Debe
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It’s probably because it’s only capable of USB 1.0, and all your other Macs use USB 2.0.
How about getting a bus-powered FW drive?
debe
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dang ‘puter gremlins
;P
debe
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Hey, Larry, looks like you may have fallen through the cracks!
Try this:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852
Post back if it doesn’t do the trick!
debe
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Well, my problem is not yet solved, but I have to share that after I was able to get the attention of someone at Boris, they have been very attentive.
They have offered me phone support with one of the “senior tech people”, as he calls himself. We have exchanged several emails today already.
Although I had to take my project out to another facility due to my deadline, and couldn’t be in front of my system for him to help me troubleshoot today, we have agreed to speak at the Boris booth at NAB and see how much we can accomplish face-to-face, and then finish up when NAB is over on the phone.
I just wanted to let others know that it seems once the folks at Boris know you have an issue, they are on top of making sure they can help you. I don’t know what happened to my original request for support from a month ago, but I am willing to accept that it just may have slipped through a crack.
debe
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[rcPics] “Although it would look pretty darn cool! You should get a big keyboard and mouse to go with it”
EdithAnn surfin’ the web!
debe
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Time may tell about Intel processor upgrades, but the one thing to consider is that a FCP editing system is more than the sum of it’s parts. What would remain a mystery is if a processor upgrade to an otherwise stable system would introduce unforseen issues because the other hardware in that computer has likely never been tested with an “upgraded” processor.
Upgrades have always been available on PowerPC Macs. How reliable they are/were has always been the issue. They have not been encouraged here or on any other pro forum that I frequent for likely that very reason.
A stable FCP system is a finely-tuned system. Swapping out hardware components has the chance of introducing instabilities that Apple has, at least in the recent past, never supported and never tested against the software. That’s an incredibly huge aspect of this discussion to consider.
I’m all for upgrading a system, if it works. We dispose of much too much in our computing world, and I certainly would support ways to increase the life cycle of the computers I buy. That being said, I also earn my living with these computers, and I need to know that they are stable and are going to continue to function in the manner to which I’m accustomed, as well. I know I can’t be that guinea pig.
Time will tell. I’m hoping sooner rather than later.
debe
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You might get more traffic on this issue in the FCP forum
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_view_posts.cgi?forumid=8
debe
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Add me to the list of folks who never thought I’d own my own gear…I wasn’t interested in the overhead.
I started in the first all-601 core editing facility in my market. I was a digital linear online editor and did most of my own offlines on Avid.
When I started my business on January 1, 2000, I assumed I’d be editing on what I called “OPAs”, or “Other People’s Avids”, and some linear work here and there. After 6 months or so, maybe a year, the linear work dried up, but calls for Avid work kept going up and up and up.
Many of the other editors I used to work with also went out on their own. Most of them bought Avids. I was still the roving editor. It was a great little niche.
In late 2003, after a couple of my clients upgraded their Avids to OSX, and a few even put in FCP 3 systems, I realized that I needed to know this new operating system. My spouse and I both had G3s running OS 9. I had a copy of FCP 2 on my G3. We agreed that I should get a machine that ran OS X so I could be more familiar with this new system my clients were expecting me to understand. As well, I should learn to operate FCP a lot better than I knew how to at the time. Clients were asking for it.
As I was pricing things, knowing I had a copy of FCP I could upgrade, I decided I should get something that I, as an editor, could really use. I had the app. I should get a computer that won’t make me crazy using it, like the G3 did, so I could learn FCP better. Plus, I still have all that videotape from our wedding to edit!
So I bought the then-current top-of-the-line, a Dual 2 GHz G5. I upgraded the RAM, and went to town with my shiny new G5.
A month after I installed it, one of my FCP clients called, said that their FCP 3 system was on the fritz (I think a PC-orieneted IT guy upgraded something without knowing what he was doing…because THAT never happens! 🙂 ), and could I edit on my system? I borrowed their DVCam deck for the first few projects, and then decided I needed my own.
CUT TO: Three and a half years later. As I’ve slowly amassed a complete editing suite, I have invested only 8% of what that first linear 601 digital room cost to build. I can do so much more than I ever could have done in that room on what I have in my little office. Currently, I have one Avid client left. The rest of my clients now routinely hire me to work on my system. Only occasionally do I work on “OPFCPs”.
My clients keep me busier and busier every year that I’m considering a second system and hiring freelancers when I have too much on my plate.
I could have never done this without Apple and FCP. Before Apple and FCP, I never wanted to!
Oh, and I still have that wedding video to edit.
debe
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1 GB left on all four partitions is likely your problem. Your drives are dangerously over-full. (is that 1 GB each, or 1 GB total?!?!)
The general rule is that ALL drives attached to the computer must have AT LEAST 10% of it’s space free, if not 20%. This includes the system drive. This is especially important when using large files, like video files.
The system needs free drive space to swap memory files, among other things.
Clear off all those drives so that none is more than 90% full, and better if it were 80%, and see if that improves things.
Also, why and how are theses drives partitioned? There are few reasons in this day and age to partition drives. How many actual drives are there internally?
debe
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In the big picture, FCP aside, I’d go for CPU over RAM.
It’s always easier to add more RAM later, but it’s not very easy to upgrade a CPU.
Yuo could get the fastest processor with the minimum amount of RAM when you order, and then get third-party RAM. It’ll be much less expensive than Apple-brand RAM.
I’m not running a MacPro, so I won’t offer sugestions on places for good third-party RAM for you. My G5 sources may be not optimal for MacPro. Or they may. I don’t know. Just make sure you get a really good warranty and that you CAN return it.
On the other hand…buying Apple-brand RAM, if there is an Apple Store near you, does have it’s benefits and may be worth the extra expense. Especially if this is a production machine with which you earn your living. If you have problems with your RAM, a trip to the Apple Store will get you up and running in short order. If your RAM vendor has to ship to you, you would be shut down completely while you wait (and possibly pay handsomely) for the vendor to ship to you overnight. Can you afford to be down for a couple days? Murphy’s Law says that if it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen when you have the least amount of time to deal with it.
Things to consider. Only you know how you work!
debe