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[lightning ad] “I have reloaded the software, re installed the hardware”

Have you replaced the hardware, I am betting that is the problem.

Again from your description I do not think they fully understand what a causes a kernal panic. ANYTHING can cause it, usually it is bad software or a bad combination of software, but sometimes it is bad hardware.

Have you tried the hardware on a different computer? That is the best way to determine if it is the hardware.

You could also try reinstalling your operating system.

Like I said ANYTHING can cause a kernal panic. Usually it is messed up software, but I have seen ram, 3rd party controller cards, hard drives, and even a airport cars cause kernal panics. So there software or hardware could easily be the cause of the problem. By them saying that there is no way that there product could be the cause of the issue is crazy.

You said they looked over the Kernal panic reports, those reports are almost impossible to read unless you created the OS. One thing that 99.9% of kernal panic reports say is CPU 0, they are probably seeing that and assuming that is is your computer. CPU 0 does not mean that at all. All CPU 0 on those reports means is that a command was sent to the processor. That command could have come from anywhere, and it was that bad command that usually causes the kernal panic to happen.

Think about it everything was fine until you added there product, and the problem only happens when that product is in use.

That tells me that it is most likely caused by there product, and I am betting that the hardware that they gave you is the cause.

As for tape being a more robust form of backup, I have never seen any thing that has proven that. The biggest problem with tape backups is that several years down the road if your tape reader dies, you will probably have a hard time finding a replacement because they probably will not be making them anymore. And why wont they be making them anymore? because hardly anybody uses them. If you don’t want hard drives then look into a blue ray burrner and ether use 25 GB or 50 GB disks.

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It is VARY possible that there system could be causing the computer to Kernal Panic, and from the sounds of it it probably is something with their system because it only happens when using there stuff. They obviously don’t under stand kernal panics.

It could ether be there software or hardware that is causing it. If redoing the software does not fix it try replacing the hardware. If you have another computer you can try it on even better.

Also why not just go with a hard drive backup system, they are TONS easier.

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[Brian Pitt] “Am I allowed to have the same FCS installed on each machine as long as they are not being used at the same time?”

YES

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[steve Eisen] “Yes, Intel only.”

Thats what i thought, so unfortunately it will not be a solution for JohnForsen here.

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[steve Eisen] “Spend the money for the IOHD!”

Are there confirmed reports that the IOHD will work with a non Intel Mac. Last I heard AJA was was saying Intel Mac only.

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With a .Mac accout you get 10GB of online storage.

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I believe that on Intel machines you now hold down D, but disk warrior could be an exception.

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[RCSAUS] “Like a swag of people before you, you’ve learnt that if you want to make big dollars, you need to be a ‘big’ studio, with lots of employees.”

Like his original post said he is happier away from that. And you don’t have to have a BIG studio to make big dollars.

[RCSAUS] “You gotta make up your mind. If you want to make money in this funny business, go back to your partner. It seems he’s got a good mind-set. “

He douse not have to go back to make more money. It really sounds like from the original post that the quality and creativity of the work was suffering big time where he was at. And when the quality of work suffers clients will stop coming back, and that means less money not more.

He clearly said that they would not pay enough to get good editors, and I completely agree when he said “when you pay peanuts, you get monkeys PERIOD”

He left to be happier, and to have more time to do what he loves, he douse not like having to play the roll of the boss.

After having worked for a place that payed peanuts and that was even at a small place, it became clear that I would rather work for myself and not have any employees (I decided that I would rather have no employees then pay employees peanuts, and it can be extremely hard to pay well and offer good benefits to an employee).

So don’t go telling him that he should go crawling back.

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Don’t do it manually, open the project and then use media manager to make a copy of the project on the new drive.

With media manager you can move everything that FCP is using for that project to one new location, this way you don’t miss anything.

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I would use boot camp instead of parallels or vmfusion because it will let you utilize the entire power of the computer whereas emulators will not.