaustive test, but on any given day we could have up to 10 editors pulling from the exact same file. (The main title for example, which is shared on all episodes).

I’m not denying the complexity of the setup process for X-SAN, which is why Terrablock is so appealing to smaller shops, but when properly configured, X-SAN does deliver what it promises.

Mark

[Mark Raudonis]

Todd,

Terrablock (AKA “SAN in a Can”) has gotten good reviews and is well accepted in the community. It shines in a small scale environment where you don’t have the $$$ or time/talent for a more complex system. Sounds like a good fit for you.

As for project sharing… there is no free lunch and it’s going to be more complicated with the limitations of your Terrablock “volume based” system. If you want true scalability and univerasal sharing, you’d want to be looking at X-SAN.

I really don’t understand all this “hooey” about “project sharing”. Anyone coming from an AVID environment trys to scare the pants off of you by saying “you can’t share projects”. With FCP, essentially, the SAN IS THE PROJECT. (At least with X-SAN). We’ve developed a workflow with many, many editors (almost 100) where we regularly copy and use each other’s projects. It’s not a problem. You just have to organize your media in a “global” way that everyone can understand. And, of course, using the filename to add comments (like many Avid users do) is also not a good idea. That’s what the “comments” column is for.

Mark

[Mark Raudonis]

[Scott] “Geez, Apple, have you ever actually worked in the biz? If so, surely you must know how insane this arrangement is in what we like to call “the real world””

Come on, Scott!

As a matter of fact, I happen to work in “The Real World” (the one on TV). We’ve had NO PROBLEM setting up our FCP/X-SAN system to do exactly what you’re complaining about. It helps to read the manual and learn about how you can set FCP to direct data to exactly where you want it to go.

mark

[Mark Raudonis]

This inability to “see” clips unless you’re on an AVID is one of the reasons we switched to FCP. With our entire workgroup connected via X-SAN, anyone on the net can simply double click on a file and it opens in Quicktime player. You don’t even need FCP. PC ‘s work too. Very convenient.

Mark