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[Walter Biscardi]

Someone else started another thread. All I can say is AJA won’t release them until they are ready. With stability issues all around on Leopard, it doesn’t surprise me. My laptop is not as stable since installing Leopard (it was for about a week) and all I do is run internet and Mail on it.

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[John Davidson]

Nothing official from AJA – but I found a thread on the Apple discussions bboards posted yesterday. One of the posters claimed to have spoken with an AJA engineer on the phone and was told a Leopard fix would come “in the next few weeks”.

That’s all we get kids – here-say and a weirdly worded pr release.

Supposedly a 10.5.2 update will be out by Macworld (Jan 15). This last Leopard update didn’t fix all the Leopardisms so it may be that we won’t see a driver update until ’08, especially with the holidays coming up (engineers need time off too!). Even if drivers are released soon – they might get wrecked by 10.5.2, which would start the process all over again – so you’d be looking at February before you should feel safe installing AJA drivers.

I think everybody’s bummed about it – but what can you do? It really sucks the worst for people buying new edit systems – AND AJA sales staff right now. I’ve been playing around with it for a few weeks now and I’ve had some major crashes, freezes, etc. I’m glad I wasn’t editing when it happened (Yippee second Tiger boot drive).

Leopard probably won’t be production system friendly until say 10.5.3 – at the earliest.

My two cents.

[Gary Adcock]

[David Battistella] “It seem this is not the easiest set of drivers to write. I wonder why? “

Because there are over 1.27 MILLION setup variations for all of the kona line.

It is in the last test stages now.

I would rather wait than do what BMD did they have posted something like 5 (?) builds of their driver since leopard shipped and according to the COW posts every time they do something else gets broken.

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[Ben Price]

Hi,

I have a MacPro running Leopard 10.5.1 with a Kona LHe. It all seems to work fine with vers 4.0 drivers and FCP 6.02. Have tested with Digi Beta deck at 10 bit Uncompressed (PAL). Have had it running for about two weeks without a hiccup. I have another drive in the machine to boot back into Tiger but have not needed to. If you really can’t wait any longer for then give it a try – especially if you have another drive handy.

Have fun.

Ben

[David Battistella]

Gary,

I hear ya.

That’s why I posted the question.

1.27 eh?

Impressive.

David

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[David Battistella]

Wow Ben,

That;s balsy!

David

[Bob Zelin]

you people all drive me crazy. (Isn’t “you people” a racial insult – well, you AJA users are a seperate racial group !).

Why the F are you screwing around with Leopard, and are so freaked out that official AJA drivers are not ready ? Leopard does not make FCS 6 work any better, Leopard does not make the AJA (or Blackmagic or Pro Tools, or AVID) products work any better, and it certainly doesn’t work yet with Adobe products – so what is the panic to get these drivers working.
The ONLY people that should care are the dealers, than can’t sell a new system until Leopard drivers are working – and whether it works or not – it is is very stressful to “assure” a new user that just spent THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS for a new system that Leopard will be ok – “so don’t worry” – when the dealer is ultimately responsible for making this system work reliably. Without assurance from AJA (and the other manufacturers), this is a nerve racking experience – so what the HELL is the damn rush ? Is Discovery Channel or PBS rejecting your tapes because you are not running FCP over Leopard ?

Bob Zelin

[David Battistella]

Bob,

I am in no hurry at all for drivers. I am just making some plans for my business around the arrival of the RED camera. It will mean upgrading to a NEW mac (from a dual 2.7 that does not work with PROREZ HD)

The MAC that comes with leopard PRE-INSTALLED is going to need new ATTO fiber card (they have Leopard drivers FYI) and a KONA 3 Card (not yet Leopard compatible).

So, in my case Bob, it’s not so much that it’s going to change my deliverables, but the RED does mean a new system. Hence the research.

We’re not all dummies around here Bob, sometimes I ask questions because I need to know and plan around my business in the coming months.

Thanks,

David

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[Walter Biscardi]

[David Battistella] “The MAC that comes with leopard PRE-INSTALLED is going to need new ATTO fiber card (they have Leopard drivers FYI) and a KONA 3 Card (not yet Leopard compatible).”

Are you sure? my iMac purchased two days ago from the Apple Store here in Atlanta came with Tiger pre-installed. It included a Leopard “CPU Drop In DVD” to upgrade it.

We’re actually going to be looking at a RED camera this week or next with a D.P. and I plan to use my Tiger system for that test.

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[Arnie Schlissel]

[David Battistella] “The MAC that comes with leopard PRE-INSTALLED is going to need new ATTO fiber card (they have Leopard drivers FYI) and a KONA 3 Card (not yet Leopard compatible). “

David, FWIW, I just bought a used Kona 2 off of eBay, & it’s working in my G5 dual 2.5 under both Leopard & Panther. I’m not using this system very much right now, but will be in the near future, so I’ve got it set up to boot from both systems.

I really won’t be using the system very much till next year, though, so I haven’t really put it through any serious testing.

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