Re: Throwing out the Kool Aid

Walter, Bob and all,

Thank you for your patience. Very tired on this end. Got the thing out to tape though we had terrible sync issues cross-converting. I went ahead and purchased a Gen 10 and it helped but the HDCam was sure touchy. Out to D5 was never an issue.

Walter, thanks for the offer. And to Bob, Dulce Duo Quad and a unit I built that has become my favorite. Here is the rack:

http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sata_enclosures/scsata12RMd.asp

and I use the HighPoint 2340 with very expensive cables. I get at least 415 MB/sec through the thing and it runs very cool. Stuffed with 12 750s, one which was bad initally and had to be replaced. The card has internal mini-sas connectors and I have a backplane on the computer to adapt mini SAS to SAS which then connects to multi-lane on the chassis. Very smart software management.

I have had issues with the Cal Digits. I saw recommendations here in the forum and bought them based on that and sorry to hear about all the issues. They really didn't play in this senario as they are filled with an older project, thank god.

I really wish there were an "attic" like Avid has so a project can be resurrected by copying bins directly. In this case, it would have saved days. We basically would boot up each project until we got one that would not crash, started a new project, copied bins and necessary sequences into it, closed the old project and re-build from an offline output for 4 days. This project started as a 5.1.4 and when the picture was locked, we upgraded to 6 to be able to color-grade with secondaries using Color, which is awesome but has some growing to do.

Sorry for the rant guys, I knew I was sticking my hand in a scorpion's pit, but then again you're the only people on all the boards who I truly respect and are consistent with your responses. Please understand that I'm an old Kem editor who jumped to CMX50 to Grass Valley to Axial to Avid in 1989, yes, 4th one delivered to LA and have been and Avid guy since. I've had my share of Avid issues but I guess I've been incredibly lucky with Avid as it has always been a workhorse for me. But once I offlined on FCP I was sold. Very smart interface and very powerful. Finishing on the thing is another matter for another day.

Many thanks to all,

Don Wilson
MississippiSon.com
AmericanaMediaInc.com
dwilson@americanamediainc.com