Nate
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I have Weibe tech Duo dock, Granite Digital dual hot swap rack mount, worked with Lacie D2’s, and do my main editing with my Medea scsi terrabyte… Last January, I got tired of buying name brands Fire wire, I wanted a Firewire 400 with hot swap HD capability and inexspensive was my target. My research found that there are 2 basic firewire bridge boards/chip sets, both very stable technology.. So I went to CompUSA purchased an external Firewire inclosure that would fit a DVD/CD drive, purchased the Hot swap HD cage that would normally go in a PC and extra HD trays to fit it and then I purchased a Western Digital 300gb HD. For under $85 I had a Firewire 400 enclosure with removable/hot swap HD tray and the WD was about $180 at the time. I drill 2 holes, used 2 pop rivets to assemble the enclosure, install the HD into the tray and was up and running in less than an hour… It is working so well that I purchased a second one and will probably get a third for the other edit suite. The best part is that each client now has their own HD in a tray that I change at will. I do eject and power down the drive before I exchange drives. Yes the little fans are noisey until the drive warms up and the blue lights on the sides are cool, and considering the price /performance I am waiting to hear a better story.
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I have noticed the one second delay also. Sound Soap works great except for that delay. Sound Soap cleaned up the audio on old 3/4 tapes perfectly except at the very begining. You would think that there is a practical solution.
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If the sky is totally blown out, try keying it out and replace it with beautiful clouds or sea scapes. I keep pictures of storm clouds at 20,000 feet around just to fix bad over-exsposed skys.
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The article about the new HD camera under 20K was just as interesting
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Are you using a Video card, Cinewave, Kona , etc…….
Set your capture now to 10 minute segments, Plug your camera in- capture 10 minutes at a time of Client/key…. Key capture footage over cityscape, show client last 10 minutes…. Choregraph next ten minutes.
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Peter, when you say dual boot, do you mean you have both OSX and Windows XP running at the same time?
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I purchased my second DVD duplicator from Tape Central ( ask for Jason- 877-432-tape) I had a thousand piece order and did not want to do that on my 3 burner. They are both Acard DVD towers and have been great. The new one is a 9 burner with hard drive. Jason matched the best price I could find on the net (Australian) under $1,100.. And he will do the yearly service firmware upgrades. You can’t build one for this price with the latest Pioneer drives, Hard drive, and service. I thought about building one and then I thought about having one that worked reliably.
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Just last week I had 40 tiffs go off-line and would not reconnect. They all had names but FCP HD wanted to reconnect ‘unknown” for all of them.. weird.. After cussing and pissing at the wind, I sat down and reconnected each one individually. It took about an hour to reconnect manually each one, and about five hours of swearing and looking for a better way first.
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Yes, It is called hit the space bar on the keyboard. A client did a great “Key Note” presentation this way for the boss. Hit the space bar the transitions play – new slide, hit the space bar they stop on slide. Save your Keynote as a quicktime movie and it plays on PC. But it is a pain in the neck to edit into the video of the boss yaking for 45 minutes, cause you have to freeze all those slides to get enough time to disolve to the boss. and back.
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I have tried selecting a group of tiffs in the timeline, a folder/bin in the browser and I copied the folder of tiffs back to the desktop hoping that fcp would think it was the original… fcp just starts looking for ‘unknown’ in non-existant folders