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please help!
ok I work at a production company and I have a problem. this computer is an older g4 model with dual 533 mhz processors, 1.25 gb ram and a targa cinewave setup with a small medea scsi drive. when my boss purchased this setup a few years ago he claims they told him this would work perfectly together. now a few years later and everything is on the fritz. when i try to playback a sequence it tells me i get the message saying i either have dropped frames or i should close sequences. when I try to output a project to tape it freezes up. only when it wants to. i do not believe it to be the footage because it sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. i would like to know what i can do to make it stop doing this. maybe speed up the computer? we had put more ram in it already to no avail. would we have to get a new system? a new drive? what does anyone reccomend? thank you for any advice whatsoever.
i had posted something similar to this once before but i’m guessing what i was saying didn’t make much sense. please creativecow gurus any advice to make the system not be such a pain?
Jennifer Pabon at RCR Productions
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4 Replies
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Probably can make this system come back… but you need to post which versions of OS, QuickTime, FCP, and CineWave Drivers you are running… Chances are that you need to rebuild your startup disk from the ground up to make it happen.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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ok we have
os 10.3.6(latest-or last-update for cinewave),
final cut pro 4.5,
qt 6.5.2(qt 7 will only run on a later version of the os)
cinewave 4.6rt(4.7)
I just found out that last year there was a problem with the system and was rebuilt. they had upgraded the os and there wasn’t an upgrade for the cinewave yet, and everything had to be reinstalled. little more than a year later, we have this problem now. i hope this info id useful!thanks for ur help…
Jennifer Pabon at RCR Productions
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There is no reason you can’t upgrade to FCP 5 HD and still run Cinewave 4.7 with all the latest (to date!)OS upgrades and Quicktime 7.02. I have a dual 1 ghz G4 that is running fine with just that combination. I have only heard one person who was not able to render uncompressed Quicktimes out of this set-up (on this forum)and I can’t confirm or deny this as I haven’t tried to do that since I upgraded. I had a lot of old HD footage in the Cinewave format that I needed to edit together for a specific DP reel, and although the system performance was (understandably) more sluggish than my AJA Kona dual G5 system, the Cinewave still performed flawlessly! There is life yet in your old system!
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I’d suggest a reinstall from the ground up, and get yourself to OS 10.3.8, QT 6.5.2, and FCP 4.5 with the last of the CineWave drivers. Post this setup as a question in the CineWave forum here too… ask how workable/stable it is… Might invest in an inexpensive ATA to add to your Mac (internal) and setup that new drive this way. That way you can have a double boot system, and spend the time to make sure you’ve copied all you want from the old system to the new drive etc…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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