I’m Running Leopard – so far so good

[Zane Barker]

[Rafael Amador] “The use of DW or TechTools have became critic to make any Mac works. “

So not true, I actually NEVER run DW or TechTools on my system, and it runs fine. I am betting the things that all of that 32% of things that it found out of order were so miniscule that they would not have made a difference if you hadn’t repaid them.

Happy Editing To You!!

[Rafael Amador]

[Zane Barker] “I am betting the things that all of that 32% of things that it found out of order were so miniscule “
Well I haven’t told the full story. I ran DW because first time I tried open FC, the list o the “Easy setups” wouldn’t show up. I have to start with a NTSC project although I work in PAL.
I ran DW and the list of the Easy setups shows up immediately.
I don’t know you, but I see a big difference when my system is optimized.
Rafael

PPC G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM/BlackMagic SD/PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM
JVC DTV-17″/FCS2/AE CS3/COMBUSTION/SHAKE

[Jeff Carrion]

[David Roth Weiss] “So far everything is running quite nicely, although I did get a crash first thing this morning. However, I attribute the crash to my mistake of forgetting to to turn off all of the energy saving features in System Preferences. Keep that one in mind… Its one of the very first things you should do after installing from scratch…”

I’ve never heard of this! Is this something I should be doing with my systems? If so, do you keep the energy saving features off all the time or just during an install?

“No TV and no beer make Homer something, something…”

[David Roth weiss]

[Jumpytunes] “I’ve never heard of this! Is this something I should be doing with my systems? If so, do you keep the energy saving features off all the time or just during an install?”

Keep all the settings off all te time and make sure to uncheck the box that asks if want your hard drives to go to sleep whenever possible. FCP is about performance not being green. Turn off your monitor when you take breaks from work if you want to save energy, because its the monitor s that eat up the juice.

The following is from AJA online support:

Q: Sleep settings and Energy Saver (System Preferences)

[Jeff Carrion]

Great, thanks for the info! I already had “never” selected for putting the computer to sleep and the hard drive box un-checked but I have the monitors set to shut off after 30min. I wouldn’t think that that would be a problem.

Although I have noticed that my MacPro (OS 10.4.11) will sort of pseudo-go-to-sleep if I leave it on over night or some other very long duration without any activity. I’ll need to hit a key to wake it, moving the mouse won’t do it, then the GFX card fan whizzes to life.

Jeff-

“No TV and no beer make Homer something, something…”