[Alan Lacey]

Me too, it’s just this sort of background info that you need to file away in the grey matter. You never know when you’ll need it.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Surface mounted electrolytic capacitors dry out faster too when hot.

I’ve had endless problems with Panasonic vcrs over the years with this, so I always keep the power down when not in use.

Alan in PALland

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Katarchi, I’ll investigate

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Works a dream for me in XDcamHD

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

thanks Adam, shame.

I’m trying to create some sort of Brownian motion field. Any ideas?

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Getting back to keyboards, Bella make a nice Bella pro3 that I use for FCP – a vegas one is available too.

It has a lot of programmability and a jog/shuttle contol built in

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Gary,

If I make a generated solid and then try to resize using Pan/Crop, in a Pal DV sequence (720×576) I can only take it down to about 10% size.

My Vegas(7) wont zoom out any further than width=5760 height=4608

I posted something along these lines about a month ago when I was trying to overlay a small (png) arrow that’s 65×66 and Vegas insisted on scaling it up to full screen. Using pan/crop I reduced the size but still not to it’s original. All I wanted was pixel to pixel mapping.

The option ‘source: stretch to fill frame’ changed things but neither y/n helped. I would have thought ‘stretch to fill frame=n’ should have left the graphic at it’s original size.

Do you have any idea what’s going on here?

Thanks Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Most editors, I guess, are cutting on boxes that don’t make a fuss about waveforms.

Why is it that FCP handles them SO badly. I’ve edited on most NLEs now and FCP is without doubt the worst.

Apple could speed them up a bit by having them track selectable.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

I take all your points zrb and thanks.

After it’s booted any of the three machines have run flawlessly. Indeed one of them is connected to an AJA IO via FW (another bus) No problems capture/edit uncompressed 10 bit SD. Media is on a 320 SCSI.

To answer your question, I’ve always just waited (and sometimes waited and waited!) for the Mac to find the FW OS drive. This is really the issue, not being a Mac man I wondered if there was something I could do to help the machine find the drive.

I have set the startup disc in system prefs.

I didn’t know about the option of alt key on bootup. Presumably this is for situations where there is a choice of OS. I’m not with my Mac at present but will give that a go.

Thank you for your ongoing support

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks for your help Winston

Alan