Rick Sebeck
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I was having the same problem. Timeline stopped playing. Viewer still acted normal, other sequences played fine. just one sequence would not play. All of my clips were multicam – one stereo track of audio in their preferences. One track soloed in the sequence view of the clips One of the clips in the sequence I opened in sequence view and enabled another track (I wanted to hear that mic for that moment).
The issue didn’t start at first. But I have tracked it back to that. If I mute the track I enabled in the subclip the sequence the clip is used in will play again. Must be some audio down mix bug.
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I’m curios which model you installed (would recommend). We are thinking of using a N16000 PRO as near line backup / disc archive of our SAN. The next contender is the OWC Calypso – but I’m starting to loose faith in OWC as we currently use Mercury Rack Pros as our direct connect – and they are one by one dying – and OWC wont support the sets in their new enclosures (you can’t even mount them!) Time to get the media off before our last two enclosures die! Obviously – I’d also be curious if anyone knows of an enclosure that may let us slide in our current RAID sets (shouldn’t any JBOD enclosure work?)
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I am not trying to add additional audio tracks in the sequence. I am trying to change the number of audio tracks OF the sequence. This gives you more than the default stereo (2 channel) output in your master. You then assign audio tracks to the output tracks. Then you can output one file with 4 channels of audio with your stems all in one file. But for some reason – These sequences won’t change. I even tried deleting all the media out of it – but no luck.
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Actually on second thought – save your breath Bob… I just read some of your other posts about this very topic. You’ve got better things to do than to regurgitate your typical rant!
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Thanks Bob! That’s the response I was hoping for. You are right, I know I will make my money back on these upgrades before I even write them off on my taxes next April. It’s just no one wants to be the guy who invests in technology that is obsolete in two weeks. But I agree – it will take time for the “latest and greatest” to be stable enough to actually make all the money!
While I have your attention…. we still aren’t ready (or really have a need) for a SAN – but I do think I am pushing the limit of the Mercury Pro enclosures. We’ve been filling them with 3 TB drives – getting 9 TB RAID 5. We are starting to go beyond ProRes into longer form uncompressed projects and dare I say 2k. But right now – its a pain to not be able to color correct with any real time playback. Hence the K5000 cards. SO my question…. since i’ll be sticking to eSata – whats the next bump up from our 4 bay enclosures. Are there 8 bay enclosures that are just as flexible as the OWC Mercury Pro. I’m sure a bunch of people (including yourself) are going to shudder when I say that our current workflow is having raid sets for each client, and we pop the drives out and put them in a file cabinet between projects. The OWC inclosure is great because you don’t need sleds for the drives – you just slide the bare drives in power the enclosure up and off to work. Plus all 4 edit bays have them so you can take the project from room to room. Do we have drive failures…. occasionally – but we slide in a new drive and rebuild the RAID. Have we lost entire RAID set – not yet (knock on wood) but I do want to find another redundant backup system (DLT, drobo, ?) But I think my first priority is speed. I’ve used Fusion enclosures with 5 discs in RAID 0 to do uncompressed HD – but again – looking for something with some redundancy. Obviosly the PCIe SSD will be super fast – but I see that as the AE cache and occasional render scratch for short form commercial spots. Any recommendations? And que the retailers!
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Okay – I love to play the “new Mac Pro is coming what do you think it will be game”….. (hey it only happens every 650 days!
Here’s my prediction… wish list….
4U Rack mountable case. This makes it smaller than the current models, but still have room for PCI cards.
10 and 16 core processors to bump up the speed as well as other minimal upgrades including thunderbolt.
But I think this will be more than just about a new mac pro. I think apple has been sitting on some things that will finally put the rumor that “they don’t care about us mac professionals” I think it will be a full out Apple is the product for post production campaign. And this is what it will do…
You take these new mac pros, you plug them into a thunderbolt switch, you plug in thunderbolt hard drives, and you “out of the box” have multi user project management. With Xsan built into the OS – and people hacking into FCPX and finding “users” built into the application – its not too far fetched. I think they know they dropped the ball with FCPX – but they HAD to get to get it out because they could wait this long to release the full network user version that wasn’t ready. So they tossed out the new code with less features and we all laughed. I for one haven’t even witched to FCPX! But if they released FCP (Mountain Lion) that incorporated a plug and play SAN – I’d probably switch!
Again – this is just my dreams of an Apple who cares about more than mobile devices and app sales – and I believe they haven’t abandoned us— yet!
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I to am looking for a way of cataloging hard drives so I can search for files and then know which drive to mount. We are thinking of adding a Cache-A into the mix to also add a level of back-up. But it would still be cool to know which original drive the media came from. So instead of pulling it back in from tape, we could mount the drive (which we keep on the shelves). I know, Iknow – drives on shelves don’t last. But when I say drives i mean 4 RAID5 drives that we swap into our OWC enclosures. The RAID5 helps me sleep at night knowing that the chances of two drives going bad at the same time are slightly less. This is why we are considering adding another level of protection with a Cache-A.
But in the mean time – it would be nice to have a database where we could look for files, and know which drive they are on.
There must be something out there right?
-Rick
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Can you please post the answer here? The link doesn’t work anymore. It’s driving me CRAZY TOO!!!!
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I never found a fix so I upgraded to v12 and it worked fine.
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Yeah – I was impressed with the Final Share system you put together for me which was under $20k. That said – I don’t have $20k to spend today.
We are currently shoving Sata drives in our boxes – but opening and closing the macs, having to use the trays – it gets kinda hairy. Plus we are limited to software RAID 0 or 1 – so we have to use the RAID 0 when we need the HD speed – but try to stick to the 1 for piece of mind.
The OWC enclosures don’t use trays, the drives just slide in and out. And we get hardware RAID 5.
Everyone wants a SAN – who wouldn’t want shared fast unlimited storage? And we all act like we are making Avatar 2 – when in reality most my jobs are in and out in a couple days. Maybe my partner will lend a hand doing some graphics – or I need to transfer some files to the audio room – but we aren’t all cutting the same footage at the same time. If I was working on a feature – or a documentary – or in a news environment where producers and editors are all cutting from the same material that needs to be archived on a SAN- then I wouldn’t be going the cheap route.
i just noticed that the OWC enclosures have only been out for a couple days – so I guess I can’t expect any real world stories. I think I’m going to be the guinea pig here.
Bob, I’m curious as to why they “really suck”. I’ve been using OWC external enclosures dor a while now – they have been performing better than Lacie or GRaids. And the “Enterprise” version of the enclosure I’m looking at using enterprise Sata Drives, includes 5 years parts and labor, and 3 years basic level file protection if a drive goes down. Seems like pretty good customer support.
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