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Tim Jones
July 29, 2013 at 10:16 pm in reply to: Changing the duration of a Title Template

This was a lesson I learned early with Motion – always create as if you’re going to deliver for other to use. Fixed settings always seem to come back and bite you in the butt :).

Great Tut, Andy!

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!
Tim Jones
July 29, 2013 at 10:11 pm in reply to: BRU PE says tape is full…when it shouldn’t be!

Hi Diane,

Have you opened a ticket with our support team to find out what’s going on (support.bru.com)? I don’t want to turn the Cow into TOLIS Group Support :).

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!
Tim Jones
July 29, 2013 at 8:20 pm in reply to: Changing the duration of a Title Template

That depends on what you published from Motion. If you didn’t publish the in and out settings, you’ll need to go back out to Motion.

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!
Tim Jones
July 26, 2013 at 5:33 pm in reply to: BRU PE and IBM LTO drives

You are quite safe in buying the IBM LTO drive and BRU PE will work with it completely.

However, before you jump, have you checked our bundle pricing (includes everything that you need) at https://ww2.productionbackup.com/hardware-bundles/desktop-bundle-packages?

I’m always pleased to provide as non-biased information as I can for you guys.

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!
Tim Jones
July 25, 2013 at 2:44 pm in reply to: Loading a project takes hours and often then crashes

First step – move up to at least 16GB of RAM.

Second step – backup your existing drives and populate the 3 slots with top tier disks in a stripe layout (I use only Seagate Constellation 3 drives).

Third step, restore your data to the new striped volume

Fourth step – make sure that your Media Cache files and Media Cache database preference settings point to folders on the new stripe instead of your user’s home Library (the default)

Fifth step – Make sure that your memory preference settings allow no more than 1/4 of your system RAM for other programs

Finally – do all of your work from the new stripe (you should be able to see around 400MB/sec with that setup).

I found CS6 and CC versions of PP to be almost unusable on my Mac Pro 4,1 in 8GB on anything longer than 6 or 7 minutes or when using complex transitions or titles. Once I moved to 16GB, things got much more useable.

HTH

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!
Tim Jones
July 24, 2013 at 10:19 pm in reply to: Unecoverable Cache-A Tape

Lots of thoughts, but they all are dependent on having that standalone drive… You can only use teh Cache-A drive under the Cache-A methodology.

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!
Tim Jones
July 24, 2013 at 9:06 pm in reply to: Editing folders in which raw camera data is stored

How are you getting the data from the cards onto your system? You can store them in any folder structure that you prefer.

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!
Tim Jones
July 24, 2013 at 9:05 pm in reply to: Unecoverable Cache-A Tape

If you have a non-Cache-A LTO-5 drive, our TOLIS Tape Tools will let you restore the tape onto a Mac system. To see if we can get there for you (i.e. the tape truly isn’t blown away), try downloading and installing our BRU PE demo and then execute the following command from the Terminal:
tapectl rewind tapectl tell tapectl seod tapectl tell
The first number returned should be 0 and the second number should be a much larger value depending on how much data should be on the tape. If the 2 numbers are 0 and 4 (or something close like that), it means that the tape is truly taking a dirt nap and here’s no way to get the data off of it. However, if the numbers are much more separated (i.e. 0 and 2,000,000±), the data’s there and we will probably be able to get it back for you.

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!
Tim Jones
July 24, 2013 at 3:17 pm in reply to: RAID 1 Archive: software vs hardware

I always use Apple’s software RAID striping if I’m not using RAID 5 (via ATTO R680). Apple have really seemed to have gotten this right and it is really more “transparent” to you if somethings starts getting quirky (remember, RAID-0 has no recovery in the event of a single disk failure).

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!
Tim Jones
July 24, 2013 at 3:15 pm in reply to: Unecoverable Cache-A Tape

Hi Mike,

Was this a TAR tape or an LTFS tape? I may have some ideas that have worked for others in this situation.

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

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