Scott Thomas
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Let me know if you find a solution. I have an Intensity that could be put to use again.
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You’ve mixed MiniDV and Mpeg in the same sentence. I can only guess you have an HDV camera?
Playing an HDV tape out though the HDMI will be no better than a standard ingest of HDV material.
But lets say you have your computer with the Intensity, on location, connected to the camera, live via HDMI. You could then record the digital video straight off the camera, before it ever hit the compression hardware. The video would be as good as the camera could produce. A bit more clumsy, but you avoid the compression.
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Spent a couple of months trying to get the Intensity to work. I ended up getting a Matrox MXO2 Mini to replace it.
Overall, I think the Intensity cards are good. Don’t know why mine wouldn’t work. Hopefully you are inside of the warranty period. I wasn’t.
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“Whoever thought to call it 1080i59.94 has a screw loose.”
I’m not saying he’s right, but you are saying that one of the founders of Pixar “has a screw loose”??? 🙂
https://www.alvyray.com/DigitalTV/Naming_Proposal.htm
Actually he kind of has a point wanting to call it 540/60i, but it runs counter to industry traditions going back more than half a century. It’s more of a case against interlace.
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Thanks for the insight.
The SAN is still not functional, and I’ve really washed my hands of it. I’ve given IT all of the information I’ve uncovered on their behalf and I’m not interested is working on it any more.
There is no SAN client software provided for the Macs. They are only trying to set it up as logical SCSI devices. (Kind of defeats the purpose of buying a SAN I think.)
It’s really more fun to watch this from afar, I find.
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Neil, Bob, Greg,
Thank you all for your input. I’ve already hinted to IT that this thing probably isn’t going to handle our needs for editing. I think they were also looking to hook it to our newsroom editing system which is based on Canopus Edius. (Currently editing anamorphic DVCPro) So, that should be interesting to watch, from afar.
At the very least; if we can get the SAN working, it would allow us to back up a 4TB XServe RAID to figure out why it’s slowed down so much (only half full). I started a thread in the FCP forum if anyone is interested.
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I think the primary focus of this SAN is for other station business. My guess is that the Final Cut system integration was supposed to be a bonus.
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As the SAN was being purchased, I asked about what data rates were to be expected from it. The answer wasn’t what I wanted to hear; Avid was consulted, but only in the context of a multi-channel MediaStream playback server that only deals with MPEG2. (@ 30Mb/s)
When I told them that that wasn’t going to support an HD editing system at uncompressed rates, I was told that they could just add more disks to the SAN to increase its speed. Not a well thought out solution.
But yes, I’ll post back with info as I learn more.
Thanks for listening!
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I’ve thought about that.
It’s only about half full. I wasn’t expecting that to cause a problem until around 80 or 90%. Do you think the 50% range could be a problem?