Rob Grauert
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CBR is Contant Bit Rate, as opposed to VBR which is Variable Bit Rate.
CBR @ 8Kbps might help, but I’m also curious what your text looks like. If it’s small and thin, then yea, it will look like crap when converted to SD.
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If you replaced a drive, take a look at what Drobo Dashboard is telling you. The speed may have plummeted because the Drobo is rebuilding the redundancy.
Sorry, no advice for the eSATA adapter as I edit on a Mac Pro, but it’s certainly faster than FW400
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Yea, you’re right. The more full they are they slower they become. There is a point where the speed drop dramatically. One of our Drobo sets has reached that point and I remember it taking hours to transfer about 36GB. I haven’t had a chance to clean up that set yet…
But even before you reach that point I still feel they aren’t a product that delivers performance.
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You picked the wrong product if you want performance. Drobos are ideal for safely storing your footage. Their propriety method for redundancy does not allow for the performance needed for video editing. And the more they fill up, the slower they become.
We use Drobos at my work – Drobo Pros to be exact. They were TERRIBLE at first. Getting them to mount was a pain in the neck, and their tech support is worse. We haven’t had any success getting them to work consistently with the iSCSI connection, so we’re limited to connecting via FW800.
Based on my personal opinion, get a G-RAID or G-Speed eS depending on the amount of space and performance you want. Of course, there are faster, better performing RAIDs out there, but I think G-Tech’s products are suitable for MANY users and quite cost effective.
For backup I would use regular portable FW800 drives. In my opinion, the cost of Drobos doesn’t balance out their crappy tech support or unreliable nature. Though, you already have a Drobo, so you may as well keep using it…
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Place the playhead over the clip. Press F to load the original into the Viewer. Then lay down the audio
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I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure you have to ensure all the fonts are installed on all computers. I don’t think you can, for example, simply load the fonts onto a SAN and expect all computers to read those fonts without actually installing them on the computer.
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I don’t mind providing you with some advice or guidance. I just don’t fully understand your question.
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“All the media is in my internal hard drive”
Unless you’re on a Mac Pro and you’re media is on an extra internal drive, take your media OFF the internal drive. Your media should live on a hard drive or RAID dedicated to storing your media files.
“Can you you tell me why it occurs in between sometimes?”
Like I said, it happens when FCP can’t read the files from your storage device fast enough to play back the footage in real time. Next time FCP gives you the warning, simply mark the checkbox that says “Do not warn again.”
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I’m not exactly sure what your question is. If it’s whether this can be done in FCP, you can, but it’s not ideal. This is a job for Motion or After Effects.
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