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December 14th 2004
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Raid POOF
by mark brinster 3 years ago
I have an 8 core Mac, OS 10.6.2 with a 3 TB internal raid array. Yesterday I noticed the raid was a little slow in showing up in the finder so I ran disk utility to both repair permissions and also to
Re: Raid POOF
by Zane Barker 3 years ago
Run Disk Warrior on it. Hindsight is always 1080p
no more HDV shows for PBS !
by Bob Zelin 6 years ago
PBS just released their new technical operation specifications, and it states that it will only accept HD shows with a maximum of 30% of the shows footage shot with upconverted SD material or HDV mate
Re: no more HDV shows for PBS !
by mark brinster 6 years ago
Sorry dude, not a mate -- Master 100 ton sail endorsement and yea I am out there all the time and I do see them and will only restate what I already said..... of course if all you're looking for is an
Sony HVR V1U
by ozzie hop 6 years ago
I have a huge question. I just recently purchased the Sony HVR V1U and have been pouring over blogs trying to figure out what the best NLE platform is. I don't hear any mention of using Avid and a lo
Re: Sony HVR V1U
by mark brinster 6 years ago
I have been very impressed with the V1 over both the FX and Z1 and the work flow with FCP has been very easy. I am curious about the "negative" comments you mention. Could you give a link to some of t
LaCie Disaster
by Sean ONeil 7 years ago
Sorry to vent on something slightly OT, but I want to warn everyone. We had some files backed up on three seperate LaCie FW disks. They were the small single-disk non-RAID models. One of our editors n
Re: RE: Big Disk Power Supply
by mark brinster 7 years ago
Hmm over time eh Like how much time It seems like it didn't take too much time for mine. Ok so I have three drives which all show these signs. How much does the fix cost per drive... since I am pretty
Great Service From Convergent Design Agent.
by Michael Slowe 7 years ago
Here in the UK I thought I had a problem with my HD-Connect LE since I was unable to acquire media into Media 100 HD. My re seller, Symbiosis in Leamington Spa (two hours from London) straight away co
Re: Great Service From Convergent Design Agent.
by mark brinster 7 years ago
wow.... you sure seem to be having better luck than many of us who purchased the SD connect which was marketed to have UNcompressed SD over 1394. I bought mine years ago and it still doesn't do what i
Problem with favorite video transition
by Stu Siegal 7 years ago
OK, I give up. I programmed a 10 frame cross dissolve as fav transition 1, assigned it to shortcut key shift 7. No problems, works fine. Programmed a second fav trans, a 15 frame dissolve, assigned to
Re: Problem with favorite video transition
by mark brinster 7 years ago
me too... and a few other little bugs with 5.1.2
Convergent SD-Connect == Promax ProMedia Converter?
by Mel Matsuoka 7 years ago
I'm a bit confused here...Promax seems to have all but killed the PMC, which we bought from them 2 years ago to interface with our Avid Xpress FCP system. I saw the link to the Convergent website on t
Re: Convergent HD-Connect
by mark brinster 7 years ago
After my experience with the PMC I think I can unequivocally state I would not be inclined to purchase any other products from these guys.
FW800 Dead??
by mark brinster 7 years ago
Did I hear correctly that Apple plans to abandon FW800
Re: FW800 Dead??
by Robert 7 years ago
Also of note is that there are already FW800 express port adaptors being made for the 15" Macbook Pro: http: www.siig.com
On Lacie drives in general
by Steve Covello 7 years ago
A previous post by Mr. Zelin mentioned that he no longer uses Lacie products, which prompts me to survey you dudes about it. I have had some pretty lousy experiences with recent Lacie purchases and am
Re: On Lacie drives in general
by mark brinster 7 years ago
LaCie drives have become completely unstable, unreliable and LaCie has near unresponsive customer service. After waiting 4 days they tell me to do the usual -- repair permissions etc. like I'm a compl
Importing Stills into 16:9 Sequence
by mrheineman 7 years ago
I want to know the optimal way to import stills into a 16:9 Sequence. I shot the stills using a Nikon D70 using the raw basic size (i.e. for every picture I took I get a raw file (.nef) and jpeg file
Re: Importing Stills into 16:9 Sequence
by mark brinster 7 years ago
Kevin I am curious re: your thoughts of loading the stills into After Effects first and then rendering out appropriately cropped, filtered,sized, color corrected QT. In time lapse sequences of hundred
adding movie links to a web page
by D. Kirk Kidner 7 years ago
I am trying to add two buttons to an HTML page (one quicktime one windows media) to show a movie clip. I use Go Live and they have icons to drop on to the page but they imbed the movie. I would like i
Re: adding movie links to a web page
by mark brinster 7 years ago
You say you are using GoLive... I am curious how you get both the QT and WMV option for your movies
telecine Super 16mm to HDCAM
by vlady7 7 years ago
I will have to transfer Super 16mm film to HDCAM. However because of the fact that the HDCAM is high resolution I am not quite sure if Kodak 250D film could be taken into consideration. The higher sen
Re: telecine Super 16mm to HDCAM
by mark brinster 7 years ago
Kodak 250D vision 7205 will do just fine going to HDcam.... the stock anyway. Be very careful about focus, exposure etc.
lacie rubbish
by alex 7 years ago
i am experiencing MAJOR time management problems because the BIGDISK keeps turning itself off and on. not once in a while, but every 20secs or so! of course when it does, any software that is accessi
Re: lacie rubbish
by mark brinster 7 years ago
I have 3 of these things and they are unreliable.... as is support from LaCie.... they respond in 3 days and tell you to do the same things you always do... repair permissions etc. and then they tell
4210 & apple card, just works one channel
by dario sabina 7 years ago
Hi! I've set up my system G5 quad, 10.4.4 Huge 4210 apple Fiber channel card - Firmware 1.2.13, Fcode 1.00.37 2.5gb ram. Fact is that, channel 1 in the card does not seems to comunicate, i switched bo
Re: 4210 & apple card, just works one channel
by mark brinster 7 years ago
I have the 4110 and with the Apple 2g Fibre channel card I am forced to use copper cable unless I get another SFP transceiver module (only one came with the drive package.) Is this what I have to do
DL Extreme PCIe in HD??
by mark brinster 7 years ago
Just curious when you guys think a PCIexpress in HD may be released for the new g5quad. Thanks
Re: DL Extreme PCIe in HD??
by mamba_admin 7 years ago
I would like to know too...
More jerky symptoms
by mark brinster 7 years ago
I know this issue was raised earlier, but my jerky issue.... in addition to the sudden and erratic playback issue in the time line is intermittent with captures as well. The affected capture sometimes
Re: More jerky symptoms
by mark brinster 7 years ago
Thanks guys... well I have had some drive problems in the past month ...(one disappeared from the raid and left the material on it lost in it's wake) and now I notice that even when I completely refor
Getting really frustrated...
by Peter Corbett 8 years ago
I'm having all sorts of trouble just getting SD-Connect to work in an easy, consistant way. I just want to convert 1394 out of my Workstation (and laptop) into SDI so I can route it though my DVCPRO50
Re: Getting really frustrated...
by mark brinster 8 years ago
I was having the same problem and many others... I just have to tell you that I think these guys are just not really motivated to provide any genuine customer service. Starting with the DaMax and now
Uninstall beta 1.1
by mark brinster 8 years ago
How can I uninstall Uncompressed Beta 1.1 It doesn't work and now FCP is crashing all the time. I have to say my experience with DaMax+ and PMC has required a lot of time under the hood and not with m
Re: Uninstall beta 1.1
by mark brinster 8 years ago
Thanks for getting back to me. I am using Tiger and FCP 5. It seems that whenever I select either CD 8 or 10 bit, I suddenly have no video on monitor or deck. I have gone through all the settings -- d
volume is doubled on "export mix"!
by Benjamin Rowland 8 years ago
When I "export mix" from SP and bring the clip into FCP the volume has effectively doubled. Check my previous post for additional issues. Anyone know why Because it's version 1 Any ideas
Re: volume is doubled on "export mix"!
by mark brinster 8 years ago
What did you do to fix I have been really disappointed in STP mix results and your issue of modulation seems like mine. The end result is nearly distorted tracks that are basically un-useable. That co
Blackmagic Design DeckLink for Macintosh v5.0.1 software
by Matt Dowling 8 years ago
Hi Everyone, We have released the 5.0.1 update for Mac and it can be downloaded from http: www.blackmagic-design.com downloads software DeckLink_Macintosh_5.0.1.zip Due to popular demand, the Blackmag
Re: Blackmagic Design DeckLink for Macintosh v5.0.1 software
by mark brinster 8 years ago
Ok I have been to the archive site.... but each and every time I donwload 5.0 --- going on 20 x I get the following error message:"An error has occurred while expanding the file "Decklink_Macintosh_v5
update probelms WO dhcp
by mark brinster 8 years ago
Hi guys, I know you were helping me for a couple of days with this no update problem. But update is still not possible. When I do get version 1.1.208 I get error message "No IP address for device. SW
Re: update probelms WO dhcp
by mark brinster 8 years ago
Hi Mike It's been a couple of days. Is the fix you speak of the "DHCP recovery" stuff
Problem DownConverting HDV to DV using Sony Z1
by Steve Martin 8 years ago
Hi All, I swear I've done a search for posts that might address the problem I'm having. But haven't found a thread with this problem. I'm brain dead after spending the better part of the day trying to
Re: Problem DownConverting HDV to DV using Sony Z1
by mark brinster 8 years ago
I had this problem, but it seems that even though the camera wouldn't change out of hdv mode, when I clicked capture now and played the camera it did capture the dv output. I was going a little beserk


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