Matt Gerard
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Yes, i just updated, been waiting for it. Had to use a Firestore instead of cards on 2 shoots. My boss ordered 7 16 gig cards, only 2 of them came in so far, all are backordered, same with the 5 slot firewire reader. But, even with the 2 16gig cards, i got 64 min at DVCPRO50. More than enough. I can’t wait to be able to shoot all day and not have to worry about managing media.
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Well, if all you are relying on is the keywords, you could use a disk cataloge app like
https://www.tri-edre.com/english/tricatalog.html
or DiskCatalogeMaker
I use it on all my backup drives. It keeps an XML based file structure of the disk on my internal drive that I can search, and it will then tell me what disk the file is on, so I don’t have to have all the disks plugged in for it to work. Also really works well with DVD/CD media. Any type of storage really. Not sure if it would work for you, but it would definatly be easy to test.
Matt
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Or, we just ordered one of these. No trays, but is nicer than a bare drive sitting on your desktop.
https://www.wiebetech.com/products/rtx.php
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We have 3 edit suites all linked on a gigabit network. I can open project on another editor’s xraid (fibre channel to HIS computer) and edit the project over the network. Mostly DVCPRO50 footage, so no problem. Only hiccups once in a great while. Now, on the other had, i tried to open a motion project over the network, forget it. useless.
Not for everyday editing, but it works for us when one editor is busy, and a show on thier system needs just a couple of tweaks.
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Okay, that’s it. All this talk about corrupt P2 cards and transfers, drives going bad, funky P2 stories, I’m diggin out my old umatic decks and controller. Anyone got an old tube camera I can use? 😉
MAtt
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Yeah, you can call it bad luck, but when MacWorld etc test the drives, what do they test? Read/Write speed, Peak/RMS transfer rates, but they never test for durability, and endurance. I’ve got a SansDigital 2 drive case on my desk I use for archiving that has been turned on for over a year now, 10 hours a day 5 days a week, and I haven’t had a drive (or the case) go bad yet. But, it has a big fat fan in the back, and the case NEVER gets hot. I am a real skeptic when it comes to “Fanless heat dissipating case designs” I’m not a student of thermodynamics, but I think you need more than the 2 long sides of the drive to be touching a piece of finned aluminum to dissppiate the heat of a drive working hard.
Need a Raid, Need a Raid, Need a Raid.
Say that 5 times fast, then go get one.
Good luck!!
Matt
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One thing to keep in mind with your setup is that the data pipe, in your case firewire (800 I hope) will slow things up before a single drive will. Firewire 800 data rates are still under what the raw drive can push out.
So, in your case, unintended result is that you are sparing yourself from much misery in case one of your lacies goes down, since you have the data among 4 drives, you will only lose whats on that drive.
In our offices, until we got our xraids last year, we had a 100% failure rate with lacie drives. 8 drives on 3 different edit systems. A couple had the power supplies burn up, we were able to recover by putting the drive in a different case, other times the drive itself burnt out. I had a client that had a single lacie 250 that had (no kidding) less than 12 hours total on time crap out right at our office. Power supply crapped out. Just keep your ear open, if the drives start clicking or acting funny (taking too long to spin up, slow access time, etc) BACK UP and ditch the drive AND the case. Sorry to be so negative, but i’ve been burnt too many times by these drives. Get a drive case with a fan in it. Heat = drive failure.
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[PDPost] “This way, you can watch an entire timeline and see what clips you have coming up. FCP does not do this.”
That’s exactly what I said in the last part of my post. It bugs me that They don’t have a preference for scrolling the timeline. From the posts that are here, there are people that want FCP to do it for them, and there are those that don’t.
Digidesign gives you the option of 1) if you want to scroll or not 2) how you want it to scroll, page scroll, or continuous scroll.
Since the FCP interface has the robustness and the ability to scroll the timeline with the mouse without stopping playback (which Avid had a hard time with) you would think it would be a small matter to put in a procedure in the app to allow FCP to give you scrolling options.
Yes, it bugs me, but, I got to get a new wireless Mighty Mouse because of it!
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Not sure what you gys are talking about, there are specific ways FCP behaves depending on what you are trying to do.
1) If NOTHING is selected in the timeline, the APPLE+/- keys will zoom in and out centered on the playhead.
2) If you have a clip (or edit) selected, the timeline will zoom in and out centered on that clip/edit.
3) When playing, if the playhead goes off the screen, when you stop playback, the timeline will snap to the playhead. I just spent 10 min messing with it, and that’s the way it works. Period.
Now, the one beef I have is that the timeline won’t scroll with the playhead. That’s the one thing that Digidesign (the masters of doing stuff the goofy way) got right in ProTools. The actually give you the choice of HOW you want it to scroll.
But, small problem. I went and got a wireless mighty mouse, and now I can scroll with the playback using the scroll wheel. Oh, and if you think the scroll is too slow, hold down the option key and scroll. ZING!!!!
Matt Gerard
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Oooo, someone not happy with Color? I have Studio 2 sitting on my desk waiting to install, but won’t get to it for 2-3 weeks, as i am booked solid. Quite the quandry…