Rich Rubasch
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Yup, solved the issue. Thanks Rafael!
Rich
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Seems to have solved all the issues we were having with these drives. Went from a crash every 20 minutes to no crashes at all….
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Hi Oliver. In a way, this is becoming an Adobe CS4 digitizing workflow question. You might pose the same question over at the Adobe premier forum if you haven’t already and see what others are digitizing to from HDV source material.
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You must contact Seagate support. they will send you a link to a downloadable ISO disc image file. You use Disk utility to burn an ISO CD-ROM with the image. On a MacPro you restart from the disc you created and it will load DOS. It is a DOS based program that installs the new firmware. Only a MacPro can run the DOS OS (or a PC of course).
From the Accelerte your Mac site:
As a caution, the download page says:
Upgrade file for Seagate ST31500341AS SD1A
Use for 9JU138 -300 and -336 part numbers only (firmware SD15- SD19). DO NOT use on any other part number or firmware.The firmware upgrade involves burning an ISO CD and then booting it on your (Intel-based) Mac (hold Option key while rebooting). The CD has a copy of FreeDOS and the firmware updater. Tech support mentioned that I should only have one drive installed at a time while doing the update. When the update finished, you press any key to “continue” which powers down your machine. The drive needs to be power cycled for the firmware to be installed. After each power down, I inserted a different drive and rebooted into the firmware updater. I just pulled all drives out a few inches and pushed in the drive I wanted to update. It took about 2 minutes per drive to perform the firmware update.
There is no generic direct download link. The download link is built based on your certificate number. I suppose I could give it out, but it looks like it violates the terms of the download license agreement.
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Hi guys; Just thought I’d report that it seems to be a firmware update that will solve the freezing issue. If you have this problem you can run a firmware updater ( on a MacPro Intel only) to fix the drive.
This seems to have affected quite a few users of the 1.5 tb drive and there is a ton of chatter on the web. The firmware is less than a month old.
Rich Rubasch
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MPEG-2 PS simply means that the video and audio are muxed together at the recording stage. Typical MPEG-2 recording keeps audio and video as separate files embedded in the VOB file. This may even speed up the conversion out of MPEG-Streamclip.
MPEG- Streamclip is also limited by the speed of the drive the disc is in. But if you are talking short clips I would definitely use MPEG-Streamclip and export to Quicktime and choose NTSC DV at 720 x 480 with 48k audio and you will be all set to edit. Not a bad workflow at all and the quality will certainly be acceptable for your students.
Rich Rubasch
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That’s funny, Todd. In 2007 we celebrated the 40th anniversary of AdFed. We produced the show like it was 1947. All the vignettes were in black and white. They turned out absolutely great, so we entered just the vignettes in self promotion (used to promote the show) and they actually won best of category and were honored a Judges Choice award. I mean they really liked them, and they were pretty darn good, but we have a great certificate with a frame grab on the wall and it is another reminder to us that the community and the judges from other markets liked the work we did and it is a reminder that the effort we made to create an entertaining show were not in vain.
I think that producing the award shows has gotten more positive attention to our company than any award on the wall….but the awards are a reminder to all of us that what we do is pretty good.
Rich Rubasch
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Hey, not fair. I was going to give the same answer.
That’s my trick.
Do a search.
Honest.
Points?
Rich Rubasch
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I read Mark’s previous post. FYI, the Golden Reel awards are alive and well. ITVA is simply MCA-I and if you google ITVA MCAI is the first link.
I am the Madison WI MCA-I Chapter President and our Award show, the Wave Awards, was held on Wednesday night. It is not watered down, and in these parts, it is a decent award to have. It is the best work in corporate communications done here in our little neck of the woods. Our award certificates, from Telly’s to Addy’s to Waves and more, hang in the equipment room. Sort of like Todd’s pile-o-trophies, it reminds us every time we load a new tape into the deck, or patch machine control that we are actually doing decent work. Let’s face it, corporate communications isn’t always the best piece of meat in the freezer.
What the?
Anyway, we enter the Addy’s and the Waves (MCA-I) because it supports our local organizations. They rely on entries to fund some of their other events. We also step up to actually produce the shows (we’ve done 4 in the last 2 years, and two were anniversary shows…ouch) and that also helps show our commitment to the organizations that we benefit from. We go with the think global, support local philosophy of award shows.
At the show, when your video is shown along with the credit roll, everyone in the room will know who did it and that might be worth more than the trophy on the shelf.
To find out what ever happened to ITVA, just head on over to http://www.mca-i.org, and to see the most vibrant and largest chapter in the organization, just head on over to http://www.mcai-madison.org.
Still kickin’.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media
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One stop over to http://www.squared5.com and you will find MPEGStreamclip. It’s free and it’s awesome and it can make AVIs on a Mac.
Get it now!
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media