Chuck Reti
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You just need more actual, physical RAM. It’s real cheap nowadays, and it will always be faster than pagein/outs with Virtual Memory. OS X allocates VM on the fly if/as needed; AFAIK there’s no user setting. Back In The Day, OS9 and its ancestors provided the optional abillity to set up disk space for VM, when RAM was hundreds of dollars for a 32MB stick, a 20GB drive was HUGE, and there was a door in front of the CPU to shovel coal in.
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The stop motion photography for “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride,” released last year, was shot using digital stills at 3504 x 2336 RAW from modified Canon EOS cameras. See article in Post https://tinyurl.com/9q9d2
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What version of OS X and Quicktime are you on? The Flip4Mac plug is for use with Mac OS X v10.3.9 or later and QuickTime Versions 6.5.1 and 7.0 or later. If you couldn’t play WMP flles directly with WMP9, then it’s probable that particular content was encoded with a non-Mac compatible codec, still a common occurrence. Also, Microsoft briefly had an incorrect version of the F4M plugin posted, Check that you’ve got v 2.0.1 not v 2.0. More info at the Telestream site https://www.wm4mac.com/wmv.htm
Free players VLC and MPlayer will often play WMP files that WMP or QT won’t, so they’re worth a try as well. -
Could it be that your tech is simply monitoring and tweaking the encoded composite output of the camera chain?
Adjusting composite chroma phase or level won’t change the analog component values being fed to the switcher. Camera setup and match adjustments using a chip chart, and using RGB black, white and gamma to achieve match should be reflected properly along all the signal path(s) from CCU component out thru the switcher. IIRC, the CCU should offer some generated test signals for this purpose as well. If not, something is happening along the way. Are there patchbays or DA’s between the CCU outputs and the switcher inputs? Do signal levels at the CCU match those at the switcher inputs and/or outputs. Are the internal switcher setups correct per maintanance manual? Sounds like a bit of simple test and measurement and setup is in order through the system. -
[Matt Callac] “list of new permissions. A lot of them have to do with widgets like this one:
We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./Library/Widgets/Stickies.wdgt/version.plist. New permissions are 33188”This issue has been raised and answered a number of times in this forum. The “we are using special permissions…” etc message is informational. It does not mean or imply that anything is amiss. See:
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Windows Media Player (buried deep in microsoft.com/mac site) https://tinyurl.com/649y7
VLC https://www.videolan.org
MPlayer https://mplayerosx.sf.net/Some .wmv’s play on WMP, some on VLC, some on MPlayer.
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[John] “I have a brand new 300 gig firewire drive on my OS9 Mac”
What vintage/model “OS9 Mac?” Older machines’ logic board ATA bus will not recognize and can’t use drive space above a certain value, around 128GB formatted (137 GB unformatted). This is a hardware, not an OS limitation. If this is the case, you may need to install an IDE/ATA-6 PCI card to access the drive’s full capacity and avoid data corruption.
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Also surprising that FCP would run on the 68040 CPU in the Quadra!
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Write to NTFS volumes has never been available in OS X. IIRC, NTFS read-only capability was added in either Jaguar or Panther.
From Apple document How to transfer data from a PC to a Macintosh (also applies to Tiger 10.4):Mac OS X 10.3 Panther works with local NTFS-formatted volumes. The volume will be read-only.
Warning: NTFS formatted drives cannot be used in a Macintosh (except as read-only … as noted above). If you attempt to use a NTFS formatted disk, upon starting up the Mac OS will prompt you to format the drive. Do not format the drive, doing so will erase the contents of the drive. If you have an NTFS formatted disk, you must use another method to transfer the data from the PC to the Macintosh.
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Hmm, in my MS Word (Word X for Mac), [CMD =] toggles subscript, and [CMD +] a.k.a. [CMD Shift =] toggles superscript. Don’t know ways to zoom document in Word other than the Zoom seletion in the View menu or the zoom percentage value pulldown menu in the toolbar.
The [CMD +] in the browser, Safari, etc. just zooms up the fonts. The same command in other apps may have different functions. In iTunes, for example, [CMD + or -} raises and lowers the audio level.
The OS X Universal Access Zoom control [OPT CMD = or -} makes use of Quartz Extreme to provide a very high degree of magnification with impressively low degradation.
If your scriptwriting app doesn’t support the greater document enlargement you need, try changing your screen settings in System Prefs>Display to something different just for your writing sessions – if you’re at 1900 X (x) change to 1600 or 1344 or 1280 to get a “larger” image.
You also may want to experiment with the font “smoothing” settings in System Prefs>Appearance,, especially with an LCD monitor.
Myself, I’ve got those “arm’s length, up close” glasses for computer work. They make a huge difference.