Sean Oneil
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ECC is for servers to give extra stability, but the performance is severly decreased. For graphics and editing, you want quality non-ECC.
Sean
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Firestore actually makes a software utility you want called “Firestore DV Conversion Suite”. With it, you can convert a .DV file into a Quicktime .MOV w/ the DV/NTSC codec – making it so it works in Final Cut which you can then manually assign timecode to. It may even have the option to tranfer the original TC. The conversion process is very quick and does not render/re-encode it, so it’s 100% lossless. I used it a while back to convert Premiere for Windows DV footage to Final Cut DV. It worked well. The software runs on Windows though, not on Mac.
Sean
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The interface is fast, but the actual disks themselves are very slow in comparison. Even a 15kRPM disk is nowhere near fast enough to max out a 150MB/s SATA channel. The high speed of SATA is to make it more future proof for newer technology.
Sean
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I don’t think SATA will be as significant. Throughput is currently way faster than the drives themselves.
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You could technically have 8 monitors. As far as Cinema Desktop, I don’t know how it will work. I’m sure a FCP update will adress this eventually.
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[David Jones] “So what’s your point?”
Pretty obvious since the new Powermacs w/ PCIe came out today.
What’s your point?
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Cinema Tools 3 is a joke. Every single time I need CT for a reverse telecine, CT 3 gives me problems. I too use a Blackmagic. Basically, I’d select the proper cadence for a pulldown, and after about a minute into the clip, it started getting it all wrong.
I keep CT 2.2 in my documents folder, and it always works perfectly. And I have no problems having both versions on the same computer at the same time.
I had a lengthy back-and-forth email conversation with someone from Apple’s CT team. Nothing really came of it. It got to a point where she wanted me to send in my media on a FW drive. I just didn’t have the time. Later, when the 3.02 update came out, I thought it was all fixed. It wasn’t.
I don’t work with actual film, so whatever features are new in version 3, they don’t apply to me. I just need it for reverse telecine.
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The Blackmagic Extreme is already available in PCIe.
I think BMD is the last company you have to worry about. Since their products work with Windows PCs, they’ve been migrating to PCIe for a while now. I’m sure they’re prepared for the day Apple makes the switch (today).
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There’s a Blackmagic forum which you might want to look at. But I’m 99% sure you are not using the right settings.
First of all, make sure video output is set to “All Frames”. Then, make sure your video output device matches the sequence settings. If the sequence is set to Uncompressed NTSC 8-bit 29.97, then make sure the video output in the “View” menu of Final Cut is set to be the same.
But instead of manually figuring this out now and in the future, stick with the Easy Setups.
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The official way to do it is to use Apple’s Xserve software combined with an Xserve G5 and an Xserve RAID. But that sounds like overkill for what you want.
Yes, with gigabit ethernet, you can accomplish quite a bit. Don’t count on multiple uncompressed video streams at once for five editors, but for DV projects you can do quite a lot.