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Thanks Kristian. I’ll try that.
Just a stupid question. You are doing HDVi50 captures over FW on a system with a BM card installed right?
The standalone QT installer will now be 7.1 or 7.1.1. No issues? Or do I have to get 7.0.4?
Neil
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Kristian,
How do you mean re-install Quicktime? Just run the 7.0.4 updater, or run a standalone QT 7 installer and then run updates as necessary?
We’re only seeing problems using the HDVi50 easy setup, not with the HDV-Apple Intermediate codec 1080i50 codec. Meaning native HD editing.
Neil
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And yes, this Universal version will run on your G5, no problems.
Neil
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One more thing,
I tried running the BM installer and uninstalling the BM card, restarted and checked. Same.
Next, when possible, will try uninstalling the card and physically removing it as well to check.
Neil
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I was merely asking about the differences between MC and AXP. Not FCP vs Avid.
I’ve used Avid MC from 1995 till 2001 regularly and not too much since then. And FCP from 2000 till now. So the FCP vs Avid is not a debate I was interested. Besides its been done to death.
Anyway, I’ll probably post this in a month when people have laid their hands on both.
But generally, (I was there at NAB and saw this new MC and Mojo SDI) before last week’s NAB announcements what was the difference between Avid XP and MC?
No more FCP please. I use it, I like it, but its not the question.
Neil
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Ron and Kathlyn,
I totally understand what you’re saying. Wait, not because of what you’ve written, but where I am. I’m not in India at the moment but in another Far Eastern country. And here I’ve spent about a week trying to communicate some intricacies of keycode to the local telecine people. But the language and cultural barriers or rather distances, is making it quite funny and… well interersting.
I guess it must be quite the same for someone calling tech support and having the call routed to another country. I totally understand… now.
Coming back to the topic of XP on new Macs, its still only the minis, iMacs and MacBooks that have this ability. Things will get interesting when the ‘big gun’ Mac desktops attain this ability. When the power of a Quad or ‘octad’ or whatever can run both XP or Vista and OSX simultaneously. It could change how software development is viewed by companies like Avid, Adobe, Sony etc. And if Win-on-a-Mac can work with capture cards from BMD, Aja, etc and Win apps could use XRAIDs and other hardware… maybe by end 06 or at NAB now?
Cheers.
Neil Sadwelkar
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I totally agree with Walter. The location of Microsoft tech support has no bearing on this.
Besides, in any case, Microsoft tech support does not operate out of Kolkata (the correct name for Calcutta). Nor, in fact do they operate out of anywhere in India. If you call Microsoft tech support anywhere in N America, you will be actually speaking to a person in N America. If your issue is something that cannot be handled there, it is escalated to the research centre in India probably.
Further, would things be different if you were actually speaking to an American sitting in Bangalore? Or an Indian, sitting in Redmond? You had stated…
“At that point you will need to call Microsoft, and you will explain to the Indian person on the line in Calcutta”
Think about it guys. Don’t get into this America India wherever thing without thinking.
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How about perfect audio-video sync (SD and HD) tape outs from a 2k sequence. Even video-only will do. So one can take a conformed 2k dpx seq. apply a LUT and transfer to tape to hand over to the sound guys. Absolute accuracy is a must.
Even LUT is optional.
Further, the ability to apply on-the-fly 24-25 fps out (or 24-29.97 for non-PAL). Meaning the aforesaid 18394 seq to be exactly XX min XX sec XX fr on tape (whatever the math). So sound guys can sync to it.
At the moment, no grading/conforming can do this accurately this time, every time.
Neil
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[Bob Zelin] “yet I have seen the “same” “hand picked” Hitachi SATA drives in XServe RAID’s die all the time”
How is that possible. The XRAID uses Ultra ATA drives. Not SATA.
I have 2 XRAIDs and have not seen the problems that you report. And I’m running since Nov 2004. Not to say that the Sonnet and Burly is not a good choice, but I have not found anything as wrong with XRAID as you’ve experienced.
In fact, another installation I was consulting for had 4 XRAIDs in an XSan and they used it for direct camera recording for a reality show which ran 6 months and there too we didn’t see the failures you refer to.
Also, the original poster hasn’t said (or I missed it) if his RAID was RAID 0 or RAID 5. XRAID is RAID 5 as installed so you are protected agains a single drive failure. Even if you choose to make one XRAID as 5,0. And there are two controllers and two PSUs so you really are protected against some single point failures.
Can you say which XRAID uses Hitachi SATA drives Bob? I thought all XRAIDs ever built used ATA or PATA drives.
Neil
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I’m going to comment on the time code and Quicktime thing.
Take a 35 mm feature film.
Shooting done on 700 rolls of film.
Telecine to DVCam tape with timecode
Telecine logs link DVcam time code to Keycode and make logs.
Capture and edit DVCam tapes in FCP.
Make cut lists and cut neg to finish film.I’ve done this activity for half a dozen films and have not lost a single frame because QT didn’t handle time code efficiently.
Don’t listen to tall tales.
Neil