[Max Karli]

Hi there!

We’re actually having exactly the same problem this morning, as of this morning the raid started by not mounting, finally it did, but in the atto config tool it’s stated as “degraded” and one of the disk is showing as unavailiable.

We have access to the raid. It’s a 12to raid with 9to of shot and edited material. I’m a bit stressed about losing the material.

Should I rebuild it? Or first make a mirror copy on another raid?

Yes I read the “Do not use Seagate” there are 8 of them in the machine, why should I not, if I may? 🙂

Thank you for any feedback on that matter!

MK

[Max Karli]

Done… nothing changed.

I removed the all BM cards and drivers using only the GPU. It is having a it of hard time as we working with HD material. Nevertheless no more green flashing. But of course the render on the monitor which is now a computer monitor is far less good.

I posted the question in the BM forum.

Thank you for your inputs!

[Max Karli]

ok, but as I said, the green surfaces are only on the Canevas and the other video window of FCP. If the Graphic card was out, it would be on the whole screen! Wouldn’it?

[Max Karli]

Hi Rafael,

Thanks for your input!

Sick cards… arf… the Macpro is very new… Well it happens no?

My thinkings: The Mac used to have a Intsity Black Magic card – > Green on computer monitor. (The intensity is a cheap card (too cheap?) with a HDMI connection to the HD monitor. The HD monitor did not go green.

I changed it recently to a used Multribridge Pro previously installed on an other MacPro where there was no problem. The problem continues but now there is also a green problem on the HD monitor. The difference is that it is linked with an SDI connection. Maybe the previous HDMI connection did not know what the green was and did not transmit it.

So I would say that the BM cards are not involved in this problem.

The Graphic card? It’s the preinstalled Nvidia Geforce GT 120. Does it have any influence on FCP and the dealing with HD (or other) video materials? I couldn’t say.

[Max Karli]

Hi!

Sorry I did not come back earlier we’re bit under pressure here.

Anyway, I asked the DP and yes he is filming in Cine Rec. He explained thann to me everything he was doing, but I wouldn’t be able to reproduce everything here.

As for the postproduction of the material… What about the new fcp? 😀

I ordered a couple of upgrades right away, hopefully it will arrive today and we’ll run some test about the avc-intra native editing! Which will be a bit in contradiction with one of the replies here above saying that the AVC was not a post production codec!

As for the Prores and RED story. We went in a lab this morning to check the HDcam we received. Some dark scenes were a bit noisy and the guy from the lab started moaning about the prores without knowing that we had edited and mostly color graded in prores! My Dp went all crazy about it! So now he doesn’t want to hear about it for the post production of the actual show we’re shooting.

I talked to my editor about the possibility of editing in avc-Intra. She said why not but she’s afraid it might be “goppy” and not frame by frame as Prores…

Help 😀

Thanks again for all your inputs!

[Max Karli]

Well two things:

For the Red Story. The person in charge of the transfers from RAW to Prores did it believing that we go back to raw for the color correction. So he did a *one light* on all the raw material. We then had a ProResHQ material. The Colorist was very good in at Digimage, a big lab in Paris. I think they work on Lustre Systems. Anyway, the money ran dangerously out and we decided to skip the conformation. The DP was a bit mad for not having all the latitude he wanted, specially on the high contrasts.

As for the next shoot, we’re running some tests next week, I just wanted to be a bit more sure of what I’m talking about.

Thanks very much for the inputs!

[Max Karli]

Thank you Jeremy!

Actually yes I do have one last question. I’d love to reassure our DP that when we go to post the AppleProresHQ will be great for Color Correction!

We had a small situation on another film shot on RED as for economical reason we did not go back to the raw footage but corrected the Prores… He was not happy at all. Of course one some sequences he was able to color correct the raw and the difference is HUGE.

So basically the question is: Is it ok to color correct the prores or would we have a real gain by conforming the AVC intra!

Thanks again!

Max