Mitch Ives
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You’ve got a good point. Apple would have been better served by putting Pro in all versions of Tiger since H264 playback is severely stunted in the standard version. You can’t hype it as an alternative to WM9 when you need Pro to get the benefits of it.
Whatever few bucks they make isn’t worth the criticism (remember it’s free in FCP5).
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[Bob Zelin] “Several SATA controllers have issues. Some work, some don’t, some are not reliable. Some take up too much space.
The bottom line here, is that the new Sonnet Tempo X eSATA 8 port card is just not reliable enough yet to recommend yet. I saw this card working at the ProMax booth, but in my own tests, and from what I heard from others, the reliablity is not there yet. Sometimes the drives mount, sometimes they don’t.”
Precisely what I’ve said in other posts. I don’t recommend the Sonnet either, particularly if they have Maxtor drives.
[Bob Zelin] “YES, you can use 2 SATA drives to do 10 bit SDI uncompressed, and now G Raid and Lacie are selling these (about $800 for 800 gigs including the controller card from Initio, but this is a 2 port card). I have not tried this yet, but I absolutely will try this.”
I don’t think you’ll be impressed. I’ve been on systems that have those and they can’t do enough tracks and have render simple stuff way too often. Tiger may improve things though…
[Bob Zelin] “For SD SDI, the new SATA solutions should be tried, as they are CHEAP, and more than enough for uncompressed SDI, or DVCProHD. But for uncompressed HD solutions, at this time, I must still recommend using the HUGE U320RX, as the only reliable solution (sorry to you
Apple XServe RAID owners). “Actually, Bob I no longer recommend anything SCSI. Fibrechannel sure, but not SCSI. I’m really surprised you’re against the Xserve RAID… I sure know a lot of people doing HD with it. FWIW, I think you’ll find the combination of two of the new SeriTek cards with four external ports each and and eight drive external stripe may make it to your favorites list for HD. Those that have tried it seem pretty impressed. I haven’t myself yet, though.
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[Adam Schmidt] ”
I don’t know what AJA thinks is wrong but everything worked.”Adam, what firmware version are you running in your Io?
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[Adam Schmidt] ”
I don’t know what AJA thinks is wrong but everything worked.”Adam, what firmware version are you running in your Io?
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So, perhaps the Io is compatible with Tiger… maybe it’s not compatible with FCP 5 until you have the new drivers? A clarification might be nice…
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I agree that 2.7 isn’t enough to get excited about. Other than the all PCI-X slots, I don’t see much. The dual layer burners can be added to other Macs and may be a short lived solution once the HD burners become standard. Good call on the reduction in DIMM slots on all but the top two models…
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I’m not sure what you’re waiting to hear exactly, but I have been doing uncompressed 10 bit through SDI for over a year using an Io and a 4 drive SATA raid. Do do serious HD will require at least 6 drives and you’ll probably want 8.
As for cases, SeriTek makes some nice two drive hot swappable cases. The four drive models aren’t out yet.
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That’s good to know Gary. I was under the impression it was only usable with the Decklink and BMD codec…
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Amazon seems to have inadvertantly leaked the details. Dual 2.7, 16X dual layer burner, etc.
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I guess if all you’re doing is cutting, that makes sense. Unfortunately, we make a lot more money doing more sophisticated editing, where Avid can’t compete. As far as customization, I find the button bars and the reconfigurable keyboard all anyone needs. IMO, it’s Avid that forces you to do things their way, not FCP…
It’s nice to have choices…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
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