Michael Todd
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You really need to go talk to a knowledgeable reseller of both systems. Usually an higher end Avid Gold reseller will have all the answers, and questions you haven’t even thought of. Example, what are you going to be using for mastering?…HD quality verses hard drive subsystem (capacity and speed)? You really do need guidance from one of the experts, not just some editors on a forum.
FYI, DNxHD image quality is awesome! DVCProHD as a codec for compositing and graphics is not good. Also, an Adrenaline does not speed up a Media Composer system as far as rendering is concerned. -
Hardware maintenance is extra…it’s not part of Avid assurance.
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Terrablock is by far the easiest, most bandwidth, and most bang-for-the-buck solution available. Their new Dyna-RAID which lets you dynamically change the RAID protection to and from Mirrored, RAID-5, and RAID-0 without loosing data! At NAB they were showing 4 of their midrange boxes connected together and they were playing 2 streams of 2K, 2 streams of 1080i uncompressed and several streams of uncompressed SD all in real time. I’d go check out a demo!
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The minimum for Xpress Pro is 1GB of RAM. RAM is cheap so I’d highly recommend getting at least 1GB or maybe even 2GB of RAM. That way you’re covered for when you upgrade to version 5 which is where you really need to be.
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Well, first thing you need to do is download a newer stable version. I think 4.1.1 is over 2 years old. You should be able to download 4.6 from: https://www.avid.com/support/downloadcenter
I’d suggest upgrading to Ver. 5.2.4 for $50.00 US:
https://www.avidstore.com/index.cfm?page=templates/product_index&categoryid=69This should help your Access Violation errors.
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I’m getting very reliable 1:1 playback off of 4 drives with RAID5 on a 3Ware controller. But if you want to go external you might also try this company: http://www.enhance-tech.com.
They use SATA drives which will connect to your system via U320 SCSI. -
Look to Terrablock http://www.facilistech.com. It’s pretty impressive.
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“There is NO offline at all if only your drives are fast enough.”
I’m sorry, but this shows you don’t know FCP very well…what do you call RT Extreme and why it’s used so heavily even if you’ve got 4Gb as your storage pipe? It’s not the storage that slows the system down it’s the software and the G5. To my knowledge all of the “real-time” you see in the FCP app is an OGL preview of some kind. This is why they can push so many streams internally, but when you setup an output device (3rd party card or firewire) your “real-time” transitions to not-so-real-time.
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Just upgrade to v.5.x so when a firewire deck is connected you can work in green dot mode, have full quality turned on and work in real-time.
That’s right, real-time firewire output at full quality…no rendering. I don’t believe FCP can do that. -
You should be able to work just fine in the config you’ve discovered. The only thing is you didn’t need to turn on the RAID capabilities. You could have just had it attached as dumb storage, individual drives, and partitioned them in Disk Management.
Don’t waist your money on a “RAID” card. There’s no advantage in having a hardware RAID-0 over Windows Disk Management striping. Just buy a quality SATA controller with 4 ports and create equal stripe sets that are no more than 200GB. For this type application I’d only buy a SATA RAID controller if I were going to run with RAID-3 or RAID-5.