[Paul Dickin]

[Jason Brown] “Has anyone ever had a riser go bad?”
Hi
I remember reports of this sort of problem when the Mac Pro first came out – only AFAIR it was the motherboard connection that failed rather than the riser.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
I replied to this thread (at exactly the same time as Jason P) , but it doesn’t show up in thread view…???
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/1022667

[Paul Dickin]

[Jason Brown] “does anyone know how to get to this utility on a mac?”
Hi
Apple Menu>About This Mac>More Info>Hardware/Memory

The memory installation you listed doesn’t correspond with any of the configurations shown in the Apple knowledge base link.
Quote:
…you must not have… three DIMMs on either riser at any time.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
As Walter indicated, here’s what you want to discuss with Sonnettech:
https://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
This Apple document about HDV dates from very early in FCP 5’s lifetime:
https://support.apple.com/kb/TA23119

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Those head hours look good (less than half mine), but the deck’s been on doing nothing day in day out for years….

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
A VAR is a specialist (re)seller, who can give you advice – there are some in the UK, so it depends where you are based.

To edit DVCProHD you need additional hard drives – you can fit 3 more inside a Mac Pro, so buy them at the same time as your additional RAM (ie not from Apple).

You should also have an external backup hard drive – a big FW one (or more) will do nicely.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
The Mac spec looks fine, but one 20″ screen wouldn’t work for me managing big projects – you need two so you can see all the bins.

Assuming you will edit in standard def DV format, working with 250 hours of source footage needs up to 4TB of disk space. Plus more of less the same for backup.
The FW drives will work fine for backup, but Sata/eSata is much better for working drives.

As the others have replied while I was posting this 😉

So I’d add 3 additional hard drives internally in the Mac Pro, and an eSata 4 channel card and an external 2 or 4TB external drive setup – your supplier should be able to recommend a matched card/case setup.

[Paul Dickin]

[Lisa Rolley] “nobody actually addressed my question…”
Hi
Since you didn’t tell us what delivered end-product you are trying to edit for (broadcast/DVD/web), we can’t tell you how to prepare your ripped movies – each format requires a different type of FCP setting.

“FCP reads it as: DivX 6.0”
Like MPEG-2/4 movies, that isn’t an edit-friendly codec, so is probably worse as a source file than native MPEG-2 movies straight out of the VOBs.

“I was thinking a DV sequence with Square aspect ratio,,,”
DV doesn’t work that way – its a non-square pixel codec through and through.

MPEG Streamclip has good rescaling functionality, so if you can’t rip the DVDs again, then use Streamclip to resize all you movies as it Exports them to the appropriate format for your edit Sequence.

Use the Anamorphic check button for your wide-screen movies if you are editing for a non-web delivery.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi Cory
Tell me please what mind-reading software do you use to read a post made while you are preparing a reply?
Chris Poisson on Jan 27, 2009 at 8:07:13 pm
Paul Dickin on Jan 27, 2009 at 8:09:24 pm

Sorry you’re so out of sorts today – I hope Ron L doesn’t hold it against you 🙁