Clay Stockwell
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[Bob Zelin] “I have not had good personal experience with Highpoint.”
Neither have I. They are one of my least favorite companies in this industry.
Personally, I wouldn’t do business with them directly. Using a product like G-Tech, which uses Highpoint inside, there is a “layer of protection” between you and direct contact with Highpoint. I could handle that. (Let G-Tech handle them.) But direct dealings? I don’t think so.
Others mileage may vary.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Ditto. If they come up with reliable cold fusion, I would not purchase from them. The worst experience I’ve had in 20 years of buying computer products. I gave them every chance to do the right thing. I’ll pay twice the price from someone else, if I need to, or not buy at all.
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I’ve done this using DV to Offline RT. I didn’t have any problems editing it on a G4 Powerbook. Use Media Manager to create the OfflineRT project with the media transcoded to Offline RT. It wasn’t difficult, but I imagine there are traps. Just read up on Media Manager and OfflineRT.
Caveat: I’m not a pro, and my editing needs were moderate. However, I was very pleased.
My guess is that you’ll need the most help to online the project once you’re done. I can’t be more detailed: It’s been too long…
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You don’t need to have them already installed. The new installs don’t “build” on the older versions. Install as you wish, with or without the previous version. You just need the old serial number…
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This solved my issue:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86655
Specifically, step 2. In a single room, I have two different circuits that feed the household current outlets. Having devices plugged into different outlets created noise. It wasn’t even the recording equipment that made the difference. It was a hard drive, which, when plugged into a different outlet, would cause intermittent noise in the circuit. The Apple Technote describes this as a Ground Loop problem. I don’t understand it….but it fixed the problem.
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If iChat is active, then you can hear the audio the mic on the other computer is picking up.
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David
Thanks for the reply. I agree with your sentiments regarding the warranty–otherwise I wouldn’t have purchased the drives. That part is indeed bunk. I wish I’d left out the first two sentences from my cut and past…I guess I should have.
I thought the relevant passage was about custom firmware for the OEM’s. That may cause compatibility issues the RAID card manufacturer couldn’t anticipate. Honestly I’m just looking for a solution myself. If I put in a hard drive HighPoint recommends will my card work? That’s what I’m trying to figure out…without going broke trying to find out!
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The Maxtor 7v300F0 is not on the compatible drive list.
Also–in case it applies to you–read this from http://www.macgurus.com
“A word about OEM versus Retail Drives MacGurus’ strongly recommends that our customers avoid purchasing drives marketed as OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) hard drives. We suggest that you stick always with Retail labeled drives. Retail drives carry the retail manufacturer’s warranty, 3 to 5 years, with all the contractual support that the warranty provides. OEM drives were originally manufactured for one of the many major manufacturers of computers and or servers. OEM drives do not carry a warranty from the drive manufacturer nor from the OEM buyer. Instead they are sold to resellers ‘as is’ and any warranty is provided by the reseller. Worse yet, these drives may have custom firmware as specified by the OEM. We frequently see customers with OEM market drives have compatibility problems in desktop usage. There is just no way to know what you are getting when you purchase OEM drives and warranty coverage is hit or miss depending on the source. MacGurus ONLY sells Retail drives.”
I’m with you on this, by-the-way. I have a HighPoint card having the same issues (just purchased it). I also bought OEM drives that were not on the compatibility list… If there’s any saving grace, the company I bought the drives from said they were compatible with the HighPoint cards.
If I were to read the MacGurus with a a discerning eye, I’d say that some drives will work and some won’t. There are too many variable. I could plug in an identical drive from the re-seller and it may actually work…and another may not.
I’m curious what will happen if the drive re-seller will let me exchange the drives they told me were compatible with some that ARE on the list. I’ll let you know how it goes.
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My 17″ 1GHz laptop will not run FCP 6, Motion 2 or 3, or Color. It runs FCP 5.14, Soundtrack Pro 2, DVDSP 4. The applications that won’t run will not even launch. (FCS Studio runs great on my Quad, however.)
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>I’ve switched the cable out and no difference.
Just curious if you tried jiggling the cable at the interface port. I seem to remember someone else giving me this advice. I found a cable which fit the port better–it was a bad connection. Advice from my helper said the poor fit was probably from the DSR-11 side of things…even though a cable change helped.>Haven’t actually tried the DSR-11 on another computer.
If you can’t fix it with jiggling, taping, or a better cable, then trying it on another computer will at least verify it’s something with the DSR-11 and not your setup / computer. After all, it costs money to send in your DSR-11. By the way, I haven’t looked at all of the settings the DSR-11 has. Just because it’s not your computer, doesn’t mean it’s something you can’t adjust on the DSR-11. That said, the interference you’re experiencing with other devices on the bus kind of points to a hardware problem with the DSR-11.By-the-way, I’m mostly passing on information that helped me with mine a few years ago. I was advised that the weak-point of the venerable DSR-11 is the port connector. If you can’t fix it by jiggling, replacing cables or something simple like that, I’d send it in to be fixed.
Again, I have to stress that I’m not a technician (though I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express). I’d hate to steer you towards an expensive repair you didn’t need. Still, I hope this helped…and I hope you’re able to try this with another computer to isolate the problem to your deck.