Petros Kolyvas
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Funny, real, and depressing all at the same time.
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There’s definitely an issue somewhere.
Recently I had a hard disk on an array go, well, wonky. It didn’t fail so much as it was on its way out and was causing a lot of intermittent issues which I first mistook for FCP X sluggishness. As it got worse the Mac began to occasionally reboot. I mistook it for another driver issue. The similarity here is that at one point the Mac hung while a particular Library was open.
Upon reboot while the library was open a few events were missing and/or empty. Like you, if I looked at the content of the Library everything was there.
In my case, I had to restore the event from a Time Machine backup. Lost a little bit of work, but not all of it. I wasn’t able to use the FCP X menu to restore the library from a backup.
It seems that Apple needs to fix an issue where a crash might make a Library or events within it corrupt – it’s odd because we both noted that all the content was there, and so it should be rebuildable, but seemingly isn’t.
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I feel a bit of deja-vu here.
I vaguely recall this exact same discussion happening around Legacy when it started to make inroads.
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[james Lackleter] “XML import to Logic Pro X is broken.”
It is buggy with compound clips. Broken no; improvement required, yes.[james Lackleter] “And by the way OMF has been removed from Logic Pro X. “
Where did you get that idea? Apple, in their wisdom (and I think it was in this case), simplified it, by allowing you to import OMF and AAF without requiring the user to explicitly select which format they’re importing. Have a look here for some pie: https://www.apple.com/ca/logic-pro/specs/ (under compatibility) I’ve had no real issues importing AAF or OMF from applications that properly export it. Sometimes Logic does a better job than PT![james Lackleter] “You can not layer audio with WAVE files.”
I don’t do my audio mixing in FCP X, but I have no trouble laying lots of audio. WAV or AIFF. I do normalize (in the format sense, not the audio-level sense) all my audio files to 16 or 24-bit 48k beforehand though.My very-brief-story:
I was pushed back to FCP X after the Adobe CC debacle, being pushed to CS5.5 during the FCP 7 debacle. So it goes. Theres a lot to dislike about FCP X; but there’s a lot more to like and for every time I think, I wish this worked differently, I have at least twice as many moments of “I like the way this works.”
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I would jump on that if I were you! (I’m not in the market for new MPs, but I’d love to know the outcome Bob!)
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If the storage device doesn’t have some kind of NAS/shared-storage software/firmware, it’s not worth trying.
But a setup is most likely possible (all signs point to TCP/IP over Thunderbolt) where you’d connect the array to one Mac Pro via Thunderbolt, configure a share or two and the appropriate user permissions, and then connect the Mac Pros via Thunderbolt for speeds that may even exceed 10GigE and will probably provide more than enough bandwidth for a small(ish) (say 12 drives or less) array without a major speed deficit.
At least, that’s what I’d experiment with! 🙂
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[Sney Noorani] ” is this the wrong place to add I’d like a nice big timecode window in Premier like Avid has had for years”
That one they have in CS6 (and earlier), you can add a Timecode panel, select the timecode you’d like displayed and you can adjust it as large as you like. Here’s a screenshot from a current edit:
[Sney Noorani] “while it’s not the biggest burden to switch to the bar of soap (mouse), it interrupts your flow, which can be irritating especially when you’re just trying to bust through a lot of repetitive tasks quickly and your device is being inaccurate and slowing you down.”
I fully agree. In fact, my primary audio/video station has no mouse/trackpad attached to it – only a Wacom Intuos5. So using a mouse is not an option.
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[walter biscardi] “From what I gathered it was not a simple fix. Something had to be done under the hood that was beyond just a simple bug fix. “
A bug is a bug.
Ultimately, and this sounds rude but it’s not – it’s reality, whether the bug is complex or not, that’s not my problem.
It wasn’t there it wasn’t in CS5, it’s not there in CC, and Adobe reps did promise (quite loudly) bug fixes for CS6 users of which there are many.
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Funny, I believe they promised bug fixes for CS6. I reported this to them when CS6 was released 6.0 – and nothing. Wacom themselves confirmed it was a bug in CS6 immediately.
Kind of shameful for them not to give perpetual users a fix.
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There are lots of fun nested raid levels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_RAID_levels#RAID_51
There’s also some good information there on typical and possible setups.
However nested RAID is still not a backup; the minute/second/instant a file is corrupted, it’s corrupted anywhere. When you’re nesting RAID 5 in RAID 1, you’re adding a whole other level of redundancy against hardware failure, and increasing read speeds (over a single RAID 5 group).
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There is no intuitive interface, not even the nipple. It’s all learned. – Bruce Ediger