[Tim Jones]

If you’re PC’s are changing IP addresses, a lot of normal networking feature will glitch. I would recommend that you set up your CatDV Server system with a fixed / static IP address. That should solve the disconnects that you are running into.

Tim
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Tim Jones
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[Tim Jones]

I don’t know about the “direct connect” TB drives, but I use an array via an ATTO H680 in a Sonnet Echo Express Pro via Thunderbolt and CC and CS6 have no issues with the array.

The Apogee ONE, I could understand as it is truly a “special case” interface for the Mac platform.

Tim
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Tim Jones
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[Tim Jones]

FxFactory from Noise Industries is where I would start. Also, check for FCP X filters and transitions on Youtube for a number of free options.

Tim
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Tim Jones
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[Tim Jones]

You need to look at what you’re trying to achieve to fully answer your question.

Having your apps and your media / clips on the same drive is always going to be the slowest implementation unless you’re running a high-end SSD. By placing your media files onto a secondary drive, the I/O operations for starting your app and accessing your media will get separate I/O.

Even then, a single spindle (single disk) secondary disk will be your bottleneck as a single drive (unless you buy new model, 15K RPM drives) will limit your I/O potential to around 100MB/sec (80MB/sec on FW-800 and 45MB/sec on USB-2).

The further answer depends on your connectivity options. Does you MBP have Thunderbolt? If so, you have a world of options available to you once you attach something like ATTO’s Thunderlink SH1068 or a Sonnet Echo Express with ATTO’s H680. You can now connect multi-drive arrays that will really speed things up. For example, I connect my Retina MBP to a Sonnet EE Pro with the ATTO H680. This is then connected to a 2TB, 4 drive SSD striped array (4, 512GB Samsung 840 EVO) that provides over 800MB/sec of sustainable I/O to the system. With FCP X, Motion, After Effects and PPro running from the internal SSD and my media on the external SSD array, I’m hardly every (if at all) seeing the busy cursor and things render very quickly.

Tim
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Tim Jones
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https://www.productionbackup.com
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[Tim Jones]

I’d go with option 2 – for 2 reasons:

1: You will be able to work very efficiently with the media on the SSD drives
2: Archiving the data from the SSDs to the LTO drive will be much faster than from the P2 media.

Tim
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Tim Jones
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https://www.productionbackup.com
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[Tim Jones]

It’s not about how MUCH space you have, but rather how many spindles. If each of those is only 2 physical drives, you’re going to top out at around 200MB/sec. I use a 4 drive array in each case here and see closer to 500MB/sec. That really does make a differences when dealing with 2K+ source.

The 3 drive stripe on my MP is sitting around 360MB/sec and it gets hi pretty hard. For test, I added a 6 SSD array to the ATTO H680 and striped them in Disk Utility. The number there is over 1.6GB/sec.

I’d say look for more spindles and see where that takes you.

Tim
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Tim Jones
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[Tim Jones]

Like Michael, I can also add different notes for each clip in the Notes field. Can you describe more fully or post a shot of your issue?

Tim
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Tim Jones
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[Tim Jones]

Your hardware looks fine, but you don’t mention your storage.

Can you attach a multi-disk array to the systems (SAS or direct SATA, not USB or Firewire)? You will see a big boost by getting your clips onto a faster storage medium (either SSD – really fast, or HDD). I can edit 4K and ACVHD on a Mac Pro using 3 additional Seagate Constellation 3, 4TB drives striped in Disk Utility.

Tim
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Tim Jones
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[Tim Jones]

Of course, the first comment is “Have you tried turning it off and back on again?”.

Check the disk you’re rendering onto. “-1″ is often reporting that the disk is full or cannot be written to. If it’s not a capacity problem, run repair disk (from Disk Utility” and see if that sets thing right.

Tim
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Tim Jones
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https://www.productionbackup.com
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[Tim Jones]

I also saw this when I didn’t have the Sony CODEC module / plugin loaded.

Here’s Apple’s note on this: XDCAAM Support for FCP X.

Here’s the link to the plugin: XAVC/XDCAM Plug-in for Apple (PDZK-LT2)

HTH

Tim
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Tim Jones
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https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!