[Paul Huppe]

I’ve been using the 17″ MBP for over a week now as my main edit system and it works beautifully! I run a Wiebetech SATA expresscard with a pair of Gtech Q drives. It’s all good! I’ve been mainly working in DV NTSC, but have tested 8bit uncompressed and have had no issues.

Cheers,
Paul

[Paul Huppe]

Good reading, for sure. Just a quick question: the article says that DVCPRO HD’s data rate is 100 Mbps; yet the FCP 6 manual (page 208) says it’s only 11.75 MB/sec.

Was this a typo, or is the FCP manual wrong, or am I mising something here?

Cheers,
Paul

[Paul Huppe]

YESSS! That drives me nuts!

[Paul Huppe]

Thanks Shane,

Yeah, that would be the way to go for sure; however I’ll be capturing using the AjA IO Firewire box, so will need to go SATA to free up the connection. I just can’t seem to find a SATA solution that also has a firewire connection.

[Paul Huppe]

Thanks for the replies.

Msacci, I like your Sonnet express card solution. Do you think I can run a single LaCie d2 SATA II 3Gbits 500gb Hard Drive, or would I need to pair a couple of them in a RAID to obtain the throughput I’d need for 8bit uncompressed?

Thanks again
Paul

[Paul Huppe]

I’ve a 17″ HD/SD CRT reference monitor. I’ve also got a crappy little CRT hooked up to the end of my DVD recorders for monitoring and a 23″ Cinema Display. The sync is pretty consistent from one to the other, give or take a frame.

My monitor offset is set to 0, and I’ve never seen a problem with this before on this system.

Cheers,
Paul

[Paul Huppe]

Thanks Walter,

I guess the difference here is that occasionally when I view the timelines, the sync is perfect. There’s no consistency in the sync offset.

I’ll try calling HUGE and see if they have any ideas. Anyone else?

Cheers
Paul

[Paul Huppe]

Thanks for the reply, Jerry.

I’m already all up to date on the drivers and versions.

Is it possible that there’s an issue with transfer speed or something? My media’s on a HUGE Systems 2.5Tb tower connected by fiber channel.

Audio post is telling that there’s no consistency on the offset: at one point it’s off by 2 frames; less than a minute later it’s off by 1 frame, and on it goes.

Has anyone seen this problem?

Thanks
Paul

[Paul Huppe]

Thanks for the reply,

so this is a HD timeline? you said Anamorphic so you letterboxed it, so it’s a 2.35 program?

Sorry. Forgot to specify, it was shot in HD; we’re posting in SD.

fool around with the motion render quality (fast, normal, best). also if you’re in a SD timeline, set field rendering to none.”

Tried motion render quality – doesn’t solve the problem. Looking for field rendering option: Where do I find it? I can’t seem to see it anywhere.

Thanks again,
Paul

[Paul Huppe]

Thanks Wayne, we’ll take a look at it.

Paul