[Steve Cohen]

I agree with David’s comments on your Ram.

From speaking with several Apple support staff and other retailers I found out when we bought our new systems that Apple’s minimum system requirements are 4GB of memory, but they suggest 8GB.

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

I did the updates and my front door light won’t turn on now.

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

FCP is backwards compatible or not depending on other issues.

First if QT was upgraded along with it. I the case of 6.0.2 to 6.0.3 QT went to 7.5 I believe.

With the update to 6.0.4 I don’t think there was an update to QT so the program is backwards compatible.

The other thing that can effect the backwards compatibility is the changes to FCP to itself.

Hope this helps a bit.

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

Gary;

It is a Fiber server managed by Fibre Jet.
I did mention that in another post to someone else.

Forgive me but if it were a cableing problem, especially a bent Fiber cable, then it would be dropping frame to all of the 6 raids, not just Raids 1 & 2.

We have have an engineer in here and moved the machine to another fibre drop, same issue, reformat and reconfigure those 2 raids, same issue.

Nothing seems to fix the problem except removing all firewire devices (IE AJA IO and Mini DV deck) and capture threw a hardwired device like the Blackmagic Multibrige (or even a Kona I guesss).

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

Thanks, but it is part of the job.
At least for me it is.

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Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

[walter biscardi] “That is a very strange problem and one I’ve never heard of before, but definitely a conflict between Firewire and your SAN. We’ve never seen anything like that here for sure.”

Walter you are correct. It is very strange.
We have BlackMagics in the edit suites so to achive uniformity we decided to go with BlackMagics to replace the AJA’s.

I’m sure the Kona card is an excellent device, but right now BlackMagic is what they want to go with here.

No saying what may happen in the future.

Thanks;

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

Gary;

This is not an AJA IOHD, it is the plan old AJA IO.
It worked fine on our Dual Core G-5’s connected to G-Raids, but when we moved downstairs to the new facility and installed a SAN we started having problems.

Again it really is not the AJA that is the problem. it has to be something on our SAN, but can not figure out what.

The AJA in question (or the Sony Mini DV deck) connected to a Quad Core G-5 or even a Dual Core G-5 (both connected via firewire 1 using the built in firewire port and the other using a PCI firewire card) will drop frames when digitizing to Raids 1 and 2, but when digitizing to Raids 3, 4, 5 or 6 it is fine.

So right there it says there is something with the box that contains Raids 1 and 2.

We have had out engineer triple and quadruple check every setting and the settings between box 1 (containing Raids 1 and 2) box 2 (containing Raids 3 & 4) and box 3 containing Raids 5 & 6) are all identically.
We have even tried changing switches that control the boxes, no difference.

We’ve tried decreasing the port speed, anything you can think of we have tried it.

There is something with digitizing thru a firewire device (AJA or Mini DV deck) that will drop frames on only those 2 raids, but digitizing to the same raids with a BlackMagic has no problems at all.

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Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

[Steve Cohen] “The mini DVD deck is only hooked up to 1 of the systems the other has no additional firewire devices.”

That should be Mini DV deck not mini DVD deck.

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O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

The only other firewire device is a Sony Mini DV deck, but it is connected to a PCI Firewire card, while the AJA is connected to the Computers firewire.

Regardless, we have 2 AJA’s on 2 different, but identical quad Core G5’s the dropping frames happens on both systems.

The mini DVD deck is only hooked up to 1 of the systems the other has no additional firewire devices.

We have even moved one of the AJA into our one of the edit suites (it is normally connected to a system that is dedicated for final output to tape) and it dropped frames in there as well and there are no firewire devices connected to the edit suite.

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Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

The San is a Rourke Data San with FibreJet for the software.

No it is fine on any other drive. The internal HD, a G-Raid, or any of the other Raids. it only has problems on Raid 1 and 2.

Yes it probably is a SAN issue.

All the raids were installed at the same time, using the same controllers, switches and everything is identical on all 6 raids.

Raids 1 and 2 are on 1 box. Raid 3 and 4 are on a second and raids 5 & 6 are on a third, but we will only drop frames on Raids 1 and 2 nothing else.

My point the AJA and the BlackMagic is that it will drop frames with the AJA IO (a Firewire device) and the Mini DV (another firewire device) both are on seperate busses. We installed a Firewire card for the Mini DV and the AJA is on the compute Buss.

STRANGE.

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.