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Mountain Lion Stability
So I will be waiting to upgrade to Mountain Lion until AJA confirms compatibility and Adobe and Avid fix whatever issues might pop up, but as an OS, what do we expect the stability to be like? Lion had a lot of issues at first, so much so that I heard people claiming that it just wasn’t ready for prime time when it was released. Do we think that Apple has rushed another OS out, or will it be a strong release. Would love to hear from any early adopters if there are any out there!
Panasonic HPX170, Canon 7D
2011 Macbook Pro 17″, 2.3 Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM
AJA IoXT
Adobe Production Premium CS6, Avid Symphony 6, Final Cut Pro Studio 3
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I’m installing on a fresh drive today to test things out. Will let you know!
Michael Garber
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Putting it on two iMacs and a macbook pro 2008 now. Will tell myself to wait, but we’ll probably be installing it on the big macs today as well. Doh!
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Oh, and it looks like AJA has ML drivers out today. Nice!
Michael Garber
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Installed.
Everything seems to work fine including FCP 7.
Lance
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Does it seem like a worthy upgrade? I’d like to get it if the updated features are nice and it doesn’t break FCP7 or Adobe CS6.
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There is nothing in the update that mean much to me. I upgraded due to OC disorder.
By the way, I have upgraded immediately every single time the OS or any of my business software (FCP, After Effects) changed.
I have read the endless descriptions of elaborate procedures for upgrading, involving multiple boot drives, etc. and multiple backups.
I always thought those were a waste of time. I have never had a single problem and estimate I have saved many many hours at the risk (which I was aware of) of rebuilding my system.
Best,
Lance
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@AdobePremiere tweeted that Mountain Lion improves performance and stability in Premiere. Of course check with all of your vendors, hardware, plug in and otherwise.
Also, released FAQ: https://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/faq.html#lion-os
Jeremy
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I heard that 10.8 will take AVCHD folders and treat them as “packages” — meaning you cannot view inside the packages unless you right-click > show package contents.
If this is true then this has implications for all NLEs I… and I don’t know if there is a function to turn it off. Whoever has 10.8 installed it would be great to test/verify or debunk this.
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Couldn’t find anything, but here’s from the Montain Lion features page:
AVCHD video
In Mountain Lion, QuickTime Player makes working with AVCHD video easy. A built-in clip browser shows you the video clips in your AVCHD media. Choose the clip you’re interested in to immediately play it back, quickly trim it to the perfect length, and even share it with others. -
Updated 2 imacs. Worked great. 2 Macbook airs, No problems. Older 2008 Macbook Pro, like a charm. 2 Mac Pros – not working. The first mac pro got stuck for two hours at ’34 minutes left’ with no change. The second got stuck for 2 hours at 1 minute left. Apple support communities suggesting forceing a reboot and they would continue where left off. Edit 2 deleted all user accounts and started up like a new computer, edit 1 is still stuck at 34 minutes after three forced boots. Oddly, edit 1 still sees the applications, just not the users.
If you’re on a mac pro, wait.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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