[Rainer Wirth]

Hi Rob,

transcode your 1080 files to ProRes422 with 30 f/s.

cheers

Rainer

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi Jared,

why don’t you hire Bob and let him earn some bucks.
This is not so easy as it seems.
Plus you will learn a lot

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi folks,

a H264 codec is basically a non editing format. The better codec is ProRes.
But the ProRes is far bigger than the H264.
As you have analog Material, the quality of the H264 is fine.
For archiving you can use the H264. When you have to edit something you can convert the H264 into a ProRes file. When you have the ProRes file you swop the H264 for the ProRes and you can delete the H264. That is how I would do it,

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

A disc failure happens from time to time.
For that reason you have a redundant system,

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi Rich,

the most important feature of the IMacPro is that it has 4 full TB3 connections.
The IMac has just 1 full TB3 connection.

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi Nathan,

defragmentation on a Raid doesn’t make sense. What would be the order of the defragmentation, when you use 4 HD’s and all the data is written over it?

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi Anuk,

the Raid has a thunderbolt 2 connection. Is your macbook on thunderbolt 2 or 3.
If it is thunderbolt 3 you need a thunderbolt 2 to thunderbolt 3 adapter.

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi Robert,

we have had several failures. It happens from time to time. No problems so far with Raid6.
With Raid5 we have had one total data loss in 15 years. We back up all files twice, plus on the raid.
This is pretty safe. We have also got a USV in case of power failure.
For every raid there is a drive compatibility list. All drives used in the Raid must meet these tec specs and all the drives used within a Raid must be the same size and Number. Do not mix drives.
A drive (24-7) dies either at the beginning (you have a 5 years warranty) or at the end of its lifetime (around 50.000 working hours)
We use only 24-7 drives from the compatibility list.

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi Jenn,

you need to buy a NTFS driver for mac.
This let you read and write NTFS formated drives and of course the Mac formatted drives.
We use NTFS formated drives all the way even on older macs – of course with a NTFS software package. For example Paragon, around 20 bucks.
cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi Shamir,

the only option you have got is to paint the floor with greenscreen colour.
For keying you need a hardware key like Blackmagic Ultimatte.
The only software you can use for advanced keying is Autodesk smoke.
Cheers

Rainer

factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems