[Steve Cohen]

Jeremy;

I know AJA has great support and I really don;t have a problem with AJA, but Benjamin was asking for opinions, so I gave mine.

I actually just got a call from someone who is the AJA distributor for Florida and he was asking to come down and troubleshoot the issue with AJA.

I don;t think it is a config issue with the AJA because all we are doing is capturing 8 bit uncompressed or DV quality video to a 16TB San connected by a 4GB Fiber connection.

We have 6 raids and only have problems digitizing to Raids 1 and 2, we can digitize to raids 3, 4, 5 & 6 with no problem.

It will happen with video coming thru the AJA or coming from the firewire connection of the Mini DV.

Believe me we have gone thru everything possible including backing up all of the media and projects, reformatting the 2 raids and re-digitizing new footage and starting projects from scratch.

Any thing you can think of is a welcome suggestion.

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

[RIchard Trier] “I know a lot of people have their own stories and opinions about this stuff. For me its simple: I have a list of bad experiences with Decklink and, so far, I’ve never been let down by AJA.
So its an easy choice for me – I’d recommend the Kona.”

My experience is the opposite.
I have 2 AJA IO’s and 3 MultiBridge Extreme’s conneted to a 16TB via Fiber optics.

The AJA’s would drop frames on capture while the BlackMagic’s capture just fine. Spent a year and a half trying to trouble shoot this.
My engineers kept saying it was this or that, finally I just switched them for a week and watched the results.

Needless to say as I type this we are pulling out the 2 AJA’s and replacing them with BlackMagic’s.

Just my opinion.

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

Yeah, my experience and those that I’ve talked to with the same problem were all on Intel Octocore Systems with BlackMagic capture devices.

BlackMagic updated thier drivers and it has been fine since.

I would try updating to the current version of QuickTime (7.5 I think) and Final Cut 6.0.4 (Part of a Pro Apps Update).

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

Yes I am.

I’m using the latest version. (The # escapes me right now because I am not in front of it).

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

[Don Greening] “I haven’t worked with XDCAM disks but can you not change the name using the “Get Info” dialogue box? Highlight the disk icon and hit Cmd-I. See if you can change the name there. Just a thought.
“

No that didn’t work either.

This is really frustrating.

Thanks Don.

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

[Wayne Carey] “If you are downloading the proxy files when you first insert a disc, you can’t save for rename anything. These operations can only happen after the proxies are downloaded.

All of the proxy files are downloaded and I still can’t save my changes.

[Wayne Carey] What version of the Sony Transfer Software do you have installed? 2.7 seems to be pretty stable. “

We were using 2.5, but I installed 2.7 after reading your post and it didn’t make a difference.

Thanks;

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

OK, I give it a try on Moanday when I get back in the office.

Thanks

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

I’m running into the same issue.

I did what was suggested, but a couple of thing are happening.

1st when I make a change to the disk title or the clip name I am unable to save it.

I see the dot next to the disk symbol, but when I go to file, Save is grayed out.

Some one had suggested changing the name of the disk right on the Mac desktop. It won’t let me do that either.

I know, you’re going to say the dusk is write protected.
That is what I thought.

The protection is off (I can see the little red warning in the window), but just to be sure I tried it in both positions and still the same results.

So as of know I am importing the files from Final Cut and then changing the clip and reel names in there.

There has to be a better way.

Thanks;

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

I agree.
I didn’t know that they were that small.

We typically digitize at 8 bit uncompressed which is about 5 and a half time larger then DV, so we should have the room for the XD files.

Thanks again;

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

First of all thanks for all of the information. The work flow is very useful.

We have either Aja IO or BlackMagic MultiBridge Extreme for digiting.

My dealer said that the BlackMagic is capable of doing the down convert.

We are using Final Cut Pro 6.0.4.

[Craig Seeman] “I wouldn’t downconvert to SD on import unless you have a specific reason to.”

The only reason I was thinking of down converting was space.

At this point I have no idea how much footage they will be shooting and how large the files will be. I guess I will find out ass the optical disks start coming in.

Thanks again;

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.