[Simon Lytting]

This is only a bug in Avid MC8.x.

Fortunately there’s a solution if you found out a long time after you started editing.

First of all you need access to a Media Composer 7.x

Open your project in this MC 7.x.

Then bring your original MXF files into the project and you will see the timecode is correct on these clips.

Go through all of you original clips and type in the correct starting timecode in the AUX TC1 column.

Then delete the media with “media only” on the clips with the wrong timecode. (but which now has the correct timecode in Aux TC)

Relink all the clips again choosing the Aux TC1 setting on original clip and Start TC on target Clip.

-Simon

Voila! All your clips are now online again but from the material with the correct timecode AND you get to keep your already edited material.

Be aware though, to do this on a copy of the project, in case something goes wrong.

Good luck!

[Simon Lytting]

Hi John,

I agree RAID0 is to risky. I’ve set it up now for RAID10 to get both speed and security.

I’ve also set the write method to WriteBack and actually got a slight write speed increase. So thanks for that. I’m thinking maybe I will get a couple of solid state drives to put in the machine for cache only. Do you think that could get the speed up? Or is it not that cache the Raid uses when WriteBack is activated?

[Simon Lytting]

Hi Sebastian,

Hmmm…that sounds like it costs money!? Which in the ears of the company I work for, is terrible music! 🙂 But anyway what is cost of consulting hours? And would it be possible to do by phone and teamviewer? I can see your company is based in Canada, and we are in Denmark.

[Simon Lytting]

I forgot to mention the system will probably mostly run DPX 10bit sequences and Arri Alexa Prores444 QTs

[Simon Lytting]

I’m just going to jump in with my own question, because it seems there are a couple of Promise Raid gurus in this thread. Hope that’s alright.

I have a Promise e610f, 2 channel fibre raid. It’s only hooked up to one PC runnning DaVinci Resolve. We only took over this Raid one week ago, from a bankrupt company, so I’m completely new to this.

Does anyone know the best way to setup the Promise to video handling?
Right now I’ve set it up kind of default I guess with the following settings:

RAID0 (I was hoping in the end to set it up for Raid5 or 6 but right now I’m just looking for MAX performance)
Stripe size: 64kb
Sector size: 512Bytes
Write Policy: Write-Thru
Read Policy: ReadAhead

I’m getting kind of ok results I guess with 320MB/s write and 365MB/s Read on the DaVinci disk speed test. But even though it’s ok, I was wondering if there are any settings I could change that would make it even better?

The PC it’s running on is a Dell Precision R5500, Win7 Pro, 2 x Intel Xeon CPU X5650 2.66Ghz, 128Mb DDR3 1600MHz Ram, GUI is running on NVidia Quadro 2000.
I have a Qubix GPU Extension box running 2 x NVdia Quadro 4000, 1 x Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 and NVidia GeForce GTX 670

Hoping for som great pointers! 🙂