Sean Oneil
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They sold our DSR-1800 for us. What a bummer.
Sean
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I don’t like the company and it’s my opinion they, like many, many PC component makers, do not care much about Mac users because they only make up 7% of the market – and among that 7%, only a small fraction of them are going to purchase 3rd party hardware upgrades.
Obviously I don’t have “proof.” You can’t prove an unquantifiable concept such as how much a giant corporation cares about something. It’s simply my opinion, and I apologized for my hyperbolic expression of it. I just think Seagate is a better company.
Sean
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The email thing was simply an example of an unexpected system sound that could occur. For anyone who has to ask, I wouldn’t recommend running any program whatsoever during ETT.
That said, a person with experience who understands their system well is free to do whatever works for him or her. The mantra of not running other programs is old wisdom. Emphasis on the word “old.” Newer machines have multiple processors, faster busses, etc. So it’s generally not a problem. More importantly, during ETT, the RS422 deck control will report any dropped frames. So if something goes wrong, you’ll always know about it.
Sometimes you have to put things in perspective. Open up the Activity Monitor and look at all the background services and other things going on. If you have Xsan, or software RAID, TCP polling activity, etc. – all that stuff is far more disruptive than receiving a new email notification. There was a time in the Media 100 days where I had to turn File Sharing off. I highly doubt that most people are that paranoid now using modern tools. There’s nothing wrong with being too careful. But there’s also nothing wrong with working within the limits of your own personal expertise on what your system can and can’t handle.
Sean
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No problem. I don’t know if you can do what I did though using FCP6. I’m surprised someone who doesn’t currently own a 1200a hasn’t chimed in.
Sean
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That’s because those are models which are licensed to Apple. Hence the logo. Of course those will work. I have those too.
I’m talking about their off-the-shelf products. Here’s one example:
https://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1415&p_created=1139422949&p_sid=a6lDpP3j&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=1397&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NSw1JnBfcHJvZHM9MCZwX2NhdHM9MCZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX2ZubCZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PVBvd2VyTWFjIEc1&p_li=&p_topview=1Aside from the actual article, notice how the menus on the top don’t work right with Safari.
This is also interesting:
https://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=459That’s enough for me. I don’t like them. That’s my opinion and I’m entitled to it. Just like you express yours quite often. Sorry for the hyperbole, I know it was a bit much. I just don’t like them at all and have good reasons for it. Their support is pretty unhelpful as well.
Sean
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[Ron Craig] ” Is that wrong?”
Yes, that is wrong. The unreliability issue has to do with old versions of Final Cut not always detecting the deck on FW. Since you’re using FW anyways for deck control, the issue is moot.
Sean
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This has happened to me a few times, but it went away when I restarted. Sorry I can’t be of more help.
Sean
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If you’re gonna plug it in anyways, why don’t you just use Firewire for video? There’s no reason not to.
When I had a 1200A, I use “Print to Video” and manually hit record on the deck. Doing this recorded the proper timecode. That was with FCP5 though. I don’t know if it still works with 6.
Sean
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Western Digital does not care about Mac users. They have a lot of products that they know wont’ work on Macs, and they don’t even care.
Sean
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Arnie, I’ve been creating broadcast masters almost daily for over 10 years.
Sean