Ed Dooley
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That’s Bouke in the Netherlands.
Edbouke at editb.nl
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Yep, and the person they forwarded me to still haven’t gotten back to me.
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BTW, Barefeats.com just linked to this new site about configuring Macs. It’s one of many helpful DIY sites.
Edhttps://macperformanceguide.com/
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I second Walter’s AJA praise, their Customer Support is the best.
Depending on how much of a techie you are, I might disagree with his
VAR recommendation. There is so much info at this forum, at AJA’s site, at the RAM makers (Crucial, etc.) that it doesn’t take rocket surgery (I love that phrase) to put together a kick-ass system. If you have certain software or hardware there can be conflicts, but again, you can find all the answers here and other support sites. Except for my very first 840AV I’ve never used a VAR, and have never had a problem I couldn’t find the answer to quickly. Depends on your geek factor though.
My office is right down the road from Small Dog headquarters here in Vermont, and although I buy things there occasionally and the tech guys are helpful, I didn’t want to buy my PB from them a few years ago (long story). I called Apple, told them what I wanted, told them I would rather buy from them than Small Dog, but SD’s price was lower, and Apple matched it. Now it seems to be official Apple policy (for now at least).
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No responses, so I guess no one here has had this problem. Funny thing is, on JVC forums, lots of people have had the problem. It’s a JVC design flaw. The AC power jack has a yellow plastic tip that can break off while inside the DC-In of the camera. It’s a 3 hour removal process (removing boards and unsoldering and resoldering cards) unless you can break it into smaller pieces to get it out the way it got in. A helpful guy from South Africa with the same camera and problem sent me the service manual PDF and the step by step procedure. Bad JVC!
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When you bring a .m2v file into MPEGStreamclip, the AC3 file with the same name goes with it. You can then export it to any number of file types, such as QT to use with Squeeze.
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I have the same computer, and it ran FCP 4.5 fine, it has FCP 5.1 on it now, but it won’t accept FCS2. It has an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro, and when I tried to install FCS2 on it I got an OpenGL warning, which cancelled installation. The computer maxes out at 2g RAM too, so by today’s standards it’s a dog. For basic log and capture (but not into FCP6) it works fine. Editing/rendering is slooooooowww! So, it’ll work up to 5.1, but I would go for something faster if you can.
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Use the built in OSX color calibration. You’ll have to decide at the end whether to set the gamma at 2.2 for PC or 1.8 for Mac (or set it in between as a compromise). I use 2.2 even though I’m on a Mac.
Or you can use 3rd party software or hardware (like Spyder) for calibration.
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Daniel pointed out the options, but I would also suggest reading up a bit before you say you know. 🙂
It’s all in the manual, and very basic.
Ed[Clara Gordon] “(as I know, mpeg2 has both audio and video)”
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They’re listed as Telestream. File/Find/Telestream.
Delete the Telestream Plist files (I think that’s all of them.
Some are in the User Library, some in the main Library.
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