[Simon Jaquemet]

Hi Bob

Thanks again for your reply.

The QNAP TVS-873e sounds interesting.

We already ordered the Netgear unmanaged 8 port 10G switch and an additional Sonnet twin 10G.

I think We will just get a Netgear Readynas and test it, and report back here.
Those units are in stock here and we can return them within 10 days if we run into problems.
The 628X is a unit with 8 drives and dual 10G ports. Stocked with total 80TB drives the cost will be less than 5000€, which is really a steal.
The Netgear UI looks much more nerdy and complicated than Qnap and Synology. But I could imagine that they have an advantage when it comes to raw data throughput. Also the Xeon D processors and 8GB ECC ram sound promising.

There are not so many reviews about the Readynas 628x. One on storagereview suggests that the Netgear has a bit of an advantage in throughput against similarly priced Synology and Qnap NAS. Also even the benchmarks published by the manufacturers are a bit lower for the Qnap than for the Netgear.

As written I think we will just get one next week and do some real world testing.

[Simon Jaquemet]

Hi Bob

Thank you! I was really hoping you would reply to my post.

I know I did everything wrong. I even posted in the wrong forum. My question should have probably gone to the “NAS …” section ☺

Your answers confirmed what we experienced with our quick setup.
– Thunderbolt networking sounds promising, but doesn’t work.
– Also very good to know that the way to go is the regular 10GB ethernet and not a hybrid of Thunderbolt networking and 10G

What we did was really just a quick attempt to setup shared storage with what we have lying around. Actually after what you write I’m rather surprised that the setup works well at least for the old Mac Pro, which is properly connected over 10G. The mixed 10G / 1G switch doesn’t seem to slow anything down. Of course Mac Pro and Mac Mini connect to the 10G ports. The mini is a 16GB model on OSX 10.12 and the Raid an 8 drive Areca model. Just yesterday we rendered a full feature film in Resolve on the old Mac Pro with Arriraw source footage on the “shared storage” and it pushed trough an average of 30fps.

We will upgrade to a proper 10G NAS setup in the next days and keep that mac Mini as an archive server / backup station / Resolve database server.

Shopping list:
8 Disk 10G NAS
Sonnet twin 10G Thunderbolt Box
5 or 8 port 10GB switch like Netgear XS508M or XS505M

For the NAS we are looking at the rather affordable 8bay models like the Synology DS 1817, QNAP TS-873U-8G (or similar) or Netgear ReadyNAS 628X.

In some reviews the Netgear performs best. Though the popularity on this forum seems to clearly go towards QNAP and Synology. Do you have any experience with the Netgear?

Our main interest is high transfer speeds for a low number of clients. What would be your recommendation to achieve this?
As the 10G cards and the NAS each have two 10G ports: Is link aggregation something that works and could help to improve speed?

Thanks again for your help, Mr. Zelin.

[Simon Jaquemet]

Hi

Check this out:

https://frankglencairn.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/everything-looks-better-on-kodachrome-k-tone-lut/

It’s a Kodachrome LUT. Might be a good starting point.

Cheers

[Simon Jaquemet]

Hi

They seem to have a DCI projector:

https://www.suite16.ch/

I don’t know them but it looks impressive. Don’t know if they work with Davinci.

There’s also Elefant Studios:

https://www.elefantstudios.ch/

The have a Baselight. I know they did a DCP lately. Maybe they can also provide a Davinci in the grading room.

Cheers

[Simon Jaquemet]

Thanks for the help.
Cinema tools doesn’t work. It says something about: codec has temporal compression. Apple compressor would work. But then my mac would render more than one full day. So I think I have to bite the sour apple and convert all the clips by hand.

[Simon Jaquemet]

He Jeremy

Thank you. I will try that.
We didn’t shoot pN because we were monitoring with scopebox and it doesn’t support 25pN

[Simon Jaquemet]

Just to clarify: The error FCP gave me on import was “no Data” I tried to convert the 25/50p clips with the internal FCP frame rate converter plugin.
now everything works normal again. FCP properly removes the duplicate frames on import and the clips are 25p. But I still have a lot of 25 over 50p clips. I copied the problem cards but still final cut won’t import the clips from them and remove the pulldown.

Has anyone of you encountered this problem?

[Simon Jaquemet]

No. It was definitely shot in 25p over 50p. The clip is slow motion but two following frames are identical. Any ideas?

Simon