Jeff Carpenter
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Nope. Apple’s in the business of selling hardware. Anything else they do exists only to further that goal.
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They’re all right about waiting, but the answer is ‘yes’ it does make me smile.
I’m leaving my main system alone for now, but I put Leopard on my laptop since I don’t do much video work with it. I’m very pleased and can’t wait until they’ve cleared up the issues that will let me put it on my main system.
Favorite feature for me? Quick Look. Select a file in Finder and hit the space bar. Love it.
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Sorry, Jeremy, he’s right. If a machine comes with a particular OS, you can’t put an older OS on that machine.
Now, I’ve never TRIED it, it might work, but Apple won’t support it if something doesn’t work right. That’s the only thing I can say for certain…they won’t support it. Dunno if it’s acutally “crippled” or not.
At any rate, I wouldn’t suggest anyone running Final Cut do something that Apple won’t support. That’s just asking for trouble.
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Probably nothing.
External hard drives can only be connected to one computer. I assume the 2nd connection will be ignored.
What you want to do in this case is use the 2nd computer to connect to the 1st computer over some kind of network (wireless or ethernet) and access the external drive by going through the 1st computer.
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Yup, it’ll work fine. Here are 3 things to keep in mind:
1) Make sure the router and ethernet cards on both computers all support gigabit speeds. You can easily test this by dragging a multi-GB video file from one computer to the other. It should take arond 1 minute per GB to copy. If it’s taking more like 5-10 minutes per GB, you need to upgrade something.
2) I do this with DV video and it works fine. I’ve not yet tested it with any other formats, so I can’t promise you that other, larger formats will work well. (I can say that I’ve done multi-cam edits this way, running 3 DV streams at once, and that works too.)
3) This is all great for editing, but I wouldn’t trust any capturing or playback-to-tape using this method. Likewise, if you’re compressing for DVD you’ll be better off just moving the firewire drive to the computer that you want to do the compressing on.
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I’ve had luck in the past just using the 2nd half of those instructions. In the “Log in” items under accounts, just add the hard drive you want to the list of launching apps. It should just mount it.
The automator thing sounds like a good backup in case that doesn’t work with that particular drive, but I’ve always been able to just put a network drive on that list and have it just work.
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What did you format the firewire drive as? It should be Mac OS Extended, non-journaled.
If you used anything else, copy all data to the iMac, re-format it, and copy the data back.
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A.Zander, your advice to stick with Mac OS Extended is good, but I’m afraid you’ve confused the mr_gfx a bit.
HFS+ IS Mac OS Extended. It’s just 2 names for the same thing.
More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus