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Better still is Alex Gollner’s Text Crawl plugin … not only does it remove the inherent string length limitations of the built-in plugins but it’s also font agnostic, adds a variety of shadow and banner controls plus allows for fixed crawl rates too.

https://alex4d.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/fcp-plugin-text-crawl/

Alex has been putting out a host of new and/or modified plugins over the last months and his collection is well grabbing. Seriously good stuff, and all free.

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Ya know, we’re not all starving artists in this forum Rafa!

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Here’s a weird one I’ve not seen before … we have a user for whom direct SxS reading is actually still working (although he does have the thumbnail cache issue).

https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10111678#10111678

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See? I knew I’d feel far less like “spirited discussion” in the morning 🙂

A clean install followed by the app in question can verify if the issue is between the App and the OS.

Exactly.

A clean install followed by installing all apps and plugins doesn’t tell you which app is conflicting with which unless one tests the single app in question after each additional app install.

Exactly … Procedure A (multiple installs without individual verification) doesn’t help as you don’t know which component caused the problem, whereas Procedure B (sequential installs with verification) can help to directly isolate the conflict.

An Archive/Install, once optional, now built in to Snow Leopard update, is a clean install of the OS plus copies over app related things.

Indeed, in essence it’s automating Procedure A above, no? Apologies in advance if I’m misunderstanding.

The part from the console log that I posted seems to imply that there’s a 10.5 QuartzComposer Patch still present. It may be there because some apps need it. It may be that’s creating a conflict in the creation of the thumbnail cache.

Do you have FxFactory installed at all, or CHV Quartz integration?

A clean install may not have that patch (since there’s no reference to older apps that the installer might use in the decision making process of the installer script) or that patch may be innocuous if the “other app” doesn’t exist to make the “call” to it.

One quick way…

Heee … it’s rarely simple eh? Hopefully I may find some time today to do a bit of detective work on my own systems. Mine is a MBP, running FCS3.

Again, apologies if I’ve misread anything, and I do understand that your methods are born of hard fought experience, hopefully you can understand the need to state the case and the rationale for the clean install crowd.

Anyhoo … lets not bicker about methods (too late now eh?) though I’d be happy to discuss off list if you’re intersested (my email is in my profile I believe).

I gotta rush … am going to be late for work if I sit here much longer

Andy

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its late here Craig, and I should go to bed, so take whatever I’m saying with a pinch of late night and over tired salt, but …

We’re all troubleshooters in this trade, its part and parcel of the job, and I do realise you test for several developers (as do many of us I’m sure … for example, my lappie actually has 3 partitions, 1 latest, 1 stable and 1 ‘dirty’). But one of the mainstays of troubleshooting as well you know is eliminating what is not the problem and a clean install is a fundamental part of that process. But the terms such as grandmother and egg sucking are now coming to mind so I’ll leave that train of thought! My point is not to blather on about testing methods, its just to note that folks trying to run stable production machines (ie not test beds) are best advised to follow rigorously long-winded but nonetheless proven upgrade procedures.

Folks, as we’ve seemingly found a inconsistent bug with XDCAM Transfer and Snow Leopard then it’d be worth it if you all could note whether any of you did full clean installs and yet still have the problem, and if so on what specific hardware? I dare say we can nail down exactly what does work along the way to finding what doesn’t.

Sorry Craig, as noted too damn late … at least its only a ‘tired’ post and not a ‘drunk’ one eh? I’ll regret posting in the morning 🙂

Very Best
Andy

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[Arnaud Davidian] “If I change my “old” Powerbook G4 for a new Intel Mac, I won’t be able to edit them with these effects!”

Thats’ correct Arnaud, it’s time to learn some new tricks 🙂
Best
Andy

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Craig I hear you … but for me, clone and clean install is always worth the effort. On my laptop I’ve my hard disc partitioned so that when a major OS or app update comes along then I can clean install the new system and apps yet easily boot into and keep using the existing stable install if and when and for as long as necessary. For minor point release type stuff then I’ll update like anyone else, but for the big change stuff then a full clean rebuild is always recommended … it just makes sense.
Just my 2c
Andy

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Thanks for the update Craig … did you do a clean install on your non-working system? My money is on a low level conflict too, and I’d dare say that those who did a clean install are less likely to have such a conflicting framework / extension or what have you lying around in their system. Really, if folks followed best practices for major upgrades (full clean install of OS then step by step install of essential apps and utilities) then by now I’m pretty sure we’d have a much better idea of what is or isn’t causing the issue.
Best
Andy

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Craig, any idea if there is correlation between clean installs and upgrade installs on these various systems?
Andy

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[James Iles] “Can anyone confirm that the eSata cards that come with the Matrox MX02 work okay?”

James, the Matrox MXO2 comes with an ExpressCard/34 based PCIe adaptor … its not an eSATA card. (It works fine but please bear in mind that it is not officially supported until Matrox release SL specific drivers).

Best
Andy