[Michael Locke]

Thanks Jonathan,

I guess the practical question is is there an adaptor for the lens/camera you want to work , or not. The mm are academic. I was of course thinking of adaptors, reading a Matthew Duclos piece,
https://matthewduclos.wordpress.com/
and wished I had a chart for which lens sits closest to the sensor, or which mount diameter is largest. So many manufacturers in so many industries, and so few work together… thanks again, ML

[Michael Locke]

…the rest of the story,

The s-curve provided by Technicolor for the Cinestyle is a .lut file and therefore in 1D(imensional) color space. LUT Buddy can only give you those options to convert to.

Hit “Convert”! Note the LUD is now 3D, 32-bit. GO BACK to “Export”, note ALL the 3D options.

Moral of the story: know your LUT color space…ML

[Michael Locke]

OK kids,

Figured out most of it. Start with this thread https://www.oldguywalking.de/blog.htm

Notes for newbies: “MacHD” means the actual hard drive your OS is on (NOT your customer-named drive with Documents and Downloads- it has a library too).

After the “License” step, it jumps past “Destination Select” to “Installation Type”, and “Back Up” doesn’t take you there either. It’s OK. Use the TINY up/down arrows in the “Location” column to access the options. A dialog box of presets opens, pick “other” at the top, and that will open up a customizable file pathway described in the thread: MacHDLibraryApplication SupportAdobeCommonPlug-insCS5.5CREATE FOLDER HERE“

Red Giant tech is getting back to me on how to “Export LUT” with a .cube suffex for AE/Resolve.

Will pass it on. Never give up…ML

[Michael Locke]

And for those of us who haven’t invested in more than a Macbook Pro, why would they think we’d ever invest any deeper? HP, Dell, Adobe must be ecstatic. Still not a MS Windows guy, but even they don’t just kill off Word (or make it entirely incompatible w previous versions). MC and Adobe look like my choice (RIP Color), and not on Mac hardware…ML

[Michael Locke]

Indeed, practical logic. Data loss is not an option. Thanks again for reality check…ML

[Michael Locke]

Sensei Soyka,

Thank you for big picture view; ahh, so many things that can go wrong. But I’m troubled:

“… RAID controller failure,” am I mistaken that if my little Oxford chip dies, can’t I take the good drive
(from a RAID 1 dual-drive) and put it in a single enclosure and access the data? Hope this is more of a
RAID 0/5/6 thing (striping?)…ML

[Michael Locke]

Ahh, Small Tree guy,

I’m honored.

I’m realizing most “faster, better” features with computer hardware is aimed at “Tour of Duty” players than swapping 200G of prores around. Love to see an AJA test on one, say in a VR Mini. But then I’m not a big Seagate fan anyway. Thanks for the practical insight, you guys are priceless…ML

[Michael Locke]

So Bobby,

No worries, just hoping you didn’t have a feature shot on a Red coming up. Firewire is fine for that data rate; but I hear you, can’t see why tbolt won’t take off. That said, dual drives are a good thing; I didn’t consider buying anything that wouldn’t give me back-up on download. The two drives have a controller card (RAID) that splits the incoming data so it: writes the same exact files to both drives(RAID1), writes half the files to each drive(RAID 0). I only have 1TB storage total(w/TWOx1TB 3.5″ drives), because each drive is an exact copy of the other. MY plan is to daisy chain another dual drive thru the eSATA, and run that in RAID 0 for editing (more speed demanding, use 7200RPM). Since my DSLR files are all SDHC/CF cards, downloading the originals in RAID 1 is no penalty from the drives (I don’t have 90MB/s cards), and instantly safer. Until you need +4TB, don’t even worry about the rest of the RAID #’s (though it’s good to know); just think RAID 1=safe mirrored data to both drives, RAID 0= twice the storage space (and better sustained speed) BUT no safety when one dies (it will- only when it’s important). Hope this helps…ML

[Michael Locke]

Hi Bobby,

I thought I’d save the real pros the trouble, and go over some basics. I’m just an industry infant, but I know what I don’t know; and you don’t yet. Here’s some help: 1) What do you do with your Macbook Pro and assorted hard drives? “…editing,etc.” doesn’t say much, and what/how you edit matters most. 2) Hardware/software specifics are critical to answering questions (say, 2010 13″ Macbook pro w/ OSX 10.6.7, Final Cut Pro 7, DSLR footage,etc). Most on this forum are longtime professionals, and without all the info you can give them, responses will range from none, to annoyed. BUT, some answers are universal so: 1) drives ALWAYS fail (just when), size (Gb) isn’t the biggest factor on that. Beware of all eggs in one basket. 2)RAID systems RULE: they bundle multiple drives to share the work (speed) AND redundantly copy the data (safety), so when one of the drives fails you can still get at your files. The different RAIDs are an easy Google, but we get back to what are YOU working with; thus your needs. 3) Your internal SSD in your Macbook Pro is “fast” because it’s connected by eSata: with only FW800(<80MB/s) on the laptop an external SSD would probably not “hiccup” (no disc to spin up), but would be a waste compared to a 7200RPM drive (think, 1000HP engine in car w/skinny tires). I know because FW800 is all I have, like you; so I chose a dual (3.5″ 7200RPM) drive with a quad-interface (USB2.0,FW400,FW800x2,eSata). Mine has RAID 0 (both drives get 1/2 the data=NO safety,but speed) and RAID 1(both drives get ALL the data=safest possible with 2 drives). It’s my home/important drive so it’s in Raid 1 attached via FW800, while my portable drives use the USB connections. However, I’m hoping to expand my storage and “daisy chain” my drives (connect drives directly to one another through the extra/unused eSATA/FW800 ports), so they can at least “talk” at eSATA speed as I only have the one FW800 port on my 13″MBP. Don’t know if I trust the “cloud” yet (online service dependent, yes?); my partner has our files too at a second location (think fire). So: what you need now, AND what you can spend; hopefully expandable for your future. Sorry this got long. Study, listen, learn, and give back. Now back to work…ML

[Michael Locke]

Hi Ralph,

I had good luck with PhotoRec. https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Freeware. (thanks again Jonathan Zeigler) https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/280/507#678

Took about 6 hours to rebuild 14G of files (MVI #’s were gone, but content was same number of files, full duration). My problem was just saving/copying files though, I could view from the card. Lots of support at the site to walk you through the austere interface. Good luck…ML