Jeff Carpenter
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Do you have any kind of external deck? That’s the real question. If you can get ahold of a Beta or Digibeta deck then yes, you can do as you suggest. But I wouldn’t use composite out. The S-Video out will be ok, though. Most of those cameras don’t compress to 4:1:1 until after it passes those ports. You CAN record a non-compressed video signal out of them as long as you have something to record on.
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Yeah, I think you can only get “g” cards for inside you Mac, not “n” yet.
But don’t worry about it. Both “g” and “n” wireless are BOTH faster than your DSL connection. If you were connecting to another Mac in your house, the faster speed would mean faster file transfers between them, but since you’re just connecting to the ‘net it makes no difference. You’ll be waiting for the ISP to respond no matter how much faster you make your wireless system.
As for the router, yes, any brand will do. Like I said, I’m happy with NETGEAR stuff, but that’s just my experience.
IF you wanted to, you can get Apple’s new “AirPort Extreme Base Station” for $179. Now, Netgear’s version of that will run about $40 – $50, so that’s a bit more money! But Apple’s supports “g” and “n” in their base station whereas other companies are just “g” at the moment. If you buy a new Mac in the future it would be all set to work with the “n” network in your house.
That’s an option, but honestly…I’d suggest getting the “g” router from another company. You don’t need the extra functionality of the Apple router and that’s a pretty steep price for something you don’t need! Check out CompUSA or some other local computer store for other brands. You’ll hook the router up to your DSL modem and then follow the directions to set it up on your Mac.
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Go to APPLE MENU -> ABOUT THIS MAC -> MORE INFO -> AIRPORT CARD
It probably says “No information found” right? Towers don’t come with wireless unless you added it on at purchase time, which I’m betting you’d remember.
Go to the Apple store online and search for “AirPort Extreme Card” in the search bar. NOW, before you buy, get out your manual for the computer (or download it from Apple.com) and make sure that you computer can take that type of card. I’m nearly positive it can, but I’m not the one spending the money. You should double check. Once you get that card, you put it inside your computer following the directions in the computer manual.
As for the other end, what’s going on there? How do you connect to the internet now? And what type of computer does your daughter use? Basically you just need a wireless router (I suggest the NETGEAR brand) but exactly what you get might depend on the answers to those questions. I know the Airport card advice is good on that end, but fill us in a little more on the other end of the connection.
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Ok, lots to cover here…I’ll work by number:
1) In the future, for that kind of update, just go to the Apple Menu and select ‘Software Update.’ If the computer is online it will take care of these kinds of updates without worry.
2) I know you know not to do this again, but I find it helpful to know the “why” of things, so here’s what your problem was: OS Discs that are shipped with hardware are made to only work with that hardware. If you buy a copy of Tiger at the store it can work with anything, but your laptop OS disc will only work with the laptop.
3) That being said, I’m not so sure what happened here. You didn’t actually DO anything so nothing should be broken. Try this:
a) Get the OS CD that came with the G5. Put it in and restart holding the “C” key. (If you can’t open the disc drive, hold the mouse-button while restarting.)
b) The CD should boot. Look in the pull-down menus for ‘Disc Utility.’ Repair the permissions on your boot hard drive and check it for errors. Then restart the computer again.
HOPEFULLY, everything will be just great at that point.
If not, continue on this path:
c) Plug a firewire cable between your two macs. Leave the laptop on. Restart the G5 holding the “T” key. It should appear on your laptop as a firewire drive. Copy off any files you want to keep as we’ll soon be erasing the G5 drive.
Now repeat step (a) and get into disc utility again. Use it to erase the G5 drive and then re-install OS X from the CD.
You should be back in business then…remember to run “Software Update” from the Apple menu at this point! 🙂
(You can and should go into the system preferences on BOTH your Macs, find the software update section and tell it to automatically check for updates every week. Then you don’t have to worry about it.)
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This has nothing to do with your original question but your last post reminded me of this:
https://daringfireball.net/2005/04/replace
Another little quirk for Windows to Mac swtichers to watch out for!
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Are you talking about the media drive? Open ‘Disk Utility’ (in Applications/Utilities), pick the drive and select the ‘erase tab.’ Click ‘security options’ and pick ‘zero out data.’ Then pick “Mac OS Extended” and erase the drive.
If you’re talking about the boot drive and re-installing the OS, you should know that Mac system drives don’t really get fragmented as long as they’re not totally full and you probably shouldn’t need to do this. But IF you want to do it, put your OS CD in the computer and re-start holding the “C” key. Run Disk Utility off of the CD (it’s in a pull-down menu) and do the same thing except pick the “Journaled” option this time for the format. After that, re-install the OS from the CD.
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Yeah, I think the reason is because that using “cut and paste” like that would result in the Finder erasing a file from your computer while you are not actively looking at it. I think they decided that was a bad thing for the Finder to be able to do.
So…I’m not really sure WHY it’s in the menu at all. I’m sure there’s some time you can use it, but I’m not sure when.
BUT, you might find this interesting:
When dragging a file to another folder on the same hard drive, it MOVES it (copies it to the new location and removes the original). When dragging a file to a different hard drive, it COPIES it (makes a copy and leaves the original).
Ok, now here’s the fun part…hold down the ‘option’ key before clicking the file to REVERSE both of those behaviors. So while holding ‘option’ same-drive copying now copies instead of moves and different-drive copying now moves instead of copies.
Hopefully that info is of some use to you.
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Although we’re not the best ones to ask, I’d suggest looking at Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0.
I’ve never used it but I feel it’s probably a very safe bet.
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You should explain a little more about what your wife is doing. Is she shooting presentations at the front of the classroom like show and tell? Or plays with the entire class as the cast? Or maybe just walking around shooting students working on projects at their desks?
The suggestions you’ve been getting are good for some of these activities but for not others. I hesitate to make even more suggestions when I don’t know how useful it will be to you. Give us a little more info and we can give you more detailed advice.