Peter Wiggins
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Good question and maybe the biggest change in the recent update. Probably explains too Apple’s reluctance to keep supporting AE filters.
My guess would be FXPlug support across all the apps and more processing on the GPU.Graeme is the FXPlug guru round here….
Peter
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Try the Matrox MXO to get a broadcast output from the DVI out of your MBP
There is a Sata express card that runs at 3Gig for the MBP too.Peter
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Maybe bigger news is the support of FXPlug across the apps
Peter
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Worse than that, for some Sans, SanMP being one, each client is assigned a ‘volume’ Now, only that client has read/write privileges and all the other clients have just read. Also the clients take a ‘snapshot’ of all the other volumes when they are mounted, which means if another client digitises a clip or even saves a later version of a project after you’ve mounted the volume, you can’t see it.
You really want that clip? OK, to see it you have to quit all applications that reference that volume, unmount then remount then reboot FCP. In another words, put the kettle on.
Volume sans are cheap if you can put up with the limitations.
I won’t go into losing render files, buggy DVD SP performance (multiple users making a DVD, what ever next!) or even something simple as one itunes library.Buy a file based system, get it running, then forget its there.
Peter
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[Boyce Johnson] “MetaSan is file-level, isn’t it?”
I’m pretty sure it is. Graeme Nattress did a good test but has been a bit scarce round here recently.
Again today I am completely p****d off by SanMP running volumes, wasted time & effort 🙁
Peter
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[walter biscardi] “I know several companies using them and they have been superb both in their operation and Facilis support.”
I know a company that is very unhappy with theirs. I’ll try & find out some details. There is also that file number limitation problem that was mentioned here before. So be careful how you format it.
Is the Terrablock volume based? Does it ‘snapshot’ on mounting or does it update?
I have my final week with a volume based San starting today and to be honest, I will be quite glad to get back to a file based system.Peter
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I’m pretty sure that Apple want plugin writers to drop AE filters and move to FX Script & FX Plug.
AE filters won’t be accelerated by the GPU and thats the way things are going.
Peter
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You need to ask yourself these questions:-
1) How many clients/seats do you need?
2) What data rate you need per client?
3) How much storage you will need – taking into account overheads
4) Volume or file based?Then compare all the systems and how they match your needs. Personally I would stay away from the ‘San in a Can’ solutions like Terrablock. Having worked on both volume & file based systems, I would strongly recommend a file based system such as Xsan, which is really only a rebadged ADIC. Volume based systems really suck and forget trying to master a DVD on multiple stations.
Take a look at Xsan from Apple and Metasan from Tiger Technologies.
Peter
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I had a corrupt clip in a hour long show that caused a crash similar to yours.
FWIW, how I fixed it was to make a duplicate of the timeline, then halve the show to isolate the first part.
This worked ok so the problem was in the second half.Then I did the same but this time halved the ‘second half’ of the show -the first quarter of that would crash on playing.
By doing that over & over I narrowed it down to the corrupt clip quite quickly, made it offline then recaptured.
Hope that might help,
Peter
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Even quicker if you make a droplet on your desktop 😉
Peter