David Smith
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[Bob Zelin] “the Dell 2405FPW is teriffic”
I’ll second that, and it’s bargain too. I got mine for 845 delivered.
David
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How is your monitor hooked up? Has it ever worked before?
David
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Thank you all for your suggestions and comments!
Regards,
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[Jadranko Gudan] “FCP is a bit shaky (stops from time to time and it has to be restarted very hard by turning computer off by pushing a power button)”
Do you by chance have a Sonnet Tempo-X SATA card installed? If so, go to the Energy Saver pane in System Preferences and put both sleep timer controls to “never”, and uncheck the “Put the hard disk to sleep when possible” box. The ‘freezing” behavior you described could be caused by a conflict with their firmware and Apple’s automatic sleep functions.
Just a thought.
David
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[Pete] “Last week I broke down and got a 20″ iMac, thinking they’d never fulfill my requests for a better Laptop….Now this!!”
Pete,
If it was only a week ago, you can return it assuming it was not a special order or build to order machine. This from Apple’s website:
“Product returns and refunds
Apple accepts returns of pre-built products only. If you are not satisfied with your pre-built product, please call 1-800-676-2775 for a Return Material Authorization (RMA) request within 14 calendar days of the receipt of the product.”David
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[Jim Krause] “I came across wikipedia’s on-line encyclopedia. It’s scary how large and accurate it seems to be.”
That’s good to hear. My girlfriend, a university science librarian, cringes at the name as do many in the librarian community. Interestingly though, she told me just yesterday about a recent study that concluded there are similar rates of incorrect information in a random sampling of wikipedia and several print encyclopedias. The lesson, which they are constantly trying to get through to students, is don’t trust a single source.
That’s one of the things I so much appreciate about these forums and the preceding entries on this thread are a good example. People with a lot of expertise and varied experiences sharing information and opinion in a (usually) cooperative and friendly manner. Thank you all!
Regards,
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[David Roth Weiss] “That’s also my take. Guess David’s all think alike???”
Now there’s a scary thought, since there are so damn many of us!
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[Sean] “My only concern is that they’re pretty unattractive”
That is so interesting…. I felt just the opposite comparing the two. The Firmtek is quite a bit smaller too and I like the direct connection they offer with no internal cables needed to bridge to the external connectors. As for temperature monitoring…. if the drives you choose offer the data, you can use Hardware Monitor to keep an eye on temperatures. I usually have it running and open so I can see what’s going on inside the computer too.
I’m curious, does anyone know whether turning on a drive’s temperature data output interferes with media data throughput?
David
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Pat,
Just a couple of caveats…. I don’t know about seven real time streams, but then I’m pretty new to Final Cut having been using a Media 100XS for many years.
As for the IO-LA, it’s a nice box and offers great portability if you had more than one station…. but you would be giving up HD as well as the SDI ins and outs. If that’s all the budget will handle, then it will be great for your present needs and you can get a Kona card in the future. You might decide later to go with the extra capabilities that a Kona 2 card offers over the LH anyway. In that case, the analog features of the LA will be handy to have around.
Have fun with all the new stuff!
Regards,
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For what it’s worth, this is the way I went recently for my dual 2.7 G5.
I still work with BetaSP quite a bit, but I see HD coming on strong in many flavors. For me, the AJA Kona LH card seemed like the way to go. I was concerned about the “sharing” aspect of their analog ins and outs too, but decided it was not too big a deal. (By the way to answer one of your previous questions, you can buy a cable that converts the two bnc connecters they use for Y/C video to a standard “s-video” connector if you need it.)
SATA seemed to make more sense than a firewire raid as it positions you to step up to higher data rates when you need to in the future. I really like the looks of the Firmtek external hot-swappable box and plan on purchasing one in the future. I’ve read very flattering reviews both on the Cow forums and at Barefeats. For now, I went with four Hitachi 250gig SATA II drives mounted internally with the Swift Data 200 mounting system.
https://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Category=2490I’ve been using Hardware Monitor to watch for increased temperatures and/or fan speed pretty carefully and have not seen much difference in temperatures or fan speeds or durations of increased fan rpm since installing the drives. That being said, there are many who would advise against internal mounting.
There have been many posts praising the Firmtek SATA cards here so that may be a good choice. I chose the Sonnet Tempo-x eSATA 4+4 to connect the internal drives now and the external box in the future while still only using one PCI slot. If you go with Sonnet, be sure to switch your Energy Saver options in System Prefs to “never” and UNcheck the “Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible” checkbox. There is a problem with auto sleep modes that they say they are working on resolving in a future firmware release. Putting the computer to sleep with the Apple>Sleep menu command works fine for me.
I’m very happy with this setup so far…. your mileage may vary. The beta footage captured through the Kona card looks beautiful. Best of luck with your purchases whatever you choose!
Regards,
David