Matt Doe
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While I haven’t been booting from external drives, I’ve been using them for years as media drives for FCP and the like. I’ve used all kinds of drives fro 250gb up through 3TB drives with no problems; I don’t think there is a Mac OS limitation to sizes of external drives. I’ve had a 8TB Drobo external drive connected to my Mac Pro for over a year and have had zero issues.
I see no problem with upgrading to any size drive either externally or internally (I currently run 4, 1TB drives in my Mac Pro).
As far as how many drives you can hook-up. You can daisy chain as many drives as you want, assuming you have enough power. I may be mistaken, but unless you RAID those drives, you will see a performance decrease as you add more and more drives simply do to the limitation of the transfer speed of the connection type, FW400, FW800, ESATA or whatever.
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Assuming the clips did not go through some form of conversion to 23.98 before being handed off you to, from the looks of it those clips would have been shot with a 7D.
Regardless, you should give PluralEyes a try to sync the WAV files with the footage
https://www.singularsoftware.com/pluraleyes.html
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When you capture the audio is already in-sync with the video no? I imagine you want to sync it with another camera from the same scene?
Run your clips through:
https://www.videotoolshed.com/?page=products&pID=26
It will add the LTC timecode to the Aux TC field, and you can sync if with your other footage from there.
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Good to know, I will keep that in mind going forward as we get footage back.
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Jeremy, thanks for the link, I’ve run a few tests with sequenceliner this morning and it appears to be an amazing utility.
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Alas I am long since out of warranty on the box, purchased way back in 2006.
Any recommendations of PCI fans or other after market cooling? Also, any tips on installing, mainly, where would the power come from?
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That is what I’ve been reading around the internets. I downloaded the SMC Fan Control preference and while I can’t control the fan on the card directly, I have found I get a bit more stability by doubling the speed of all the other fans in the case. I have been able to work uninterrupted in Color with the fan speeds doubled.
If it starts to freeze/crash again, I will up the fan speeds again, there is still quite a bit of headroom in the SMC controller for the fans. I am trying to eek out as much life on this card as possible.
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Chris is right, capturing to ProRes is the way to go, totally forgot about that option (even though that is what I do with all my 5D Mark II footage) with my first response.
You will not be compressing the footage more by capturing to ProRes
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Has the footage been captured yet?
If not, you want to capture native to what was shot, in this case HDV. The easiest way to go is use the Easy Setups in Final Cut to match what you shot and capture over firewire.