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Thanks Dave. I just updated all of my FCP Studio apps and in order to do so I had a domino wave of updates to perform.
Luckily I have been too busy to even think about updating over the last few months, but I’m going to adopt a similar strategy about updates as you: Don’t do it unless I’m forced too!
And, as always, clone my system drive BEFORE I update anything
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I’m about to upgrade from QT 7.2. Dave, should I go to 7.3.1 or 7.4.1?
This is my primary edit machine so no movie rentals here anyway (that’s what the laptop is for)
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Thanks for the input guys. I went ahead and reformatted the drives into a RAID 5 and I definitely saw a performance hit, but I’m still getting 180 MB/sec which is plenty fast for what I need.
Just to make sure I did everything right I pulled a drive out while I was playing back Uncompressed 720p60 and my G5 didn’t drop a frame. Popped it back in and the drive started rebuilding (all while still playing back Uncompressed HD). I’ll keep it hooked up to this backup machine for a few weeks, but it looks like my RAID is set to go.
I got in to the habit of keeping an extra drive packed away in a drawer in the edit room for those times when the Xserve RAID would loose a drive, so it sounds like I should plan on ordering one for the G-Speed XL as well.
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Try MPEGStream Clip (You’ll also need to download and install the perian quicktime codec) it works very well and it’s free.
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They both would work, but in different ways. If you are going to have a Kona, I would go with the HD10AVA. That way, you can feed the Kona your analog signal (converted to SDI) and you can use the Kona’s built in upconvert to make it HD while capturing (very handy).
The Io-LA will add complexity to your system that you probably don’t need.
Will you need to lay off to beta though? If so, I think you’ll need another converter to go the opposite way (can’t remember if it does both or not)
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I could definitely see how the newest version of QT could cause a problem with an older version of FCP. Any chance you cloned your boot drive before you upgraded? If you did, try booting from that and see if you still have problems capturing. If you do, it’s not Quicktime causing the problem. If you can capture fine from your old system odds are the problem lies in your updates.
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Have you run the Kona System Test on your RAID? What kind of read/write speeds are you seeing?
How about Apple’s RAID Utility? Any problems with the RAID itself?
It looks like your RAID is pretty full too (350 GB free), any way you can free up some more space?
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[Bryan Duggan] “but when we export to a Quicktime movie it is ‘squeezed’ into 4:3”
Are you using DVCProHD as your codec? THat’s an Anamorphic codec and it’s putting out a 960×720 (I think that’s the size). If you are making a DVD, encode your video as Anamorphic and that should make it display correctly in DVDSP and on your DVD Player.
Another option is to “Export to Quicktime” as an Animation or Uncompressed format and and set the size to 1280 x 720 to keep the 16:9 shape if you are not going to DVD.
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With the IoHD and a MacBook Pro (with external drive) it is possible to take the HD-SDI out of the camera and digitize in ProRes direct to disk ,on the fly, in the field.
If you capture with AJA’s VTRXchange App you will be able to get HD video, audio and timecode all from the same cable.
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Agreed. I’m doing my first full project in ProRes 720p (instead of uncompressed 8-bit) and I’m very impressed. The quality looks identical to uncompressed but with over 1000 clips, I’d never be able to have all the uncompressed media on-line at the same time.