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What type of drives are you capturing to?

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[DAFsr 1] “He has done video interviews with people and has photos and graphics. Someone has started putting it together in iMovie to make the DVD for the presentation. They want it to look “more professional” so they want to use FCP. “

Unless the interviews, photos and graphics all look professional, then it never will no mater what you use to put it together.

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The only way I have ever found to have any success, is by not trying to sync, but to use an IMAP email address.

With IMAP everything is kept on the server, you can even save something as a draft and then finish it later on another computer, or even your iPhone.

.Mac uses IMAP and its great because of the 10GB or storage that comes with it. Gmail is also starting to use IMAP.

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Not really you would have to export an XML and then open than in the older version, because a FCP 6 file will not open in FCP 5. It is best to stick with one version of FCP for a project.

And yes this has been covered many times, try a search of the archives rather then just looking at the past week.

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[Zeliha] “I have used Compressor in the past, but I find it takes a long time to compress anything.”

Well I have no Idea what kind of system you have because your profile douse not say, but if your computer has multiple processors and or multiple cores make sure you configure qmaster to be able to utilize all of them for maximum performance with compressor.

Here is a video I recently watched about how do do that.
https://pixelcorps.tv/macbreak89

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Um YES.

Why would you think it is not safe to update? I mean come on 10.5 comes out in less then 2 days.

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Like Shane said, you cant. First off the logic board on a single processor G5 only has a connection for one processor, you physically cannot connect two processors to it.

As for those guys who swapped the processors on there Mac Pro’s, I hope they are fine with voiding the warranty on both computers.

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The BIGGEST problem with the a iMac is that it has only one Firewire Bus on it. This means that any video going into or out of the computer MUST share the Firewire Bus with the hard drive that the video is stored on. At times it cam get a little overloaded and cause dropped frames.

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[rufii] “G5 intel”

No G5’s computers ever had Intel processors in them, and no Intel ever had a G5 processor in it.

[rufii] “It’s been fine for about 2 years.”

Intel Macs have not been out for 2 years.

Aside from the gross inaccuracies in your post, how was the project moved from one computer to the next. Are you using media manager?

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[mr_gfx] “that is lame.”

It is not lame it is SAFE if it wasn’t like this computers would get screwed up so fast and people would be loosing files left and right.