VJ nightmare
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 14:35
No, that's *not* my new nom du vide...
Weekend before last, I was VJing at the final monthly Sin! party when my machine started giving me trouble. Early on, my MIDI-in -- and thus ReAct -- disappeared, returning me to the days of keyboard-and-mouse control.
Worse, about 2/3 way through the evening, Resolume suddenlly locked up hard; I finally had to power-off the PC, as nothing I tried let me break back to XP, even. Upon rebooting, I discovered that most of my decks would no longer load.
When I tried to load straight from my clip files, I had an even ruder awakening: One of my 250 Gb SATA drives had somehow disappeared, taking with it my entire RAID 0 array -- along with most of my content. Fortunately I'm enough of a slacker that I hadn't yet deleted all footage from my system drive, so I was able to limp along 'til last call.
Unfortunately, among the clips I *didn't* have mirrored on C: were two promos I'd put together for Friction, the club inheriting Sin's second-Saturday slot at Club Hide... and for which I will be the promoter. This meant that during the busiest part of the evening, and in front of what should be the core of Friction attendees, I couldn't advertise the club.
Ironically, for the first time in ages I hadn't bothered to bring my full kit with DVD decks, mixer, Enhancer, cams, and the like -- in part because I wanted to have some fun at this show, but mainly because after I moved to MIDI control through ReAct, Resolume has become so stable I've rarely needed to go to other inputs.
Moral of the story is that I'm putting together a collection of backup decks consisting of clips located on my system drive; any custom or show-specific footage will also be duplicated...
Thankfully, it appears a loose power connector knocked out the drive. The Maxtors I'm using will take either standard SATA-style or traditional 4-pin connectors; since the latter seem to fit more securely, with a couple of Y-adaptors I'm rockin' all my drives old-school.
Maz
Weekend before last, I was VJing at the final monthly Sin! party when my machine started giving me trouble. Early on, my MIDI-in -- and thus ReAct -- disappeared, returning me to the days of keyboard-and-mouse control.
Worse, about 2/3 way through the evening, Resolume suddenlly locked up hard; I finally had to power-off the PC, as nothing I tried let me break back to XP, even. Upon rebooting, I discovered that most of my decks would no longer load.
When I tried to load straight from my clip files, I had an even ruder awakening: One of my 250 Gb SATA drives had somehow disappeared, taking with it my entire RAID 0 array -- along with most of my content. Fortunately I'm enough of a slacker that I hadn't yet deleted all footage from my system drive, so I was able to limp along 'til last call.
Unfortunately, among the clips I *didn't* have mirrored on C: were two promos I'd put together for Friction, the club inheriting Sin's second-Saturday slot at Club Hide... and for which I will be the promoter. This meant that during the busiest part of the evening, and in front of what should be the core of Friction attendees, I couldn't advertise the club.
Ironically, for the first time in ages I hadn't bothered to bring my full kit with DVD decks, mixer, Enhancer, cams, and the like -- in part because I wanted to have some fun at this show, but mainly because after I moved to MIDI control through ReAct, Resolume has become so stable I've rarely needed to go to other inputs.
Moral of the story is that I'm putting together a collection of backup decks consisting of clips located on my system drive; any custom or show-specific footage will also be duplicated...
Thankfully, it appears a loose power connector knocked out the drive. The Maxtors I'm using will take either standard SATA-style or traditional 4-pin connectors; since the latter seem to fit more securely, with a couple of Y-adaptors I'm rockin' all my drives old-school.
Maz
