Jeff Carpenter
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That’s what commercials are for! 🙂
Actually, I’m not totally joking…doing this kind of work involves a lot of clicking “ok” 3 or 4 times then waiting 10 minutes while files copy off a disc. A sporting event with small breaks every few minutes is actually the perfect companion for a reinstall.
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Well, I’ve heard similar complaints about LaCie drive in the past so it COULD be the drives.
But on the other hand, all 7 going out is really over the top. I’m inclined to think it’s the computer.
But on the 3rd hand, I’ve been using several firewire drives (mostly Maxtor) on my macs for several years and I’ve only had 1 go bad in all that time. Many other people have had similar luck. So I don’t think blaming Macs in general is the right answer either.
What this leads me to is the thought that it’s your SPECIFIC computer that’s doing something. Perhaps a bad firewire port or something like that is giving these drives a little shock? Or, here’s another thought…maybe it’s a power adapter? Do you move them around or does the same adapter always stay with the same drive? It’s possible you have a bad brick and it keeps getting moved to every drive at some point or another.
I’m pretty sure it’s possible to get an adapter to plug a firewire 400 drive into the firewire 800 port. I’d look into that. It should work the same, and if the problem goes away you can have a tech look at your firewire 400 port and see if they can find anything wrong with it.
Or heck, maybe you should have a tech check the ports out BEFORE you try anything else. It’s certainly possible there’s something wrong with them, but I wouldn’t go and abandon your computer. I’ve never heard of anything like that before, it’s certainly not a “mac-problem.” It’s just an idea that I’ve come to based on the facts available to me.
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Yes, just buy a ‘Tiger’ DVD from a store or online.
You have 3 options when upgrading:
1) Simple: It updates the OS around your data. Fast, easy.
2) Archive and Install: Takes your system info, saves it, then erases everything else and puts Tiger on the hard drive. You import the settings you want to keep later from where they were all saved. (I think you have to back up your actual data files yourself, however.)
3) Erase and Install: Wipes the drive clean, puts Tiger on it. ALL of your data and settings are gone.
Option #1 is easiest, option #3 will give you the safest, most stable system. A lot of people say to just go with #3, but honestly, you should probably give #1 a try. Back up all your data somewhere first and give it a shot. If you start having trouble you can always go back and do #3 later. No harm in at least TRYING the easy way first.
If you do go with option 3, follow the directions I put in this post here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=71&postid=856311
That one was about Panther, I think, but it’ll work the same.
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Control-CD Eject will bring up the box that asks if you want to shut down, sleep, or restart.
You still have to hit Return to shut it down, but that’s pretty close and it could all be done with the keyboard.
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Get yourself a nice snack and free up an hour of your afternoon.
Then work your way through this:
https://www.adamwilt.com/24p/index.html
Come on back if you have any questions beyond that, but I’m guessing it will take care of most of them!
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Here’s an odd, crazy idea. Try using iTunes instead.
Really, this should be the same as using Quick Time, but maybe you won’t have that weird problem. It’s worth a try!
Here’s everything you need to set:
1) iTunes > Preferences > Playback > Play Videos in > Separate Window
2) Import the video using File > Import
3) Make a new playlist, drag the video into it
4) Menu ‘Controls’ > Repeat All
5) Play video, then Control Click ON the video window
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Should be ok…sort of. The main problem is that you’re stuck with only 1 firewire port. That’s IT, you can’t add anything else. You’ll have to buy a firewire hub and use it to split the one port into two…one for a camera (or deck) and one for a hard drive. It’s not ideal, but for DV video it should work ok.
I’d also suggest getting the full 2 GB of RAM (buy it somewhere other than Apple). At the very least, go for 1 GB. (For that, Apple’s price is fine to go with.)
The Macbook’s main weakness is the video card but that shouldn’t be such a big deal for Final Cut Pro.
If this is a secondary system that’s for capturing and field editing only I’d feel ok. My main concern would be using it to lay BACK to tape. It should work but I could see a higher chance of dropped frames in that situation. If you can edit on this and then move your drive to another computer to finish the project then I’d worry less.
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If someone is an “update every year” kind of person with their computers then I might still suggest buying a G5.
But you seem to be on the “update every 5 years” plan.
Nothing wrong with that but I wouldn’t suggest getting a G5 now if that’s the kind of person you are. You should probably wait for the Intel Powermacs, whenever they come out.
And the “wait out the bugs” people have the right idea but you don’t have to wait for an entire 2nd version to come out. Watch these boards for the first people to actually GET one and then wait 6 weeks from that date to order one. That’s enough time for serious issues to pop up and be corrected. The Macbook Pros were updated several times the first few weeks they were out to fix small issues without the information on the Apple site changing at all.
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The best is probably the exact same format that it is right now. What is the format it is currently in?
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I wouldn’t worry about it. Zach Braff on ‘Scrubs’ seems to do almost half of his lines in “voiceover” mode and I don’t think he ever whispers. Seems to work out fine for them!