Chuck Reti
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AIFC is “AIF-Compressed.” Can be compressed between zero and 6:1. Read and used as any AIFF file.
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From the sketchy description, it almost sounds like RF interference. Are you near a broadcast TV or radio transmitter, or commercial/public safety 2-way radio?
Have you taken the cameras to a different location, far away from the studio or building where you are seeing the “wavy lines,” and if so, do they stay or go away? -
How are the cooling fans operating (normally, on all the time, not on)?
Have you opened the case recently and made sure all airways and fans are not clogged up?
I recently installed a drive in my G4 MDD and while its chest was cracked open, I brushed, canned-air blasted and vac’d a good layer of accumulated crud from the perforated screen where the air enters the unit at the front, behind and below the “portholes,” and also the logic board fan and the Radeon video card’s fan. A good bit of preventive maintenance whether or not this cures your particular problem. -
The Mac’s audio input jack wants LINE LEVEL not MIC level. You need a preamp or an amplified mike. Or a USB mike.
To verify, launch System Profiler (via About This Mac>More Info under Apple menu). Twirl down the “Hardware” disclosure triangle. Click on the item “Audio (Built In)” in left hand column. The info in the Overview window will list audio I/O specs and will indicate mic or Line level under the “Input” item. Been true for most Macs for many years. -
Comcast’s file size limit is for email attachments, not for actual file transfers (true for most all ISPs). If you need to be sending large files for viewing or downloading, using email is about the least efficient and most bandwidth-wasteful method. Set up a dot Mac account or use one of the many services frequently cited in this forum, many of which are free.
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Input is Line Level input, not Mic level input. Run the mic through a preamp, use an “amplified” mic that provide line-level output, or try one of many USB mics.
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Flashing stop button can signify a problem with reference signal.
Maybe the cable is OK, but is the signal that’s supposed to be coming through the cable OK? -
This question recently asked and answered May 21 in this forum. (Search “EDL”)
to reiterate:
Subject Re: How many video tracks can be imported into FCP via EDL?
[Original Poster] “I have been told that through the CMX 3600 EDL, that I can only import a total of 2 video tracks.”
You have been told correctly.
FCP Manual. Volume One. Chapter 17 “Exporting Edit Decision Lists (EDLs) and Batch Lists”
“A superimposed video track, or any track other than V1, is called a key track in an EDL. Only
one key track can be in an EDL, so information for V1 and V2 tracks only appears in an
exported EDL. ”You have to export separate EDLs for each additional track.
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[John Nelson] “…Yahoo mail (the free one) not being able to be used within Apple’s mail program. Is it true?”
Shockingly, it is indeed true! Yahoo mail (the free one), is web-based email, accessed via a web browser. Apple’s mail program, just like all email programs (such as Thunderbird, Eudora, Outlook Express, etc.), uses POP or IMAP protocols to access a POP or IMAP mail server. Yahoo’s enhanced mail services (the ones you pay for) do offer POP mail, which can be accessed by any mail application. Maybe they’re being babies about it because they don’t have a clue how this here dang Internet thing works.
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There are a number of built-in ways to do still captures but don’t believe there has ever been a live action screen record on the Mac.
VersionTracker.com will serve you up a quite a few choices; the most-often recommended on this forum seems to be Ambrosia’s SnapzPro X