Todd Perchert
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Thanks Thomas. The software states it can work with them. I’m going in order first. The MacPro is my first concern. If it can’t do it, then there’s no point in going any further with this route. My local Apple dealer, and the Apple site, states that they only sell MacPros with a maximum of 2 cards supporting 6 monitors – that’s all the further I get with them. If we were looking at a PC, I would have no problem. 🙂
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It’s possible to recover IF you have the same controller and swap the drives in the same order. But there are also firmware revisions and such that could make it improbable. Many, like you, learn the hard way that RAID is not a backup system – this is why many data servers are set up in a RAID, but then get backed up nightly and stored offsite.
You might check some of the DIY raid recovery softwares out there, but I’ve heard mixed results from those. Might be easier, faster, and less frustrating, to get a new RAID system and a backup solution, and move forward.
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Thanks Bob! So storage not so much an issue as the computer. I’m guessing the units I’m looking into will do fine then. They should handle up to 500mbps write with no problems – hopefully they can sustain that write time with 4 streams after an hour.
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I assume that if I am capturing 50mbps HD footage, that that will come to 200mbps throughput needed, but I also assume there has to be plenty of overhead with 4 streams going to a single array. Thus the previous question. I need to know that after 1 hour I won’t be dropping frames because the array can’t sustain that rate for that long. This will go into a new MacPro. Which reminds me as well – would quad core be sufficient, or is it best to beef the cpu’s more? To say 8 cores. I assume 12 cores would be overkill for a capture machine, which is what this basically will be.
Thanks!
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Probably didn’t read the instructions… 😉 They do come setup as RAID-5, but they have a ‘synchronization’ that it does in the background. You may not have noticed the lights flashing on the unit – still works, just needs to do it’s forever long synchronization.
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And as far as initialization time… we just got 2 R4’s installed on 2 different iMacs. The first R4 initialized in about 12 hours, the second one took probably 35 hours! Same R4 enclosure, with same drives – vastly different init times.
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In your bin, right-click the AE comp you want to re-link, then select Link Media from the drop down.
To replace a clip on your timeline with a newer version, import the newer version, then Option-Drag over the clip on your sequence and release to replace it.
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Alex – do you have a custom keyboard setup for that Shift+Enter? My Mac does nothing with those keystrokes. You must have the ‘Render Entire Work Area’ mapped, which isn’t standard.
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Mr. Weiss is quite knowledgeable. He made a great point about reliability. There are boxes that do have a dedicated hardware raid controller, such as the Sonnet Fusion – https://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusion400qr5.html
It would be much more than what you were looking at spending, but should be more reliable. I don’t have personal experience with it, but others on here might.
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You can usually render the yellow lines without going through all that trouble. Just go up to the Sequence menu and select Render Entire Work Area. That should do it. And I say usually, because in v5 on a high octane PC I occasionally had issues with the yellow line not rendering.
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