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Snow Leopard installed
I just installed SL on a test drive, did not do a fresh install but this drive was freshly set up just last week to start to test FCS3. So this install was with FCS3 already on there.
Drive is a FW400 Firelite, had latest update to Leopard and FCS3, drivers for Kona3 and Sonnet E4P eSata card, nothing else.
Installed fine, gave me back about 20 GB, took about 40 minutes.
All the FCS opens and seems to operate (didn’t do any heavy testing)
Kona3 works fine
RAID come back just fineDISCLAIMER – This is solely for educational purposes and is not to be taken as a recommendation or endorsement of any software or procedure.
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Thanks for the info – I just bought a whole new system and need to start finishing a project but have been torn between starting on SL or waiting – Anyway I have SL in my hand and I think I will just jump in and see how it goes…
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Just installed Snow Leopard today. FCS 2 works fine, IO HD doesn’t work (already knew about that). The new quicktime is a piece of crap compared to 7 in terms of features, but i haven’t tested it enough to see about the old gamma bug…..
Always learning….
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One interesting thing, on the SL install disc, “Optional Installs” has QUicktime 7 in it.
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I saw that, but I want to test things without installing “legacy” software….kinda of science project.
Always learning….
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I never use QT player for anything other player, but I see what you are saying.
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I hear you Gustavo, however QTX solves a long-standing playback issue (or lack of feature). It seems we have 100% accurate playback now with zero screen-trashing, all frames in-sync nice and smooth with the displays refresh-rate. I had a few spots the past year where clients ask “why does the movie stutter on your computer screen?” where on the ref-monitor it doesn’t. I always claimed “software bug” (i.e QuickTime) which I’ve pretty much proven right now.
On the note QTX vs QT7 you will see that certain codecs in QT7 open a background process. The codecs I’ve found so far include Animation and h264. This makes me think a few codecs have been “moved over” completely to the new architecture where some (like Photo JPEG) lives in the older era. Still, QTX and all apps get access to the old stuff so for now it’s a decent / smooth crossroad.
I can also add the Final Cut Studio 2 seems to work fine on my system here at home in Snow Leopard. Given I don’t have any extra / external hardware.
Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Communication
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I was going to get Snow Leopard (I even have my brand new drive waiting to have it installed – though I got it because of a massive breakdown in my system over all this past week) but I’ve been told that only CS4 will work in SL. Unfortunately, I can’t pay another $600 to buy an upgrade from Adobe CS3 to CS4 when CS4 has absolutely nothing new that I need. And, Adobe has no plans of making any patch or upgrade for CS3 to work in SL. Oh well, so much for 64bit OS-ing for me.
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLCMac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 5.1.4 | Aja Kona LHe“If you can talk brilliantly enough about a subject, you can create the consoling allusion it has been mastered.” – Stanley Kubrick
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Not so fast Winston. As long as you’re reading so much stuff on the Internet, try reading the article below entitled CS3 PURRS ON SNOW LEOPARD.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/170967/handson_test_adobe_cs3_purrs_on_snow_leopard.html
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Thanks for the link David!!!! I stand corrected.
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLCMac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 5.1.4 | Aja Kona LHe“If you can talk brilliantly enough about a subject, you can create the consoling allusion it has been mastered.” – Stanley Kubrick
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One thing that I do use QT to do is to convert 44.1K audio to 48K before importing into FCP. Export is not available in QTX, just a very limited Save As but…
QuickTime 7.6.3 is already installed in SL, it is in App/Utilities so I guess we have the best of both world.
I wonder what happened to QT 8 and 9, have they been taken them out to some desert island to died. Eyeing each other like hamburger or a piece of chicken.
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