Michael Peele
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Thanks for the response. Sounds like our experience with MetaSAN. It has been okay for us, though not without issues. The “Master” machine definitely enjoys better performance. Restarting a SAN client often forces a restart of the Finder on our other client, some applications handle this better than others (FCP 7 does not handle it well).
I can’t remember the cost of new MetaSan licenses, and that product is EOL’d anyways. Our last upgrades were ~$500/client.
Out of curiosity I looked a bit more into HyperFS. And although the creator of HyperFS is FalconStor, the top google links go to ScaleLogic. The FalconStor website has no HyperFS on their product list and searching their website brings up no mention of HyperFS since 2010. Has FalconStor moved on? Will ScaleLogic provide the support?
I’m not saying any of that has or is happening but it doesn’t inspire confidence. I would expect the software developer to have the most up-to-date information about their products. In addition, I really wish these companies were more transparent in their licensing prices. I understand they have resellers and hardware partners, but they could at least show an MSRP.
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Side note, I just setup a Synology 8-bay (8x6TB drives) NAS for backing up our SAN. I installed all the drives (no tools), booted and (self) updated the system, created a RAID 5 volume with an AFP share and added a DropBox app within 45 minutes. I’m getting about 80-100MB/sec writes on average for large files on a single Gigabit connection. It was amazingly painless (besides a pesky ethernet cable that would only give me 100Mb/s speeds).
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What is your device control preset setting?
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You are trying to capture SDI (standard definition?) as well as something from a camera as S-video/composite?
The Aja Kona cards can do this without a BOB. Cable connections for the SDI are simple of course – a single SDI will carry everything and the AJA has SDI in and out on the board.
Analog signals go through a breakout cable. It utilizes BNC connections, even for S-Video. You will need one of those funky s-video to Dual-BNC adapters to capture S-video. Or just use the composite input (this time just a simple BNC to RCA adapter).
Bear in mind that audio is balanced XLR for analog. A mixing board might help here.
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It sounds like some aspect of the .mp4 is not QT compliant – hence the white frame.
Have you tried installing Perian? It allows QT to work with a lot of other formats, and it’s free. -
Sweet, didn’t know the shift-f command, def. better than “reveal in finder” and dragging it back in!
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“f” doesn’t work? you should be able to place your CTI on the timeline, choose your clip and just hit “f”.
Your original media, with attached audio and such should pop up in your viewer window.
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Looks like it – they should be the same basic settings used for capture from tape, just lose the device control. I’m not to familiar with pull-downs, but if it works from tape it should be the same live.
Also, you might want to set the “Limit capture now” setting to make sure you aren’t getting cut off on long captures.
If possible, run a tape at the same time – just in case!
Also, a dropped frame might stop the capture – change your user preferences if you want to ignore dropped frames and just keep capturing.
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^^Boris Title 3D^^
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You can do this in FCP using filters – Boris has a nice optical stabilizer. There are others too.
By hand it is a bear, but if the clip is short you can do it.
Start by creating a fixed point on the screen (text overlay a period or something).
Now put the period on his nose, and keyframe his position. next frame, move his nose back under the point. next frame, move his nose back under the point. next frame, move his nose back under the point.
Scale the image up to get rid of the edges.
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The drives are formatted as HFS+, correct?