Steve Covello
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Bob is a bit overzealous here, but he is correct. This is not a home stereo hookup. Find a consultant or a VAR who can set your system up properly and support you in the future. It will cost a few hundred dollars, but it is worth it. I consider myself “smart” but still would rather have someone with more experience than me do the heavy lifting at first.
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Bob is one of the smartest smart-asses I have encountered, and as much I dislike his overuse of capital letters, he has been instrumentally helpful in ways most people tend not to be, meaning, that he is willing to share his knowledge openly as member of a community. So hold your nose as you read, I suppose.
As to your problem, it sounds like a permissions issue, perhaps. When you installed the drivers, were logged in as Administrator? Seems obvious, but anytime an app can’t “see” or read/write a preference of some sort, it’s usually a permissions thing.
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If the jitter you are referring to is field flicker on pulldown frames, then remove the PD in AE, render, then re-import. Or, as posted previously, re-render in AE at the speed you have decided upon in the edit. When we shoot timelapse stills and prep them in AE to render QTs for FCP, we re-render any clips that were speed changed in FCP in AE so that line integrity is preserved as much as possible. Same applies with digitized media too.
BTW, I haven’t noticed a pulldown removal plugin with the default settings in FCP. Is there a 3rd party plugin for this?
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Thank you for piping up on this, Mr. Lacie. I only wish that Lacie would nix using Maxtor HDD’s.
What is the company policy in general on this [if you are liberty to divulge] since it is pretty clear that there are at least 5 reputable brands of HDD, all of which would presumably conform to ATA/IDE/SATA standards? And it seems that one or two of them have the hearts and minds of geeks over other brands, particularly Maxtor.
Have you seen a particular increase in problems with 250’s versus other smaller capacity drives? I know I have!
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Thx Walter. Are you concerned at all that using 500gb with Lacie’s RAID hardware makes data recovery a real pain in the ass as opposed to doing data recovery from a single volume? I guess if you are only using BDE’s for video media that if the drive goes down that you could just recapture on another drive. I had the misfortune of have 200gb of AfterEffects projects go down when an incorrect power supply was attached to it [sans bkp, of course — bad bad!!].
Also, someone once said to me that the reason why G-Raid drives don’t slow down as they fill up is because the two internal HDD’s “go in opposite directions” whereas the Lacie’s spin in the same direction. I can’t fathom this to be totally true since I would assume all HDD’s are standardized, unlike ceiling fans. I have seen at 3 BDE 500gb perform badly when they have gotten close to being 90% full.
steve
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We have a similar setup with G5/Xserve RAID/copper fibre/K2. No problems.
Try to clean off as much stuff off your RAID as you can. Seems to perform better. Make sure you have the correct performance setting on the Raid Admin utility. Check with AJA for the correct settings. If you don’t have an uninterrupted power supply, you may be limited to the selections available in your performance settings.
Definitely do a test where you try a capture with the exact same kind fo source your will be working with, and an output to specs. If you get 1080i source material but need to deliver in 1080p 23.98, you will need to determine a workflow that accoutns for the conversion at some point. Also, depending an on the amount of source footage, you should test a variety of compressed settings to be sure that you won’t have any playback ro downconversion problems. If you have a graphics person involved, be sure to agree upon which codec you will working with.
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I have had consistent success using a Keyspan USB to Serial adapter, then running the serial to an ADC S 824 serial patch bay.
I have had to “remind” FCP that its device control is to be through one of the serial ports on the Keyspan any time there is a crash or new set of Easy Setup that has not been manually set.
Other than this annoying feature, which I wish was more like avid’s, I would vouch for the Keyspan setup.
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I had a power outage and [gulp] no UPS device protecting my XServe RAID [connected via copper fiber to FCP G5 2Ghx DP]. I have had power outages before and, thankfully, I have had no problems when restarting the RAID up until recently. I guess I was lucky before, and I have since learned my lesson.
After the recent outage, the RAID started up again OK, but after a short while, it unmounted and would not mount. Disk Utility gave me the same error you reported. I searched around and it seems that I was pretty much screwed, so I thought.
I called in a specialist who ran Disk Warrior [like I couldn’t have done that myself, except I would rather not compromise anything on the RAID by doing something irretrievably bad if it was the wrong thing to do], and it fixed the problem nearly instantly.
I ignorantly thought that the battery supplies in the RAID were for power outage protection, but it was actually only to protect the cache read/write. I was surprised that my VAR did not recommend an UPS when we bought the system, but that is water under the bridge.
I have since rebuilt both arrays and restriped the RAID with the correct options selected for having an UPS device, and no major issues.
I don’t know if this helps, but at least this episode is somewhat similar.
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The dopey, time-wasting way to do this is to output to HD first, then DC to Beta-SP. The DC board in the HD deck shoul create the NTSC TC in realtime.
Another case for doing it this way too is so WHEN the client says they menat TWO dubs, not just one, you will have the HD master ready rather than occupying your studio for another hour just for an output. At least you will know that all your dubs are the same, in terms of TC accuracy.
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Be sure that the deck’s reference is set to VIDEO INPUT, not REF.
I have also had this problem with QT exports with missing segments of audio. I found that trimming certain media and/or moving the offending media to another audio track will fix the problem. But it may take a bit of effort.
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