Fergus Hammond
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Ah, that was it: I hadn’t gone to View > Proxy. Thanks!
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What? You’re suggesting that I’m the one that’s confused?! ????
Yes, you’re right: confused is the wrong term for sure. Good point about keeping the metadata around. Do you know if that’s important for consumer-level video cameras?
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I figured out the problem. I had three folders of video clips. One of them was a copy of the entire memory card from the camera. That seems to confuse FCP: it thinks that the folder *is* a memory card and won’t permit the “Leave files in place” option to be used. Once I deleted all the non-video files (e.g., MEDIAPRO.XML, STATUS.BIN) and just left the video, FCP imported the video fine, without copying the originals.
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Actually, I’ve found that Compressor does not appear to make efficient use of an 8 core computer. If I assign all 8 cores to a Compressor job, Compressor is *slower* to complete the job than if I use just 4 cores. This is on a computer with 16 GB RAM, so I don’t think it’s a memory issue.
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I had a very similiar problem. My Mac (an 8-core Mac Pro with 16 GB RAM and the FX 4500 card) has an LHe card. It was running the previous version of the Kona software and I was having no problems.
However, after I installed the 3.4 software, the Mac wouldn’t restart. It would start up ok from being off but if I tried to restart, it only reboot partially. The screens black and I’d hear a clicking sound coming from the monitors I’ve got on the breakout box. Completely uninstalled the Kona software didn’t help, nor did zapping the p-ram.
What finally did work was resetting the SMC on the Mac Pro:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304123I used the option of pulling all the plugs, leaving everything off for at least 15 seconds, then reconnecting and restarting.
The Mac started – and restarted – ok after that and I didn’t have any problems installing the 3.4 Kona software. Things have been fine since then.
Regards,
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There is a beta available of the 3.0 FC driver though not directly from ATTOs Web site. If you call their support number, they might send it to you.
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That’s a very interesting question. I think you’re right and most people wouldn’t want to mess with a primary editing system. I can’t imagine we’ll ever see Windows versions of Apple’s pro apps (what a horrible thought!). I guess I could see someone might want to use it if they wanted to check output (say, Web video output) on Windows. However, for that Parallels would probably be more appealing or VMware (which I’m using a beta of right now; pretty nice). Another example would be if you’ve got to accept files from someone on Windows and you need to be able to use the native format – something like Premiere Pro or Avid. But I think you’re right.
It’s still weird to me that the best Windows desktop is now made by Apple! We’re buying a lot of Mac Pros instead of Dell Precision Workstation 690s. The Mac is quieter and cheaper and, in most other areas, equal. It doesn’t run Vista well yet but I’m Apple will soon change.
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“I know of three major companies that I speak to on a regular basis that literally had engineers and staff going to Apple Stores on the day the machines were released trying to get one.”
Yeah, I was one of those people! 😉
My point isn’t that Apple is perfect – they are far from it. My point is that Boot Camp is a beta but it’s been out for a while, isn’t going to go away and is going to get wrapped up in the OS. I don’t expect ATTO to support it but I think they should make sure their product doesn’t actually break it. They are going to have to do that work anyway – it’s a pay now or pay later-type thing. I’ve just got no time for vendors who stick their heads in the sand. Part of the price of being an Apple developer is working around Apple’s weirdness and I’m disappointed that ATTO doesn’t seem to be trying. At the end of the day, it’s a business decision on their part (I don’t actually think they are idiots) but I think it’s a bad one. It’s a bummer to have to use Windows but it’s even more of a bummer to have to use another computer to do it. Not the end of the world though…
regards,
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So, are you asking a question or just pointlessly ranting? ATTO’s response that sounded like “we’re not going to think about it until it’s released” is pretty unrealistic. I’m not asking that they make their product *work* with Boot Camp; I’m asking that they make their product not *break* Boot Camp.
“It would be NICE if APPLE send their development partners a computer, and a phone number for software support, but they DO NOT.”
You’re incorrect. Apple does *exactly* this. AJA is a good example. They knew about the EFI update before it was released and had their greater-than-2GB problem fixed very quickly. ATTO didn’t even have a Mac Pro for *weeks* after the Mac Pro shipped and they still don’t have a released driver for their FC cards (a beta but not a released driver).
“Do you think that APPLE is helping AVID get the Media Composer application working on the MAC Pro ?”
Um, yes, actually. Do you think it’s in Apple’s best interest to force an Avid user to switch to Windows? Apple makes most of it’s money from hardware, not software. Apple supports a huge number of companies that compete with them. It’s why they have the World Wide Developer Conference every year.
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“so what you’re trying to do won’t work”
I don’t care if the Kona card (or the ATTO card for that matter) doesn’t work in Windows. I need to occasionally boot into Windows. The Kona card doesn’t get in the way of this working but the ATTO card does.