Snow Leopard Warnings

[Devin Crane]

“Any remarkable upgrades?” – Jason Brown

Not in regards to features but it shed 7GB of code and is 64bit. Open CL looks pretty promising but don’t think FCS will take advantage of it anytime soon.

[Mark Maness]

[Devin Crane] “64bit”

This only true if you tell it to boot to 64bit. From the article I read at CNET.com, you have to press and hold the 6 and the 4 keys at the same time on boot for your Mac to boot to the 64bit version of the system kernel.

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Wayne Carey
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[Brad Bussé]

I read somewhere that there’s currently really no advantage to running the 64-bit kernel. The big step up for SL is that the Finder is now 64 along with most of the other main system apps.

As for Quicktime X, I believe they’ve done away with Pro and the Pro features are available to all. Hopefully the now native SL 2.2 gamma will fix the persistent gamma issues that Mac video authoring and Quicktime files have had.

[Mark Maness]

[Brad Buss] “I read somewhere that there’s currently really no advantage to running the 64-bit kernel.”

I’m not sure if you know this but the kernel is the basis of all programs. Its the foundation that everything is based on. If the kernel isn’t 64bit, then nothing is running at 64bit.

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[Brad Bussé]

Sure, but even Leopard was utilizing 64-bit goodness by packaging processing up in a wrapper of sorts for it to be processed in 64-bits via Unix.

And hey, as far as I’m concerned, I’ve been taking full advantage of 64-bit computing since the marketing campaign for the G5s first began.

[Lance Moody]

My timeline:

First I read this thread.

10 mins later Snow Leopard arrived
40 mins later Snow Leopard (standard upgrade) installed

Then found and installed drivers for my Black Magic Intensity Pro card (look for the special link for Snow Leopard).
Repaired permissions.
Intensity Pro did not seem to be working.
Then UNINSTALLED Intensity Drivers–Shut down computer, disconnected power (a ritual I imagine allows the card to reset itself, who knows?) . And reinstalled them. Please note that installing the BM drivers deletes all the FCP settings

Now about 2.5 hours after Snow Leopard arrived:
Intensity Pro seems to be working properly.
Final Cut Pro seems to be working ok with my (in-progress) HD spot.
After Effects seems OK.
Had one strange problem with a folder of SFX that I no longer had permission to open-worked it out.
Civilization IV works.
Am happy.

Lance

P.S.:
In fairness I should mention that I had a full Time Machine backup. The Snow Leopard install disk has a utility built in if you want to go back to an earlier Time Machine setup.

Love to see how the upgrade to Windows 7 would compare…if Windows 7 had FCP…which they don’t.

[Mark Maness]

I’m still a little confused on how this is going to work out… It boots to a 32bit kernel but can run some 64bit apps.

Read this.

https://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10320314-37.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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[Devin Crane]

Wayne Carey writes- “This only true if you tell it to boot to 64bit. From the article I read at CNET.com, you have to press and hold the 6 and the 4 keys at the same time on boot for your Mac to boot to the 64bit version of the system kernel. “

This could be true but I find it odd since almost all of the system files are re-written in 64bit including most of the main applications that come with it. Mac OSX has been 64bit for quite awhile but not everything in it has been, now to my understanding most if not all is 64bit.

[Ben Richardson]

The driver for the SiI3124 and SiI3132 is incompatible, and causes kernel panics if left installed. This means any eSATA cards using that driver (in my case a CalDigit Fasta-4e for the S2VR Duo) won’t currently run under Snow Leopard.

[Sean Lander]

Well I took the plunge as I have a month until my next job comes to my home edit suite. (Currently cutting on Avid……Ew!)

Anyway. All seemed to have gone well but there are issues. I had two jobs left on my system.
Both were shot with the Canon 5D. (Man I love this camera!) Both jobs took the original files and converted them to ProRes422 though on the second job they were converted to ProRes422 HQ.

The job that was normal ProRes422 plays fine the HQ job drops frames all over the place.
Tried reinstalling FCS 3 after SL but no difference. The media files are just on an external drive inside the MacPro so it’s not stellar fast but I had no problems with the footage before the upgrade.

Not sure if it’s the QuickTIme FCS3 or Snow Leopard. Will try the whole process from scratch and see if the problem remains.

Apart from that I can not really see much difference in speed with Snow Leopard though I haven’t done any big renders yet.

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