[Gary Morris mcbeath]

Makes a lot of sense David,

I play a bit of music for fun; we also call the two parts of a phrase the question and answer, or sometimes the piano and forte. In 4/4 time, the phrase is often 2 bars or measures long, each part a measure. In 2/4 time, often a phrase takes up 4 bars, 2 for the question, 2 for the answer. But of course, not always, depends on the tune.

I’ve likely completely confused the issue.

Cheers,

Gary

Gary Morris McBeath
SaltAire Cinema Productions

[Gary Morris mcbeath]

I also agree with Walter; capturing into ProRez directly is problematic, even on my 2.7. However, I just do a batch capture of HDV clips to a G-Raid, then select the ones I want and use Media Manager to send them over to the main scratch drive for the project, converting them to ProRezHQ in the process. You can also use compressor. Editing in ProRez seems to work just fine.

Cheers,

Gary

Gary Morris McBeath
SaltAire Cinema Productions

[Gary Morris mcbeath]

I agree with David on the RAM; I’m running 8Gb in a dual 2.7, and noticed an improvement across the board over the 4 gb I had before. I think 4GB is the real minimum, go for more.

In FCS2, however, Color, and possibly Motion, will be really sluggish with the ATI 9600 card; I had the 9650 and it was all but unusable untill I updated to an X-800XT. Not available new anymore, might find one on an auction site. Careful not to buy a re-programmed PC version; you want the real Mac Edition.

Good luck.

Gary

Gary Morris McBeath
SaltAire Cinema Productions

[Gary Morris mcbeath]

Hi again David,

My bad, the guide wasn’t at OWC, it was MacGurus; the link:

https://www.macgurus.com/guides/hostcardtype.php

My VAR seems to think the last few 2.7’s, the ones made just before the Intel machines, were PCI-Express. This document will show you how to tell for sure.

Ok, I’m outa here now.

Gary

Gary Morris McBeath
SaltAire Cinema Productions

[Gary Morris mcbeath]

Hi David,

I have the Dual 2.7, Power PC (non Intel), and my x800-xt works beautifuly in the AGP slot. I think it was the dual 2.9 or something or other where they switched to the PCI-Express slots; just before the first Intel machines if memory serves me right.

OWC (macsales.com) used to have a section for identifying which kind of slots a given model has. They are also very helpful on the phone for sorting out these things.

Hope this helps.

Gary

Gary Morris McBeath
SaltAire Cinema Productions

[Gary Morris mcbeath]

Thanks Walter,

I’m going with 7.3.1.

Gary

Gary Morris McBeath
SaltAire Cinema Productions

[Gary Morris mcbeath]

Sorry, this is a duplicate post to one below. My bad.

Gary Morris McBeath
SaltAire Cinema Productions

[Gary Morris mcbeath]

Hi all,

I know this is a little off the topic, but related. I keep my G5, raids etc in an air conditioned closet off the main edit suite. I keep the temperature around 65-67F. Have never had any heat problems.

Before I did that, I found the temperature of the room would reach nearly 80F, and the resulting heat out of the machines just seemed too hot for me. How’s that for a scientific conclusion?

Kinda like the elephant dog we got. Haven’t had an elephant in the yard since we got him.

Ok, I’m back to work now.

Gary Morris McBeath
SaltAire Cinema Productions

[Gary Morris mcbeath]

Hi Christopher,

No, I’m in Steilacoom, about 45 miles SW of Seattle, right on Puget Sound. Sequim is N-NW of here, a bit over a hundred miles by road, maybe 80 or so miles as the crow flies.

Gary

[Gary Morris mcbeath]

I have a couple power supplies: An APC Back-UPS 1500, and a Belkin 1500. One might assume they could each handle 1500 watts, but not so.

The 1500 is what they call a VA (volt-amps) rating, and they construe to mean something other than watts. (All school kids know, the rest of the world considers volts x amps = watts, or power). As near as I’ve been able to determine, it is a maximum surge rating. Most appliances, especially CRT’s, draw more current on start-up than they do running; called a surge or start-up current draw.

Both are rated around 850-900 watts continuous rating; that is a MAXIMUM, and I’ve had good luck limiting the total run current to around 600 watts per power unit, or about 2/3 the rating. I’ve had units blow out before pushing these limits.

Same goes for surge power: I make sure no single component of my system has a surge of more than about 2/3 of the max (VA) rating. I’ve checked each with a clamp-on ammeter.

Because of surges, I also turn on only one component of my system at a time, leaving a moment each start-up, so I don’t exceed the limits of the power supplies. The other thing I do, is make sure all system components are turned off before starting up the power supplies. Starting the power supply with a CRT connected and turned on at the same time caused one of my blow-outs.

Hope this doesn’t muddy the water too much.

Speaking of which, we got lucky in this weekend’s storm, and all the muddy water and wreckage is to the North and South of us. We sit in a kind of wind shadow of the Olympic Mountains, and only had to deal with the 7″ of rain; we are on a hill, so it was all down hill from here. Didn’t even get to test my back-up power supplies.

Gary
SaltAire Cinema Productions