Joel Hufford
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Hey Craig,
Even if you don’t have the external drives to move a backup copy of these files to, you can rename the containing folder and see if breaking that file path has any adverse effects on Final Cut. I don’t think you’re going to have any issue, but if you do, it’s a quick fix.
Good Luck!
joel
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Hi Craig,
The first thing I would check in determining if these are important files or not is to look at when the last time those files were accessed? I feel comfortable saying that any temp file that hasn’t been modified in over 12 months is safe to delete.
As a general rule, any file that sits inside a “temp” folder can be safely removed without affecting the functionality of any programs on your computer. If any temporary files that a program depends on to run aren’t found, they’ll be re-created the next time that program is launched. I think your probably right that these were created by that screen recording software. I found some jpegs from an old Powerpoint presentation in the same location on my computer.
Of course, because I’ve said that, if you delete those temporary files straight away without some sort of insurance policy, not only will Final Cut stop working, but your computer will probably catch on fire, the National Debt Ceiling won’t be raised and the Earth will almost certainly stop spinning. Because any time someone says: “Sure, you can delete that for sure and it won’t do anything bad.” It always does something bad. Always.
So, I think the best way to test the dependence of those files is to rename the containing folder to something like “OLDtemp” then restart your computer and launch Final Cut. You’ll know right away if the program needs those files to run (but it won’t). This is a great way to simulate the effects of deleting a file (or files) without making any permanent changes.
(Keep in mind that this won’t tell you if you’re removing a media resource from one of your final cut projects, but I can’t imagine you’re keeping any usable content inside of a temp folder buried inside a hidden system folder…right? )
Hope that helps!
joel
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Hi Steven,
While the Keynote option would certainly be the less expensive route, we have had a lot of great success using PlaybackPro and PlaybackPro Plus. Its compatible with most video codecs, which is huge. The geometry and level controls in PlaybackPro always make me look like a video wizard and have saved countless hours of grief and stress.
I never get tired of hearing this during rehearsals: “Wait, it doesn’t look right, it’s squished, I don’t know, it doesn’t look right, it….Oh! Oh, wait! That’s perfect! Wow! That’s amazing! Great!”
I actually think the USB Enabler Key licensing method makes it easy to use the software on different machines depending on your needs. The software has a very small footprint and uses the existing Quicktime libraries for functionality, which means you can install it on 10 machines if need be, and then just swap the USB keys around depending on which machine you plan on using for each event.
Purchasing PlaybackPro or ProVideoPlayer would certainly be an investment on your part, but it would also be an item that you could continue to rent and eventually you would see a return on that investment. I don’t know that you could say the same of the iWork suite.
Something else to keep in mind is making sure that your hardware is up to the task of playing back your content without dropping frames. It becomes a very important consideration once you start talking about playing back HD content.
Hope that helps!
joel
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Hi Sarah,
A great utility I like to use to see where my hard drive space is being eaten up is called GrandPerspective
you can find out more information and download it here: Grand Perspective
You can tell GP to scan your entire hard drive and then it will display a graphical representation of the files stored on your hard drive as squares in a grid. The larger the square, the larger the file it represents. The grid is interactive and when you find a file that you don’t need, GP can reveal that file in the Finder and you can delete it.
Perhaps the best part of all is that it’s free!
Short of that, the advice that Andre gave is a great place to start. It sounds like this laptop was a hand me down of sorts. Checking the Activity Monitor is a great way to see if there are any stray processes that were installed by the person who was using it before you.
Also, which version of the OS are you working on and have you checked for and downloaded all of the available software updates?
joel
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Hi Adam,
You might take a look at Mushroom Networks They’ve developed a box that allows you to bond multiple 3g broadband USB cards together to aggregate the total bandwidth. With their PortaBella 141 box, you can bond up to 4 3g cards together.
They also have the TelePorter. It uses the same 3g bonding technology, but it’s designed to take a feed directly out of a camera and stream it as h.264 using a transmitter/receiver system. I haven’t personally used the TelePorter, but either of these options seem like they’d be worth exploring.
Good Luck!
joel
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Hi Zack,
One of the great benefits of the ExpressCard/34 Slot on the 17″ model, in addition to being able to add high speed connections like eSATA, USB3.0 and additional FireWire400 or 800 ports, is that is allows you to utilize third party hardware devices that require a PCIe connection. Examples specific to editing video include the MXO2 from Matrox, the IOExpress from AJA and Blackmagic Design’s Multibridge. When Apple removed this expansion slot from the 15″ models, it effectively forced people using devices that required a PCIe connection to go the route of the more expensive 17″ model.
I think Thunderbolt is going to change the way devices interface with computers, and I don’t think it will be long before we start seeing Thunderbolt to PCIe adapters being sold by third parties to bypass the missing ExpressCard/34 Slot on the MBP 15″
I would say you’re absolutely right that you could buy a 15″ MBP plus a nice 2nd monitor and still spend less than the 17 inch. and personally, I think that at 17 inches a computer no longer qualifies as a “portable,” but that’s my opinion!
joel
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Hey Romi,
I’m sure you’ve thought of this already, but do you have access to another mac that you could copy the old application off of?Or about downloading the installer for the older QT 7.6.6?
joel
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Have you checked the Console to see if there are any relavent error messages?
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Some people also refer to this as 2.5D (Two and a half Dimension) photography. There are several tutorials you can find online that explain the technique.
joel
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Hi Romi,
Did you look in the “Utilities” folder inside your “Applications” folder on your hard drive? With the adoption of Quicktime X, Apple has changed the default install location for Quicktime 7 into the Utilities folder. I’d check there first.
Also, if you activate the Spotlight “Command + Space” and do a quick search for Quicktime, then you can tell it to “Show All” and a new finder window will pop up with all of the search results. If the Quicktime application shows up in those results, you can right click it and select “Reveal in Finder” to see where it was installed.
Good Luck!
joel
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