Tim Irwin
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I was having the same problem and after multiple OS reinstalls, and stripping out all non stock hardware from the mac pro, was coming here to post about it right now. Saw this thread, called apple, new card is on it’s way in spite of my warrantee being long gone. Huge thanks to the cow! Also much respect to apple for making things right.
tim
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I think the reason you are having slow transfer times is because your titanium powerbook only has usb 1.0. Your USB 2.0 drive is backwards compatible, but usb 1.0 is painfully slow. I don’t think reformatting will help much, having a firewire drive would speed things up considerably.
-t
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ugh, nevermind, i was losing my mind, i found it. Still bewildered at why it won’t show up in a search though.
-t
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Sooner than I think? Really, Promise? Ok then I think it’s tomorrow. 😉
all kidding aside, i’ll be very happy when I can store all my p2 archives on cheap solid state storage, but i don’t see the cheap part happening any time soon.
-Tim
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interesting suggestion, i would not have thought of that. I’ll look into it, but I would think if that were the case that the problem would not be specific to final cut only. This doesn’t happen in any other applications. Any one else seen this issue?
Thanks, tim
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If you are shooting 24p using a p2 workflow, than you really should be shooting 720p vs. dvcpro 50. In addition to the extra pixels you also have a lower bitrate as 720 24pn is just under 6 MB/s while dvcpro50 is about 7.5 MB/s. So you’ll get more time per p2 card. Unless you can shoot native framerates in dvcpro50?? not sure if that’s possible. And imho 72024p compresses beautifully for the web.
-tim
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Jeremy,
Are you running a kona card on that setup?
Thanks, tim
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It took me a bit of experimenting but the settings i came up with for creating a 16:9 (or there about) are as follows in the Geometry tab. Set crop to: Custom Top: 50 Bottom 50 Dimensions 480 x 260 Custom. That’s it. Worked well for me. This is in compressor 3 working with a 16:9 image in a 4:3 letterboxed timeline in FCP
Tim
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John,
That did it! The avid site seemed convoluted, but i thought i had the right ones, apparently not! Many thanks for the correct link.
-Tim
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Hmmm,
I don’t think that’s the problem cuz the G4 laptop which plays the files fine is running QT 7.1.3 and I am running 7.1.4 on the MacPro. I had considered upgrading to QT 7.2 to see if that would fix it, but I had heard there were some problems with FCP/AJA/ and QT 7.2. Are you guys running 7.2 without issue?
thanks, tim