That’s a huge bummer

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Bob Zelin] “If you have a perfectly working MAC G5, loaded with software, AJA Kona 2, and disk drives using a PCI-X card, YOU ARE SCREWED. End of story. “

But what about that Mac 512 that I’ve jerry-rigged with the Radius card, duct tape, paper clips and speaker wire? Surely that should work?

And while we’re at it, how about the Hacintosh that I made with my old toaster oven and an Amiga?

Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
https://www.arniepix.com/

[Bob Zelin]

throughtout my career – long before FCP, long before AJA, long before
AVID, there were jury rig products, that people tried to prolong the life of the incredibly expensive products that they had purchased. This for me goes back to the Sony VO5850, and the Time Code kits modification that existed for those that refused to purchase a Sony BVU800 3/4″ VTR (at $12,000 for those that can’t believe it – and that was before the TC option board).

So everyone, in every generation of computer (MAC and PC) had “acceleration boards”, and “added RAM”, and all kinds of useless crap (remember the recent promise of PCI-X to PCI-e bridge cards) to hang onto their expensive investment.

There is only one bottom line. YOU ARE SCREWED. END OF STORY. Having seen this type of behavior from manufacturers over 30 years, and seeing the resistance of users that own expensive perfectly working gear, that is now obsolete, but can’t deal with the reality of this fact, makes me want to take a baseball bat to these people. ITS OVER – GET OVER IT. Your investment is done.

Of course, in 2009, things are cheap (cheap ! – I paid $295 for that card – its that cheap !). These people that whine over and over don’t remember the days when you would spend $80,000 (in 1983, which is like $200,000 today), and your investment is now worthless.

Today, the “loss” is your personal time. SIT YOUR ASS DOWN, AND RELOAD THE DAMN UPDATE SOFTWARE. If you don’t like this fact, then get out of the business.

Bob Zelin

[Vince Sanchez]

Bob Zelin wrote:
Today, the “loss” is your personal time. SIT YOUR ASS DOWN, AND RELOAD THE DAMN UPDATE SOFTWARE. If you don’t like this fact, then get out of the business.”

While I totally agree with the above, that wasn’t the intent of my original post. I have had to pass on upgrading to Leopard for a couple of reasons. One being some software I need doesn’t play well with Leopard. The other more important is that I work with a company that has their server set up on Tiger and they don’t want anything to possibly disrupt this.

I understand this and I sadly pass on new plugins and software that are Leopard only, its just the way it is. What my gripe is is that all information that I could get says the Lhi is Tiger compatible, based on that I purchased the product and didn’t find out I was hosed until the driver wouldn’t install. Client expects to walk in Monday and uprez some footage. Anytime I’ve bought a new AJA card I’ve given myself a weekend to get it up and running, this has always been more than enough time, their stuff is so bullet proof.

Part of my job is upgrading and installing the software on all our computers, so I’m not unfamiliar with that, time consuming but part of life.

So I hope you enjoyed your ranting and hopefully venting will add years to your life.

Thanks,
Vince Sanchez
Intel Quad Mac 2.66
AJA LHe
HD link
OSX 10.4.11
FCP Studio 2

[Bob Zelin]

Hi Vince,
I am no networking expert, but I see no issue in having a OS-X 10.5 client (with the AJA Kona Lhi card) on a OS-X 10.4.11 server. This should work fine, and because you have to upconvert SD to HD, the time lost (becuase you would have to render otherwise) will be torture to you. Converting SDI to HD-SDI is one of the most compelling reasons to get an LHi. Do the OS-X 10.5 upgrade. Go for it. You will be fine, and your server won’t care.

Bob zelin

[Mark Maness]

Here’s a piece of info that may be useful for future upgrades.

Mac of All Trades… https://www.macofalltrades.com

Check it out!

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com

[Jordan Woods]

It’s the whole XSAN and upgrding the entire system that they are sitting on. I totally understand this, since xsan was at its peak in 10.4.11 with XSAN 1.4.2. Too bad you can’t grow that system… Vince— you will have to speak to the powers that be about upgrading that system soon. I will place money your storage is running on 2-3 years. You will begin to see servers fail, drives fail, and controllers… in short order you’ll ready for that LHi.

-jordan