Andy Edwards
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Unplugged all my firewire drives, SATA Array, AJO IO and went against the grain and upgraded Tiger ontop of Panther vs. clean install. I cloned my system drive with Super Duper first, so I have a back up to go back to if I really want to. Upgraded to 10.4.1 and repaired permissions. Installed FCP Studio Bundle. Repaired permissions. Opened up a DVCPRO HD project and got asked if I wanted to throw out all my previous render files for some new setting…caught me of guard an did not choose best setting…chose normal. The project played back fine on my monitor.
Opened up a AJA IO 8 Bit project file and it played back fine. Went to try out the new export audio to Sound track Pro. The project opened up fine. I attempted to try the new AJA IO monitoring in STP and got the spinng wheel of death. Had to force quit STP. read about the new beta drivers and downloaded and installed…..why not, what do I have to lose now 🙂 Installed the new drivers and deleted the FCP prefs and POA cache. Fired up FCP and exported the project to STP again. Its working now…yeah.
I have not put this system through a major battery of tests, but what I need in STP was my main goal. I’ll probably do a flush and fill in the next few weeks when I upgrade the system drive to a 250 gig SATA vs. the standard 160gig. For now, I’m playing with fire for the upgrade vs. clean install, but it is working. So there…..a positive report 🙂
system details
G5 dual 2 ghz
3 gigs ram
Tiger 10.4.1
FCP 5 Production Studio
AJA IO 2.0b1 beta drivers
Burly Box 1.2 TB SATA Array
Sonnet Tempo 4X4
Adaptec Firewire 8300 card
3 lacie 500 Firewire drives -
Heard back from the software maker. The image file is not just an image file….alla Ghost. It is totally searchable for retreiving files.
Back to installing Tiger and FCP 5 Bundle…….
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click on over to the demo reel forum on the Cow. You will see alot of work and get some ideas by looking at what everyone is posting.
Andy
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From the Apple website:
“Family Pack Software License Agreement allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that same household. By “household” we mean a person or persons sharing the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home or condominium. This license does not extend to students who reside at a separate on-campus location or to business or commercial users.”
Family pack is not really for business….I guess. They want you to buy the software separately. Pony up the $129 and move on 🙂
Andy
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I jusy got my new Bella Keyboard and it seems to work great. I had an old contour shuttle and just did not like the constant switching between mouse, shuttle and keyboard. Now the shuttle is on the keyboard and seems very responsive. I also like the mark in and out buttons right above the shuttle. You are able to customize your keyboard, so I’m sure you could duplicate your contour settings just fine.
I just found out I can also use the shuttle to browse or slide a web page up or down. Pretty cool for all the Cow monster threads. Plus the mark in and out keys work like a go forward or go back a page when browsing in Safari…..I know this is not really FCP related but what the heck…its a cool and useful tool for a lot of things.
Andy
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Now that is hilarious!!
Now I have an idea of how to keep my server farm cool. Get that drum of corn oil and dunk it all. 🙂
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[JRF] “It seems to imply that it will extract the room air.”
That was my first concern. If your room reaches a certain temp and you are not running an AC unit 24/7, does it just recycle the same hot air spewing from the back of your computers and over heat everything.
I use to run one of these in a closet I made into my machine room:
https://shop.howstuffworks.com/products/APC+NetworkAIR+AP7003+Air+Conditioner/SF-1/PID-20743213It worked well, but now I am a new location with no closet to stick it into to.
I just don’t want to spend $2,000 on a cabinet to get rid of the Computer noise and have heat issues kill all the silence 🙂
Well the search continues.
Thanks
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The room situation I am considering will not allow for a machine room next door. I totally agree with you that this is a great way to approach it for silence, but this situation won’t allow it. This is one reason I was looking at the acoustilock cabinet for in room silence. I’m just worried that it won’t be able to vent the air properly unless you pump the cabinet air out of the room.
Thanks for your input.
Andy
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$39,000…..yikes. What is Sony smoking 🙂 Last of the great white CRT’s.
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Called our local apple store and they said not until the 17th as well. They stated they do not have FCP 5 on their shelves this weekend. Oh well, a few more days.
Andy