[Neil Sadwelkar]

Your second export may not have the exact settings as your first one. Avid recognises Avid DNxHD .mxf files made by Resolve perfectly.

When I render something (as DNsHD) and then later re-render it I usually move the old files out (of the Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1 folder) and then copy the new files in. That way I have files to go back to if something goes wrong.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

If you populate Avid bins by dragging the media database then you lose reel info.
Better method is to open the Media Tool (Tools > Media Tool), ask for all clips and all projects. Identify your master clips. Select and drag all from Media Tool to a bin.
All metadata intact.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

[Steve Connor] “FCPX, … is unlikely ever to reach the market size that FCP7 had”

Not too sure about that.

I would think, FCP X may not attain the same market size in the same market as FCP 7, possibly. But it might eventually outsell every other NLE but to a somewhat different market. And considering that every purchase of FCP X is good for use on 5 systems (mine is running on 3) there is likely to be a huge user base.

There’s a thread here earlier about them having sold a million copies of FCP X already.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Bob, the OP is not trying to share one TBolt storage with multiple machines over TBolt. He has this TBolt RAID connected to a MacMini and other machines and the MacMini on a GigE network. So his MacMini is a NAS. And he isn’t getting enough throughput for the shares.

David’s contention is that while TBolt RAID storage is more than fast enough, if attached to a single Mac. Once that Mac is attached to a network the same fast Tbolt RAID cannot deliver data with consistent speed to other Macs over a GigE network. It will also not work over 10GigE according to David because of inconsistencies in the TBolt TCPIP structure.

From what I understood, SAS or ESATA RAIDs do not exhibit this inconsistency.

Is this your experience too when dealing with Final Share? Meaning, in a well configured Final Share system, does it matter if the ‘server’ Mac uses SAS RAID or TBolt RAID? Meaning, can you implement Final Share using a MacMini/iMac/MacPro as ‘server’ and TBolt RAID as the shared storage, provided the other pieces are correctly specced and configured?

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

A bit off topic, but…

[David Roth Weiss] “We can use the T-bolt arrays for tier-2 backup and archive, but NOT for editing. Trust me, many have tried and failed, this a well known issue.”

So, leaving aside the sharing over GigE, you mean even if a single workstation was connected to a Thunderbolt RAID, you still cannot edit off a Thunderbolt RAID, but can off a RAID connected over SAS or eSATA, even Firewire, is that right?

I must confess I haven’t seen this issue with a MacBookPro (or iMac) connected to a single LaCie TBolt drive, or a Promise 6-bay Tbolt RAID. It works just fine. I’m using these for editing ProResHQ HD in FCP 7 as well as X. Reasonably long timelines too. Like 40+ minutes.

Also using these TBolt drives with Resolve doing long transcodes. I get sustained 24+fps reaching even 60+fps on transcodes depending on the source.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Even I didn’t get the Thunderbolt TCP-IP connection. The OP basically has a NAS.

I think the problem lies in the sharing. Maybe the switch. It may improve if the Macmini were to connect with the switch over 10GigE going into a 10GigE port on the switch if it has one.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

And all of you are ‘speaking of’ only English as it’s spoken in the US. Then there’s English as spoken in Scotland, Ireland, Australia, or heavily accented English spoken by non-English speaking people.

And just after they finish figuring out English, there’s the rest of the world, with its myriad languages. In a docu in India, for instance it’s not uncommon to have 3-6 Indian languages and languages with English words sprinkled in sentences of another language. It would take a super computer to just identify which language is being spoken. I think we are a way off from this speech-text interactivity in editing. At least on a global scale.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

And if you need to re link to original media after edit, avoid using MPEG Streamclip. It strips out all original timecode and reel name.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

If I remember right, I think I read somewhere that one stream of ProRes 4444 XQ is 62 MB/sec. So, single stream on GigE seems feasible, though might not be reliable (accounting for network overhead).

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Unfortunately I can’t up the RAM now. The SSD on board is blazing fast, however. The BM speed test shows upwards of 500 MB/sec reads and over 450 MB/sec writes. Performance that one could get only from a SAS 8-bay RAID just a few years ago. I guess this makes the difference.

Anyway, this machine was never bought as a FCP X/Resolve workhorse, but as a favour to my right shoulder on outings where only mail/browsing was envisaged.

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