[Gunleik Groven]

I had a painfull ride, but now it all starts to get into places.

looks like 4.3 fixed a lot of the underlaying bugs, but untill recently I was seriously considering to downgrade.

I guess the best way to upgrade is a clean install and then re-install all your software.

The next best is to do an archive-and install.

The worst is to do an upgrade.

Because I have so many SW authorized products I tried the last option first.
= Disaster

Then I tried the second.

Besides the obvious need for softwareupdates and hazzle with tweaking the beast back to its old shapes, I had tons of weird networking problems and other nonreliable symptoms for quite a while.

Tiger is generally considered a quite buggy upgrade on most discussionboards I’m on.
But it has some nifty features (Spotlight is NOT among them!) that might make it worthwhile.

Now I finally have almost all of my critical software up.
And I’m pretty happy.

I HATE spotlight for it’s inflexible and processorhungry way of doing searches and background indexing. I’m sure it’s cool on an office notebook, but when you have terrabytes of samples (at least a lot of gigabytes -;)) thousands of documents and FCP projects with hundreds or thousands of renderfiles that it tries to index for you for a quick access… It’s a PITA.
I did disable spotlight for a while with a haxie and used a 3.rd part search function.
The search is ok. The system didn’t seem too happy with the disabling.

So over all:
Tiger works just fine, has some nifty features, bad search, ok networking (though the mixed environment thing is not as good as in Panther), does not crash and takes up more resources than Panther.
You get core audio, core video og midi over IP.

Now take a deep breath and decide.

Gunleik

[Gunleik Groven]

Is this better than Graeme’s plug?

Gunleik

[Gunleik Groven]

As for convertion, Graeme Nattress has a nifty plug.It’s also pretty cheap.

http://www.nattress.com

Gunleik

[Gunleik Groven]

Sorry for raising this question again, but over at BM You anounce a PCI-x to PCIe adapter.
Is it really true that this will take 6 months to ship?

Gunleik

[Gunleik Groven]

The PCI-X card is an option. MB Extreme comes with PCIe.

Just have a look at the BM site. The card is pictured just below the Multibridge studio.

What I am wondering is: When does the PCI-X adaptercard ship and at which price?

Gunleik

[Gunleik Groven]

Just make a sequence and drop the anamorphic footage in the timeline: et voila!

If that doesn’t work, the anamorphic footage isn’t defined as such. then:
Right click on the clip, choose the “format” option and check the “anamorphic” line.

Repeat from start.

Gunleik

[Gunleik Groven]

Sounds like the DV-tape is not anamorphic, but letterboxed.
In that case. you shpuld edit in a standard sequence.

Gunleik

[Gunleik Groven]

If you check/uncheck the anamorphic settings in the sequence after you put the clip in the sequence, things might not work out well.

Here’s what I’d do (if I was 100% certain that the image is actually letterboxed):

1.) Capture with standard (not anamorphic) preset – I gues this is what you did. -;)
2.) Check in the bin that the clip looks right in the viewer. If not: Right click clip an doublecheck that it is not flagged as anamorphic.
3.) Create a _NEW_ sequence
4.) Rightclick that in the bin and doublecheck that the sequence settings correspond to the clip _before_ putting the clip in there – ie: Sequence is not anamorphic.
5.) Open the sequence and visually veryfy that this is in fact a nonanamorphic sequence-
6.) Drop the clip into the sequence.

If this comes out stretched _or_ with black bars on the side, you most likely put a standard clip into an anamorphic sequence.

I guess this is more or less what you did, but try check’ing everything slowly before you step further.
Sorry if this sounds over tedious -;)

Gunleik

[Gunleik Groven]

Just capture to a standard non-anamophic timeline in whichever SD format you prefer.

Sounds actually that you’ve been capturing right, but that your sequence settings are set to anamorphic…

Gunleik

[Gunleik Groven]

Thanks Graeme! -;)

In adition to the abovementioned (and of course healthy dozes of coffee, beer , and cafeine drinks that don’t make the stommac go bad):

Dalwhinney, Jameson (12+),Black label, Famous Grouse, some casks if the gig is good, Hammerhead gin (Local Norwegian brew that you can pick up extremely cheap at the tax-free) if the gig is bad.

Gunleik