Chris Gorman
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Thank you. I wonder what the quality difference is between downcoverting hdv via firewire on the way in, vs. taking a pro res clip from the TL, exporting as QT sc movie and re-importing…or if there’s some other down side to that.
PowerPC G5 DP2.3, 4GB DDR SDRAM, ATI X800XT, OSX.4.11, QT 7.5.5, FCStudio2, FCP 6.0.5 Sonnet 5 Bay SATA (RAID or JBOD as needed), ACD 23″ & Sony NTSC Monitor via Matrox v.1
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Is this current info on rafa’s link for qt version recommendations?
I will have to look for fcp 6.0.2 or 6.0.3 on a third party site because apple has replaced those choices with fcp 6.0.5 which requires qt 7.5.5 and either osx.4.11 or osx.5.5 (i’m using osx.4.11).
PowerPC G5 DP2.3, 4GB DDR SDRAM, ATI X800XT, OSX.4.11, FCStudio2, Sonnet 5 Bay SATA (RAID or JBOD as needed), ACD 23″ & Sony NTSC Monitor via Matrox v.1
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Whew, I found a solution without having to wait til morning to ask apple for my serial # (though I’m curious if that’s a way to retrieve it). I read, maybe somewhere in these forums a good suggestion that worked.
On a backup drive I had, fortunately, the older version. What luck! I booted onto that drive, opened fcp and in the menu “about fcp” i got the screen with my serial number.
Now, it’s taped to the same box as my new install disks, along with the new serial number.
I really appreciate these forums, especially for these after hours predicaments.
PowerPC G5 DP2.3, 4GB DDR SDRAM, ATI X800XT, OSX.4.11, FCStudio2, Sonnet 5 Bay SATA (RAID or JBOD as needed), ACD 23″ & Sony NTSC Monitor via Matrox v.1
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Yes, I did finally take it into the genius bar yesterday. They called a few minutes ago and told me I had some bad memory, only one set working.
Another minor thing I learned: Because my preferred boot drive was in the lower slot, when trouble started, by default it booted onto the drive I had in the top slot. So, now I’m switching my preferred boot drive to the top.
BTW, the memory that failed was the orig. apple memory, and one or possibly both in 3rd party pair. One third party pair (2×256) is ok. So, I’m looking now for the best place to get some good reasonbly priced ram, hopefully today.
Thanks to all of you for your input. BTW, I agree that the online update thing is not the best method, but I got impatient with trying to identify and find the gazillion updates (security & java stuff) separately on apple’s download site…I did already at least download the osx.4.11 combo and QT 7.4.5
PowerPC G5 DP2.3, 3.5GB DDR SDRAM, ATI X800XT, OSX.4.11, FCStudio2, Sonnet 5 Bay SATA (RAID or JBOD as needed), ACD 23″ & Sony NTSC Monitor via Matrox v.1
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Thank you. That confirms what I was moments ago reading on these forums, that it’s best have journaling on for the boot drive. Good, now I don’t have to sweat turning it off.
So far, I’m keeping it off for my media drives, even though some have journaling on for media drives also. But, in my case, I don’t have any extra speed to spare.
PowerPC G5 DP2.3, 3.5GB DDR SDRAM, ATI X800XT, OSX.4.11, FCStudio2, Sonnet 5 Bay SATA (RAID or JBOD as needed), ACD 23″ & Sony NTSC Monitor via Matrox v.1
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I read somewhere in these forums that there’s been a few glitches using QT 7.6 with OSX.4.11
Until I can upgrade my Photoshop CS, I have to stay with 10.4.11
Are you using QT 7.6 with Leopard?
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When you ask “do you really need to work in fcp 6.0.2?” are you suggesting I use a more recent update or something older?
I’ve been working with 6.0.2 for so long that I don’t remember what advantages it has over the previous version or what it might lack compared to newer version.
I definitely don’t want to go backward, but will go as far forward as is safe.
I work mainly with ProRes 8bit 422 from hdv footage.I also use h.264, so might want to update to the latest QT later for better h.264, not now, but after it gets past the initial fixes that are inevitable.
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Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for : )
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Correction, I later noticed that my G5 had booted onto an older HD that had fcp 5 on it. I did not select it as the startup disk, so don’t know how that happened.
When I set the startup disk to the correct hd, it booted ok and I actually worked a few minutes in fcp before the strange behavior started again….suddenly a bunch of text came across my screen right over my fcp interface, saying System Failure, a bunch of numbers and ….kernal version.
Now, I just booted onto an older external hd, so I actually have control now to do something.
BTW, before it got this bad, the first indication was an error code 41 that appeared when i was working in fcp6. All downhill from there.
If I can re-install fcpstudio2 onto my main hd while booted on my external, at least I can proceed. Now, when the time comes, what version of QT is now best with fcp6 6.0.2 ?
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Yes, almost back to the beginning. I know that I can’t get ProRes onto my hdv tape, but I want to do as little destruction as possible in the process.
I do not want to make another backup on DVD, I already have that, and think that DVDs are probably one of the least reliable backups.
So, I want to weigh the pros/cons of doing an additional backup onto tape, using only fw and hdv.
For that scenario, I guess I should just drop my ProRes TL into an hdv TL, render and then print to hdv video.
And/or….maybe I’ll look for another solution . . .maybe small dedicated hard drive (I’m hearing these can lose info when sitting on the shelf over the years), or some other non-DVD media for a QT ProRes.
I open to cost effective low cost solutions….suggestions?
And just another tidbit I’m curious about, without knowing just how it works underneath, I wonder if the image degradation going from ProRes to hdv after edits, is equal to the what you’d have if you just stayed with hdv all the thru ingest, edit, output?
I appreciate all yuz guys input, there’s always something to learn.