| | | | Re: Query for online media
by bryson jones on May 24, 2013 at 3:59:52 pm
in the CatDV Forum
Damn you Starkey! Always so sensible! ;)
Actually, that's a pretty great point. I'm so used to systems being homogenous that I didn't really consider it. But for automations, where the Worker and the clients all have the same storage it would be n | | | | |
| | | | Re: New After Effects PC
by Ian Mapleson on May 24, 2013 at 1:21:51 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Mark writes:
> technical background for designing and building PC's, I am not as
> familiar with what improves performance in those areas.
I've been doing a lot of work on AE build issues in the past few months.
As with all things, it's a balan | | | | |
| | | | Thunderbolt on your Mac
by Steve Modica on May 24, 2013 at 12:13:41 pm
in the Forum
Apple has always been on the leading edge of connectivity for their systems. Back in 2003, before we had formed Small Tree as a company, I can recall drooling over a Power Book laptop with an integrated Gigabit port. That was a crazy thing to... | | | | |
| | | | Re: RAID level reliability
by Vadim Carter on May 24, 2013 at 5:12:27 am
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
Alex, here are a couple of papers that I had saved as a reference a while ago that seem to support your assertion that RAID 6 is more reliable than RAID 10:
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and IBM
System Storage N series with RAID-DP Best practi | | | | |
| | | | Buy new iMac or Mac Pro for AE ?
by Alexis Vx on May 24, 2013 at 2:47:22 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hi all,
I need to buy a new computer for my wife who uses AE. She will be using it to create small animations (3min) for youtube as well as Photoshop. She does a lot of previewing and rendering. She is starting out but wants to make animation a care | | | | |
| | | | promising NVENC H264 encoder application
by David Alfredo on May 24, 2013 at 1:48:05 am
in the Sony Vegas Forum
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2013/05/23/nvidias-shadowplay-brings-effortless-gameplay-recording-to-the-pc-masses/
NVENC is some H264 hardware encoder in Nvidia Kepler GPUs 600-700 series, won't use CPU, GPU or RAM resources, just t | | | | |
| | | | Re: New After Effects PC
by Mark Laslo on May 24, 2013 at 12:02:02 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Thanks Walter,
The plan for this machine is to work off of shared storage/SAN - 24 TB Caldigit RAID. A bit more detail on our situation - Right now our animator is working off an iMac hooked up to our shared storage via Ethernet. Our main two bo | | | | |
| | | | Re: PC with Thunderbolt?
by Alex Gerulaitis on May 23, 2013 at 8:09:42 pm
in the Windows Hardware & Software Forum
[Jason Jenkins] "I've been thinking about putting together a PC, primarily for After Effects & Premiere. I would like to be able to use my AJA ioxt and my Pegasus R6 with it. "
Jason,
Storage shouldn't be a problem; not sure if Macdrive slows t | | | | |
| | | | Re: New After Effects PC
by Walter Soyka on May 23, 2013 at 7:56:11 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Looks pretty good, but you'll need more storage. 512 GB of SSD storage could be enough for the OS, apps, and Ae's disk cache, but you'll need something for media as well. You might consider a RAID setup.
You might consider a separate, dedicated SS | | | | |
| | | | News: Deca Camera and Accessories Bag for Sony F65, Alexa, and more
by Cow News Droid on May 23, 2013 at 5:23:22 pm
in the NEWS: Product News Releases Forum
(Shelton, Connecticut--May 23, 2013) Petrol Bags, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, introduces the Deca Camera and Accessories Bag, designed for easy transport, superior protection and quick access on the set. Featuring an ultra-wide ope | | | | |
| | | | Re: Would an upgrade work or I need a better computer?
by John Rofrano on May 22, 2013 at 12:10:14 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
[Thayalan Paramasawam] "Sir,In my working station i use SSD(PLEXTOR) as HardDrive1 (boot C:) and for HardDrive2 (media D:) i use WESTERN DIGITAL BLUE,for media which Hard Disk better,Black,Green or blue."WD Black are the high performance drives. Thes | | | | |
| | | | Re: RAID level reliability
by David Gagne on May 21, 2013 at 7:51:53 pm
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
In terms of resiliancy, it's not a hard math problem.
Raid6, you have two drives that can fail without loss. Raid10 is a RAID0 (stripe) across RAID1 (mirror) sets. In this you can have 1 drive failure from any of the sets without loss, but if both | | | | |
| | | | Promise VTrak E630f
by Sunny Paradeshi on May 21, 2013 at 6:08:41 pm
in the COW - Files Forum
Hello,
I have purchased a Promise VTRak E630f Storage system for video capture & edit. I was able to configure it properly and start working with it but I noticed that my write/read speeds are not normal for what I should be getting on a fiber cha | | | | |
| | | | Re: Remove Advanced Pulldown from P2 Footage
by Michael Phillips on May 21, 2013 at 6:02:10 pm
in the AVID Forum
In file based world, you would be better served shooting native 23.976pN than trying to remove it later in post. You also get a 20% increase in storage capture with those P2 cards.
But that aside, open your clips in a 1080i/59.94. Then open those | | | | |
| | | | Re: Project Managing in Premiere CC
by Kevin Monahan on May 21, 2013 at 4:29:05 pm
in the Adobe Creative Cloud Forum
[Andy Edwards] "Could you elaborate on the changes in Project Managing in the new version of Premiere. Does the new version handle Long GOP files in trimming mode now? Or are there other options for transcoding upon project completion when media mana | | | | |
| | | | Project Managing in Premiere CC
by Andy Edwards on May 21, 2013 at 3:18:57 pm
in the Adobe Creative Cloud Forum
Todd or Kevin,
Could you elaborate on the changes in Project Managing in the new version of Premiere. Does the new version handle Long GOP files in trimming mode now? Or are there other options for transcoding upon project completion when media | | | | |
| | | | Blog: Videoguys Insider Update May 2013
by Gary Bettan on May 21, 2013 at 1:03:34 pm
in the COW - Blogs Forum
It's been a very busy spring for all of us at Videoguys.com
We had a great NAB show, and we picked up some really exciting new products. We'll go into that in more detail in this newsletter.
First, I'd like to thank you all for your patronage | | | | |
| | | | Resolve lite 9.1.3 crash
by Julien Dietrich on May 21, 2013 at 9:30:41 am
in the DaVinci Basics & Configuration Forum
Hi to everyone,
I just download and install Davinci Resolve Lite and I having problem with it.
The software just crash after login panel.
This happen after addind a new media location in the preferences panel.
Here is myconfig:
Windows 7 | | | | |
| | | | Input on setting up a RAID to mirror a RAID
by Jostein Svalheim on May 21, 2013 at 9:06:31 am
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
Hello everyone.
I'm coordinating an upgrade at my place of work where currently, we are acquiring one more RAID server to mirror the one we already have set up.
Needs 16TB storage, no specific speed requirements, runs day and night under constant | | | | |
| | | | Re: RAID level reliability
by alex gardiner on May 21, 2013 at 8:55:04 am
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
+1 This a good discussion Alex and I'm pleased you raised it, as it is of interest to me too.
While you say forget performance, (as you know) it is always a requirement to consider the application alongside utilization and reliability? After all, | | | | |
| | | | Videoguys Insider Update May 2013
by Gary Bettan on May 21, 2013 at 6:03:34 am
in the Forum
It's been a very busy spring for all of us at Videoguys.com We had a great NAB show, and we picked up some really exciting new products. We'll go into that in more detail in this newsletter. First, I'd like to thank you all for... | | | | |
| | | | RAID level reliability
by Alex Gerulaitis on May 21, 2013 at 1:49:31 am
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
What's the most reliable RAID level, and why? (Let's forget performance considerations for the purpose of this thread.)
The factors affecting reliability are drive FR (failure rate), and UREs. Reliability is minimizing chances of data loss, which | | | | |
| | | | Re: Message from corel to adobe users
by Simon Ubsdell on May 18, 2013 at 3:04:35 pm
in the Adobe Creative Cloud: The Debate Forum
[Jeremy Garchow] "The publishing is extremely cool, yes. It does take a bit of work, though, to get it setup in a shared environment, and moving templates to other places can be somewhat of a hassle due to the location of the template storage."
Ju | | | | |
| | | | Re: Message from corel to adobe users
by Jeremy Garchow on May 18, 2013 at 2:58:21 pm
in the Adobe Creative Cloud: The Debate Forum
The publishing is extremely cool, yes. It does take a bit of work, though, to get it setup in a shared environment, and moving templates to other places can be somewhat of a hassle due to the location of the template storage.
Remember when Ae cou | | | | |
| | | | SNS - here we GO!
by Jason Silzle on May 18, 2013 at 12:17:17 am
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
OK so many of you saw My other thread here Where we tried a "ProMax Studio" and as cool as it was it didn't work for us so here is what we are doing.
For the software server, meta control, and san clients we have decided on STUDIO NETWORK SOLUTIO | | | | |
| | | | Re: File Storage Format
by Don Cobble on May 17, 2013 at 7:55:23 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
Norman - Thank U
IF there is possibility of needing to edit the file later is the AVC a good format for maintaining the quality like (I think cineform is)?
Which AVC setting would be best for storing for 1980x1020 30P? any recommendations? | | | | |
| | | | Re: AFter Effects & Pro Res Footage
by Walter Soyka on May 17, 2013 at 5:39:44 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
[Dale Robinson] "I am working on a project with Pro Res, h.264 and AVC Intra footage. I have found the system to be
extremely slow. I tried transcoding the h.264 footage and AVC Intra footage to pro res and the system seems faster."
H.264/AVC doe | | | | |
| | | | Re: Isilon... anybody?
by John Heagy on May 17, 2013 at 4:45:56 pm
in the NAS - Network Attached Storage Forum
Hi Bob,
By expandability I mean expanding existing volumes without reformatting or loosing capacity when adding a larger chassis. I think the industry term for this is "scale out". This is one of the issues we face with Xsan. Deploying new volu | | | | |
| | | | Re: insane rendering times for mac
by Walter Soyka on May 17, 2013 at 4:29:51 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
[vincent lee] "I have been trying to render a clip that is 720p in resolution size, and it's 1 minute long. There are only 3 layers, and one effects (Colorama). And it take days to render I have not had this problem with any other software. My render | | | | |
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