[Mark Rodway]

Russell,

Cheers for your reply. I have had a number of ‘preference dumps’ in this time – but my settings have been :-

The original timeline was DV PAL and had corruptions exporting either as a straight FCP ‘export as quicktime’ from the timeline or via compressor as an MPEG2 for DVD. It did eventually work but only after a number of attempts at getting a clean movie.

The latest was a 1080 pro res HQ timeline and had the same issue as a straight export as quicktime and an attempt at 10bit uncompressed via quicktime conversion.

Mark

[Mark Rodway]

Aaron,

Doh………. I missed the simple answer. Select them all in your bin and right click the field dominance – change to None. All change to none. Job done.

Mark

[Mark Rodway]

I had a similar problem from a FCP5 project – but had the clips in a timeline to change. I don’t know if this will apply to you in your bins (I expect it will) – but I selected a large number of clips (the most you can do at one time is 100 – why?). I then right clicked them and selected format. This brought them all up in a window and I went through manually changing them to None fields dominance…….

As they are all in a line – it doesn’t take very long at all…..

I hope that helps….. I can’t get in front of an edit system at the moment to check – but I think it’ll work.

Mark

[Mark Rodway]

Cheers Jeremy –

I spotted that one (post issue!!!!), but unfortunately my Mac wouldn’t stay in a ‘non-crashed state’ long enough for me to install it with the X1900 in.

I’ll install it first thing when I get the replacement card. I couldn’t find out anywhere what the firmware update was for though…..

As a matter of interest – have you or anybody else experienced ‘heat issues’ with there ATTO R380?

Mark

[Mark Rodway]

Doug,

Food for thought – when I get the replacement – I’ll certainly try configuration 1. I didn’t want to compromise data throughput onto the drives….. But if you are saying that it works – I’ll most certainly give it a go.

Thanks,

Mark

[Mark Rodway]

Cheers Alan,

I’d read issues – but mainly on gaming sites where I guess the card is pushed exceptionally hard…. But not anything on here that I could dig up though…

The card is being replaced – Hopefully by Monday.

Mark

[Mark Rodway]

Zak….

Hmmmmmmmmmmm……. Had that thought too. But here’s the rub.

I tried looking at what configuration I could use to best optimise what cards I am using.

The graphics card asks for 16.
The ATTO R380 raid card asks for 8
My Blackmagic Card (God bless it….. ) Only asks for 4.

This is a rudiamentary diagram of which cards are in where and what is allocated to it.

Config Choices_________1___________2___________3__________4

SLOT4 Blackmagic______4___________8___________8__________4
SLOT3 (FREE)___________4___________1___________1__________4
SLOT2 ATTO R380______1___________1___________8__________4
SLOT1 ATI REDEON_____16__________16__________8__________4

I had chosen to run with config 3 – slightly comprimising the graphics card (as it is with the original Geforce7300GT card), in order to allow capacity for the RAID card and ATTO card etc.

It did run perfectly well with this configuration for a day – and now back with the 7300GT card is still working fine….

Any thoughts?

[Mark Rodway]

Peter,

Thanks for your assistance…..

Yes, All the fans seem to be working and indeed, I am running smc fancontrol to turn them up slightly tho keep the PCIe chamber cool.

As for running it without the ATTO card – I’d thought of that, but discounted it – as I’m going to need them both running to work in 1080 10bit. I’ve now re-installed our old 7300GT card and it’s working fine again – So temporarily I’m going to run without these effects – as it seems by far the lesser of two evils….

I’m onto apple now for any ideas / or a fix…..

Mark

[Mark Rodway]

Simon,

NTSC or PAL?????

Probably best to go FINAL CUT PRO / EASY SET UP /

Then PAL or NTSC – select the frame rate the footage is at – 25fps for PAL or 29.97fps for NTSC.

Then the slightly tricky one – match the compressor to your footage – blackmagic NTSC or PAL in my case…… But it could have been digitized at a different codec for disk space purposes…. Check the compressor bar in your browser next to the footage – this will tell you how the footage has been compressed.

Then open up a new sequence and it will automatically have these settings…..

[Mark Rodway]

Thanks Jerry and Jason, much appreciated – I have one on order.

I’ve read about some heat issues with this card though – I hope they’ve been addressed – as I’m dealing with heat issues already in the PCIe chamber with my ATTO R380 card – and it’s fondness of throwing a drive from my array. (Two new (heat-tested) cards on the way from the US as we speak. Thank goodness for RAID 5 and smc fan control is all I’ll say.