Does this mean I can Update my OS?
While diskutil used from Terminal continued working with no problems, the GUI for Disk Utility.app remained broken throughout all Lion releases when used with RAID volumes; they never fixed it. The only way to verify or repair a volume was from *nix.
As of Mountain Lion it is working as expected again, for the first time since Snow Leopard.
I'm hanging on to 10.6.8 as I don't want to screw up my RAID array. I waited to load pix & snd till after the upgrade to Premiere PP CS6 as I knew I'd have to update firmware & drivers for ARC 1880x and Kona 3g; mission accomplished.
A director/cameraman left to finish a feature shot on film, I put a system together thanks to eavesdropping this forum. My computer/tech skills were nil, so thanks to the likes of Nanofrog, Wonderspark, Philipma & others, I have a system that, for me, is freaking amazing. And trusting in the old adage, "If it works don't fix it", I'm rather afraid to touch it at this point.
The only reason I even consider the move to ML is to get a reliable nvidia card that would put the PP mercury engine on steroids. I'm still using the 5770 my hex shipped with, and have no problems so far, but then I'm still just setting up. And once underway my work will really just be 'cuts only'; with a dissolve here and there...when I'm in a jam
In effect, I'm doing an 'off-line' cut; old school you know, for me it's work-print in a box rather than on a flatbed: I just want to lock picture, then re-tx the negative. HOWEVER, I am drooling over all of those GU threads MacVidCards has rolling. Native support in ML for GTX 680 I believe, but do I really need it?
Ten cents worth of backstory: With all the hardware in place (over $20K from my day job as a bus driver), FCPex was released. I had to find an NLE to match my hardware, thus Premiere Pro. In which I'm well pleased by the way, and it's getting better all the time. In fact, in hindsight, it seems my film has been waiting TWO DECADES (don't ask, it's a long story), for just this MAC PRO, and this particular NLE to be completed.
Workflow: 26 Beta SP tapes with nearly that many hours of pix, tx'd from film neg (on a Davinci -- looks great). Dual system sound, once on nagra reels, then DAT tapes. I took the tapes to a local prod'n house that still has a DAT deck and they tx'd to HDD as .wav files. I bought Sony SPV 2800 Beta deck on ebay in great shape and used premiere to capture each tape as a clip... I know, I could've batch captured but I did not want to put the tapes, nor the deck, through that. Each CLIP in that Premiere project file is ~50 to 60 minutes, two are 90 minutes... Youch. What to do?
Enter Adobe Prelude. I am now, as I write this, accessing those tapes/clips off of the RAID array and breaking them into shots. Prelude is transcoding each shot back on to the RAID array as a dupe file, all assigned via Prelude into array Sub-folders, which are named and organized by scene number. The only problem is that the transcoding doesn't preserve the time code from the captured tapes as Premiere did. HOWEVER, every frame of picture has dual widows burned in at the bottom, one for time code that matches the tapes and the other, more importantly, shows the key-code from film negative.
The audio .wav files are now on the RAID so, after I complete breaking the shots down as separate files into their scene folders, I'll start a new project in Premiere and ingest all the pieces so I can sync dailies and lock pix to sound. THEN I can start editing. Whew! I must say the mouse scrubbing and everything else about the new Premiere is sweet, and quick.
Verbose I know, but I'm working in a lonely outpost with no one to talk to about this stuff
Should I stay with what works, I definitely don't want to risk ANY problems with my array...too much work invested at this point. I suppose I could put in a different SSD to use for OS & apps and load ML into that for testing, keeping my current 10.6.8 on it's SSD to fall back on???
Is CUDA worth it for me?
My workflow:
