I have numerous eSATA drives connected to my system - none of them are striped, all individual drives. I primarily use them for P2 backup storage. I rarely use them as media drives while I'm editing. However, they have worked fairly well with short-form work when editing SD 1:1. I've tried using them with P2 DVCPRO 1080i HD files and have seen

A quick workaround is to break the documentary into several shorter sequences. I've worked on numerous documentaries and other long format programs and breaking into shorter sequences has help speed things up a lot. Just edit them back together when you are ready to mixdown, ouput or export.

I have many esata drives and they work great for both SD and HD - none are striped. As for transfer rates, it depends on what you're transfering to. When I transfer P2 media from an esata drive to our SCSI AvidVideo RAIDs, I get around 100MB/s+. If transfering to a portable USB drive, the rate drops below 10. I've been buying raw WD Caviar Black

I've been using TradeKeys for many years to swap keys. Works great with Vista 64 and Win7 64 and it's very cheap. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,19645,00.asp

I've had a pair of the Dell 2209W monitors for about a year now and love them. For me, the 1680x1050 resolution is perfect - don't need reading glasses like I do with some of the very high resolution monitors. The price is reasonable too.

I totally agree. The auto-activation of the Smart Tool is a total pain in the ass! This function needs to be addressed immediately!

I too am experiencing exactly the same issue recording narration. In my setup, I have an APHEX preamp with a optical S/PDIF line running to the Nitris box. But I tested the problem running an analog line and an AES/EBU line as well with exactly the same results. I never had the problem before until I recently updated to MC5/Win 7. It must be either

After installing MC 5 and Win 7 Pro 64 bit, I continually receive the "Exception: StreamingPlayconsumer::ExecutePass TIMEOUT" error message after about 15 seconds when in the capture tool. If capture is started prior to the 15 second interval, everything works as normal. Specifically, it happens when capturing audio without deck control from

Almost sold out to FCP 8 years ago, but didn't. Almost sold 800 shares of Avid stock 4 years ago, at a huge loss , but didn't. After having owned nearly every MC system since 1992, this upgrade truly validates my decision to stick with the company I built a career around. GO AVID!

today I was playing back a sequence and without stopping playback I command-tabbed to another application... *and MC kept playing* ...this is something FCP can't do. The moment you click away from FCP everything stops! -lunelson It's a great feature which I've used many times to log rushes. Unfortunately it only works on the Mac. -jakeheat