Ron Priest
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I realize this post was started way back before version 10.0.1 but you can now use the undocumented command Ctrl-U to display or filter the clips (or portions of) in your browser that are currently unused in your loaded project. It’s just the opposite from the “View Used” Clips command which displays an orange line in the browser clip.
Ron Priest
Videographer
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My friend Tony Sarafoski just showed me how you can add an audio only transition in FCPX between two audio clips if they are in a secondary storyline. Just Command-T on the conjunction of the clips and it will apply an audio transition. Maybe Tony should work for Apple!
Ron Priest
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I’m getting around 180+ read and write but that’s with the Tempo SATA Pro 6Gb ExpressCard/34 (not to be confused with their older 6GB card) and the Echo Thunderbolt adapter (Not the Echo Thunderbolt adapter Pro would probably get faster speeds if I had the Echo Thunderbolt adapter pro and a hardware RAID0 versus the software RAID0.
Ron Priest
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Louisville, KY -
Oh I see, well the standard Echo TB adapter is going to have to do for me I believe, as I don’t want to shell out another $169 for it but for someone just making their purchase the Echo Pro would probably be a better choice unless they don’t need all that speed. In that case, I have a TB Adapter I’ll give them a good deal on… say $100 plus shipping.
Ron Priest
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Hey Thomas
You said: “Ive been in contact with Sonnet. They are releasing a 6Gb/s card which is fully compatible. Im going to get one of those cards. I will report back here on my speed findings… Of course, the Sonnet adapter also has the advantage of being an expresscard /34 slot, so for things like SxS cards and a few other peripherals, it has the edge. Juts not the speed at the moment!” I was wondering what speeds you’re now getting and what type of RAID you’re using?
My Sonnet E4P card in my MacPro went dead on me 4 months short of the 3 year warrantee. After contacting Sonnet, they informed me It only came with a 2 year warrantee even though my OWC receipt indicated that it was a 3 year warrantee. Well, I was quite pissed to say the least, but in the end, Sonnet came through an honored my 3 year warrantee. I have a better opinion of Sonnet these days considering how they have bent over backwards to please me.
While communicating with them about the e4P card replacement, I mentioned that I wasn’t very happy with the speeds I was getting with the Echo Thunderbolt Adapter, which I was using on my iMac with the Tempo SATA Pro ExpressCard/34. I was getting about the same write and read speeds as with my Firewire connections. Mind you, I was using single JOB eSATA drives, not a RAID of any kind. They told me that my problem was the ExpressCard.
This is when they informed me that they had a new card out (it’s so new, it’s not even on their website yet). This is the new card you were talking about Thomas for the benefit of others reading this post. Well, to make a long story short, I received the card yesterday and it almost doubles my write and read speeds with the stand-alone JOB eSATA drives. I ended up doing a software RAID 0 on two each 1 TB external SATA II drives (3Gb/s not 6) and I’m getting write and read speeds around 180 – 190 MB/s with 1.5 GB free on the RAID. So, needless to say, I’m a pretty happy camper. This will do me until I can get a Thunderbolt RAID.
For anyone else wanting to get this new card, it’s not listed on their site as of this posting. But the official name of this card is: Tempo SATA Pro 6Gb ExpressCard/34 not to be confused with their older 6GB card. This new card doesn’t use any additional Sonnet drivers for the MAC, the drives included in the MAC OS is all you need. This is great as now I don’t have to worry about constantly checking for new drivers from Sonnet.
One caution though, this new card does not support port multipliers on the Mac, however, it does under windows 7 and Vista. Another plus with this card is that it seems to run a lot cooler in the Echo Thunderbolt Adapter then my previous card.
On another note, Sonnet has a new Thunderbolt Adapter , with the word “Pro” in front of it. If anyone can explain to me what the difference between the two adapters, it would be much appreciated.
https://www.sonnettech.com/product/echoexpresscard34thunderbolt.html
Ron Priest
Videographer
Louisville, KY -
[Thomas Morter-Laing] “Ron- your read speeds should be twice that, mine are over double FW800, it’s just the write which has issues for me- but something I expect Sonnet to sort or I too will be complaining- I’m going to email them tomorrow about it.”
Really? I just checked again and I’m only getting 64.9 write and 104.2 read. Once again, this is just using a single 7200 RPM SATA drive connected as JBOD.
Checking with the internal drive I’m getting 121.2 write and 121.4 read. This is a brand new i7 iMac with 16GB RAM.
Ron Priest
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Louisville, KY -
[Evan Crush] “Any way I’ll get back to you in 2 days… As I ordered it and they said it would ship today… 🙂
So i’ll make a test and post an BM benchmark. They say it’s “optimized” for my 4big we’ll see what it means!!”
Great, I’ll be looking forward to your report. What I really need to know though, is the read and write speeds of a single eSATA drive connected as a JBOD.
Right now, Im using the Sonnet echo TB adapter and connected to it I have an external eSATA enclosure that holds 2 SATA drives both with their own eSATA connection. I use it as 2 single drives (JBOD). Right now, I’m not getting much faster write/read then I do with a SATA drive connected via firewire 800. Getting about 70 MBs write, and 90-100 MBs read.
I wonder how long I have before I could send the Sonnet TB adapter back? I purchased it from B&H, I would probably have to get a return authorization directly from Sonnet.
Ron Priest
Videographer
Louisville, KY -
Yes, I got wind of that yesterday. If I hadn’t already purchased the Sonnet Echo Thunderbolt Adapter, I would probably purchase it, but I’m doing okay with the Echo now that I’ve got a stable driver to work that doesn’t cause Kernal Panic Attacks on my MacPro and MBP.
I was looking on LaCie’s site trying to determine if their new Thunderbolt Adapter was port multiplier-aware, and works with enclosures with hardware RAID controllers using the port multiplier? So far, I’ve found no indication that it is, unless I’ve overlooked it on their site.
I would sure like to know the speed test results from using the Black Magic Disk Test Utility and anyone gets their hands on one. If I got true 3GB speeds, then I would go with it versus the Promise Pegasus RAID, but I’ve about resolved to thinking that’s the only route that’s going to give me worry free speed for editing multiple streams of ProRes in FCPX.
Ron Priest
Videographer
Louisville, KY -
It’s too late, it’s past 5:00 it’s time to go home…. wait, I am home. Okay well, the only way I can get any work done after 5:00 is if I take a nap first. 🙂
Hey I was reading the FCPX users manual (imagine that!) in the section were it talks about “Archive the media on your tape-based camera on page 490 of the PDF. It says to click on the Create Archive button at the bottom-left corner of the window. Then it says to type a name for the archive. Is this the name you were talking about that it creates as a folder, then you find all of your individual files in it when it’s done capturing the tape?
Do you ever click on the other button labeled “Import” for a tape based camera?
Ron Priest
Videographer
Louisville, KY -
How come I never get any editing done on Mondays? I wish you wouldn’t of told me that, now I’m gonna want to install X on the old Mac. FYI, I was reading an article the other day about BlackMagic’s new Beta driver for the Intensity Pro (Desktop Video 9.2 Beta 3 for Mac) that it was not compatible with the Matrox Compress HD. So if you have both cards installed, you may want to be cautious about installing the FCPX Broadcast monitor beta software on your old Mac.
Ron Priest
Videographer
Louisville, KY