Chuck Reti
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If you use Firefox, the add-on “Video Download Helper” will allow you to capture the .flv file and save it. If you add the Perian codec to Quicktime, you can play the flash file using QT Player. As Zane mentioned, there are many other utilities, such as WireTap, Camtasia and others for just doing a capture from your screen display.
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Are you logged in as a user with Admin privileges?
Launch Disk Utility, select the startup volume and click Repair Disk Permissions button.If that doesn’t help, start the computer up from its install disk, go to Menu>Disk Utility select startup volume and click Repair Disk button.
If the updater install via “Software Update” is not working for you, download updater from apple.com and run it manually. You should be getting the 10.5.6 “Combo” updater since you need to jump from 10.5.3 from 10.5.6
https://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/
Info on the combo updater
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT3194
You do have a backup, right? -
This track is not “tinny,” it is distorted and overdriven.
Unfortunately there is really no “filter” to effectively cure this after the fact. -
Go into the monitor/tv’s settings menu. There will be a “color temperature” adjustment which should be set to “warm,” to get it just a tiny bit closer to the 3200K color temp of studio lighting. It will probably still look a bit on the blue side but not as badly. Use the Brightness, contrast and Color settings to get image as seen on camera (not to the eye) to look more to your liking.
If you have access to an in-line color corrector you could adjust RGB balance, levels etc input to the monitor while watching camera video on a scope, and make it nearly perfect. Lacking that you’re limited to whatever control the monitor menu offers you.
I’ve also done this using a switcher M/E to feed the monitor, doing a linear key with video and generated orange background (or even a slight, simple mix) just enough to take the blue curse off the monitor. -
[tom morrow] “I am looking through Mac software. I see a product called Final cut Server for $999 Loks like this would be the same price as returning the FCE and buying FC Studio.
Is there a FCP without the studio? We will most likely be doing rough editing on the second Mac and could get by without the peripherals.”
FC Server is software for media asset management and workflow automation, it is not an editor. See http://www.apple.com/finalcutserver
FCP is part of FC Studio, not available separately.
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Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats, including AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW.
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[Zane Barker] “Its NOT a good idea to go into the package contents of anything and start changing things. That just asking for problems to come your way.”
That’s not “changing” anything. It’s just creating an alias (“Shortcut” for Windows emigres) directly to the unix executable and launching the app that way, rather than to the application package represented by the program’s icon.
These cautions from posts at MacOSXHints.com on this topic:
“Note that running multiple copies of one app as the same user may not work perfectly, especially if the app requires exclusive access to a file, or if you change preferences while two copies are running.”
“Multiple running instances of a program may be accessing and modifying the very same configuration files simultaneously, resulting in potential race conditions and file corruption.“ -
On a related note, a previous user of this system a few years back had put in a registration name/code for QT Pro. I don’t know if it was legitimate or a crack. When I some time later installed the FC Studio 1 upgrade from FCP HD 4.5, the QuickTime splash screen still shows the earlier QT Pro registration info, rather than the “Final Cut Pro User” generic name that should show up. While this affects nothing operationally, is there a way to change/update this info somewhere in Quicktime pref or other files?
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The recommendation frequently posted on this forum and elsewhere is that it is best practice to turn journaling off on your media drive(s), which of course should never be the same as your boot and application drive. I don’t believe that you can turn it off on your boot drive, once it is initialized/formatted. From an Apple document on the subject: If journaling is turned on for a disk, Mac OS X maintains a continuous record of changes to files on the disk. If your computer stops because of a power failure or some other issue, Mac OS X uses the journal to recover the hard disk to the last acceptable state before it stopped.
You want maximum throughput from your media drives (journaling can have an effect, though very minor, on performance). You are not accessing data continuously from an application/boot drive so journaling’s effect is essentially nil. -
[Tom Matthies] “Make sure that the camera DVD has been finalized in the camera.”
This is essential.
I just worked on a show that was supposed to use some B roll and on-camera intros on disk from a consumer Sony DVD camara (their option not mine!). Client 2K miles away and had FedEx-ed the disk. Could not use any of it because it had not been finalized, and we could not locate a similar camcorder locally in enough time to be able to finalize the disk, then transfer and use the material.