| | | | Re: ProRes for Archival?
by Doug Beal on Jul 23, 2010 at 3:15:03 pm
in the HD High-End Forum
No it's not and if one is diligent in keeping it updated it can work. It's tough enough for large organizations to adopt and carry thru it takes real dedication for a smaller organization or an individual. try to find DLT tapes now, it's difficult | | | | |
| | | | Best Express Card with GRaid3 and Latest macbook pro
by Dan Kavs on Jul 24, 2009 at 6:21:57 am
in the G-Tech Forum
Ok so after searching these forums and all over the net, my head is spining. I am currently looking for a express card for the latest apple macbook pro 17 inch.
I have seen the Sonnets (which I would like to buy) but they don't work well with | | | | |
| | | | Re: MCE BD6XMPINT Blu-Ray feedback.
by Daniel Goyette on Jan 19, 2009 at 12:19:41 pm
in the Apple DVD Studio Pro Forum
Thank-you for your reply but i am searching about feedbacks from users of the MCE BD6XMPINT Blu-Ray internal burner for the Mac Pro , why because it is among the two who still use EIDE/ATAPI interface.
MCE is one brand and i think EzQuest is the oth | | | | |
| | | | video hits/ audio out of sync
by JNdigital80 on Nov 5, 2007 at 9:18:52 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Okay,
yesterday I posted about getting video hits/ blips while I was laying off sequences to Beta. and now I've got my BB generator working which helped to get sync (stable monitor image) and nearly eliminate the video hits, but now my Audio is goi | | | | |
| | | | Re: video hits
by JNdigital80 on Nov 5, 2007 at 9:07:33 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I'm using EZquest 250GB external drives, via 6 pin firewire cables. I seem to have sync (stable monitor image) with my Horita BG-50 blackburst generator. Now my audio is going out of sync too. not sure what Video card I have hooked up, but I think it | | | | |
| | | | Re: Avid or FCP? Adobe has dropped the ball.
by gary adcock on May 24, 2006 at 9:31:13 pm
in the Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) Forum
[Shane Ross] "Anyway...the G-Raid connected via FW400 gives me:
30.5MB Write
36.5MB Read
Again, compared to my EZQuest at:
25.3MB Write
31.4MB Read."
those are pretty accurate for what you should be getting- a single hard drive (non-sata) cannot wr | | | | |
| | | | Re: Avid or FCP? Adobe has dropped the ball.
by Mitch Ives on May 23, 2006 at 4:14:04 am
in the Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) Forum
[Shane Ross] "I'm not talking about a MBP....I am talking about my G5 Tower."
Neither was I... the dual G5 towers are where we first discovered the issue...
[Shane Ross] "And this information preplexes me. Because I have been able to capture and | | | | |
| | | | Re: Avid or FCP? Adobe has dropped the ball.
by Shane Ross on May 23, 2006 at 2:50:23 am
in the Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) Forum
[Mitch Ives] "Well, you won't like this either. Even though there is a bridge, there is only one FW controller chip on the MB, so 400 drives and 800 ports are essentially on the same bus.."
I'm not talking about a MBP....I am talking about my G5 Tow | | | | |
| | | | Re: External Firewire/Wiebertech question
by Shane Ross on Feb 12, 2006 at 8:30:55 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
LaCies have a high failure rate. Every week there is a post here about someone with a drive failure, and the drive is always a LaCie.
Look into EZQuest drives. I have two that I have used for 4 years with no issues. Also look at G-Raids, or any G | | | | |
| | | | firewire drive is acting up
by Scott on Jul 7, 2005 at 10:29:41 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Just have a firewire drive question. Got a 2 year old EZquest Firewire drive that is making strange noises. Ok when first start up. then spins up hard, then down. Then a constant buzz. Any way to check what's going on? is this at all normal every onc | | | | |
| | | | Re: G-DRIVE More problems suspect older Mac incompatible
by Tim Goodwin on Mar 17, 2005 at 10:27:34 pm
in the G-Tech Forum
I would have called initially but believe it or not I do not currently have a long distance provider. As G-Tech does not have a toll free number I would have to purchase a long distance calling card and hope that it did not get used up while waiting | | | | |
| | | | Re: G-DRIVE More problems suspect older Mac incompatible
by Tim Goodwin on Mar 17, 2005 at 5:38:40 pm
in the G-Tech Forum
I sent G-Tech a tech support form describing the really poor performance yesterday but have not heard back from them yet. I really can not figure out why I can only get 500k/sec transfers from my Ultra SCSI drives unless there is something within the | | | | |
| | | | G-DRIVE More problems suspect older Mac incompatible
by Tim Goodwin on Mar 16, 2005 at 6:03:42 pm
in the G-Tech Forum
I just received my new replacement G-DRIVE and hooked it up. After reinitializing for OSX .2.8 I tried transferring some files. I get a transfer rate of about 500k/sec very slow, and for all intents and purposes unusable. At this rate it would take 8 | | | | |
| | | | Audio dropout
by Tony Mastantuono on Dec 8, 2004 at 6:36:47 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I am experiencing some audio dropout and beeps after I capture long segments. I have tried searching the COW posts and they really did not give me a solid answer. Let me explain my problem.
I am using a DVC-Pro AJ-D250 deck (DV 25) connected to a G5 | | | | |
| | | | Re: G-Raid 320
by Elika on Oct 18, 2004 at 2:39:21 am
in the Forum
Thanks once again D.Doyle!!
Your input has aided greatly in my decision-making and I've read every post respecting the G-Raid in this forum.
There has also been a considerable amount of discussion concerning firewire 800 and 400 drives at http: | | | | |
| | | | Re: I might be behind the times on this one...
by Tony! on Sep 13, 2004 at 5:01:53 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
They're called Flash Drives and you can find them everywhere. Sonnet, EZQuest, MacAlley, Kingston, Lexar are a few of the brands I think of off hand. I did a quick search on Smalldog.com and come up with several, but with a little searching you'll fi | | | | |
| | | | Timeline sluggishness
by PK on Sep 8, 2004 at 2:43:51 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I'm seeing some problems that I've never seen before. Maybe someone can help narrow down the problem. I'm guessing that one good reason is because the external drives are pretty full but I'm checking other possibilities.
First off, the system.
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| | | | Re: Clips on ex. FW800 drive unstable...
by Paul Figgiani on Aug 28, 2004 at 3:11:07 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
10.3.5...FCP HD...EZQuest Cobra FW 800 drive...Extended Mac Partition...Sonnet Allegro FW800 Card...Dual 2 gHz G5...2.5 gig of ram...
The drive works fine...I might add that if I click on the clips independently, Quicktime starts up, and the clips | | | | |
| | | | Long time to "Allocating Drive Space" on FCP 4.1
by Jamie Pilarski on Aug 6, 2004 at 8:31:24 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
This didn't used to happen, but now when I want to capture DV footage to my 120GB EZQuest external firewire drive, FCP takes a long time, 7 minutes or so, to allocate drive space before it actually starts capturing media (pressing the Capture Now but | | | | |
| | | | Which card do i buy?
by TommyTucker on Apr 3, 2004 at 9:54:25 am
in the Blackmagic Design Forum
We're looking at getting a dual G5 2GHz, Using FCP4.1, mostly to capture SP material via component. My question is whether or not to "wait" for the Xtreme card for PCI X slot. Or is the 66MHz just fine for those SP needs? Our Igniter Pro died, and | | | | |
| | | | buring dvd's on an external drive
by joe lawlor on Mar 1, 2004 at 9:27:50 pm
in the DVD Authoring Forum
Hi folks,
I'm helping someone out. They had to buy and external dvd burner as they don't have one on their superdrive. When using apples' dvd studio pro - just as it gets to the writing stage it has a problem formatting the disc and stops. I've g | | | | |
| | | | Re: Toast with burner...
by Charles Simonson on Feb 13, 2004 at 8:14:38 pm
in the Compression techniques Forum
They are both good companies imho. It looks like the EZQuest drive comes with more software (Retrospect), and thus would be the better value. Both I imagine use the same (or at least very similar) internal optical drive. They just have different case | | | | |
| | | | Where'd the presets for my window arrangments go?
by tom matthies on Jan 29, 2004 at 4:51:01 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Had a crash tonight. The usual "Application Quits". thing. When I restart FCP, it comes up with the windows arranged in the default positions. Not to worry since I have my very own arrangments saved in the window arrangment pull down menu...Eh...at l | | | | |
| | | | External Firedrive on a G4
by Phil Snyder on Dec 11, 2003 at 11:32:42 pm
in the Apple DVD Studio Pro Forum
I purchased a Power Mac G4 & Final Cut Pro editing system without an internal DVD player. I've since purchased an EZQuest External Firewire DVD drive. It will read DVDs but will not play the media. I want to be able to play the DVDs, burn them and ul | | | | |
| | | | Changing optical drive in G4
by HMojo on Sep 3, 2003 at 2:28:20 pm
in the DVD Authoring Forum
hi there,
I have an EZQuest ext DVD-RW drive (A04) and the Firewire Ports recently crapped out on me. I was wondering if I could swap out the internal CD-RW drive out of my QuickSilver G4 (733, 1.2 gb of ram) for the A04 in that EZQ case.
It s | | | | |
| | | | Re: DVD Studio Pro and External Drive issues
by Alan Langdon on Aug 18, 2003 at 11:57:41 am
in the DVD Authoring Forum
Hello-
Did your problem get solved? What did you have to do to solve it... send it bac to EZQuest?
I shudder at reading your post, because I have just purchased an EZQuest 4X external burner and it was suspiciously cheap ($280). I live in Brazil, | | | | |
| | | | DVD Studio Pro and External Drive issues
by joelhere24 on Aug 10, 2003 at 7:01:52 pm
in the DVD Authoring Forum
Connected a new EzQuest External FireWire 4x DVD-RW. The machine is a single 400MHz G4 running OS 9.2.2/DVD Studio Pro 1.5. Built a project and the software reads the FireWire drive in the Build and Format Disc window. I click ok to burn the disc and | | | | |
| | | | Defragmenting - When and with what?
by MikePhx on Aug 7, 2003 at 2:55:16 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Hi all.
Two questions...
1) What program are you using to defrag?
2) How often are you running it?
I've got two 120 GB EZQuest external FireWire drives and would like to know how to keep them in top shape.
Thanks in advance,
Mik | | | | |
| | | | Re: Honest girl wants FCP3 to Work Wonderfully.
by ted on Aug 7, 2003 at 2:30:09 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I think without a doubt that you will want a firewire drive reguardless. 20 gigs does not go very far these days. A good firewire drive should work fine. DV is already compressed 5-1 so speed should not be an issue. I have an ezquest 120 gig and | | | | |
| | | | Render freeze in FCP4
by MikePhx on Aug 1, 2003 at 6:23:04 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Hey all,
While leaving FCP4 to render overnight I'm finding that at some point it's locking up and I'm getting the never-ending spinning beachball.
I'm on a Quicksilver 800 Mhz G4 with 640 MB of RAM, OSX of course, EZQuest 120 GB drives, Energy | | | | |
| | | | Re: Really?
by Dom Q. Silverio on Jul 19, 2003 at 5:33:43 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
[Filip Vandoorne] "Keep in mind that you already have very fast firewire800 disks of 500Gb capacity for less than 1000 dollar! "
No - no firewire. That is my real intent - to move out of firewire - especially for project with tremendous amount of | | | | |
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