Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 21st, 2007, 01:41 AM
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Yes I'm using the Caviars for the RAID.
Like...
Yes I'm using the Caviars for the RAID.
Like I said, I shopped around for a legitimate price and after informing my Apple reseller they matched the price. I opened the Mac up and inspected what...
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 20th, 2007, 12:50 PM
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Replies: 24
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Unfortunately I have some information your...
Unfortunately I have some information your probably not going to want to hear.
I have the Western Digital WD500KS SE16 Caviar Disks [$159]. They have 16MB of secondary cache [apposed to 8MB...
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 19th, 2007, 05:33 PM
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Replies: 24
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Hi Al,
I have a 2.66 Mac Pro with 5GB RAM...
Hi Al,
I have a 2.66 Mac Pro with 5GB RAM and the XT1900 and like I mentioned RAIDed two 500GB internal drives.
If you're applying a lot of video effcts as you go then you are rendering, some...
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 19th, 2007, 11:38 AM
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Replies: 24
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Al, Jeff is mostly correct.
Depending on...
Al, Jeff is mostly correct.
Depending on whether the task, in this case editing, requires human intervention or is automated the computer uses data differently.
While you are scrubbing back...
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 18th, 2007, 09:07 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 6,431
Well since we're just talking about this -- you...
Well since we're just talking about this -- you can RAID different size drives from different manufacturers, not a good idea but you can do it. The volumes have to be the same size so if you RAID a...
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 18th, 2007, 03:18 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 6,431
I'm new to the Mac, all the raids that I have...
I'm new to the Mac, all the raids that I have [except the 1TB internal on my Mac Pro] are external. Generally speaking its not a great idea to set up a RAID internally because of potential...
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 18th, 2007, 02:05 PM
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Replies: 5
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Hi Steven,
Nice work, I enjoyed your three...
Hi Steven,
Nice work, I enjoyed your three minute video.
I'm not sure this will give you what your looking for but they do offer several plug-ins that might enable you to create that effect.
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 18th, 2007, 01:53 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 6,431
Yes there will be a significant increase in...
Yes there will be a significant increase in performance. Having said that, since your editing DV you might not notice much of a difference.
Striping two drives should give you approximately...
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 17th, 2007, 04:05 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 5,009
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 16th, 2007, 02:27 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,352
Ciprico's a bit pricey.
I try to steer...
Ciprico's a bit pricey.
I try to steer people who are foolish enough to take on uncompressed HD towards fiber when ever possible for a couple of reasons.
With some solutions you can attach...
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 16th, 2007, 02:13 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,352
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 16th, 2007, 02:12 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,352
If you are serious about editing uncompressed...
If you are serious about editing uncompressed [not DVCProHD] then you should research shared filesystems [not xSan unless you really think you'll need concurrent file sharing. xSan is too expensive,...
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 12th, 2007, 08:14 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 4,270
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 11th, 2007, 07:22 PM
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Views: 4,270
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 11th, 2007, 03:21 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,376
It's the "of coarse, have to render" part that...
It's the "of coarse, have to render" part that I'm interested in.
I did a test for one of the editors I'm working with, which is the reason I switched to fcp. We capture enough footage to edit...
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 11th, 2007, 02:40 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,248
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 10th, 2007, 11:03 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,248
There aren't free, I think the least expensive...
There aren't free, I think the least expensive plan they have is about $20 a month but its a month to month and you can use it as much as you want.
You can spend a lot of time searching the web,...
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 10th, 2007, 09:27 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,978
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 10th, 2007, 09:10 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,376
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 10th, 2007, 08:01 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,248
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
January 3rd, 2007, 02:00 AM
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Replies: 1
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Strange HDV Behavior
I'm new To FCP so this might be user error.
I captured some HDV from my FX1 and edited a small sample clip together, I'm pleasantly surprised at the performance of editing HDV natively [somthing I...
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
December 31st, 2006, 01:27 AM
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Replies: 168
Views: 62,643
RAID Setup
I just took delivery on my new Mac Pro, very sexy.
I have an additional TB of internal storage that I want to RAID, one of the options in disk utilities is how big to set the block size, 32, 64,...
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
December 30th, 2006, 01:57 PM
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Replies: 10
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I just got my Mac Pro last night and I'm still...
I just got my Mac Pro last night and I'm still working out the kinks [I was up unti 2am trying to get the thing on the network -- "Hi I'm a Mac" shut up!] Sorry I digress...
I have not had a lot...
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
December 28th, 2006, 07:00 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 4,802
Another resource for training is Lynda.com.
...
Another resource for training is Lynda.com.
They have a ton of online tutorials for novices and experts on a variety of applications. I highly recommend this site.
Although considerably more...
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
December 28th, 2006, 05:04 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,100
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