[Robert Lindqvist]

..Hi

try to upgrade to 10.4.8, worked for me when I had trouble installing the other day.

fwiw,
Rob

[Robert Lindqvist]

Hi Tim,

you could always start at https://www.avid.com/community/tutorials/index.asp
under Panasonic P2 Support (Avid has made this whole tutorial page pretty good).

fwiw,
Rob

[Robert Lindqvist]

when we move projects we always do that, put renderfiles on same drive as original files.
Never had a problem before. Only with intel MacBook Pro.
As to our solution of using opacity trick, we did it since a trash of render files would
have made the render time much longer, this way we only had to render the places where
we did changes.

/Rob

[Robert Lindqvist]

Hi,

I’ve tried some more but nothing seems to work.
The DL PCIe don’t show up, all settings are greyed out.
Uninstall/install, trashing prefs (DL drivers also
does that for you now?? At least FCP starts up with
“new” settings when un-/in-stalling, saw that on other
G5 the other week aswell).
I have reparied permissions.

ANY IDEAS?

I captured some DV and did a 3 minute piece.
I also captured some HDV with no problem (didn’t have time
to edit that now).
Export to MPEG2 using compressor (best, 90 min setting) took
a while longer then I had hoped for. Also rendering a text
over a clip with a fade to black effect (text also has a
fade with “pen” effect) took a while longer then expected.
(still a bug there it can’t play that in realtime without
the fade to black on video “jump-fades”, instead of smooth
fade…I always need to render that combination).
Changing from DV to HDV deck hardcrashed the whole puter,
needed to hold the powerbutton to make it reboot. I haven’t
had problem like this before when changing deck.
I will try to remove the extra ram. But maybe there is a
DOA G5, it just don’t respond as I belived it would.

best,
Robert

[Robert Lindqvist]

so, I’ve tried from other DL system, it works 🙂 The SDI input is alive.
Still no picture from Pana camcorder though 🙁
I’ve got a “SDI cap” SW from Black Magic Design, I will try that and see
what support can come up with.

best,
Robert

[Robert Lindqvist]

Hi Trevor,
yes I have checked that.

Anyone out there with a DVCPRO50 Pana 900 camcorder and SDI output that could try?
I didn’t get the SDI card from Pana DVCPRO50 VCR, so I can’t try that.
I’ll try going from my other DL system, G5 to G5….. And I will try to
connect the camcorder to the other system aswell.

best,
Robert

[Robert Lindqvist]

I’ve done some more testing. Y in works just fine (composit video in).
Still no SDI input.

fwiw,
Robert

[Robert Lindqvist]

…to bad it only has internal connectors. But I am using the old Rocketraid
with my old G5 and sofar it has delivered both uncompressed HD as well as SD
using 4 S-ATA drives as JBOD raid 0. Even if it is anoying, it works.

So, one of these cards and a 19″ 8 space S-ATA enclosure from Macgurus
and Im a happy camper (untill one drive dies, I know, JBOD raid 0 is a
bit unsecure, today we use FW drives to backup media).

cheers,
Robert

[Robert Lindqvist]

Hi,

you could consider buying 4 pcs S-ATA drives, a S-ATA controller card and
some external enclosures. We did a 10 bit uncompressed HD commercial some
time ago with a setup like this. Just remember this is NO bullet proof
solution, we used FW drives to backup media. These stuff is so cheap
you could buy instead of rent (almost anyway).
We got arround 240MB/sec read and write on our JBOD. Software raid in
Mac OS. For short work, using backup for media, this worked fine for us.
If you are going for 4:4:4, this is not enough though.

fwiw,
Robert