Ralph Bertini
Forum Replies Created
-
I’m not entirely sure why you would want to do that. You’d be looking to have all 4 cameras visble on one screen similar to a security monitoring setup? The only way and I’m really old school, would be go into some kind of switcher and create a quad split or… get a multiplexer (ikegami makes one) which will display 4 simultaneous images to one screen. The downside is, you’re then in the analog world (if it matters) and you’d have to go into the new i/o box or an aja i/o to get into the mac. Next the issue of timecode would play into it too. You weren’t specific on the end use of the config you want. You could possible go thru a DV deck to into the mac but again there’s timecode issue. Good luck – Ralph
-
Just thought I’d share what I found out. Docs didn’t help much. In the PDF they showed how to hookup the G Raid (like anyone with a pulse couldn’t figure that out). The picture depicting hookup to the secondary FW card shows the card in the top slot, #4. So I put it there, works fine. Maybe it’s just me but if I were selling a product, especially an add on card I’d provide adequate info on installing it.
-
Slots 2, 3 and 4 are available. Slot three is a PCI express X 8 slot, wouldn’t it be better there???
-
Don’t skimp on drives. There may be more affordable options out there but it isn’t worth the lost productivity and hasle of dealing with drive problems. G-tech is very highly regarded and seems to be worth the investment. Whatever you buy heat is a major consideration. Lacie’s run VERY hot. Just about everyone out there has drive horror stories with just about evry drive manufacturer. Mine happened to be with seagate. For all the grief I’d wished I had bought the G-tech in the first place. I’m expecting my G-raid soon so I’ll have first hand experience with it. Regards-Ralph
-
Thanks Tom, who’s the publisher CMP???
-
Thanks for the response, I believe it’s the capture window. I’ll be boning up on my nomenclature. Also, I’m assuming that NTSC video monitoring is accomplished thru the deck once a sequence is created on the timeline?
-
Thanks for all the feedback, I’ll probably go with external raid by G-tech. You’re right I AM nuts. You spend 5 years in a high school you would be too. Thank God that’s over…college kids aren’t much better though.
-
Thanks Toddfather,
I was looking at the highpoint rocket raid internal card. For the moment however, I worked around it by (I know this’ll sound dumb) by deleting the array and creating a 1 drive “array” which enabled my to have both my 250G sata’s as individual drives. I then partitioned them into 120G partitions. Seems to be working fine. Of course the true test is when I’m in the middle of a project with a few layers of things to stress the system. -
I had wanted to point out that my drives are internaL SATA drives. Also I see the cards, went to their website. These boards are for a mac but work on the hp 8200? That would be cool and they’re so reasonably priced too.
-
Bob,
Thanks, sounds like a great solution. I do have the seagates 250G 7200.8 drives. I’ll look into getting the firmtek cards. It would so great to get these drives running the way they should.