Tony! Hulette
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[Christopher Wright] “This may have been covered before, but does the new Intel 17″ dual MacBook Pro work with the IO??”
Yes, it has been covered and a search will provide you with more details. The short answer is yes it works.
[Christopher Wright] “It should have fast enough processors and enough RAM….”
To do what? You’ll need an external drive run off of a card, not your built-in Mac ports (like Firewire), to do dv. If you want to do uncompressed 8/10 bit video, then you’ll need an external SATA RAID using a two port SATA card – https://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-2sm2-e/
If you have any specific questions about setup, etc., ask us, or check with AJA.
Tony!
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Go to your System Preferences > Audio > Output and make sure you have selected the correct output for your setup. Also, the volume should be up and the mute button should be unchecked. Of course make sure the cable is plugged in and keep in mind that your Mac’s audio maybe using a different output than FCP which probably uses your capture cards audio outputs.
Tony!
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[Danrnw] “Does anyone know if AJA is planning this?
I figure a nice setup would be a 17 inch Macbook Pro,
hook up the IO-HD via Firewire-800 and using an
express card, hook up your SATA RAID.
No ?”No.
Firewire 800 is not near fastest enough for uncompressed HD. If you’re doing hdv, or DVCPro 100 HD you don’t need an external device like the Io.
Tony!
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[mortimer heathcliff] “by the way, how does one “repair permissions?””
Repairing the permissions is part of most of our normal regular OS X maintenance routines. You just open Disk Utility, select the start up drive and select the “Repair Permissions” option on the bottom of the window. You should always do this before and after any major installations or updates (especially OS X updates). You’ll also want to repair your drive fairly regularly (and before/after updates), but you’ll need to startup off your installer disk or another drive to do the repair. If you want to buy Disk Warrior https://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/ it does a better job of repair the drives than Disk Utility, but its not mandatory.
I hope that helps, glad you got your audio problems solved. Trashing the prefs and caches in FCP is a fairly common task. Once you get your settings/prefs back how you want them, I suggest duplicating the prefs and keep a copy somewhere else so you can restore your settings quickly if you need to trash them again in the future. Or better yet, just download and use FCP Rescue https://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14729
Tony!
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Tell us what Mac, OS X version, Quicktime version, FCP version
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Just a couple things off the top of my head:
Make sure the correct output device is selected in your System Preferences > Sound > Output tab. If you’ve installed any new codec’s try removing them to see if that helps (they can conflict). Also, check your Quicktime preference settings in the System Preferences and make sure QuickTime Pro is still registered there. Try something other than Quicktime music like AIFF or MP3. Make sure any media (video, audio) is on your media drive and not your startup drive.
Tony!
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Chemix,
Think of the right side of your Xserve RAID as a whole separate RAID. It will be separate from your current RAID. If you’re using it for video editing or need the best possible speed, the you can stripe the two sides of your RAID together into one big RAID using Disk Utility. However, to do that you’ll need to backup everything from your current drives (the left side) as striping the two halves together will destroy everything on there currently. Just buy a couple big Firewire drives to back up to (you should do that anyway, as only having your files on the RAID is a recipe for disaster when it eventually fails).
Again, if you want to use the RAID for video, what you should do is reformat the left side to on big RAID 5 (if its not all ready) and do the same for the right (this is default). Then open Disk Utility and stripe the two sides together as “Mac OS Extended (not journaled)” and “Striped RAID Set.” You’ll also, want to change some of your settings in RAID Admin so you can get better speed and not drop frames, but I won’t get into that right now.
You can use 500gb drives, but when you stripe the two halves of the RAID together you’ll loose the extra storage that the bigger drives provide. Another way to go is to just buy a new fully loaded RAID and sell your current one. This actually might be the easiest and best solution for many reasons and you’ll get even more space as it will be all 500gb drives on both sides. One other solution, just because I have one left, is to buy a used Xserve RAID with the drives you need in it. I have a fully loaded one that has 14 400gb drives in it (and the cache backup batteries) that you can buy for $6,200. You can then either take what you need from it (even keep some extra drives as backups) and sell the rest on Ebay etc. Anyway, I just thought I’d throw that out there.
Let us know if you have any problems or need more help.
Tony!
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I recommend you stick with 8-bit from Beta SP sources – especially if you don’t have a true RAID to capture to and are doing long captures. Checkout the Blackmagic forum here on the Cow for specific issues/solutions with your card.
Tony!
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Yes it works and I find it to be a good product. Try to get Studio Pro HD because of its additional encoding features (2 pass, better audio, HD, etc). However, you could get away with Studio Pro for now, then upgrade to HD later if the Studio Pro HD is out of your current budget.
Tony!
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Hey Don,
Thanks for the kind words. I’m sure we’ll meet one day (if we haven’t already). I’m usually at NAB, DV Expo, MacWorld, etc so that might be when it happens. In the meantime, I feel like I know so many people that I’ve never met because of the Cow. Its hard to imagine life without my Creative Cow family.
Rudy at AJA is the coolest