Roy Pearson
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Yeah I’ve already requested this feature from Apple, you guys should too.
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I have the same problem, though it doesn’t happen on every cut. Still pretty annoying and I hope Apple fixes it.
The solution is just to crossfade the audio on the edits where you hear a pop.
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Seems like the problem was that I captured to a network drive. I tried capturing instead to a local drive (via FW800) and it worked perfect.
Still weird because my network speeds are plenty fast (90 MB/s over gigabit, no dropped frames), I guess FCP just doesn’t like the ethernet protocol for capturing this format.
Anyway I will test this more tomorrow when I get more footage in. Oh and the tapes are def DVCPRO HD, shot on a Panny 900. thanks guys!
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Mark, you say that you’ve designed similar systems before. Did those include a FreeBSD server with Mac clients sharing video over AFP? If so, how was the performance and reliability? If not, I’d definitely go with OS X Server as Jason was saying.
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I used an HP 1760 SAS LTO-4 on a G5 machine, but it had PCIe so I coupled it with an Atto H380. I used BRU PE software and everything worked great (I’ve since moved the LTO system to a Mac Pro because the G5 was repurposed).
So based on that, I think an HP SCSI drive and Atto PCI-X card would work nicely.
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Just a quick revision: I did NOT get 160 MB/s through the Mac Pro, the most I’ve seen so far is around 112 MB/s on that computer.
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Thanks bob!
I’ve been setting this system up over the last couple days and haven’t hit any major problems. Lucky! I couldn’t get the Edge-Core web interface to work on the switch, but at least it works through Zterm.
The RAID6 is getting over 800 MB/s reads and 500 MB/s writes, not too shabby.
Not all the edits are set up yet, but in a quick test I saw over 160 MB/s through a MacPro link aggregate, awesome!
Thanks everyone for the hardware recs I got through lurking here!
Roy
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I use an HP LTO-4 drive with BRU PE software on a Mac Pro. The setup is actually very easy if you have the right hardware (Mac and Atto SAS card). The speed has been very fast, no problems there.
I like the BRU software a lot too, it lets you basically just drag in the files you want to archive. My typical “archive” process is to keep one copy of completed projects on hard disk and one on LTO tape. For my relatively small operation this seems pretty safe, at least it’s better than just two duplicate hard drives.
The new LTFS is also something to watch for, it’s open source so it could alleviate some fears about using proprietary software like BRU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape_File_System