Todd Perchert
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I recently purchased a pair of HP zr24w IPS monitors from Amazon for around $400 each for our Art department (Macs) and also a pair for at home (PC). They look great! The colors are fantastic. And a great price for IPS monitors.
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Or, much of the production studio is already wrapped up into a Newtek Tricaster. 2 choices for HD – https://www.newtek.com/tricaster/tricaster_tcxd300.php
https://www.newtek.com/tricaster/tricaster_tcxd850.phpBut as Dave pointed out, there is a whole lot more needed in getting audio/video to the system and out to the stations.
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You could set up an ftp server on site. It isn’t too difficult to accomplish, and you can make it as secure as you need.
We have a FileZilla ftp server set up for transfers. It is free and works on a PC. Although, we are not dealing with the volume of data you are with a full TV show.
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Yes. To get the speeds they are talking about (230MB/s) you would need the same as what they got that speed with, which on their site says:
“Sustained Transfer Rates: Up to 230MB/s*
* The peak DS-500 data transfer rate descried is based on a five SATA II drive setup in a RAID 0 configuration; Average NAS system data transfer speed is based on 20Mbytes/sec.”You also have the NORCO-4618 controller, right? The site on that says you CAN ALSO setup RAID in BASE mode using OS Disc Management:
“The NORCO-4618 controller is set to RAID mode (default: jumper 1-2). You need install
SATARAID5 utility software to detect the hard drives installed and set up RAID group. If
you change the jumper to BASE mode (2-3), the host system will recognize all the hard
drives installed in the external system as individual drives. You can also use your OS Disk
Management to setup RAID in BASE mode (refer to your OS manual).”Having the OS control the RAID will give you less performance. Keep in mind, setting the array up in RAID-0 will give the fastest performance, but no protection. You will want some sort of backup plan because you will have a drive fail at some point in time.
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1. That rate is based on 5 drives striped in RAID-0.
2. You will want to use the RAID controller to create the RAID, not Windows Disk Management. You should have some kind of RAID management software that came with it, or you can manage the RAID when you are booting up.
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I have never known anyone to change out the platter before…
You may try some old techniques first. Put the drive in the freezer for a few hours, take it out and hold it flat above a table just a couple of inches, then drop it flat. Put it in and try to get as much data off as possible – IF it works. If it does work, you may need to do this procedure several times. I’ve successfully recovered data from a clicking WD drive using this method.
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LOL! That’s how it goes… one step missing – you’ve asked in 10 different forums on several different sites how to get your data back.
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Have you swapped out cables? I’ve had issues with cables/connectors causing similar RAID issues. Now that is the very first thing I try unless it is an obvious problem.
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I think the last time I used my scanner, it showed up under File-Import in PS.
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Honestly, it looks like AME CS4 is taking the non-square pixels and squishing them down to square and leaving black top and bottom.
I was going to try what Chris said. Send a test to a couple of stations with the setting set to square pixels and find out what happens at their end. I’m afraid that they may say it’s fine when it’s not though… When I did my tests here, the side got cut off.
Although, I’m thinking it may be something in the way the editor is handling the source file. Even though everything looks to be correct in the properties of the file. When I render something out in AE to any of the codecs mentioned earlier, it doesn’t have any problems in AME.
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