[Cristian Colbert]

[Sean ONeil] ”
Take this advice. If you have a newer G5 (the one with PCIe slots) or a Mac Pro, then your built in ethernet adapter supports something called Jumbo Frames. Use it. Just make sure the switch and all the other Macs also support it.”

Thanks for the advice Sean, unfortunately I have an older G5 without the PCIe slots. Out of curiousity though, what would the Jumbo Frames support afford me?

[Cristian Colbert]

Patrick,

Yeah this is exactly the solution I arrived at. I set all renders, autosaves, etc. to the local drives. And if things get really choppy I’m prepared to just copy over the media needed for each edit to the respectively MacBook’s local storage. Just finished up testing and it seems to work fine. Glad to hear it is working for someone else too.

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Mark,

Thanks for your input. Although your response lacks much in the way of polite communication skills, I have to admire your passion.

FYI, I’ve worked with serveral SANS systems, XServes and Avid Unities, so I’m familiar with the permission issues. And while I agree that they are extremely necessary to collaboratively work on a single edit project, that is not exactly what I was seeking to do. Nonetheless, since my last response I was able to experiment further and have arrived at a suitable solution for my specific situation. I only need everyone to be able to drink from the same fountain, not contribute to it. So that resolved my permission issues aside from common file sharing. I’m using a wired router with my G5 basically as a server. It’s ugly, but all little “miracles” don’t have to be pretty.

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Thanks everyone for the feedback.

[msacci] “There is no way to have 3 people accessing the same files at the same time without XSan or similar.”

Are you sure this is the case? Keep in mind, I am not trying to have them accessing the same project file, thus needing r/w permissions. Just access to the actual media files. This is just common file sharing, correct?

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Hi Alan,

I’m still having a problem. After I upgraded to Motion 3, I can not find my emitters in the Motion/Library/Particle Emitters/ folder. I’ve even did a spotlight search for wondertouch large and I still can’t find my particles. My next option was reinstalling it, but I can’t the original install package. Only a package that is in my Reciepts folder. But when I try to install with that, it gets an error and terminates.

Please help

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Excellent suggestion wuzelwazel, I’m going to give this a try. Thank you too for the help.

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Thanks Dan, I must be having a dumb moment and was way over thinking it. Thanks a million.

[Cristian Colbert]

Thanks to everyone that replied! Decided on going with the ATI option. Cow is an invaluable resource!

[Cristian Colbert]

Has this issue been resolved with Motion crashing yet?

[Cristian Colbert]

Unfortunately I don’t think there is any way to get the resolution you need from those frame grabs. First, the resolution of DV video (assuming you shoot DV) is only 72dpi. Print usually calls for 125dpi at the least, and for large posters, you probably want to start at 300dpi. Second problem is, the video images are interlaced. So you would have to deinterlace then and lose some more resolution there. You may want to consider a poster design that doesn’t call for use of the video images at all, maybe text and some other design elements that work with your message. The second option would be to invest in a program called Genuine Fractals. This program uses an algorithm to “uprez” the image with slightly better resolution. Keep in mind, this program is relatively expensive (in the neighborhood of $350 bucks) and still may not give you the quality you are looking for.

My suggestion: It’s time to be creative and see how you can manipulate the images you have so that you can hide the poor resolution.