Sean Oneil
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You need to connect the auxiliary power. That’s a big mistake not doing that.
Sean
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Check out the VLC player.
Sean
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I know that the Blu-ray spec does support 720p.
Sean
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Is it 1080i 30fps, or 1080i 60fps? If it’s the former, all you do is change the clip’s field dominance to “none” in the Final Cut browser.
Otherwise I’d suggest JES Deinterlace. I’ve used a lot of them, including FieldsKit. JES is without a doubt the best. And it’s free.
Sean
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If it’s a hardware RAID card and it supports RAID-5, yes, that’s all you need to do.
But if this was software RAID, done in disk utility, then you cannot do RAID-5. There is no software RAID-5 for a Mac.
Sean
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David,
That’s great advice for someone who hasn’t bought anything yet. But he already has four 1TB drives and an external enclosure set up. And his controller card might already support RAID-5 (he didn’t say what he was using). It would be a huge waste of time and money not to use his existing equipment.
RAID-5 isn’t tricky to set up or anything. On just about any controller all you need to do is pick the block size (just like in RAID-0) and make sure write caching is enabled.
Sean
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Steve,
What is your current JBOD tower plugged into? Is is a hardware RAID controller?
Sean
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[Mark Raudonis] “Terrablock is a great product for that customer. Lairdshare may be too. I don’t know. I haven’t seen in out in the market yet. “
I agree with you completely as far as the Terrablock is concerned.
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[Mark Raudonis] “The bandwidth that he’s able to push through plain old gig E is extraordinary”
Now you sound like a car salesman. You do realize that no matter how good it is, it’s physically impossible for it to be greater than 1gb?
This could be a solid product. But it doesn’t matter how good it is. It’s $20k for ethernet. That is a RIP-OFF. Studio Network Solutions have been doing the same exact thing for a long time BTW. I don’t mean to knock either company. But it just doesn’t make any sense considering you can go Fibre for $20k.
I hate mentioning this in the Terrablock thread. But I’m going to. If I had to get a SAN tomorrow, I would do this:
1) Buy an Areca 4gb Fibre-to-SATA external RAID-5 controller. They’re like $2k. They turn up to sixteen SATA disks into FC hardware raid.
2) Connect it to just about any eSATA array you want (like all the ones advertised here). Or put your own together.
3) Buy a used Qlogic SANbox switch on ebay.
4) Buy FC cards for all the Macs. PCI-X G5’s can use the old Qlogic cards, which are going for like $150 on ebay.
5) Buy licenses for MetaSAN or Xsan.
That’s all you need. It’s essentially the same as the Xserve RAID setup – except it’s a hell of a lot cheaper and a lot more scalable.
Sean
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What are you outputting to? What tape format? Do you have a Kona or Decklink?
Sean