Sean Oneil
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[Christopher Grosso] “I should point out that I shot this at 1080i 30, I don’t see a setup for 1080i 30 in Final Cut, am I missing something?”
What are you using then? I bet that’s the problem. You’ll need to create your own sequence settings.
Sean
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I don’t believe FCP has a feature like that. You can try exporting a bin list and maybe doing it in Excel or something.
Sean
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There are many possibilities.
1. Dolby-E on 3&4 (like Michael said). This is expensive and limiting. Not only do you need a special hardware encoder. Anyone who wants to access the tape needs a special decoder on their end. Unfortunately it’s standard practice for HDCam delivery to TV stations.
2. Multiple passes or multiple tapes. This is what we do in my business since we deal with short content (like :30 TV spots). Audio requirements for delivery generally require split track audio as well as stereo. So we just make multiple passes. I’ve never seen it done for 5.1. But it’s certainly possible. Just label it and slate it very clearly. You could do Stereo Mix on 1&2, Front L/R on 3&4. For the 2nd pass or tape, do SL, SR, C, LFE.
3. DA88. This is (or at least was) a standard way to deliver 5.1 audio. Stereo on 1-2. Surround on 3-8. It’s a beyond archaic and pointless format now since the advent of the recordable data DVD. But you can always deliver on it and people will know what it is and what it’s for.
4. Data Disc. This is what I try to get away with every time. I put WAV files on a DVD-R. I put on the lablel that the audio starts at 00:59:58:00 and start it with a 2-pop. This can annoy computer-illiterate machine room guys. So make sure you can get away with it first.
Sean
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[Drew Sawyer] “I didn’t know you were the authority on whether my questions were completely answered or not. “
LOL! Well actually… he’s one of the closest things to it :). That’s fine you want a second opinion. But it’s not cool to pretend like he didn’t answer you. A less obnoxious response would be directed at Gary saying “Are you sure? I’ve heard different information? Can anyone else confirm this, etc.” Instead, to me it looked like you didn’t like the answer he gave, so you chose to ignore him.
Sean
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I think it’s up to the file system how much it can address, not so much the OS. Looking on Wikipedia, it says HFS+ can handle up to 8 exabytes, NTFS can handle 16 exabytes. ZFS can handle 2 exabytes to the 18th power! So I think Mac and Windows are fine for a long time, and when Mac gets ZFS it will be fine for the next thousand years.
Linux is further behind I guess. Ext2 & 3 can only address 32TB. But ext4 is being developed.
Sean
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I’m actually a MetaSAN customer. I was researching Lustre (the real one) and I came across this thing that supposedly works on OSX. You’re right, it’s totally impractical, and even if someone got it to work it doesn’t work with SAN disks (it just shares the file system over TCP/IP).
Sean
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Have you considered just conforming it to 23.98 in Cinema Tools?
Sean
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As long as write-back cache is enabled, and you have the latest drivers and firmware, then you’re doing everything right. It could just be a drive incompatibility. The disk drive makers rushed to get 1TB models on the shelves. I’ve heard a lot of problems with the Samsung ones. Haven’t heard anything about the Seagates, but anything’s possible.
Whenever you build your own RAID, it’s really important to make sure the controller card has been tested with the model hard drive you plan to use.
Do not troubleshoot this to death in hopes that it will eventually work. If it’s not to late, be prepared to return those disks and try a model that Highpoint recommends.
EDIT: I just checked and see that there’s a firmware update for your card released in January. See if you have the latest one. If not you gotta update it. Unfortunately you need a PC to do that.
Sean
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I just read about some drawbacks with Flash 9/h264. You can’t embed a SWF file for one.
What really concerns me though is the CPU requirements for h264 in general. An old computer will not be able to handle it for sure.
The VP6 codec looks really good. To me it looks just as good as h264 for small size files. I think h264 is optimized for HD. I’m definitely not sending clients HD clips yet.
Sean
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[Scott Thomas] “The G5 has only the single optical bay, and it seems that there are more and more SATA interface drives and fewer and fewer PATA ones. I would rather leave a PCIe slot open for my future video card purchase (Thinking Decklink HD Extreme) rather than have it taken up with a card just to get an extra SATA port.
“Who said anything about using up a PCI slot??? You just need this thing here, as Bob mentioned:
https://addonics.com/products/io/adsaide.asp[Scott Thomas] “I also don’t want to remove the Apple drive from the system. I’ve done that with other systems I’ve had and it sometimes causes MacOSX to not want to burn disks. Perhaps MacOS isn’t as petulant about not seeing an Apple drive as it once was?”
Whatever problem you had must have been something wrong with the drive you replaced it with. The lack of an “Apple” branded optical drive is not normally going to cause any such problems.
Sean