[Neil Sadwelkar]

As a possibility, are these formatted MacOS Extended Journaled with GUID partition?
And not MS-DOS FAT32 or Apple Partition Map? I’m referring to the partition not the format. Disk Utility should tell you.

Also, is any of these Macs running Mac OSX 10.11?

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

This debate on proxy or not, seems based on shooting certain camera types. If your shoot is Arriraw, and its a feature length project (50-100 TB original media) then proxy is not an option, its compulsory.

Also, one of the lesser known features of FCP X 10.4 is that it can work with proxies generated by another app. Just came across this in an article (‘Some of the Lesser-Known New Features in Final Cut Pro 10.4’) on fcp dot co.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Have you tried MacDVDRipper Pro? I had it and used it some years ago. May still have it somewhere but don’t have an interlaced DVD to check. What I remember vaguely is that it does rip to full size files and doesn’t automatically scale down.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

I e-mailed Bru support and they provided me a fix.

But my problem also turned out to be old tapes not properly stored, so they would clog the heads, requiring repeated cleaning. Eventually my LTO drive gave up and is now getting replaced/repaired under warranty.

So, I’d say this is probably a software and/or a hardware issue.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

The T2-FW800 adapter is not reversible so you cannot use it to connect a FW800 host like an old MacPro to a new T2 device.

However, the Apple T3-T2 adapter is reversible (a similar one from Akitio is not).

So, using an Apple T3-T2 adapter you could connect the Areca T3 RAID to an older Mac mini or MacBook Air/MacBook Pro with a T2-T2 cable. Maybe you could consider (for emergencies) getting a refurb/used Mac mini or even MacBook Air, just to be able to access the Areca.

My choice would be a MacBook Air. It has a screen/keyboard/trackpad built-in, and has CPU spec similar to a Mac mini. Might cost as much as or maybe less than a Mac mini.

But, with your old MacPro, you’re out of luck connecting to the T3 Areca RAID, or even any T2 device.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

[Adam Salter] “1. Extremely fast direct connected storage that only the two of them can use simultaneously for editing large graphical files (they are insistent that they prefer this to NAS for the two of them)”
Extremely fast as in over 500 MB/sec would have to be a 6 or 8 bay RAID. Shared by two at the same speed would have to be 8 or 12 bay RAID. Connected via Thunderbolt 2 or 3.

[Adam Salter] “2. Slower connection to the same shared storage for other colleagues and clients (via !0G or regular ethernet or wi-fi) “
Only QNAP makes a box shareable over Thunderbolt, and with additional GigE ports to share with others.

[Adam Salter] “3. They want this storage to be in a RAID configuration that includes redundancy”
As above

[Adam Salter] “4. They want normal backup in addition to the RAID redundancy (from what I understand this will require another external backup drive)”
LTO is preferable.

[Adam Salter] “5. They would also like remote access to this storage”

[Adam Salter] “6. CHEAP (haha that’s the least reasonable demand, when added on top of the other requirements)”

This is the hardest part.

If you can’t afford the QNAP then use two 4-bay Thunderbolt RAIDs connected to each of the machines. You should get about 300 MB/sec to each system.
And connect them to each other over Thunderbolt so they can use each other’s storage by mounting them over Thunderbolt network. That should get about 150 MB/sec to the other’s storage.
Then get a GigE switch and connect both these to it, and the others to the switch. These other systems can mount either of the storages for slower access like about 80 MB/sec

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Neil Sadwelkar
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twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Way back in 2003, while writing for a magazine called ‘Misenscene’, in India, I got a review system of Pinnacle Liquid. This was sold in India by local Pinnacle dealers, as a card with the Liquid software. Where the software would only work with the card installed. Inside any compatible PC.

Just for memory sake, here are pdfs I had saved of the original article. In two parts

https://www.sadwelkar.com/pdf/Introduction%20to%20Liquids%20Part-I.pdf
https://www.sadwelkar.com/pdf/Introduction%20to%20Liquids%20Part-II.pdf

Later in 2003, we went around many cities in India demoing the LEP card and software. And, if memory serves me right, the local Pinnacle reseller sold tens of thousands of these units in the event/wedding/docu market locally. Having used it then while doing demos, I can attest to the fact that it was revolutionary in the way it handled compressed media.

At that time, Avid was firmly entrenched as the NLE of choice for the the close to a thousand movies edited in India. And FCP was just emerging. In the next 5 years or so, till 2008-09, Avid retained its place in the feature film sphere, but FCP swept away all other NLEs in the TV/docu space in India.

Today, 2017, FCP 7 is waning away, Prem Pro is emerging as its replacement for TV, while FCP X rules in the web video market, while Avid MC still has a stubborn but minuscule and shrinking set of ‘pro’ editors.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

And just in case you’re wondering what became of Fast, well they’re around. They are making innovative long term data storage systems. I met with their sales person at IBC this year.

https://www.fast-lta.de/en/

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

When transcoding Arri clips in Resolve,

For Arriraw, as .ari files, or ProRes .mov files, the best practice is to set ‘conform using’ to ’embedded in source clip’.
For Arriraw as .mxf (from the mini) there may be any embedded reel name in Resolve.
In that case, for those files set ‘conform using’ to ‘source name’.

So, in the example clip you’ve mentioned clip name A002C001_170909_R50Q, embedded reel name will be A002R50Q. This will be the reel name for all clips in the mag A002. That is normal.

Many people erroneously set source name for reel name in conform options. In that case, you will see A002C001_170909_R50Q.[0170891-0171586] as reel name. The problem with doing this is that in the name, 0170891-0171586 is the frame name range. If later, you were to consolidate these files to used length, then the start and end frames will change as will the reel names. That will make it hard to conform.

So, for Arri Alexa, ‘conform using’ is best set to embedded.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Amsterdam was cold and wet during this year’s IBC. I did pay a short visit to the FCP X world exhibit at the Spaces Zuidas close to the IBC Expo.
This is what it was
https://sohoeditors.com/fcpxworld/

There was a room with a table with systems showing (top of my head) Coremelt, Softron, Frame.io, Key Flow Pro, Lumberjack, and others I cannot remember. I went there to take a look at the Codex display. In one room there were presentations, one of which was workflow between FCP X and Resolve 14.

All this was on the weekend of 16-17 Sep. In the presentation schedule for the 17th Sep, there was an item called “An Exciting presentation to be confirmed soon” at 4.15 pm, but the reception had no clue what it was about even around 2pm when I asked. So, unless someone attended it, I wonder what it was.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India