Aristides Tiropolis
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Thanks for making the effort to at least explain the technical reasons in not making BM functional on CS4.
I think you should have this sort of explanation on your website in the support library as well as in the product page in maybe another form, It could be in the vain of: “CS4 support for Mac platform is coming…” or something of that sort.
Cheers.
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[Peter Corbett] “Do I have to manually copy the drivers to PPro somehow?”
No you don’t. For some inexplicable reason, Blackmagic chose not support CS4 on the Mac but only on Windows.
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You really need to contact someone from Apple support, it sounds to me that it might be the graphics card having issues, who knows maybe the cooler is broken and it heats up too much sometimes, which would explain the “randomness” somehow due to different room temperatures.
But it could as well be a lot of other stuff too…Contact them! -
Head on folder “c:\program files (x86)\Adobe\Common\Plugins\CS4\Mediacore”
What do you see? There should be a list of files:
BMDDeviceControl.prm
BMDExport.prm
BMDImport.prm
BMDPlayer.prm
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Yup I actually bought a used Final Cut Studio 2 from a friend who sold his imac.
Everything works and is fully updated. (Color, Final Cut, Soundtrack and so on.)
The BM card works fine on OSX and Windows, whichever I boot…
I’ve been runnin’ it since August so it looks ok.
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[Margus Voll] “One thing some RED people are testing is 17″ MBP with pci extender or something like that for red rocket.”
Well I’d be surprised if they succeeded since the MBP (all laptops with ExpressCard) uses an x1 PCIe lane and I’d imagine the Red rocket will need a little more punch than that.
[Margus Voll] ”
I have no idea about the cost but generally it is possible in theory and then you could have your mobile, home, testing machine. No mandatory 8 cores”It could work if you don’t have much rendering and don’t put much pressure on the machine, but this is rarely the case for people, still it could work for some. I actually use my laptop only for mobile uses.
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Randy this is where you are wrong, a desktop motherboard is clearly not the same as server based one like the one on BOXX\’s or Mac pro\’s…. it goes through more testing, it supports ECC memory, has dual sockets, supports xeon processors, it\’s bios is properly made and tested and the build quality is better. Comparing these machines is besides the point anyway…
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[Margus Voll] “It is not the os that makes the final result. The person that operates this machine is.”
Yeah, but one does need some tools and find solutions on a project. Sometimes being only on the windows world doesn’t bring the best tools available and you find yourself needing more choice.
[Bob Zelin] “How you folks are running your businesses (and making money) with $500 PC’s is beyond me.”
I personally never had a 500$ computer and the one I have costs more than triple that, without peripherals and special cards.
Bob, I’m a director and producer. I work freelance so I don’t own\run a production house. If I did all my systems would probably Mac Pro’s or HP’s. I do need however to be able to do some or a portion of my professional work at home, pretty much the same way an audio engineer can sort and cut an audio project at his/her home and export an OMF/AAF and then work the mix in a Dolby Digital certified mega-studio. In a similar manner I may do some editing at home and have a Flame artist for example do some CC or compositng on a Flame Workstation, but I may need to do/test stuff on Shake or Color prior to going in the production house, or I sometimes do 75% of the work at home…you catch my drift?
Now’s the time that we need powerful systems at home and we sometimes use workarounds to get what we want. Apple isn’t giving the hardware range people want and we do need a good price/value ratio and we maybe want to overclock, you don’t need that type of stuff so you probably think its worthless, but hey, its not.
Although support on off-the self systems is not the same as a support plan from HP or Apple Care. At least all my hardware is on a three year warranty. Apple gives just one year and you must pay any additional time.
I’m in a schedule were I constantly move files from Mac’s to PC’s to production houses, to my colleagues, in other houses, over the internet, you name it. My old career was in IT so I’m probably more relaxed with computers, but that means I’m more specific in my needs…
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That option is only available on Windows XP. Your card is working fine and will output video properly when using e.g an editing application like Premiere. The extended desktop feature is not available on Windows Vista.
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The legal battle between Psystar and Apple is interesting to say the least…It brings the question of EULA enforceability and especially some of its points to be more precise. The question in my view isn’t what Psystar is selling or its quality, but the whole concept of others selling machines with OSX installed. If nothing else Apple must know by now that people really, really want their OS. They just don’t feel covered from their hardware range, I mean a macbook pro with no ExpressCard slot? Really? (By the way that could be an SNL news Section with Seth meyers), its not only about money its also more about choice.
Groklaw and OSnews has been following the case and the lawyer Shenanigans.
By the way I’ve been running an Gigabyte/intel nehalem based machine with Leopard and Vista x64 happily with my decklink about a month now…
Cheers…