Thomas Santopolo
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I tried the same kind of setup you have and could not get good performance. Port multiplication does not work well for speed. It would be best to have a 4 port card with a 4 port external raid.
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You definitely want to create the raid using the card. When you first start your computer, the card bios, just like your motherboard bios, should show up on your screen. From there you can configure your raid. If you have difficulties, call the manufacturer and they should walk you through it. Does the Norco unit have 4 separate sata connections? If not, it is using port multiplication and it really doesn’t raid well. The 300 MB/sec bandwidth of a single data cable through which the port multiplier connects will hold back simultaneous transfers as you add more drives to it.I attempted to use Port Multiplication once but could never get performance out of it. I now use a 4 Port Raid in raid 5 and get about 200 MB/sec. I am sure I would be closer to 350-400 MB/Sec in raid 0 (raid 5 mirrors data so if a drive fails, you don’t loose your data, but it slows performance).
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I would also be happy to test any patches/updates. My email is tom@vtcomputech.com. Would really be great if you could support the cineform codecs.
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Kristian,
Any way to output through the intensity card using any of Adobes presets, or adding some similar presets to yours? I have the Cineform software and First Light outputs through the intensity card which is great for color correction, but those files will not playback in real-time with your presets. It seems that it would be a big benefit for you guys, particularly sine Matrox is saying they offer real-time multilayer editing, to do something like this. I don’t think you even have a tool that will convert a video file to your format.
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I don’t think that using the blackmagic presets work with the adobe mercury engine. I can’t get any performance out of their presets, but if I use adobe AVCHD presets I get 8 layers real time. I also have an i7, GTX-285, 12GB memory and raid. I searched their website but there really is no help there. I even tried using cineforms codec but no go. I think matrox is the only card (with the max option) that can edit in real time and have broadcast video output.