Bernard Newnham
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Or maybe a Storage Area Network, which is what I think you meant to say. Though actually Network Attached Storage would be a better solution in this case. You won’t need the G5. Basically it’s a box of discs that you attach to a network. Amazon has pages of them.
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bernie
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My first attempt was difficult to set up. I had learned of the possibility of making a Hackintosh but hadn’t discovered the Tonymac system.
I used a hacked OS called iDeneb – though I did buy a copy of Snow Leopard from the Apple shop. It was tricky to do, and took a number of tries, with a half hour wait to discover I’d done it wrong again. My second try, using iBoot, Multibeast and proper Snow Leopard, took two tries – because I hadn’t read the instructions properly. If I did it again it would take no time at all.
The second system uses an Asus P55 motherboard, Core i5 750 and Nvidia 9600GTX – not the absolute cutting edge, but pretty speedy.
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You could try it out then, as you have the hardware. You can do it for the cost of a copy of Snow Leopard.
Although I’m only a tiny user these days, being mostly retired, this isn’t hobby use – and I’ve done several time sensitive projects on it. But I don’t need the AJA cards, as I seem to only do DV and AVCHD these days.
I must admit I didn’t know the name Westmere, but Wikipedia tells me it’s just another Intel processor architecture – a new one every week folks. This one is used for making Core i7 processors and successors, since that’s what they’re making currently. I’ve made a hackintosh on both P35 and P55 chipsets now – the operating system doesn’t appear to be that picky, given a little help from it’s Linux/Unix friends, so it will probably work on others. Macs are much less special than Apple would like you to think….
If anyone wants to lend me an appropriate card I could give it a try.
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“if I got a driver built and working on one, I couldn’t be sure it worked on a mac”
Not sure what you mean by that. All that matters is that FCP – or whatever application – works on the machine. It’s worked twice on two different motherboard/CPU combinations for me, so it probably works on lots more. In fact tonymac https://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/ thinks his method of hackintosh build will work on lots of systems. You do have to remember that OSX is secretly – under the pretty interface – just another version of Linux/Unix, which is why people can make the thing work.
Personally I wouldn’t care at all about this, except that I think FCP is an excellent piece of software and I want to use it for editing.
OSX and Windows 7 – and Linux/Ubuntu for that matter – are very similar, just like getting out of one car into another, really. I have no desire to be ripped off by anyone, and as my box cost 25% of a Mac Pro, I think maybe Apple are charging just a touch over. Did you ever wonder how they manage to run those exotic stores with lots of assistants?
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bernie
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Mine works fine with Final Cut Studio.
This is my second Hackintosh. The first was also my main pc – I had it set up so that if I plugged in an external eSATA drive it would boot as a Mac, and unplugged it would boot into Windows 7. I screwed it up by updating the graphics card to one which needed drivers that weren’t available, so I’ve built another using the tonymac method. Cost of the box was around £560, around 25% of the equivalent Mac, and endlessly upgradable just like a pc.
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Mine did that, but it wasn’t anything to do with Avid, as I don’t have Avid on my pc. A restart got rid of it.
Bernie
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Wow – thank goodness I live in PAL land, I never realised how complicated it all is for you….
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For sound effects, try here – https://www.sound-ideas.com/bbc.html
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Thanks for checking it out, Willie.
Perhaps someone should explain to Adobe that control/shift/space isn’t the most straightforward key selection to press when you just want to stop – especially as it’s become an industry standard to use space as plain old start/stop. After I’d asked the original question late last night, I remembered having the same problem back in Cool Edit days. It turned out to be easier and more straightforward to use a video editor to do the audio editing jobs than an audio editor.
cheers
Bernie
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….forget it – I’ve found more suitable software for the job. Thanks anyway.
….though the question remains – why doesn’t Audition work normally, in the way that most other systems have now decided is standard? Who on earth wants a timeline transport that only ever goes back to the top?