[Ryanservant]

Thanks….so after I deleted all the crappy clips I transfered the good clips to my other raid, deleted the raid, created a new raid, unchecked that stupid box, and started capturing again. I now have no problems yet. I captured about 300 gb of video and no problem files yet.

thanks guys for all of the help.

Ryan

G5
xserve 2.5 TB
FCP HD
2 gigs ram
Used to be Kona Hd…Now its Decklink HD pro

Ryan Servant
AirSeaLand Productions
http://www.airsealand.com
718-626-2646

[Ryanservant]

That check box was checked so i unchecked it. I ran the disk speed test again and I got the same results. I have yet to try recapturing yet. I was wondering if anyone had an xserve full of drives like I do that could run a blackmagic speed test and give me the numbers they got so I could compare them. That might give me something to go on. Also I have not tried disk warrior yet. What volume format should I have picked for the raid settings? When I put the two aarrays together I chose Mac OS extended. SHould I have chossen the one that was labeled with a (journaled) in the title?

G5
xserve 2.5 TB
FCP HD
2 gigs ram
Used to be Kona Hd…Now its Decklink HD pro

Ryan Servant
AirSeaLand Productions
http://www.airsealand.com
718-626-2646

[Ryanservant]

I really don’t have settings Eric..my client keeps changing what they want in an internet file…..now they actually want flash files…so all of my research is in the crapper at this point. The windows media and flip 4 mac with the iodata issue is an old one that we were troubleshooting last year before NAB. We tried every setting that flip4mac had to get the file to play on the iodata. It seems as though it is an issue with the player and not the exporter though.

Ryan

G5
xserve 2.5 TB
FCP HD
2 gigs ram
Used to be Kona Hd…Now its Decklink HD pro

Ryan Servant
AirSeaLand Productions
http://www.airsealand.com
718-626-2646

[Ryanservant]

Maybe that would be a good excuse to buy one.

G5
xserve 2.5 TB
FCP HD
2 gigs ram
Used to be Kona Hd…Now its Decklink HD pro

Ryan Servant
AirSeaLand Productions
http://www.airsealand.com
718-626-2646

[Ryanservant]

I have to get the full version of flip 4 mac so I can really see how a larger file exports….right now I am watching 30 sec clips….I also want to see what my export time will be for a 30 min hdv clip to wmv hd. I am hoping it will be super fast on the quad g5….i am going to try and have promax do a test for me before i start buying up all this gear.

Ryan

G5
xserve 2.5 TB
FCP HD
2 gigs ram
Used to be Kona Hd…Now its Decklink HD pro

Ryan Servant
AirSeaLand Productions
http://www.airsealand.com
718-626-2646

[Ryanservant]

Quality to zero? I will try that next i guess…..what bit rate would you go down to? Also I need to keep that frame size…they want it big. I am not sure about the streaming server thing..I will ask web company mon morn….

G5
xserve 2.5 TB
FCP HD
2 gigs ram
Used to be Kona Hd…Now its Decklink HD pro

Ryan Servant
AirSeaLand Productions
http://www.airsealand.com
718-626-2646

[Ryanservant]

Ok…..now we’re getting into stuff that im lost on…..I just did a nice little export from FCP to WMV. My settings were: WMV 9 standard, 2 pass vbr, quality 100%, 1000 bit rate, lower field first for input, 480X270 size, progressive output….and it looks good to me. It is 3.8 MB for 30 seconds…which means my 500 mb file est was off. So what is going to happen to a 300 mb file that plays from the web….will it take long to load….does it matter if my web site devoloper does something to the file to make it stream or something? ( i have no clue about streaming )

Ryan

G5
xserve 2.5 TB
FCP HD
2 gigs ram
Used to be Kona Hd…Now its Decklink HD pro

Ryan Servant
AirSeaLand Productions
http://www.airsealand.com
718-626-2646

[Ryanservant]

Do you know how happy I am that you guys are helping me out with this…..Ok so the cleaner download I tried doesnt like HDv…the sorenson squeeze demo i just download likes it as an input but after it compresses it I get a blank file. I tried WMV and quicktime. The end user is going to be college coaches watching the videos for recruiting purposes….if it was for mom and pop I would prob lower the frame rate…..i really need as high of quality as possible…doesnt everyone say that? They will be viewing on the browser and not on any portable devices. I think I am going to buy 3 of the quad G5’s to speed up whatever process I am going to pick to help out in export time. I will be dealling with 1000 games at 30 min each. The web site devolpment company doesnt know much about video at all….the demo that they showed the client of a video on the website was done by an animator bringing in a video file to flash. We had nothing to do with the project when this happened and I have no details about that. I am trying to find out if they intend to bring all 1000 files into flash or If I will be encoding the finished file myself…if they want their animator to compress it with flash I am going to send him huge files on external drives and let him deal with it. I am worried it won’t be that easy…it never is….So I know that from FCP I can export a WMV from my HDV sequence. I just don’t know what will happen to the end user if the file is huge….will they be starring at a blank screen for 10 minutes as it loads up???

G5
xserve 2.5 TB
FCP HD
2 gigs ram
Used to be Kona Hd…Now its Decklink HD pro

Ryan Servant
AirSeaLand Productions
http://www.airsealand.com
718-626-2646

[Ryanservant]

This isn’t really an edit per se. It will be a whole high school game, start to finish. I was going to go with the firstore FS-4 to help me in elimating 500 hours of capture time, I am shooting a lot of high school games….but now I just found out that firestore and FCP don’t really mesh yet. The firestore is going to give me a .m2t file. Is there a way to convert this .m2t file into a nice looking web file?

Ryan

G5
xserve 2.5 TB
FCP HD
2 gigs ram
Used to be Kona Hd…Now its Decklink HD pro

Ryan Servant
AirSeaLand Productions
http://www.airsealand.com
718-626-2646

[Ryanservant]

I am woried that the end user is not the type to be updating the quicktime on thier…mostly PC’s….What about the HDV to WMV 9 workflow….have you had success with that using flip for mac with HDV?

Ryan

G5
xserve 2.5 TB
FCP HD
2 gigs ram
Used to be Kona Hd…Now its Decklink HD pro

Ryan Servant
AirSeaLand Productions
http://www.airsealand.com
718-626-2646