Bret Williams
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That’s a great price. And David’s maxtor has twice the cache at 16mb. The Acom still seems like a decent deal since it comes with a controller card that has external ports, and an external case. I’m not sure what a good case costs, but the cards are $50 for a 2 port internal (can’t find externals), and I’m sure cases are probably about the same.
Too many decisions.
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Many will argue that Maxtor is “el cheapo.” But I think all brands have duds. I’ve had hitachi, western digital die. I’ve got a maxtor now (internal ata) that I’m not so sure is doing so well.
Is the Maxtor via a rebate? I’ve had CompUSA not send rebates before, and I generally don’t do rebates unless it’s a marginal cost difference. For example I’d buy a $170 dollar drive without rebate before I bougt a similar drive that was $150 after a $50 rebate.
Is the Maxtor you’re referring to internal or exteral? The Acom case seems to bsasically be the same fanless LaCie idea. And is SATA which is twice as fast as the internal ata.
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If I’m doing my math correctly I’d get 1 minute or more per gig of 8bit uncompressed. I’m not really planning on using it for any serious 8bit work, but it would be nice if additional storage was good for something other than DVCam.
Anybody know anything about AccomData? Horror stories?
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What are you using for media storage. Not the FW 400 drives I hope!
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Your computer is worth maybe $500 on ebay. Then you’re going to spend $400 to get to a 1.4 ghz processor. And the whole thing is still a G4. So essentially your investment values $900. Half the price of a G5, which is more than twice as good, can run motion (G4 can’t without upgrading graphics card -another $200), and is just a better deal all around.
Don’t fall for the cheap fix cycle. It’ll burn you. Put that $900 toward a new G5. Upgrading computer components is an idea that is quickly dying off for the mac. The technology (bluetooth, ram, hard drive capacity, DVD burners, airport extreme, video cards, etc.) is growing so fast that it’s a much better deal to almost always go for the complete package.
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I keep hearing this, but I can count the number of digital DV dropouts I’ve seen occur from overdubbing tapes on one hand. However I can’t even start to count how many dropouts I’ve see on a regular basis on betacam sp. On betacam, seems like the littlest amount of dust causes dropouts in both the cameras (especially) and then in the record/play heads in the deck.
That whole world of editing around dropouts and trying to figure out where the dropout came from (cam, digitize, or record) just went away when I started using DV.
DVCam tapes are supposed to be far superior in durability. But at 4-5 times the cost, is it worth it? The have nicer cases. 🙂
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Figured it out and it’s quite annoying. Since software update wasn’t working, I downloaded the update and tried it locally. When I ran it from there, it said that I didn’t have a copy of Final Cut Pro version 5.0 or 5.0.1 installed, and to make sure it’s in the apps folder and called “Final Cut Pro.”
err… no apple. When I updated FCP you still left it titled Final Cut Pro “HD.” I deleted the “HD” and it updated.
I’m not imagining things, am I? Final Cut called itself HD previously, or did I tack that on for some reason. Anyway, fixed it. Still can’t get DVD studio pro 4 to create a button or utilize any templates or even import iDVD without hanging.
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My expeience has been that it retains them. With the idea that autosaves and such may need them. I guess it would be an easy enough method to test. Let’s hope it’s doing what you say these days.
But I’m assuming that it would keep render files for versions of a sequence that might be old, but in the same project.
For example I may keep incrementing my sequence, version 1, version 2, etc. All might be rendered. In Avid, I can do the same. But I could highlight the current seqeunce and ask the media tool to find unused precomputes for a particular sequence. That way I can delete all the unused reders.
In the render manager, it’s broken down by sequence, but as you increment a seqeunce number, it still links to the old render files. Deleting sequence 1 renders might delete sequence 4 renders unknowingly.
The media manager is really more akin to one helluva awesome consolidate tool. Avid doesn’t allow you to do as much with it’s consolidation. Like retain the media, but actually delete the unused portions of it! That’s pretty incredible, albeit dangerous if something went wrong. But Avid makes you copy the media to another drive. You might not have another drive.
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Even simpler, download sebsky tools. It has a little tool called ale2fcp and also fcp2ale.
https://www.dharmafilm.com/sebskytools/download.html
It just saves your ale as a fcp batch file you import into a bin.
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Final Cut doesn’t seem to understand that Media Managment should have nothing to do with digitizing, up rezzing, etc.
What it should do (but doesn’t) is delete render files that are no longer used. Still pretty much no way to do that.
In other words, delete unused precomputes.