Hi Nick:
I haven't been working with XDCam material, so can't address that
detail.
The Mac I've been working on with this R3D material also has 12GB
RAM, but Avid only gets 2 GB max as I understand it, and the percentage
memory reported used can climb pretty quickly. I try to restart
whenever I notice it's gone above 80%.
Cheers,
--Michael
On 11-04-01 1:08 PM, nick_ravich wrote:
>
> Michael- Many thanks for the response.
> I'll keep your advice in mind - shorter sequence, less bins open with
> less stuff in them, clearing monitors. This is our one and only set of
> XDcam HD 50 mbps media (all other tapeless is EX 35 mbps or P2 DVC Pro
> HD.)
> I've got my MacPros pretty well stacked with RAM - at least 12GB in
> each. Think it makes sense to get more?
> Also, any idea why this stuff isn't showing up in XDcam Clip Browser?
> It is in one of my MacPros, but not the other. And they should all
> have same level of plug-ins.
> Thanks, Nick.
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Michael Brockington <brocking@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Nick:
> >
> > I see the same sort of issue (intermittant - same error message,
> > horizontal blue line funkiness) working with AMA-linked R3D clips. In
> > my case, I am working with clips on an internal drive. I associate it
> > with having many bins open with large numbers of AMA files, or long
> > AMA-linked sequences. I suspect it's a symptom of running low on memory
> > -- AMA looks like a real memory hog.
> > Keep an eye on the percentage memory use in your project window. If
> > you can, I would try dividing your material into shorter sequences,more
> > bins with fewer clips in them, having fewer bins open at once, clearing
> > the menus in your source and record monitors, and of course,
> transcoding
> > to a native codec for real work.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --Michael
> >
> > On 11-03-30 1:08 PM, nick_ravich wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello-
> > >
> > > Running MC5 on 2.66 & 2.93 GHz 8-core Mac Pros, OS 10.6.
> > >
> > > Recently shot our first batch of Xdcam HD footage - 1080/60i MPEG
> > > HDD422 50 mbps - and have kinda sucessfully ingested into Avid,
> off an
> > > external drive using, AMA volume link.
> > >
> > > Kind of sucessfully bec/ it's oddly intermitent - after a couple of
> > > failed attempts at ingesting (see below about repaired drive), I was
> > > able to get AMA volume link to work. Media appeared in bins & played
> > > back in app. But over time - say 2 or 3 launches of the app - it
> > > starts to get increasingly wonky. I've brought in 4 optical disks
> > > worth of media, into 4 separate bins. At certain point app won't let
> > > me open some of the bins and I get an "Exception: Failed to get the
> > > same temporal offset from the AMA Plug-in" error message. Also, the
> > > clips in the bins I can open play back really funkily, with odd
> > > horizontal blue line patterns.
> > >
> > > Also unsucessful in playing this footage in XDcam clipbrowser (though
> > > it will recognize my XDcam EX stuff.)
> > >
> > > Again, I'm linking directly from an external drive (to which the
> > > original optical disk media had been transferred.) Know that there
> was
> > > an issue with original field drive transfer to this working drive;
> one
> > > of the optical disk media sets/folders failed to transfer. I did a
> > > disk repair on the field drive and it seemed to correct itself. Is it
> > > possible there's some fatally corrupt bit of media that's messing
> > > things up?
> > >
> > > I assume it's not a case of a missing driver - since there's on other
> > > hardware besides the external drive involved. And the XDcam HD
> plug in
> > > is pre-installed. Will latest patch help? A responder to a previous
> > > related post suggested the below.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Nick.
> > >
> > > Here are the best guides:
> > > http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=367205
> > >
> > > and
> > > http://www.avid.com/ama
> > >
> > > and there are many, very good xdcam tutorial videos in my
> > > http://www.freddylinks.com pdf
> > >
> > > Make sure you have the correct OS:
> > > http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=267087
> > >
> > > The latest version, and MC patch: 5.0.x = 5.0.3.8 latest
> > > http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=379435
> > >
> > > The correct XDCAM, EX drivers (see readme Page 22 for the the version
> > > you have)
> > > http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=370951
> > > And that you don't have cabling issues, those could be trickier to
> solve.
> > >
> > > ..and I almost forgot this classic: Repair permissions
> > > http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=271837
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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> >
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