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c’mon guys let’s play with the new cat
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Back to my mac will let me do remote emergency work with screen sharing and deliver spots to my broadcast network client (who only needs uploaded omf’s, scripts, and qt’s for final delivery). This is especially crucial over the holidays as we have one series launching on the 26th and 3 others in the pipes. I’ll be out of town much of the time during these holiday weeks – so the ability to jump in, make a simple change to a promo, and then upload it is HUGE.
People tell me I don’t need Leopard, but they’re basing that assumption on how they use their systems, not mine. Oh, I DO have Leopard installed on the macbook which I would be using for this screen sharing feature.
I cannot leap to Leopard until I have the right drivers for my AJA Kona 2. If AJA thinks they don’t have to update until Adobe does that would be a bad assumption as well. Not all of us use AE enough for it to be a big deal breaker when considering the move to Leopard.
John Davidson____ writer | producer | director____https://www.magicfeather.tv
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[John Davidson] “If AJA thinks they don’t have to update until Adobe does that would be a bad assumption as well.”
Assuming AJA is “holding on to their drivers” is a bad assumption for anyone to make. AJA will not release the drivers until they are ready, as I have already said in this thread. No sooner, no later.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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Guys,
Keep in mind that ALL new CPUs from Apple are now shipped ONLY with Leopard. Even though Tiger still works on the latest shipping MacPros, the numb nuts at Apple have decided you do not need stability. The numb nuts have determined that reality is a BAD thing. The numb nuts won’t even give you an option of getting a Tiger install disc.
Also keep in mind that the retail Tiger discs, unless they happen to be 10.4.10, will not boot Quad Core CPUs.
Thus, you are forced to STEAL a Tiger install disc.
Thank you Apple. Reality be damned!!!
Jeff
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“If AJA thinks they don’t have to update until Adobe does that would be a bad assumption as well. Not all of us use AE enough for it to be a big deal breaker when considering the move to Leopard.”
since you have a kona 2, you should be fairly well acclimated approximately two weeks after announcements ship, the AJA drivers are there. happened with PCI-e, intel, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 and fairly soon, 10.5.
i have worked on over 40 professional applications which went from alpha to shipping product. the QA process and attention to it is by far the most important to end user experience as throwing it out the door without proper QA across machines, environments and OS’s actually just pushes the QA process out the door into the client suites.
i bet $100 pay pal dollars against adobe beating AJA to market with 10.5 software! any takers?
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Lol – I wouldn’t take that bet. I think adobe found out that there was a Leopard OS coming just last month.
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Sorry walter – I didn’t meant to make it seem like you were saying anything else. I only meant to say that we’ve heard on a few different posts that most people aren’t concerned with AJA drivers until Adobe CS3 is ready – hence my statement that I hope AJA isn’t operating on that ideology, because only Manwe himself knows when Adobe’s gonna be ready for Leopard.
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What’s slightly annoying from my point of view is that we might be picking up a new macpro in the next few weeks, and the OS that comes with it is 10.5 – I don’t really want to go and buy a copy of 10.4 to run on it… Seems like an unnecessary cost.
-Simmie
1 MacPro – Kona 3
2 G5 – Kona LH
2 G4s – Cinewave
xbox360, Wii, PSP, PS2
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Annoying to you ? How are guys like me supposed to be able to build NEW systems without MAC’s that work with third party products ? What makes you assume that you can take a new MAC Pro and back rev it to Tiger – this is YOUR ASSUMPTION, and I have not verified tht you can even do this – ASSUME NOTHING.
The dealers and integrators are a lot more hysterical than you are. Just be angry at Apple. I am sure that everyone at AJA (and every other third party vendor) is spening their Thanksgiving trying to figure out how to get the Leopard drivers written.
Bob Zelin
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What might one want from Leopard?
Stability?
Those of us with consistently unstable Final Cut Pro systems whose instability seems increased by the relationship between FCP and the capture cards, have this little (no doubt vain) hope that the Leopard-FCP setup might help. I have grasped at many straws for over a year now and I want to grasp at this one, but without drivers I can’t.
Not a complaint; I can wait. I’ve come to terms with taking my Kona card out of the machine for long renders and saving on every edit. Just an answer to the question.
Mike
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[Mike Parfit] “Not a complaint; I can wait. I’ve come to terms with taking my Kona card out of the machine for long renders and saving on every edit. Just an answer to the question.”
What?! There is something more going on there, but that would be for another thread. Even our old G5 Dual 2.0 with the Kona 2 is humming along stable with 10.4. I think the least stable I’ve ever had an FCP system was with my old CineWave when we made the move from OS 9 to OS 10.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR
The new Color Training DVD now available from the Creative Cow!
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