Stevesherrick
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Can’t go wrong with Film Effects. It’s a great bargain too.
Steve
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Well, that depends on his delivery format. If for SD broadcast, he may well elect to capture it at 29.97, but if he is looking to do an HD out, progressive DVD, etc. he may elect to capture it and remove the pulldown (if he used 24P advanced mode)and then edit it in a 24P sequence. He will see some performance gained by editing this way, although when outputting to a monitor it needs to do the pulldown, so you dop take a hit there. But editing should pose no problems.
Steve
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You may run into some RT performance issues if you do several streams of video, but I think you’ll be fine. I can’t see a reason why you would need to offline this. I’m not familiar with the Kona SD card so I can’t say why you would be having problems outputting. I know the Kona 2 and the LS can handle DVCPRO50 fine.
Steve
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Yes, that is most likely it. I have experienced this before and was told about making sure it lands on an even number. Seemed to work most of the time, but not always. Maybe there was something else going on too. I have found that Graemme Nattresse’s widescreen mask doesn’t have this problem for some reason. He may be able to chime in here and clarify what his plugin is doing that seems to be better than Apple’s.
steve
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I was able to edit some SDX900 footage that was shot 24P and did edit it with a firewire drive. I’m trying to move away from firewire as my main storage solution but it did work. It should be enough throughput for the DVCPRO50 and if you edit in a 24P timeline you are asking the drives to play back less frames so it takes some of the stress of them. I have the same setup as you, although I don’t have as much RAM. How did you get 3GB of RAM in your Dual 1ghz? Is it not a Quicksilver 2002 model. Those can only go up to 1.5gb which is what I have.
Steve
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I know there are a ton of threads on this subject, but many have suggested the Black Magic Decklink cards, maybe the Decklink Extreme. The AJA I/O would probably be an option but it’s outside the price range unless you go with an option with less inputs.
steve
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I understand that as the amount of drives in the Raid increases, the throughput will be greater and more capable of handling the uncompressed streams. But I see no harm in striping the 2 drives together to gain some performance over the single drives, even if it was only marginal, which so far it seems to be more than marginal based on what I can now play. The risk involved is the Raid 0 configuration which could result in me losing all my data if one of the drives go bad. But I backup my media to firewire drives, so I can negate that risk. Firewire drives, even the firewire 800 at times is just too unstable for me. I had added multiple firewire cards too, but it just didn’t seem to cut it, even in DV sometimes. Got the occasional dropped frames. I just wanted a stable storage solution. I have a UL3d SCSI card with a Medea Video Raid RT but that only gets a sustained data rate of about 65mb/s and the SATA raid is getting more than that. SCSI is just too expensive for me with the amount of space you get. Eventually, I’d like to get the best storage solution out there, but right now this is the best I can do.
Steve
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I completely disagree. I tested the drives individually and was getting speeds of between 62-66mb/s using Quickbench. After striping them, I now see speeds over 100mb/s. To me, that’s a big enough difference. I can now move away from using firewire drives as my main drives. What I am doing, to be safe using this Raid 0 method, is to backup all the media onto one of my firewire drives and if something goes wrong with the raid, I can always get the media back quickly. The specs are as follows.
Firmtek 2 port internal SATA card
(2) 250gb Seagate SATA drivesI’ll let you know how the real world performance once I use the new raid in Final Cut Pro.
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Are you referring to change lists?
There is software such as XML Pro from Gallery that can do this. https://www.gallery.co.uk/
Also, i think Synchrp Arts Titan has a conform mode.
Embedded OMF makes it tough to make changes so it’s not always the best option for exporting audio out of FCP.
Steve
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What if you striped across 2 different SATA cards? Would that increase the speed? Is it the single PCI card that’s the problem?
Steve