[Rune Hansen]

[Bob Zelin] In my opinion, no one would pay for this. Everyone complains that you have to use a 23″ or 24″ monitor to show all 6 scopes. I can only assume that in the next firmware release, Blackmagic will support “selectable” displays, that will allow for a smaller monitor that will fit into a rack. But I believe that no one will pay for your “custom” monitor. People don’t want to buy a special $100 graphics card to make this work – so no one will spend several hundred for your “custom” monitor – but that is just my observation.

Yeah I know what you mean. Like I said the resolution for 2 selectable displays (which is what I would have on screen typically) would fit perfectly in a 17″ cheap monitor at 1400×900 at current sizes. It would be great if someone from BMD could make this announcement, though. The absolutely best layout would be 2+audio to be honest. I’m still going to investigate the price on the monitors. I’ve found these panels very cheaply, so hopefully it’s possible.

Also hopefully the spec for fewer layouts could be less than for the full system, so maybe we can make use of cheaper, smaller (mini-itx type) systems with only 1 PCIe slot. That would be cool.

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Rune Hansen
Simplemente
Mexico

[Rune Hansen]

Hey.

You can’t really get sufficient read throughput to do 720p60 or 1080i60 uncompressed on half an XServe RAID. You might see better reults by putting the drives in a 4+3 configuration, and striping that as RAID 50, but don’t take my word for it. If you don’t want to splash out for all 7 new drive modules, you can probably get it done with a 5+5 or 6+6 config.

For uncompressed HD work, especially 1080i60 or 720p60, you really want a fully populated XServe RAID, or some other disk system. I know this sounds surprising, but those have been our findings. The XServe RAID is a very capable disk, but other units (including 5 disk arrays from Ciprico/Huge, the G-Speed from G-Tech) have all turned out to give much better throughput results per drive unit.

On the other hand there is a typical configuration error with the XServe RAID you might want to try: https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302780

Disclaimer: We’ve sold approximately 120+ XServe RAIDs since they came out, and only really suggest them to clients in 14 drive configurations. In this config it is both economical per GB as well as high performance.

Best regards,

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Rune Hansen
Simplemente
Mexico City, Mexico

[Rune Hansen]

Hi.

What kind of configuration do you have on that XServe RAID? Uncompressed 720p60 requires a LOT of bandwidth, and you might need a fully populated XServe RAID to handle this. It is a common misunderstanding that the XServe RAID in any configuration can handle uncompressed HD.

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Rune Hansen
Simplemente
Mexico City, Mexico

[Rune Hansen]

By the way, the setting for the FireWire outputs are in the 800 section (DIF) of the menu.

In effect you need to set the 894 parameter (not 002) to a different setting and this will affect the way the FireWire port handles the various formats.

–rune

[Rune Hansen]

You can download the HD-1400 manual from the following URL:

https://panasonic-broadcast.com/download.cfm?pid=11807&type=manual&r=47

The menu settings are on page 32-34.

Cheers!

–Rune Hansen

[Rune Hansen]

[Gary Adcock]
Try 2 things-
FIRST go to System > Library > Core Services > Expansion slot utility

set it 2 selection #2 (this is the default for the Kona and atto cards) ( this changes the PCIe Buss settings)

and then re boot.

Second
take out all but 2 gigs of ram until you get it configured then add the ram back 1G at a time.

Hi, Gary. That makes sense for having more 4x and 8-x lanes, but if you only have a single board installed, such as the Nvidia QuadroFX4500 in the 16x slot, the machine doesn’t boot at all.

I’ll try using Expansion Slot Utility for enabling the FC card, however. Will also try this to enable the K3 board, although that works if you have it in slot 4 with the default slot settings.

What bugs me is the QuadroFX board…

Thanks again! 🙂

–rune

[Rune Hansen]

I’m quite sure this is the “box” camera with no recorder, the AK-HC1500 which was just announced and which is indeed posted as a news story right here on the cow: https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=105&postid=855578

Basically it’s a Varicam without a recorder from what I can judge, although it outputs a 1080 signal (the CCDs don’t look to be that resolution though).

Oh, list price of under $20k. 🙂

–rune

[Rune Hansen]

Hi. I have an FRC, brand new, in box, never ever used. It doesn’t have the SDI card, though, but if you’re seriously interested in this one, the price I could give you would be totally something else, and we could probably get you the SDI board and install it. 😛

Try me off the cow at rune at simplemente dot net

Cheers!

–rune