Todd Perchert
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As Alex said, check with your controller manufacturer. You may be able to revive if you don’t initialize when you rebuild the array. Basically, they may have you delete the array, create the array using the exact same parameters – without initializing, then import in Disc Manager. This process has worked with a Promise RAID controller that kept losing drives due to a malfunctioning power supply.
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Let’s double-check to make sure your settings are matching your footage. Drag a clip from your bin to the ‘New Item’ icon at the bottom of the bin. It will make a new sequence that matches your clip. Does that play smoothly?
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Home premium is fine as long as you don’t need to connect to a domain or mac. It lacks some of the networking features of the Pro version. If you don’t need them, then go for it.
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David – Tim makes a good point. Are you using any other hardware on the machine for video playback? Like Matrox, AJA, Blackmagic… that may need newer drivers.
And what is your sequence settings? Same as the clip?
One other thing could be the firewire. Is it on-board or a card? It could need newer firmware Win7.
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Like Alex said, for gaming you want the fast system drive since your programs reside there. For video editing you want fast media drives and to keep your media off of the system drive.
Like I had said, if you go with RAID-0, you will want to be very diligent about backups. RAID-0 can be implemented with as little as 2 HDDs. If you go with a RAID-5, you can usually survive 1 drive failure. RAID-5 requires a minimum of 3 HDDs, you lose one volume for parity information. If you go with RAID-6, you need a minimum of 4 HDDs and can usually survive 2 HDD failures at once, but you lose 2 drive for parity information.Myself, I have a 300MB/s R/W RAID-0 internal for my project files, that I back up every evening. I also have an external RAID-5 16TB array that does about 700MB/s write and 600MB/s read – this is my media drive. Most of my media is used in other projects which is why I keep it separate from my projects. That’s on top of the OS drive and backup drive. And yes, I have a very large case for liquid cooling to keep my XEONs cool and internal drives cool.
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Yes. I realized it was a 4500 after I posted… That doesn’t help David. Got anything to help the poor guy out?
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RAID is what you need to edit quickly and/or have a safety net for when a drive fails… If one drive will give you 90mbps, two drives in a RAID-0 should give you closer to 180mbps (theoretically) but if you lose a drive you lose all your data. There is some good info on RAIDs here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
Read up on them.
Many editors are using RAID-5 or RAID-6. Some are using no safety net with a RAID-0 and backing up more frequently.Then go to:
https://www.aja.com/support/kona-pc/kona3-pc.php
and download the Aja Data Rate calculator. Figure out what you will be editing, use the calc to determine the data throughput you will need and the storage requirements. That is a good start. And remember, if you are layering video footage (2 layers), you need to double the data rate, since your system will be needing to pull both video layers at once. Or you may end up doing more rendering than you really want to.
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are your playback settings set to use Hardware Acceleration?
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I guess it depends on where you plan on housing your media drives… Are you looking at an internal RAID or external? If internal, you’ll want the full tower for good airflow, and you may want to bump up the power supply some. Don’t want to burn out your PSU too quickly. You don’t need much more, that’s a good PSU and would probably be fine depending on many drives and accessories you plan on adding. Corsair has a good 850 for about the same price.
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Dragan – keep in mind that there may be a chance that this same issue may happen with a more powerful PC. I changed out my PSU and appear to still be having issues. I’m now figuring it is just Windows Media Player problem – even though I can’t exactly prove that since some files will work fine. I am running into about 25% of the time it has issues. Upgraded my VLC and it will play the files fine. PPro will play the files fine. AME will transcode the files fine. It’s just Windows Media Player and Windows Media Encoder that are having issues, at least on my end. I’m guessing there could be some kind of a small error in the files themselves, which is why the problem will be in the exact same spot each time, and Windows Media Player just can’t handle it. I’ve even gotten QuickTime to play the files – it doesn’t start playing too well, but it plays through the problem area with no problem. I’m still not sure if I can trust those files to not have any problems once a TV station gets a hold of them, but it looks more promising that it’s just Windows…
Sorry for the long-winded post…
Good Luck! TC