Tony Brittan
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Look at the promise thunderbolt raids on apples site
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That was funny!
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Not sure on the expander. I think you’ll only be able to run one esata through this device at a time but that could be wrong. BTW, you’ll also have to buy an eSATA ExpressCard/34 adaptor to insert into the device you’re looking at before you’ll be able to plug in anything.
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Daisy chaining doesn’t work. Well, not for video editing anyway. Thunderbolt is supposed to work great for that but the drives aren’t pllentyful yet. Apple is selling the Promise RAID on thier site that is Thunderbolt and has 4-6 slots for drives. Looks sweet! But cost over $1k US. sounds like after all of what you’re trying to do, the cost could be up around that anyway 😉 Yhey say though that you can daisy chain a bunch of Thuderbolt devices together and it works flawlessly. The device you’re looking at would be great for a MBP that has only one thunderbolt and no express card 34 slot…like my new 15″. That way I could plug this in and use my Matrox MXO2 via express card or even get an express card 34 adaptor for esata so that I could use my current esata GRAID with my new MBP.
But yea…your can theoretically daisy chain FW800 but it’s spotty and in my experience just plain doesn’t work. The speed throughput is very low, the connect is wonky, and it’s just not a good idea…especially for video which has a lot of demand for system resources and drive speed.
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HQ is overkill and will only make things miserable most of the time. It’s intended for RED (or other) types…2k-4k…of footage.
Just use plain ol Prores. It’s awesome. If you’re worried about graphics, it handles them perfectly. Your render times will always be high if you export graphics as the animation codec and then put them into an FCP timeline that doesn’t match. Try exporting them as Prores so that they match your sequence. If you’re using transparency in them, you’ll wanna use Prores 4444 or whatever it’s so that you can keep the alpha channel you’ll have to render those but it willbe much quicker than animation codec.
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Heck…I probably should’ve checked your link before I posted! That looks really cool! Might have to pick one up myself. You still can’t daisy chain like that what you’re talking about video and RAIDs and all that stuff. Just asking for trouble….if you can even get it to work. If it had all Thunderbolt disks you could, supposedly since I haven’t tried it, daisy chain till your hearts content. But not with FireWire.
This is why the Mac Pro is currently the best choice for anything large or beyond the imac’s ability. With the Mac Pro, you have 4 bays for drives and they’re super easy to swap out. I have 4 2tb drives in mine. Then you have 4 PCIe slots to expand with esata cards or whatever. One esata card can have 4 inputs on it. You get where I’m going.
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OWC (Other World Compuing) can actually install an esata card into your iMac for you I believe it gives you two ports. You have to send it to them but they are highly reliable and I’ve heard great things about how it works. I believe that what you’ve described would not work at all. BTW…GRAID is an awesome drive. I use em quite a bit. Sorry for any typos…posting from an iPad.
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Oops…wrong cam 😉 Posting from iPhone so I couldn’t refer back to post. But it’s still a valid point and just me offering some advice from experience on how to correct the problem. And advice that would work. In the future they should log & transfer.
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Well, I wouldn’t say my suggestion is the wrong workflow at all. It’s just one of them. I would say that since the OP already has the clips, and didn’t know any better in the first place, they probably don’t have the card and or the option of log and transfer. Also, since it’s the T3i, the canon plug-in for log & transfer won’t work without being hacked to do so with that cam.
In this case, it’s totally legit to use streamclip. Just sayin.
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You need to transcode that AVCHD to Prores (use MPEGStreamclip…it’s free) before you take it into FCP. It’ll work perfect once you do. FCP 7 does NOT like AVCHD or any form of h.264 files!
Tony Brittan
Island Shore Productions