Jean-christophe Boulay
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Hi Wayne,
This behaviour is normal for a Quadro 4000 on Mac OS. The 4000 is effectively two GPUs in one and this behaviour is common to all multi-PCB Nvidia GPUs.
Enjoy the workhorse!
JC Boulay
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Once you’ve exported to XDCam .MXF, you can do a quick listen-through using VLC, which reads the format natively.
If you need a more thorough check, you ca reimport the MXF into FCP by simply using “File/Import/Sony XDCam”, which should be there if the Sony plugin is installed. The import process is all pretty self-explanatory with complete notes on functions and workflow visible within the GUI itself. That will import into whatever FCP project you have open and select in the import process, so you can place it on a timeline and be completely sure nothing moved, which it never does in my experience.
IHTH,
JC Boulay
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Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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Hi Levan,
Hop on over to the Compression Techniques forum with a precise description of your usual workflow and delivery medium and you should get more precise answers. We don’t have enough information about what you want to do to point you in any direction.
IHTH,
JC Boulay
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Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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Thunderbolt is supposed to be about more than just storage. You could theoretically hook up your TB storage and then daisy-chain a display into that, for instance. Then, some of the “excess” would be used for that screen. You could have two storages connected to one TB buss and getting data from two separate SATA busses, filling the pipe a bit more. The idea was basically “let’s make the pipe real big because we’ll find some way to fill it eventually”. With any data transfer right now, the storage device itself will usually be the bottleneck anyways, not its interface.
These are all just words on a screen, as Thunderbolt-equipped hardware is very thin on the ground right now. It looked awesome in the brochure, though. Time will tell how successful the interface really is, but the possibilities are there.
JC Boulay
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Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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Hi Stefano,
Considering that what you do is very hard on the CPU, I think it’s worth it for you to go for the i7 processor. Apple does not say which Intel models it uses specifically, but that i7 is very powerful so it should have enough power to work smoothly. If you’re running two big applications at the same time, more RAM than 4GB would probably help a lot also. I recommend you look into ordering your computer with the minimum of RAM and buying more yourself, not from Apple, as their prices are a bit ridiculous for the extra RAM. You’ll probably save some money there.
Of course, if you can afford the 27-inch, the i7 processor in it is quite a bit more powerful, but you’ll start to see less difference for the extra invested money. The 27-inch looks superb, though.
IHTH,
JC Boulay
Technical Director
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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Not a dumb question at all. Apple, in all its wisdom, has decreed you didn’t need to do that with that computer so you can’t. You get your one FW plug and no eSATA connectivity. You get Thunderbolt, but I’ve only seen one drive from LaCie with that connection as of yet. Hitachi were planning a Thunderbolt G-Raid but I’m not sure if it’s shipping yet. You need a MacPro to get more FW and a PCIe card in there to get eSATA. You could split your FW through a hub, but you’ll be asking a whole lot from your poor FW buss while digitizing.
If you’re going to be working seriously with many drives on Mac OS, it might be worth looking into DiskWarrior. It’s a drive maintenance and repair software that goes beyond what Disk Utility can do. It solves most drive errors I’ve ever encountered in Mac OS that weren’t mechanical. https://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/
IHTH,
JC Boulay
Technical Director
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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Hi Chris,
I haven’t used Nuendo in a few versions, but I think you best bet would be to insert a filter plug-in before your spectrum analyzer and put it in bandpass mode. When you want to isolate a frequency, turn the filter on, dial in the frequency you want. You can control how much bandwidth passes through with the filter’s slope control. I’ve never seen any other spectrum analyzer tool with the feature you describe, though I don’t use them much.
IHTH,
JC Boulay
Technical Director
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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If your computer are on the same network and you can share drives, the ethernet plugs in the wall necessarily go to a common router or switch somewhere. If you don’t have access to that, the easiest solution would be to get a dirt-cheap 4-port switch. You’d run an ethernet cable from the wall plug to the small switch and run cables from the switch to the computer that used that wall port and to the NAS. With a switch, the setup should be pretty plug and play. Your spare router may very well be capable of running simply as a switch without uplink. Check its documentation.
Your wireless solution would work, but would probably require more setup and you could be severely limiting transfer speed to the NAS through Wi-Fi. Even in the best of cases, performance would be quite a bit lower than with a wired switch.
IHTH,
JC Boulay
Technical Director
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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It’s the fact that you can’t boot from the install disc that says hardware problem to me. That’s a software constant. You did pretty much every hard drive check you could and an HDD issue would’ve surely been flagged. You can boot other hardware from your updated software. You can boot in safe mode and hardware diagnostics, which both omit to poll and load all your hardware at startup. It’s all pointing in the same general direction. Can you boot your from wife’s system drive in target disc mode from your computer? That would be worth checking. If not, it’s another sign. If you can, it gets a little weird.
IMO, Apple hardware diagnostics isn’t worth much more than the plastic disc it comes on. It’s failed to flag many issues that I confirmed later. I even tested it on a system with a confirmed knackered graphics card and it passed with flying colours. Tracking down a hardware issue can be a true pain. If the issue persists, it may be worth putting your machine in the hands of a qualified tech, who’ll have a much easier time of it. It costs money but your time is worth something too.
IHTH,
JC Boulay
Technical Director
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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Hi Tom,
The ShareSpace should be plugged into your network itself, not a computer. Just plug the ethernet to your main router/switch and it should pop up in the network browser in Mac OS. From there, you should be able to log into it with the default login/pass, which should be admin/admin. To configure it, you’ll want to log in via Bonjour in Safari. It has its own little setup interface with all the options you need. It’s all pretty well planned out in the manual, which probably shipped on the included CD. There is an online version: https://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/UM/ENG/4779-705006.pdf.
IHTH,
JC Boulay
Technical Director
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
http://www.audioz.com