Tony Mueller
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It was such a strange problem, and its just gone now. I guess I just had to exercise the buttons, almost like an old piece of hardware. I looked at media creation again and render was set to 1:1, everything else DV25. I once again set everything to DV25, then in the capture tool I switched back and forth between DV25 and 1:1 and other resolutions, watching the remaining time counter to make sure it looked right. Now all seems fine.
Still interested to see if anyone else has seen this issue. I’ve got a bout an hour of unscheduled time this afternoon, I want to see if I can reproduce the error.
Are you and I the only ones from STL on this forum… seems like it sometimes… and I hardly get on anymore. Doing more work for less money makes the free time go bye-bye
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You should also check out Studio Network Solutions. They specialize in shared storage for Pro Tools… it was the reason they started the company. They’ll work with you to put together a system that fits your needs.
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Thanks Dan, Merry Christmas.
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That’s exactly where we are right now. And I’m the guy who’s doing all that media management… we’re a government access station and we shoot at least 70% of the press conferences, groundbreakings, ribbon cuttings, and whatever else our mayor and other elected officials want us to cover, along with annual events and ongoing series programs and all of those projects have graphics packages spread out among four avid systems. Plus we recently purchased four laptops for the full-time staff, and anyone at anytime could need to edit a particular type of program on any one of those eight workstations, so I have to make sure each system has every graphics package and it’s driving me crazy.
If we weren’t using Avid, I would have felt pretty confident in the system just from your previous glowing reviews. But I had to see for myself.
Sad thing is, when I went to NAB a couple years ago nobody but Editshare had a system on display that was actually hooked up to an Avid workstation (they also gave away some nice coffee mugs). Some just had displays sitting on pedestals and I never even came across Apace Systems. Admittedly, my first priority was a playback server and automation software, and my second was a streaming encoder, but third on my list was shared storage, and I came away disppointed. This was in 2006, luckily it seems things have changed. On a side note, I didn’t find my automation server at NAB either. We’ve decided on a system from Tightrope Media trms.com to control a 360 systems imageserver (which I knew about before NAB).
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It was a very helpful session. It looks like a well designed system that will fit our needs quite well. I have one other system to look at from Studio Network Solutions sometime the first week of the year, but I’m quite impressed with the vStor from Apace. I like the 3U unit with 12TB, but might have to settle for the 2U unit with less space depending on budget of course.
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Well, I scheduled a webex demo for next monday, and we’ll see how to work the system. I’m a believer so far, but the only disappointment is that I’ll have to upgrade my avids to use it.
We have a few, most actually running Xpress DV (3.5 on the older systems and 4.6 on the laptops), so those systems don’t support MXF media which is necessary to have the system work the way they designed it. They rely somehow on automatically making sub folders for each user, but OMF systems don’t support multiple sub folders.
It’s funny how I can be sad that getting one thing I want means I have to get another thing that I want… of course it all comes down to the “I have to” part. I just have to convince my boss that new avids and shared storage will be more valuable than the Deko that he wants for the remote truck.
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Did I forget to mention that part? We’re still editing all DV25 here, so that’s what the test will be based on. (If I ever get the time)
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I know you don’t want to spend more money, but I’d bet that if you contributed a little coffee money to the developers, they might be more interested in moving some of their development time to the TCP configuration to make LACP and jumbo frames work better… rather than trying to come up with new features.
You may want to set up yet another box for beta testing their upgrades, unless they’ve improved the upgrade process. I put together a system a while back just for fun and copied one of my hard drives to it, but didn’t rely on the system as an actual backup… and good thing I didn’t. When an update came out I upgraded and it reformatted the hard drive I had inside. They warned that you should back up the data before upgrading, but I wasn’t worried because it was a test system only. That was over a year ago, so they’ve probably fixed that problem (I hope), but it is something to think about.
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Thanks Dan,
He emailed me this morning. I’m going to look over the attachments he sent and look for some time to schedule a webex session.Tony Mueller
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Thanks Dan,
It does make me a little more confident that a big name studio is using one of the systems I’m thinking about. Since you know the owners, could you see if I can get a copy of the configuration/ setup and operation manuals? A download link would be best. A contact with a user in the St. Louis, Missouri area would be fantastic too.you can contact me at tmueller73 -AT- gmail -DOT- com
Tony Mueller
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