[Drew Lahat]

Yup, this was somewhat disheartening news, but really not surprising for Apple.
But for $450 for an HD-capable G5, I can’t complain too much…

[Drew Lahat]

The first result in a quick Froogle search:

https://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=pci-x+esata&cid=18110894764621343687&sa=title#p

PCI-X slots can take either PCI-X or PCI cards.

A PCI card like that will limit you to “only” 133MB/s (= 1Gbps). That’s enough for 42 concurrent streams of HDV or 6 streams of ProRes422. Even if the actual performance is half of that, I think you’ll be fine…

It looks like there are plenty of Mac-compatible PCI-X cards anyway:
https://www.google.com/products?q=%22pci-x%22+esata&hl=en&scoring=p

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816133002

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816318004

[Drew Lahat]

Patrik, thanks for the kind words; I’m glad to see I’m not the only crazy one 🙂

3. I (re-found) one shortcut I was looking for: Cmd + ~ (tilde) and Cmd + Shift + ~ will cycle through ANY open window in FCP (and most other Mac apps). If you like having multiple browser windows open, this is the only keyboard shortcut that will take you between them (correct me if I’m wrong). You might find it useful in other cases too.

Tom, what do you mean by “create a keyboard shortcut for the logging pane”? How do you do that, or how is it different than Cmd+4?

I also saw something called “logging column layout” (Opt+B). It does nothing for me, do you know what it is?

[Drew Lahat]

Just wondering if it’s one of these “seems fundamental to me but to no one else” things.
To put it differently, if Microsoft announced tomorrow that they decided to remove arrow-key navigation in Excel spreadsheets, would I be the only one to care? Or, why are these shortcuts any less necessary than F9 & F10 for Overwrite and Insert?

If it’s something that hasn’t really mattered to a million FCP users over 6 versions, there must be something wrong about my workflow or approach.

(PS: Just found out about Imagine Products’ P2 Log Pro, which may offer a better logging interface. Maybe down the road that will be worth the investment.)

[Drew Lahat]

3. That one I know; the shortcut I’m referring to cycles between windows, not tabs in a window. (Or are windows of the same application called panes?)

Re entering requests: I will.

[Drew Lahat]

Did you move your FCS apps into a subfolder within the applications folder? That can cause the system update to miss out on the fact that FCS needs to be updated.

Jake Williams

Phew! That did help me, I was starting to pull hairs in front of the machine. How dare I try to organize my applications into folders instead of one big pile…