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    DIT / Data - Trying to speed up offloads

    in Camera Assistant / DIT & Gear

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    3 minutes ago, Mark Dunn said:

    Phil Rhodes

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    Davo McConville

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    Just a thought.

    Ha!

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    Well, I bow down to the great professional metric of number of posts on a cinematography forum. 

    If you didn't read the thread properly, take a look at where Phil completely hijacks a thread in which we were trying to help someone with a question. 

    If you don't have anything constructive to say and you rant about what's bothering you instead, that has a name: trolling. 

    DIT / Data - Trying to speed up offloads

    in Camera Assistant / DIT & Gear

    Posted

    If you have something to say about the specifics of which drive to use, contribute to the conversation that way. 
    Your lazy slandering in lieu of helpful constructive advice speaks volumes about you. 
    I’m not even going to get into the specifics of any of it, but you freely admit your own prejudices are showing. 
    You know nothing about my or the others’ qualifications or backgrounds. No place for this on this forum. 

    DIT / Data - Trying to speed up offloads

    in Camera Assistant / DIT & Gear

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    21 minutes ago, Phil Rhodes said:

    I am always slightly alarmed by discussions of computer performance which describe a computer as a "macbook pro (2017/2018)". That's not a specification that actually helps anyone understand what the underlying computer actually is. If one were to buy a 16" MacBook Pro right now, one could choose a Core i7 or Core i9 processor, 32 or 64GB of RAM, Radeon Pro 5500M or 5600M with four or eight gigabytes of graphics memory, and anywhere from one to eight terabytes of storage. I know that's propellerhead stuff, I know it's not cool, I know it's not something Apple encourages anyone to care about, but depending on the task at hand, these differences will have a significant impact on performance.

    This is why full-time propellerheads like me tend to sigh and facepalm every time someone says they've got a "sixteen-inch MacBook Pro!"

    Lots of DITs, who are camera people first and computer people fifth, talk like this. It is depressing, because things could be so much better.

    There is no connection between a drive being bus-powered and its performance, beyond the blindingly obvious issues of not purchasing 3.5" spinning disks and expecting a Thunderbolt port to power them. I mean, that is blindingly obvious to everyone, right?

    Hi phil, with respect the computer’s year and therefore generation is enough for the discussion.  Processor and ram aren’t in play here in this discussion: types of ports are. 
    nothing is blindingly obvious, we’re trying to help someone who may not be a propellorhead. Bus powered drives *do* have a major performance cap compared to their psu-powered counterparts. Compare a LaCie 7200rpm drive inside a rugged and inside a psu drive and you’ll find a huge performance difference 

    DIT / Data - Trying to speed up offloads

    in Camera Assistant / DIT & Gear

    Posted

    5 hours ago, Robin R Probyn said:

    Thanks for the knowledge sir .. yes unfortunately the BUS powered HDD,s are slower but Im often  in a hotel room downloading and sometimes they don't have many power points .. like 2 at opposite ends of the room ! ..so not having to power the drives is easier if slower .. I have a shoot next week where they said their insurance policy actually stipulated Lacie rugged ..!  because they need to be shipped .. which of the BUS powered drives do you think are the fastest .. or all about the same due to the power not being separate ..  occasionally production have sprung for SDD but I didn't find them that much faster ..?

    Ah then a power stop is your friend! DM me and I’ll send a photo of an inexpensive little setup. 
    All bus drives will be about the same, sadly

    SSD - should be a lot faster, especially on USBc and even better thunderbolt 3!

    DIT / Data - Trying to speed up offloads

    in Camera Assistant / DIT & Gear

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, Kian Rahnema said:

    @Davo McConville Thanks a lot for the advice, I'm currently halfway through the project and have been cascade copying onto Lacie drives with Silverstack since I had no other choice to adapt to the production's budget and try to keep offloads from slowing it down. I've been made aware of the first copy's potential to corrupt the rest of drives by other DITs but unfortunately any faster alternative was not possible and I was told my only alternative was to trust the verifications at that point.

    I never heard of Hedge but Silverstack has been my go to whenever I've done any offloads/transcodes because of the ease of use once set up and the daily reports I can generate with it but I'm curious to try it out sometime!

    Ah I'm so sorry, I didn't see the date on your post. Thought you were still pre-production!

    Sorry I couldn't say anything sooner. Lacies are the main bottleneck so for next time, you know!

    Silverstack – you finding it good? I've not bitten the $900 bullet yet, did you get a short term project license?

     

    Screws for zoom and focus barrels

    in Camera Assistant / DIT & Gear

    Posted

    On 10/5/2020 at 11:20 AM, Nacho Guzman said:

    Hi everyone, I live in the UK and I was wondering where do you AC's usually get your precision tools?

     

    Every now and then we face this common issue of having a lens with a late focus response, because of the barrel missing a couple of screws...so I was thinking, time to get this in my kit.

    NACHO I MISS U

    You'd think there'd be guild of some kind. 

    Have you ever been to Hatton Gardens? It's the part of London with all the jeweller's shops. It's been there forever. 

    Maybe go down and ask them if any of them sell tools, there might be one dealer who supplies all the jewellers...

    On 10/5/2020 at 11:20 AM, Nacho Guzman said:

     

    Any preferences?

     

    thanks in advance

     

     

     

    DIT / Data - Trying to speed up offloads

    in Camera Assistant / DIT & Gear

    Posted

    Hey professional DIT here

    Don't cascade copy, that makes multiple backups pointless on one level (sure, you're protected if you physically lose one, but if there's a bad copy on your first generation, that gets copied to all other drives). I know that Hedge etc will verify that one copy, but it's not worth taking the risk with any footage, IMO 

    The quickest solution would be:

    • throw any Lacie Ruggeds in the rubbish bin. 

    That's an extreme statement and I appreciate that you might not have much in the way of budget. But the bottleneck of those drives is MASSIVE. 

    Get G-Tech USB-C drives. You need drives with a power supply, because Ruggeds or similar run power and data through the same cable. Massively slow. 

    The even quicker version (for transcoding) would be to buy 2x G-Techs for your backups, and have 1x SSD scratch drive (say a 1TB drive). 

    Back up to all 3, then run your transcodes from and to the SSD. 

    Agree with Robin – Hedge is excellent. Would definitely recommend it over Shotput. Silverstack is amazing but even I'm not sure if I can afford it right now (and it's a steep learning curve)

    Hope that helps somewhat. Shout if you need more!

    Canon 1014 XL S - Running motor stuck ON, any ideas? VIDEO

    in Super-8

    Posted

    Hello all, 

    My 1014 XL S, previously fully working, has now started... and won't stop. 

    It is in 'R', Running mode (not RL, Running Lock), but it runs out the cartridge as soon as it is started. 

    I had hired the camera out, it wasn't a problem before this hire so I'm wondering if something could have happened on the shoot. 

    I know that switching R / RL when the camera is running is a bad idea (per the manual). 

    Does anyone know what the issue might be, and how tough a repair could be?

    THANKS!

    Here's a link showing the operation:

    https://imgur.com/JXmkoKo

    FS: Canon 11-165mm PL Mount Super 16 Format T2.5 Amazing Zoom Lens

    in Cine Marketplace

    Posted · Edited by Davo McConville
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    Canon 11-165mm PL Mount Super 16 Format T2.5 Amazing Zoom Lens 

    Good shape lens, amazing technically. Includes hard case. 

    £3500 (EU) or $4200 (US) – I am based in London but will be in New York soon so can ship it from there if that helps. 

    Technical Specs
    Focal length

    11-165mm
    Max aperture (T)

    2.5
    Close focus

    3'
    Image Circle

    16mm
    Front diameter

    95mm
    Weight

    2268g
    Length

    190mm
    Mount

    PL Mount

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    Tripods 101: how do you measure the bowl?

    in Grip & Rigging

    Posted

    I have a couple of old Vinten tripods, and I'd like to kit them out with heads and spreaders (currently just the legs). 

     

    Can anyone tell me how exactly how to measure the bowl size? The measurement across the interior is about 85mm. So does the measurement need to be taken from the ring around the top? Which would be more like 100mm?

     

    Or am I looking at a couple of 75mm tripods? Thanks!

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