Warren Eig
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Bob,
You’re gonna have to explain what I just posted below…
“Here’s what I’ve learned. There is no problem with my SAN copying files from the Finder over 4 GBs. I can export an 18 GB HD file out of FCP 6.0.5 using export QuickTime Same as source make self contained file, no problem to the SAN.
What I cannot do is L&T spanned clips larger than 4 GB to the SAN, (I can to a local attached SATA drive no problem).
Once I have L&T a spanned clip larger than 4 GB, I cannot take that clip, now a .mov file, place it in a time line and export it using export QuickTime Same as source make self contained file, to the SAN.
It will go through the motions of exporting the clip, progress bar and all, but when it is done, the resulting clip is only 728.1 MB (original converted P2 spanned movie I’m trying to export is 4.79 GB).
There must be some meta data written to a converted P2 file over 4 GB that FCP doesn’t like when working with a SAN. Remember this is now a .mov file no longer MXF. ”
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Here’s what I’ve learned. There is no problem with my SAN copying files from the Finder over 4 GBs. I can export an 18 GB HD file out of FCP 6.0.5 using export QuickTime Same as source make self contained file, no problem to the SAN.
What I cannot do is L&T spanned clips larger than 4 GB to the SAN, (I can to a local attached SATA drive no problem).
Once I have L&T a spanned clip larger than 4 GB, I cannot take that clip, now a .mov file, place it in a time line and export it using export QuickTime Same as source make self contained file, to the SAN.
It will go through the motions of exporting the clip, progress bar and all, but when it is done, the resulting clip is only 728.1 MB (original converted P2 spanned movie I’m trying to export is 4.79 GB).
There must be some meta data written to a converted P2 file over 4 GB that FCP doesn’t like when working with a SAN. Remember this is now a .mov file no longer MXF.
So the testing continues.
Warren
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No luck, FCP can’t export the 5 Gig clip. It exported the whole clip but only 728.1mb came across to the SAN. So this might be a SAN issue with FCP? FCP can’t write large files to a SAN?
Warren
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Andreas,
I narrowed down the problem to shared storage. L&T doesn’t like to write spanned clips to shared a SAN. Switching to a local internal SATA I can L&T the spanned clips fine. I can capture un-spanned clips to the SAN just fine.
What kind of storage are you using?
Warren
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Spoke to Bob. He’s on the case. I guess Spanned clips don’t like shared storage. They play fine when copied back to the RAID. As a matter of fact, both editing systems can play them back at the same time, so it isn’t bandwidth… it’s…it’s…Gremlins! I tell you.
Warren
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Copied a 15 Gig file to the RAID over no problem.
Warren
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Well that worked. Changed it to an internal SATA for scratch and I get the whole clip. I guess spanned clips don’t like networked storage.
Any ideas?
Warren
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I guess I’ll have to live with it. This is the RAID system I have. If it doesn’t work with the shared storage I’m sort of SOL. I can’t invest in a new RAID. The unspanned clips work fine.
Warren
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No errors. Not a DiskWarrior issue. It worked off the FW800 on another system at another facility. I’m copying to an internal SATA drive that is formated Mac OS Extended as well. Will try it from that disk.
My RAID is formatted as Mac OS Extended as RAID 6. By the way the RAID/Scratch disk is shared storage over the network, configured by Bob Zelin. But it is Mac OS Extended when I look at Disk Utilities on the server.
Warren
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All the latest. If I run software updates there is nothing to update. OSX 10.5.5, FCPS 6.0.5.
Warren
Warren Eig
O 310-470-0905email: warren@babyboompictures.com
website: https://www.babyboompictures.comhttps://babyboompictures.com/AFX_Movie2.html
https://babyboompictures.com/KnitWits_Movie.htmlEDITING REEL: https://www.babyboompictures.com/Editing_Reel.html
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