[Peter Dunphy]

Hi Stephen

Thanks for your kind response – I really appreciate it.

I’ve watched some of your tutorials here and found them to be very good – in particular a templates tutorial I watched was excellent.

Could you just clarify a couple more things for me please? They probably seem like really dumb questions but I just wanted to play safe and be absolutely clear before delving into Motion properly. I’ve had a hunt in the forum archive but have gotten myself confused on what I guess should be pretty simple things in Motion!

I have a 1 TB boot/system drive (which has my overall Project folder ‘SM01’ on it) with my MacPro and an external D800 Raid 5 (which has my Final Cut Pro Documents folder on it)

1. When I click ‘Save As’ in Motion should I be saving to my 1TB system boot drive in my overall Projects folder ‘SM01’ with ‘Collect Media’ ticked?

2. Or, should I ‘Save As’ directly to my external D800 Raid 5, again with ‘Collect Media’ ticked?

3. Or should I keep ‘Collect Media’ always unticked?

4. I’m importing ProRes 422 material into Motion (which I’d captured via HDV-ProRes422) – is the * HDV 1080i50 preset still okay for me to use despite the footage being ProRes?

Any thoughts whatsoever on any aspect of the above would be really appreciated.

Peter

[Peter Dunphy]

Just noticed this in the product specs for these speakers:

“The MA-15D’s offer input from digital sources through either the Coaxial or Optical S/PDIF ports, supporting up to 24-bit/192kHz sources. With this, you can connect digital sources directly to your speakers, keeping an unadulterated audio signal all the way to the power amplifier in your speakers. Hear exactly what you have recorded!”

[Peter Dunphy]

Saw this on another archived forum ” the problem is that speakers are, by nature, analog devices. They require an analog signal, and the electrical wattage of that signal determines volume levels. For a speaker to accept a digital input would require that the speaker have its own built-in digital-analog converter and an internal amplifier. I don’t know of any that have this.
You definitely need a device of some sort that can convert the digital signal and amplify it for the speakers. Usually this task is done by a receiver.

Your easiest route, if you want to use the digital outs, is to just find a cheap (even used) receiver with a Toslink input. ”

I could have sworn I read that I’d be able to use the Belkin Digital Optical Audio Cable with my Edirol MA-15D speakers.

Would you have any suggestions for a good quality, cheap as possible, receiver please?

Thanks in advance

Peter

[Peter Dunphy]

Yep I’d love to know if the software has taken advantage of the 8 core MacPros but can’t see anything about that yet.

[Peter Dunphy]

ha ha excellent post :o)

[Peter Dunphy]

Thanks for your feedback David and Rudy I’m just now getting my MacPro setup. It has the 4870 graphics card and 8GB Apple RAM – looking forward to running Motion on it! I’m hoping that when I ’roundtrip’ from FCP to Motion, when I bring the clip back into FCP, I’m hoping that the rendering speed will be much quicker than it was on my Intel iMac.

[Peter Dunphy]

Thanks so much for your excellent prompt responses David and Jeremy I really appreciate them.

Peter

[Peter Dunphy]

Hi guys

I’m about to buy a Sonnet fusion d800 Raid to complement an 8 core MacPro, and was wondering if there are other tips such as setting it up as “Advanced” which was mentioned in this thread that might be useful?

I have never setup a Raid before so would like to be as careful as possible. Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

I intend to use the Raid 5 in connection with Final Cut Studio – am I safe to assume that once the Raid is set-up it will show as a single hard drive on my desktop? If that’s the case, I suppose I would choose that ‘single hard drive’ as my Scratch Disk?

Much thanks in advance for any thoughts you can offer.

Peter Dunphy

[Peter Dunphy]

Hi David

That’s great advice thanks – I’m based in the UK so I guess I do feel more comfortable knowing I’m dealing with a nearby reseller. I’m never really put parts in computers before apart from installing Ram so I think it’s better to play safe and have the reseller (who unfortunately mentioned they couldn’t employ the optical drive solution you suggested that CalDigit can) ‘hold my hand’ throughout the setting up of my Raid solution.

Thanks again for your advice, and have a great weekend!

Peter

[Peter Dunphy]

Hi David

Sorry for any confusion. Below is the info/email in quotes I received from the reseller:

“Just keep the one disk in the mac pro ( or maybe 2, so you can have a backup of your system)

Forget the raid card and internal disks

Use one of these instead – https://www.jigsaw24.com/default.aspx?ITEM=JIGSX183ARA

Its external, so if your mac breaks then you can still get to your storage. You can also transfer it to use on a different machine. Its fast enough to cope with 3 streams of video at prores format. Costs about the same as the mac pro with internal raid and disks”