[Alan Lacey]

Behaves the same on four other drives so I think that’s unlikely.

I have three similar systems (3 G5s in various locations, no OS on them) and the idea was to turn each into a video edit station by connecting the relevant FW boot disk when required)

It’s worked a treat for a couple of years now, but always with this problem on all machines.

Thanks Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Winston,

I think I’d prefer to stay ‘as is’ It’s the inconsistancy that bemuses me.

If I did decide to put the OS and apps on one of the internal drives will I be able to just ‘carbon cloner’ it across? I guess I’ll need to split the raid as I understand OSX wont run on a raid.

Being a PC man I liked the idea of having mobile (and clonable) boot drives – it always gave me a fall back position when I did risky things like upgrade FCP or QT.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

I’d say it was your Business account person that rocks!

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Sorry I didn’t make myself clear. It doesn’t hang, it just fairly frequently doesn’t find the drive and so start the boot.

If I cycle the power it’ll probably find the drive second time round and all is well.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Nope, no other FW devices connected.

No problem with speed of booting once the FW drive is found.

Config is OS and Apps on 80Gig 400 FW drive, internal two 250GBs raid0.

I had specific need to boot from FW and all is VERY well once the drive is found by the Mac and it boots.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

hmmmm, feared so.

Thanks anyway Brian. The friction trick worked but is a bit unwealdy for what I’m after.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Start with a three layer sandwich in the timeline. Your original footage in the bottom track, the caption in the middle and another (synchronised) copy of the lower layer on the top.

This top one is the one you’re going to create the masking on to cover your text. There are many ways to do this, but the simplest way would be to use that clips ‘event pan/crop’ to draw/feather and animate the mask as required.

Open the top clip’s ‘event pan/crop’ control by clicking on the upper icon on the rh end of the clip.

At the bottom of the dialogue click the ‘mask’ track to activate it, then use the tools on the lhs to draw and feather a mask for the frame you are looking at. Move to another frame, reposition the mask vertices and carry on animating like this until the required result. The online help has all the details about the relevant tools.

Good luck

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks again Brian.

Do you happen to know if there is there any other ‘static’ framework that pyrocluster can build on other than particles?

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

another copy of the explosion on the layer about suitably masked/transparent.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Alanier,

I tried a new project, no audio, only three stacked jpg sequence layers and still the lockup and crash.

It’s a Rock laptop

Alan