Rainer Wirth
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Hi Jesse,
no nightmare ending? Some experience sharing:
Best raids to me are FC raids. In the 90’s we stated with SCSI Raid0 raids. One HD was about 200 GB, they came from IBM. Up to 8 HD’s in one row. We worked in SD world, 50MB/s on Betacam stuff. Even when we were on Raid0 we’ve had just one drive failure within 10 years – surprising! I think, the quality of these drives have been much bigger than now. IBM doesn’t produce these drives any longer. Also the drives have been much more expensive at that time!
One of the most expensive solution we’ve invested in came after: Xraid
We’ve still two Xraids running, one with nearly 80 000 hours constantly working. Over 10 years old, still running. Okay, one or two fans, one controller, some HD’s have failed, but we’ve lost no data over 10 years within this piece of hardware!
The next step was sonnet SAS 8 bay. To me the SAS is the first step into quality Raids. It is very fast, the hardware is pretty solid and it is working under professional circumstances. But the hardware is not as solid as the FC Raid hardware (double redundancy, fans, controller, all hot swappable). Our biggest raids now are some Yotta 3 FC raids. 24 bays each raid, Raid 6 plus one spare per raid, all enterprise class drives. Up to now no HD failed.
I’ve come to the conclusion: The better the hardware (Fans, controllers, battery, back-up) the less HD failures you get. Most people want the best Raid for no bucks. People should be aware, that the cheapest solution is the most unreliable solution. Growing up is my answer. If you buy a cheap raid with lousy hardware in it, you are most likely end up with data loss.
Jesse, I think you have learned your lesson and hopefully some others, following this thread and learn without having to go through a nightmare as this.cheers
Rainer
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Rainer Wirth
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If this is your workflow,
you have to set your settings manually before you start with a new project, or change the settings manually to continue an existing project.
cheers
Rainer
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Rainer Wirth
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I recommend LaCie or Promise. In our array and raid systems forum we have a lot of trouble with G-tech products.
cheers
Rainer
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Rainer Wirth
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Hi David,
you have to encode the original camera files through XDcam transfer. It’s a program from Sony for free. Then you get a mov format for editing. XDcam files are no editing format with FCP. The best conversion programme is episode. Keep the original shot frame format, don’t convert it to progressive, because it is shot on 59.94 fps. The jittering may come from the progressive format you used in the timeline. The reason for this is the worse codec I’ve ever came across – It’s called GOP (Sony). When you have transfered the stuff into Mov with XDcam transfer you should then transfer the movs into ProRes422 with mpeg streamclip. Then you can start editing and do proper color correction.
cheers
Rainer
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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems -
Hi David,
you showed us your sequence settings. What are the original camera file settings? You can look at them in the FCP bin.
cheers
Rainer
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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems -
We are talking about some bucks here.
If you want to spend some money I would go for Smoke.
If you want it cheaper I would go for Magic Bullet. They have a noise reduction tool as well as Colorista both with FCP7.cheers
Rainer
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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems -
Perhaps the codec you shot is too new to FCP7.
It could be that its 1920×1080 60p. FCP has aged a little and doesn’t like progressive very much. Avid MC6/7 is much better for this sort of new codec.cheers
Rainer
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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems -
Digital Rebellion is your tool. It’s worth buying. It’s also good for a lot of other things.
cheers
Rainer
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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems -
One last little thing!
How did you format the array? OSX with journaling or without? Arrays should always be formatted without journaling!cheers
Rainer
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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
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Alex,
I’m not sure either, because this problem is so strange, and Jesse really tried nearly everything, that our expertise comes to the end of try and error.
I have got no new, good or better idea to work around it. Except that I’m a friend of expensive raid products, because to me I’ve never regretted the most expensive arrays. Less hustle, better reliability, longer use, in the end cheaper.cheers,
Rainer
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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems