Chuck Reti
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Menu>Finder>Preferencec>Sidebar tab>check the “Hard Disks” box.
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Silly question re FCP Rescue- there are separate versions at the site for FCP4 and 5. Are you using the appropriate one?
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No way in Finder, but you could do Actions in Photoshop; do a script for Preview; pay the shareware fee for Graphic Converter and batch them with that. Or see if “Xee”, a really cool image app, can batch process them. Xee claims to do lossless rotation and crop on JPEG images.
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http://www.apple.com/support is your friend.
See the section “Deleting locked files” in this document.
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[Charlie King] “remember the little gauge you screwed onto the vacuum guide to setup the head distance so the head penetration would be within setting peramiters?”
As a young sprout techie, I once accidentally hit the “standby” button and spun up the headwheel, of course while the micrometer gauge was on the rim. Knocked them little tips right off in an instant. Didn’t get fired, amazingly.
Oh, Standards. So what do you want to know? Or just if this is where they can be brought up, so we can veer off and talk Old Video Guy stuff?
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I recently posted this tale to a similar thread on the AVID-L2, but also seems appropriate here-
In the early days of Quantel, ADO etc. a director/producer on an auto spot got sold on the idea of shooting a car green screen, and then using the newfangled technology to make “3-D moves” of the car on a star field background. I pulled a decent key, and magically made the car (a full side shot), move across the screen. He then asked me to turn the car, a y-axis rotation, as if the car was on a turntable. When I did so, he went ballistic when it disappeared on edge, and he couldn’t see the front grille and headlights as it flipped around. It took some bit of explaining as to that we were rotating a two-dimensional picture of a car, in 3-D space with our Magic Box, not creating a 3-D image out of his single side shot, as he had assumed or been led to believe was supposed to happen. He had shot some front. rear and 3/4s but as statics, so they were not going to give him the look, either.
Soon after, the post staff had a meeting with the sales staff to explain the difference between 3-D graphics and movement in 3D space.
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Chuck Reti
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Go to https://www.adobeevangelists.com//aftereffects/index.html
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[Chris Poisson] “it has an echo effect coming off any hard edged object, like type, or any dialog box, browser whatever.”
A “ghost” or “echo” can indicate an improperly terminated video cable. Check the video input cable to the monitor.
If it loops through to another destination, make sure the end of the run is properly terminated in 75 ohms.
If your monitor input is the end of the line, check that it either has a 75 Ohm terminator on the loop through jack,
or, if it has one of those awful slide switches to switch in an internal termination, exercise the switch or leave it in the “open” position and use a “real” terminator.
If the cable or terminations aren’t the problem, it’s probably in the video input stage of the monitor. If you have an engineer who can troubleshoot it, it might be worth a repair attempt.
One other thing to check, make sure someone hasn’t tweaked up any “sharpness” or “peaking” front panel adjustment. -
[Chris Poisson] “it has an echo effect coming off any hard edged object, like type, or any dialog box, browser whatever.”
A “ghost” or “echo” can indicate an improperly terminated video cable. Check the video input cable to the monitor.
If it loops through to another destination, make sure the end of the run is properly terminated in 75 ohms.
If your monitor input is the end of the line, check that it either has a 75 Ohm terminator on the loop through jack,
or, if it has one of those awful slide switches to switch in an internal termination, exercise the switch or leave it in the “open” position and use a “real” terminator.
If the cable or terminations aren’t the problem, it’s probably in the video input stage of the monitor. If you have an engineer who can troubleshoot it, it might be worth a repair attempt.
One other thing to check, make sure someone hasn’t tweaked up any “sharpness” or “peaking” front panel adjustment. -
[Paul Dzurec] “…my external hard drives don’t get along with the G”
Most everyone’s do, so describe how yours “don’t get along,” with specifics- G5 model, OS version, what happens, etc.
With regard to USB hub, is it a powered hub or are devices plugged into it at least self-powered or are they relying on bus-carried power out of the G5?
Also, there are posts here almost daily about the inadvisability of using USB 2.0 drives as media drives.