[Steve Voyk]

Apologies for posting this in the wrong forum….

[Steve Voyk]

Hi guys,
Yes, I was planning to go to the superdrive bay for the system drive. But it seems to me that I can’t do RAID 0 AND 1, only 0 OR 1.

In that case, let’s say I use two drives striped together, another drive as a system drive and another as the backup. Is it easy to backup from the striped drives to the backup drive internally?

Is it something the MAC can do automatically or will it be a nightly manual procedure?

Regards and thanks for your replies,
Steve

[Steve Voyk]

Hi “Rumpy”…
Many thanks for the info… yes, it really helped. I got the Express Pro system to import the files without any issue.
If you have time, can you explain why Avid uses a ‘media tool’ rather than going straight to a normal BIN with these kind of files. I can’t work out the difference between the two…
Regards and thanks again,
Steve

[Steve Voyk]

Hi Wes…

FLV Video: Wildform’s high quality Flash MX FLV video (both 1-pass and 2-pass* VBR) that plays in the Flash 7 player (and higher) when loaded into the player using the correct streaming syntax (SWF files containing this syntax can be generated automatically using the included Flix FLV player program). In addition, FLV video can be imported directly into the Macromedia Flash authoring tool (versions MX and higher) and it can be streamed using the Macromedia Flashcom Server. Flix outputs FLV files with either MP3 audio, which is better for use when deploying the FLV files, and uncompressed audio which is useful when creating files intended to be imported into the Macromedia Flash authoring tool.

Note that FLV files have no 16,000 frame limit and they handle RAM in a different way than SWF files, so if you are creating large video files, it is strongly recommended that use FLV output.

Also, when creating video for CD, you should use FLV video because it performs better. FLV files also do not have a SWF framerate and play independently of the SWF framerate of any SWF file that you may load them into.

[Steve Voyk]

Ok… I worked out the difference between FLV and SXF. Seems like FLV is the way to go.
These files will play off a server so what settings would you guys use (bitrates etc.) for 1920×1080 ?
Regards,
Steve

[Steve Voyk]

Thanks Charles… seems very straight forward…
Does the Cleaner UI with thst “Pro’ codec give you more options to play with ?
Pity that Sorenson don’t give a few days trial version.

Lastly, do you use Cleaner with Auto KF’s or do you generally set manual KF framerates?

Regards,
Steve

[Steve Voyk]

Hi Charles,
Is it easy to just buy and download this codec and drop it into Cleaner. Have you tried this? Can you give me the details of what the procedure is if you have.
Regards,
Steve

[Steve Voyk]

Thanks Ed and Charles… much appreciated.
Steve

[Steve Voyk]

Many thanks guys.. I appreciate the insight into the WACOM, Shake, AE and Silhouette areas.
Guess I better add a few more things to my shopping list !!
Regards,
Steve

[Steve Voyk]

Thanks Walter. Yes, I too have been editing with pens for about the same time, hence my question.

Can you give me a simple workflow example of how I would export a shot from the timeline to AE for example. Is it a cse of making it into a TIF sequence etc. or is there any easier way, similar to exporting to Shake?

I’d prefer not to learn Shake given it’s dead future, rather AE, Silhouette or Toxik but would appreciate a streamlined workflow.

Regards,
Steve