[Bryce Whiteside]

This is an older more geeky article but you definitely need to read it TidBITS: Shootout at the Disk Repair Corral

HTH,
Bryce

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[Bryce Whiteside]

I had to replace a primary system drive in a Dual Processor 1.42Ghz G4. It took about three months for the S.M.A.R.T. drive to go dumb, but the symptoms were identical. This could be a broken or corrupt directory structure.

I would get a firewire drive right away and clone your internal drive to the firewire drive with software like Bombich Software: Carbon Copy Cloner. That way if your primary drive goes south you can boot off you firewire drive.

If you are unfamiliar with the insides of Mac’s and harddrives, you need to read this article because is list the most well known disk utilities Mac Maintenance, Part 1: Protect Your Hard Drive and Data. The article discusses journaling but you need to know that you DON’T want to use journaling on an FCP media drive.

You need to backup your most important data before trying to run any of these utilities. The first utility you want to run is in the Apple Utilities folder called Disk Utility. You want Verify Disk Premissions and Repair Disk Permissions.

The article discusses multiple partitions on the harddrive–one for the system and one for your data. I recommend a primary physical drive and a seperate backup bootable drive, but that is just me. You FCP media drive should be a third physical drive.

You need to get friendly with someone that knows the inside of Mac’s very soon.

HTH,
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

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[Bryce Whiteside]

Almost all of the PCMCIA cards come with 800 & 400 ports. Of course the I/O reverts to the slow firewire device on that bus.

HTH,
Bryce

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[Bryce Whiteside]

There is the G-DRIVE mini found here G-TECH G-DRIVE-mini Ultra Portable FireWire and USB Storage Solutions
Unfortunately their 7200RPM drives are showing out of stock, but perhaps other VAR’s like videoguys.com might have some.

Another option might be WiebeTech Micro Storage Solutions – FireWire and USB Hard Drives and putting your own drive in one of their portable enclosures.

HTH,
Bryce

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[Bryce Whiteside]

You probably need to read this post from two days age.
Urgent Help needed with Aspect ratios! please!! by Alex on Jul 11, 2005 at 10:59:28 am

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[Bryce Whiteside]

Well dedicated terminal equipment like procamps don’t clip the video they clamp it to minimize loss of detail. In the old postproduction pipeline you constantly monitored and adjusted your video to make sure that when it hit the procamp, the procamp won’t mess with it.

What you are describing would be like a compressor/expander in audio that dynamically normallizes the audio. Using the filters mentioned above you can keyframe correction to the transients.

It’s is one of editor’s jobs to make sure the video stays correct in an artful way.

My 2

[Bryce Whiteside]

I would copy the corrected clip and paste only attributes with Motion attributes selected to selected new clips.

HTH,
Bryce

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[Bryce Whiteside]

Not in front of my mac right now, but I believe the numbers from Jeff go in Distort. Twirl done the Distort arrow under the Motion tab.

HTH,
Bryce

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[Bryce Whiteside]

The Canopus ADVC includes one 6 pin to 6 pin cable to connect it to the Mac but also has a 4 pin firewire port in its front.

Check out their web site which will list what is included in the package.

The ADVC-110 provide locked audio and video synchronization which the ADVC-55 does not. Not sure that is an issue with you. Street price should be between $275 and $300–possibly less with 10 or more.

HTH,
Bryce

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[Bryce Whiteside]

Not sitting in front of a Mac right now.

I believe it would be:
Import>Photoshop file as a sequence.

I’ll have to look later,
Bryce

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