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Need Info on FCP and Unity
Posted by Kevin Monahan
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Re: Need Info on FCP and Unity July 09, 2007 10:29AM |
One guy's perspective:
Our facility is "trying" to use a recycled Unity (PC) with 5 stations in the Graphics Department (Macs - one of them is a FCP station) & there are all kinds of problems. Loads of Fiber network kernal panics / beach balls / inability to collect After Effects projects / 2 gig file limits / etc.
I have requested to be left OFF the Fiber network as I am not fond of kernal panics. I don't have any negative issues at all & I am the only box in my room that does never crashes (knocking wood now).
The Xserve RAID / Xsan set-up I had suggested was too much $$$ for them & they didn't believe that set-up could handle Uncompressed 10-Bit HD. Operations is feeling that now, I think.
When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.
Our facility is "trying" to use a recycled Unity (PC) with 5 stations in the Graphics Department (Macs - one of them is a FCP station) & there are all kinds of problems. Loads of Fiber network kernal panics / beach balls / inability to collect After Effects projects / 2 gig file limits / etc.
I have requested to be left OFF the Fiber network as I am not fond of kernal panics. I don't have any negative issues at all & I am the only box in my room that does never crashes (knocking wood now).
The Xserve RAID / Xsan set-up I had suggested was too much $$$ for them & they didn't believe that set-up could handle Uncompressed 10-Bit HD. Operations is feeling that now, I think.
When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.
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Re: Need Info on FCP and Unity July 09, 2007 10:51AM |
Do (Does?) AVID even advertise UNITY for anything other than serving video to their editing products? Did they ever?
I have only ever used UNITY on multi editor shows with all AVID products.
I love when the penny drops on the bean counters and the naysayers. It's a selfish but satisfying feeling to have to resist saying I told you so.
ak
Sleeplings, AWAKE!
I have only ever used UNITY on multi editor shows with all AVID products.
I love when the penny drops on the bean counters and the naysayers. It's a selfish but satisfying feeling to have to resist saying I told you so.
ak
Sleeplings, AWAKE!
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Re: Need Info on FCP and Unity July 09, 2007 12:11PM |
LOL...yup. Sign o' the times, baby...sign o' the times.
When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.
When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.
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Re: Need Info on FCP and Unity July 09, 2007 12:35PM |
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Kozikowski
Please note the little star on the bottom.
Nice. What the hell is this supposed to mean:
"Unknown high-level co-existence with Mac OS X (iTunes Music Library, Doc, OS-user values)"?
ak
Sleeplings, AWAKE!
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Re: Need Info on FCP and Unity July 09, 2007 12:55PM |
See my post regarding "kernal panics". Not a happy union. Cheaper doesn't always equal better especially in this case.
When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.
When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.
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Re: Need Info on FCP and Unity July 09, 2007 01:26PM |
I should clarify. Our reseller (nameless for fear of reprisals), rather than lose the sale of our original Xserve / Xsan proposal (mega-$$$ - too much to spend for the brass), offered up a Unity system that they had in stock. It was being used for another purpose - but it's still new.
It $ucks$. All our Creative Services FCP Stations (6) are not on Fiber because of the problems. We are looking into either a private XSan set-up for our stations or operations is looking into an ISIS set-up for everybody.
It's like the friggin' Keystone Cops around here.
When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.
It $ucks$. All our Creative Services FCP Stations (6) are not on Fiber because of the problems. We are looking into either a private XSan set-up for our stations or operations is looking into an ISIS set-up for everybody.
It's like the friggin' Keystone Cops around here.
When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.
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Re: Need Info on FCP and Unity July 09, 2007 03:37PM |
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Marketing opportunity? People used to pay money to see the Keystone Cops.
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When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.
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Re: Need Info on FCP and Unity July 09, 2007 10:14PM |
Hey Mark - how much storage do you have on your SAN? I know someone who is whining that FCP can't cope with larger drives and lots of information. I personally know a 14TB setup, but I figure yours is bigger.
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Re: Need Info on FCP and Unity July 10, 2007 01:43AM |
Heh. I told the guy dealing with them I wanted to come over and punch them personally. They have a list as long as your arm of things you 'can't do with FCP' that he is having to debunk. Thanks for the info.
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