[Shaun Gish]

Yea – that pretty much sums up my issue… Just communicate with the customers and we won’t be nearly as pissed off. The biggest issue for me is that alot of my work is onlining clients offline work and several of my clients are using the new version of FCS… I have to jump thru hoops to get everything to work just so I can finish their edit and output to tape. It’s incredibly frustrating and all I really want is a rough timeline… is it going to be 3 more weeks or 3 months?

[Shaun Gish]

We’re mastering to hdcam sr and extensivley color grading so there is plenty of reason to go prores hq. Have you ever cut a 10 cam multicam project? Fcp completey chokes even on a killer setup. That’s a lot of data. We have a San setup that can handle plenty of thruput but we also have multiple shows being edited at the same time. Offline workflows have their place and this is one of them.

Thanks for the info on the proxy card not capturing matching timecode. That answers my question

[Shaun Gish]

Hard drive space is not the issue… Speed is. The reason for the offline process is because we’re shooting with ten cameras. 10 channels of prores hq is just not practical. The reason for the kipros is to save time and money (cheaper than p2 cards) and so that we can hit record on all of the kipros from our video village instead of relying on the cameras ops

[Shaun Gish]

We’re supposed to accept the delay because Aja is expected to deliver a driver that works correctly but it’s ok that Apple released an OS that doesn’t?

I have had nothing but major issues with Snow Leopard and have rolled back on the machines I installed it on. Everyone that I’ve worked with has had the same issues (application crashes on save/open dialogs) and I have a fairly large sample size.

Funny though – I bought my IoHD about 2 months before the FCP 7 upgrade.

I’ve had nothing but bad experiences with the IoHD (and I’m a huge AJA fan). I intended on purchasing a new macbook pro for field capture with it and then found out about the lack of express slots on everything but the impractical 17″

I’ve also been unable to get it to be stable. I did all of the firmware updates and the thing was flat out buggy. I was considering returning it prior to the FCP 7 update but then I kept hearing about how wonderful it was and how the new drivers would add ProRes proxy and 4444 support so I decided to wait.

I’m still waiting.

Right now I’m considering it the worst purchase I’ve made in a long, long time. I should’ve gone with a Kona card for my tower and just dealt with field acquisition in a different way (KiPro…)

[Shaun Gish]

Oh wow… that’s kind of cool. Wonder what the delay will be like.

Sounds perfect though. Thanks for the update… Looks like a great solution for what I need.

[Shaun Gish]

Thanks for all of the responses.

Unfortunately the SDI record trigger doesn’t really help – I’m trying to minimize the possibility of a camera operator double punching/forgetting to punch.

I guess we’ll just have to have our tape operator hit record on all of the units.

Does it take very long for a drive to be ejected and a new one to mount?

[Shaun Gish]

I’m a bit confused about the use of ProRes(HQ)… a few weeks ago I made a post about a project that I’m working on that was shot AVCI100 and I specifically asked if there was any benefit to working with ProRes(HQ) vs. normal ProRes – I was told that I would gain nothing by going standard ProRes…

But everyone that’s been posting lately is saying that ProRes(HQ) is the way to go instead of standard ProRes… so… now that I’m close to being finished with my 2 hour, 10 camera, multiclip production that is all in ProRes should I have gone the other route?

[Shaun Gish]

I did speak with Aja and I did upgrade my firmware… didn’t realize I had missed an update.

Things are generally more stable and the real time performance is much much better… but I’m still getting some wonkyness – I’ve had a couple kernel crashes and the IoHD has frozen up a few times. I’m starting to wonder if it’s an issue with the actual box I have. I’m still talking to AJA… I’ll let you know what they say.

Thanks for the help

[Shaun Gish]

Interesting – good to know… what little footage I have in HQ I will re-transcode to non-HQ (didn’t realize multicam clips have to be the same codec…)

Thanks for all of the help

[Shaun Gish]

Thanks Walter and Stace – I’ll look at Gary’s posts – when you say errors do you mean potential operator errors or do you mean encoding errors?