Sean Oneil
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This is news to me. Great news. When I upgrade I’ll have a spare PCI slot because I won’t need a SATA card.
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You’re doing something wrong. What codec are you using to export? Apple Uncompressed 8-bit?
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[cls105] “wow i could never justify spending 2 grand on a gbe switch. thats the same price as a fibre switch. what are the advantages of these over the cheap ones you can buy at bestbuy.. wow i sound ridiculous asking (but still serious)”
You’re right. There is no reason whatsoever to spend that amount. You can get a full-featured managed switch from Dell for like $600.
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[John Davidson (fomerly JNeo25)] “God bless my one version of Tiger…”
Apple has 4 versions of Tiger.
1. OSX Tiger PowerPC
2. OSX Tiger Intel
3. OSX Server Tiger PowerPC
4. OSX Server IntelNow is that as bad as the many versions of Vista (Home, Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate – each for x86 and 64-bit)? No. But one must be fair about these things. Apple does the same thing, but to a lesser degree.
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This is why I always capture Varicam footage at the framerate it was shot on using Firewire and the appropriate Easy Setup. It removes redundant frames on the fly during capture but retains the original timecode that is on the tape.
If you shoot 23.98, but capture and edit at 59.94, cadence will be broken and you are in a world of trouble should you choose leave the FW world. I’ve been there. The non-FCP/Firewire/DVCpro world does not take into account that a film framerate can exist within the 720p59.94 standard. If it has bad cadence, I don’t think a Teranex can even fix that.
Rarely in the broadcast world will you find 720p masters of footage shot at a film framerate. I’ve certainly never seen it. 720p masters are from live sporting events, etc., and are shot at 30p or 60p. No cadence issues, no redudant frames, nothing like that.
In the new world of HD, I think it is very, very important that people capture, edit, and master everything at the true framerate. When it gets to broadcast, they can add pulldown from the playback equipment. All feature films are mastered at 1080psf23.98.
Varicam footage at 23.98 should be mastered at this format as well when going to D5 or HDCam, 1080psf23.98.
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[Will Salley] “I did just that. The problem of DVDSP freezes and video corruption still existed.
HOWEVER-I also re-installed the OS and zero-formatted the HD but without applying the Security Update 2006-007 and 008 and Security Update 2007-001.
No corruption or freezes as of now. I’m into about 14 hours of testing with this configuration.”
Sounds like you fixed it. Great. You might want to replace your system disk. Not sure what screwed up your OS, but it was something.
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[Uli Plank] “Could you please tell me which firmware version you have?”
I have v1.05. No problems.
You know what, now that I think about it, when I first got them a while back, I did have issues with some Maxtor drives (these drives had issues on other controllers as well). That prompted me to update the firmware. I was able to do it using regular PCI slots in a PC. Even though the card is PCI-X, it will still work in a regular PCI slot for the update.
Right now we’re using Western Digital drives that have been tested by them and I’ve never had a problem.
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[walter biscardi] “That’s interesting. how warm is your machine room? Our G5’s don’t change in terms of noise just because they’re rendering. In fact I’ve not heard of that before”
You haven’t??? All our machines do that. The fans speed up when it the CPU is under heavy load. That’s one of the major features when the G5 first came out. The room is quite cool.
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I dunno. I use Firmtek cases which are pretty quiet. The G5s and drives are all located in our machine room, so our bays are completely silent. When rendering, the G5s are louder than any drive enclousre I’ve used.
The Norco uses three 70mm fans. I don’t know how loud they are. But you could replace them with these:
https://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/acoustiproductsfans/afdp-7025bAnd since you’d be using 8 drive bays instead of all 12, you can get away with just using 2 fans.
Modern drives are much more resistant to heat than before. And even if you’re uber paranoid, just remembter that RAID 5 gives you a level of protection much greater than any cooling system.
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[jordanwwoods] “just look at High point technologies… the DR Group in Los Angeles puts together an 8 bay solution that can come raid 5”
That’s quite a markup they got there. They essentially charge $6,000 for this:
One of these for $600:
https://www.norcotek.com/item_detail.php?categoryid=8&modelno=ds1240One of these for $250:
https://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/rr2322.htmTwo of these for $90:
https://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/ms1mib.htm#topEight of these for $1360:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822147007That’s it. $2,200 plus tax to do it yourself. And it ain’t hard. Takes 10 minutes to mount 8 drives in the trays. 4 screws each drive. Phillips head. Hardly worth a 60% ($3800 per seat) markup to avoid 10 minutes of work. Highpoint and Hitachi have good support.
I have a very similar setup using Highpoint cards with RAID 5. It works great.
To each his own.