Nick Franco
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Hi Bob
ok i think i know what the problem is.
i’ve just connected the raid set to the last port on the E4P card and only 3 of the drives showed the blue light and the raid was off line. only one disk showed up in disk utility.
i then swapped the cable back to where it was originaly and the raid came on line again.
sounds like it’s the E4p Card?
would that be logical?
Nick
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Hi Bob
further to your reply ealier. i have now gone through every single drive and tested them again. i’ve had varing speads throughoutfrom 49MB/s to 71MB/s
i have not been able to test the 10bit uncompressed as i have nothing to play out to and thats when the problem usualy happens. however my next task is to try a FCP prject and see what happens.
i did buy a new Fusion D500P and i put the raid set into it and it works much better i put the raid set in the old enclosure 1 and and old enclosure 2 and they both as bad as each other. i will test them again using different ports on the E4P card and do the tests you have recomended.
just thought i’d fill you in on whats happening i’ll keep you posted
thanks
Nick
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Thanks Bob
I’ll try your suggestion and report back. i have orderd a new sonnet E4P card just incase and i can always use it in my other setup if the card is ok
Nick
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Hi Bob
also i forgot to mention i have NO Card in slot two. i hope i’ve given you enough info i’ve. if my responce was brief it’s becaus i had deleted a the internal raid withdata on it by accident, fortunatly i have the material backed up on tape but it scared the hell out of me.
Nick
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Hi Bob
thanks for your reply.
Ok i do use 10 bit uncompressed HD for certain projects (high end compositing) and the sytem has been working fine for the last 16 months and always with the 10 HDD raided at Zero. I break up the raids regularly and try and fill them up then take off what i need and then delet the raid and start again so as not to fragment the drives.
i have split the 10 drive raid into 2 5drive raids one for each enclosure. the read write speads you have mentiond are a little lower than i get but that is not the issue.
the problem i’m having is that on the smaller file type dv pal (and this is on the 5 drive raid as well) even though i get an average of 220meg per second it does drop on the graph and text (aja system test) down to as little as 10meg per second and this is whats causing my problem. even on 10 bit Sd i have the same problem.
i have checked all the hard drives and they seem ok i have removed my internal raid which was in bay 3 and 4 incase it was affecting the performance and i’ve removed my media drive in bay 2, but still no joy.
at the moment i have only my aja kona lhe card my sonnet tempo e4p card my Ati radeon X1900 card and my system drive conected to the Mac
any thoughts?
Nick
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Hi Bob
after reading all these posts i have just ordered the AJA Gen 10, i use the Kona LHE and i’ve never experienced the problem Rory has had and i’m london Based in Pal Land. however i’m using the DVW A500P and the edit to tape function Black and code hasn’t worked for me i hope the Black burst will help.
loved your rant make a lot of sense
Nick
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Walter is right the only other thing that you may be able to do is convert the file to 10bit sd in compressor then play it out.
are you yousing a raid? in theory 10bit sd should run of an internal HD
Nick
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your capture card should do the downconversion for you. what card are you using?
a little more info please
nick
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if you whant to use the f keys for FCP then go to system prefrences – keboard & Mouse and tick the box to disable the hardware functions (from then on you will need to use the F keys in combination with the Fn (function keys on you laptop) to controle hardware functions (brightness etc) then goe to dashboard expose (system prferences) and reconfigure you shortcut keys for example option F9 option F 10 etc.
this will leave you F Keys available for FCP
Nick
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Hi Guys looks like i’ve cracked it. the deck has converted it to the right frame rate. the trouble i had earlier seems to be that the were a couple of unmarked scense that were shot at 48fps
Thanks for all your help
Nick