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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: Archiving with a Drobo - 13 years agoThanks for info and comments! Drobo Pro does look cool - just not suitable for offsite archiving. Think we'll use it for on-site backup and occasional editing....by robk - Café LA Re: Archiving with a Drobo - 13 years agoSorry Graeme - are you saying that you don't send video files to the NAS? If you're mostly connected wirelessly then I guess you don't, .... right? Many thanks for your time, Robby robk - Café LA Re: Archiving with a Drobo - 13 years agoThanks for your swift response Graeme - very useful! (Love your plugins, btw!). I think the option is there to use it for editing, if desired, but confusingly there doesn't seem to be an iSCSI connection as such. DS Manager just facilitates the protocol, I think. Hmmm ....by robk - Café LA Re: Archiving with a Drobo - 13 years agoGraeme - Following your suggestion, I've been looking at the Synology DS1511+ , ..and now my head's hurting since I'm neither an IT guy or network administrator, just an editor!?! So I wonder if you could clear up a couple of questions for me? The unit would potentially be for a small but growing post department (4 - 5 workstations running FCP) within a larger media agency. 1. You are connectby robk - Café LA Re: Archiving with a Drobo - 13 years agoThanks for all the feedback so far! I'm liking the sound of the DiskStation boxes, and I'm also looking into a v.impressive storage platform called Space from GB Labs, http://www.gblabs.co.uk/ On the LTO front I also have several choices, including the BRU (thanks Shane!), but I'm also curious about strypes' question above: isn't Retrospect a lot cheaper in comparison? I'm also thinking LTO-4 raby robk - Café LA Re: Archiving with a Drobo - 13 years agoMany thanks for this useful response! I'm not sure yet exactly how the Drobo has been set up (I.T. gave me the impression they were going to customise it somehow) but you're making me realise it's almost definitely the wrong archiving solution. I think they'll have to either repurpose it as a shared storage unit or replace it with something else. I understand the plus and minus points of LTO tapby robk - Café LA Re: Archiving with a Drobo - 13 years agoThanks Gerard/Strypes - I've not worked with a Drobo before either, and my understanding was the same as yours (which is why I posted the question.) However, the IT department is claiming that the drives aren't configured/striped in any way, and so are hot swappable. It would be good to get some clarification on this if possible... Thanks!by robk - Café LA Re: Archiving with a Drobo - 13 years agoThanks for your reply Mike. Are you using the Drobo as well? Sounds like we have a similar system. Seems a shame to just be using the Drobo as an enclosure/JBOD though ...by robk - Café LA Re: Archiving with a Drobo - 13 years agoMany thanks for your reply Joey. Longevity is of course key. (I remember Hi 8, but not Targa 2000.) I'm hoping that the archive disks will need to be re-inserted often enough (to retrieve old projects) so that they won't just be sat on a shelf untouched forever; but it's early days yet, so I can't say for sure. And even with frequent spin-up I know that one day they'll eventually go to that bigby robk - Café LA Archiving with a Drobo - 13 years agoHi, I'm working at a company who have chosen to purchase two Drobos - a Drobo FS for scheduled nightly backups via Time Machine ; and a Drobo Pro for long-term archiving purposes (simply eject a drive when it's full, stick it on a shelf, and insert another drive.) I know that hard drives don't last as long as eg. LTO tapes etc., but I'd be interested to know how effective people think this setby robk - Café LA Re: Rendering audio in FCP - 13 years agoMany thanks for this clear explanation Tom, ....(although I wish Apple/FCP made things a bit more straightforward sometimes!?) Merry Christmas. Robby robk - Café LA Rendering audio in FCP - 13 years agoHi there - Is anyone able to explain to me the difference between the three audio render options in FCP: Render for Playback, Render Item-Level, and Render Mixdown? I'm confused as to which one to use and when. Many thanks in advance, and Merry Christmas! Robby robk - Café LA Is Lacie Rugged 1TB ok for editing in HD? - 13 years agoHi there. I'm thinking about buying the Lacie Rugged 1TB for editing HD on-the-go (train journeys etc.) It won't be my main editing drive, just an extra to help me out. I've read previous posts about the 500GB model getting very hot due to not having any fans. Does anyone know if the 1TB model is any better than its predecessor, and more importantly if it will handle multiple streams of HD (possby robk - Café LA Re: Shared storage for 3 x FCP suites - 14 years agoThanks for your post, Chuck. I usually work at facilities with shared storage, so going back to a small-scale operation is tough, .... especially when I'm having to manage all the data as well as edit! Shared storage unfortunately doesn't seem to be a viable option for us at the moment, but if the current contract leads to further work next year then perhaps the bosses will re-consider. Best Wby robk - Café LA Re: Shared storage for 3 x FCP suites - 14 years agoHi people! I'd just like to say a massive thank-you for all your great advice! I'm across the 'Pond' in the UK and have been completely snowed under at work, so apologies for not posting sooner. I found the similar thread on Creative Cow (http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/197/856323#856323) particularly interesting; and for the time being I think a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner will at least makby robk - Café LA Re: Shared storage for 3 x FCP suites - 14 years agoHi Shane - thanks so much for your swift response. I'm a big fan of your articles, tutorials, and blog etc.! Our budget is definitely in the $2000 range - so I guess we'll just carry on as we are for now... It's good to know that certain options simply aren't possible with our budget, however, so I'm glad I asked. Thanks again!! I'd best get back to copying all that media!by robk - Café LA Shared storage for 3 x FCP suites - 14 years agoHi there! I'm currently working on a project that requires 3 FCP suites (iMacs) to have identical media. Each suite has its own G-RAID. At the moment we are doing our daily digitising / ingesting with a laptop hooked up to a fourth G-RAID, and then copying the media onto the 3 other G-RAIDs. Naturally, this is getting to be a bit of a pain and pretty time-consuming. I'm wondering... Is there notby robk - Café LA Re: PPMs - no video card! - 14 years agoMany thanks Martin! It certainly looks like the type of thing I'm after ; it's just that the FAQ says that with FCP it only monitors input, not output, which is a big shame! If you have found a way around this I'd be v.interested to know! All the Best!by robk - Café LA Re: PPMs - no video card! - 14 years agoThanks a million for your suggestions guys!! I don't know why I mentioned a USB converter - think my brain must have been short-circuiting!! Do you know if there are any other software / plug-in PPM options worth having a look at? (Unfortunately running the program on a separate Mac, as suggested above, isn't really possible for me.) Thanks!! Robby robk - Café LA PPMs - no video card! - 14 years agoHello! I'm editing a series on FCP: software only, no extra hardware / video cards etc. Does anyone know a way of hooking up some PPMs, so I don't have to use FCP's meters? Is there such a thing as a USB to XLR converter perhaps, so I can go straight out of the Mac?? Any help MUCH APPRECIATED!! Thanks!!by robk - Café LA Re: Optical frame blending bug? Hours to analyse clip. - 15 years agoMany apologies - you can ignore that last post. I just did a search and found my answer in previous threads Hopefully this issue is something that Apple can address in the future.... Cheers!by robk - Motion Optical frame blending bug? Hours to analyse clip. - 15 years agoHello. I wonder if anyone can help..... I'm sending a 4sec clip from FCP (6.0.5) to Motion3 in order to take advantage of the Optical frame blending facility. However, when I switch 'Frame Blending' to Optical Motion starts to analyze the the whole of the original source clip which is about 8mins?!! Therefore, the estimated time for analysis is several hours! Is this a known issue perhaps? ...by robk - Motion Re: Keyframing multiple clips simultaneously - 15 years agoThanks Nick. That's interesting. Maybe I'm going mad imagining tutorials I haven't actually seen!by robk - Café LA Keyframing multiple clips simultaneously - 15 years agoHi there. Ok - I'm convinced this is possible, since I remember reading a tutorial on it a long long time ago. I just can't remember for the life of me how to do it! Here's what I'd like to know: I have two clips stacked on top of each other (V1+V2) and would like to fade them both out simultaneously, using keyframes (pen tool) instead of just adding fade effects. At the moment I'm having to adby robk - Café LA Re: Hi Res Titles - 16 years agosorry for jumping in filmman. according to nick's answer, "as long as they're fcp generated titles" (including Boris 3D, which is vector-based) then yes - they "sort themselves out" accordingly. But it's a case of up- and down-scaling, not up- and down-res'ing, so loss of quality shouldn't be a problem. hope i've got that right...!by robk - Café LA Re: 4X3 Safe title and safe action in 16X9 mode - 16 years agoIt worked like a dream Joey, and now I can sleep better! Hey, someone also directed me to the same file over on one of yahoo's websites: They're in the "Files" section, and you have to register to gain access, ..but these ones even have embedded alphas so no need to use composite mode:- just use as simple overlays! cool! Thanks again!by robk - Café LA Re: Hi Res Titles - 16 years agoTHIS IS A FABULOUS ANSWER NICK - ...YOU SHOULD BE PROUD OF YOURSELF!! I hope this helps others who have been similarly confused about all this stuff. Thanks a lot for making my head stop spinning, and making me a happy customer, Best Wishes, Robby robk - Café LA Re: Hi Res Titles - 16 years agoMany thanks Nick. To be honest I'm not sure how the HD up-res is being achieved. I need to find out. At the moment I think my DV timeline will simply be copied and pasted into an HD1080i timeline, but I wouldn't like to assume anything. However, if this is the case then I still need my question answered if possible: do hi res titles (eg.HD) edited into a dv timeline return to their former glorby robk - Café LA Re: Hi Res Titles - 16 years agoThanks Derek - I couldn't find my previous post anywhere in the forum so was getting worried that it had been buried out of sight somewhere. I needed to sort the posts by date but couldn't see a way?? Anyway, in response to your answer, I'm afraid I can't wait until the online to do the titles. I'm planning on doing them in FCP, so are you saying that I should first up-res my DV master timelinby robk - Café LA Re: 4X3 Safe title and safe action in 16X9 mode - 16 years agoThat's fantastic Joey - exactly what I'm after!! I think all FCP editors will need this at some time or other - it's a lifesaver! Once again, many thanks! Robby robk - Café LA |
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