[John Davidson]

Are you using an iphone? Multiple computers to check email simultaneously? Many smaller company servers (like the one that hosts my mail) will reject incoming requests if they get too many at once – or within say, a minute or two.

if using an iphone as well as a mac, this is the workaround. Set up a gmail account – fwd a copy of all mails to said gmail account, then delete all accounts from your phone. Set up an “other’ mail account (not the typical gmail setting). Gmail lists how to set up IMAP on the iphone. Then, add the account you want as an additional account to your gmail account settings (this makes anything sent from google look like it’s coming from your real account – nobody will know it’s a google account your sending from).

Basically, gmail servers can handle multiple incoming requests – most smaller servers/hosting companies can’t. If you don’t have an iphone, this process will still work fine but on your mac instead of an iphone.

[John Davidson]

My production company just lost it’s biggest client thanks to this strike. The networks are going into hibernation and that means no outside vendors.

I hope this is worth it. Lots of families that don’t get residuals are being thrown under the bus. Post houses are going to go under, production crews are going to starve, and shows are getting killed. The studios aren’t right – but you have to wonder if this collateral damage is worth it, especially right before the holidays and right as the economy is taking a turn for the worse.

We’re the little kids caught between divorcing parents, and I don’t think it’s going to be resolved for a long long while.

[John Davidson]

Sorry walter – I didn’t meant to make it seem like you were saying anything else. I only meant to say that we’ve heard on a few different posts that most people aren’t concerned with AJA drivers until Adobe CS3 is ready – hence my statement that I hope AJA isn’t operating on that ideology, because only Manwe himself knows when Adobe’s gonna be ready for Leopard.

[John Davidson]

Lol – I wouldn’t take that bet. I think adobe found out that there was a Leopard OS coming just last month.

[John Davidson]

Scott you’re the man. I didn’t know about it – but I love it!

[John Davidson]

Back to my mac will let me do remote emergency work with screen sharing and deliver spots to my broadcast network client (who only needs uploaded omf’s, scripts, and qt’s for final delivery). This is especially crucial over the holidays as we have one series launching on the 26th and 3 others in the pipes. I’ll be out of town much of the time during these holiday weeks – so the ability to jump in, make a simple change to a promo, and then upload it is HUGE.

People tell me I don’t need Leopard, but they’re basing that assumption on how they use their systems, not mine. Oh, I DO have Leopard installed on the macbook which I would be using for this screen sharing feature.

I cannot leap to Leopard until I have the right drivers for my AJA Kona 2. If AJA thinks they don’t have to update until Adobe does that would be a bad assumption as well. Not all of us use AE enough for it to be a big deal breaker when considering the move to Leopard.

John Davidson____ writer | producer | director____https://www.magicfeather.tv

[John Davidson]

You guys should just put a sticky up on this forum that AJA doesn’t have Leopard drivers ready yet. I bet at least half or more of the hits on this forum each day are specifically people like me looking for Leopard drivers. It’s kinda weird that the only sticky up there is about Leopard not working with Adobe – in the AJA forum – which also isn’t Leopard compatible.

I’d like to put this Leopard install project behind me and move on with my life. That’s why I need it.

[John Davidson]

Odds are they won’t be out for at least another week with Thanksgiving so soon.

I think you guys are right. Why focus on updating old stuff when you can focus on new stuff that generates NEW money? AJA won’t see a dime (directly) from me when they update their drivers – probably just more whining about how some setup does this or some button doesn’t do that. Certainly the Kona 2 has worked great for me for years and I have AJA to thank for that.

We may see the end free updates for 3rd party apple hardware. I wouldn’t want to have to keep updating a project I got paid for two years ago.

[John Davidson]

Ahhh. Good ole’ b-control. How many times did I hide there on overnights? ….and those D2 decks. I’m getting misty eyed just just thinking about ’em.

[John Davidson]

1. I can see how that feature might be useful, in a roundabout way (especially a ‘reveal in finder’ option), however I don’t recall ever having the need for either of those. However, say if I was rendering out a tiff sequence, maybe it would be useful to open up a finder window to show me all the files. There are ways around this. I use the sidebar for highly trafficked folder, and now TUAW I believe posted an article this weekend about adding a ‘recent items’ type folder to the dock. Can’t get more recent than freshly saved!

2. Again, sidebar. I’m pretty sure it’s the same number of steps to drag a folder into the sidebar for a few minutes if you plan on popping back into (or saving to) a folder.

3. Just realized the spotlight thing. It’s not my favorite thing – but I find it pretty useful.

The 2nd #1:

1. Use column view to see file sizes of types of files that can be opened with the program you’re using.

2. Remember that Chris Rock joke about don’t dress like a hooker if you don’t want to be called one? Sounds like you’re falling for the ‘it looks and acts like finder’ so it must be finder!’. The unified look of the interface makes everything look like finder, which actually looks like itunes from tiger. I think these options wouldn’t be that much to ask for, but it’s always good to use one tool for it’s purpose. ‘Save as’ typically has a limited look until you click the black down arrow and then it becomes more finder-ish, but it might help you to not think of it as finder.

3. If you drag a file into final cut, don’t close the finder window. It’ll still be there when you apple-tab back to finder from final cut. Or, if you closed it after importing a file, just right click on the file you imported, within FCP, and select ‘show in finder’. Boom, your folder opens up. Another issue is that all this cutting and pasting of paths is preventing you from cutting and pasting clips, sfx, etc. that one would theoretically be using in various programs.

4. See #2. She’s not a prostitute, she’s just dressed like one.

5. I agree – it is an annoying extra step. I bet it gets fixed in an update soon. I’d like to make a column that is for “size”.

6. With 1 finder window, click the file you want, drag it, and by holding/hovering over your hard drives or folders in the sidebar they will open after a second delay. One you’ve hovered/navigated to the folder you want, hold down the command key right before you drop it. That changes your ‘copy’ drag to a ‘move’ drag. With two finder windows, just drag from one to the other with the command key held. You’ll know it’s working when the green + disappears. Lastly, if you’re within I think two folder levels of the original file, a drag drop works like a move (especially from the desktop) instead of a copy.

7. Stop clicking the shrink button. Click CMD-H (hide). Tabbing back will make it appear again. Spaces also alleviates this. Since you’re already alt-tabbing on the keyboard, a cmd-h quick key should make it faster for you than clicking the difficult to hit “-” icon in a program window.

8. Press F10 on a macbook and F5 (I think, I don’t feel like getting up to look) on a desktop. This splits all open windows evenly for you to pick from. Fast – and it looks pimp to use in front of the ladies.

9. Would be a great feature request to have more levels of undo. Sometimes it’s nice to undo your undo though, so maybe what you really want is enhanced undo AND a redo option. Send it in to apple! Squeaky wheel gets the oil!

10. You can hack the ‘next word’ feature in the System Preferences, Keyboard and Mouse, and then select Keyboard Shortcuts. There you can add and edit all the shortcuts in any application all you want.

11. In virtually every program on a mac, you can memorize quick keys of almost every command in any of the menus. If you can’t, automator will learn it for you, as will keyboard prefs. Print out a list of your most used quick keys and memorize them. Typically, they’re pretty common sensical.

12. uhhh….I guess you learned not to mess with disk permissions. I guess not everything they build is designed for the dummies :-). A warning of interference with startup disks would have been nice, but perhaps you had to click a few padlocks to get through and make those changes? Think of those as warnings….

13. Your speed is going to be directly related to your drives as much as your processor. 4 drives striped together as a RAID will provide far more realtime than one 7200 rpm drive. Without knowing your setup, I’m going to assume you don’t have a RAID or at least a FW800 drive. We also don’t know codecs that you’re trying to playback, data rates, etc. Far more to it than just CPU.

14. I just tested this. Go to automator. make a new automation called ‘new text’ and as many new whatever types of files you’d like (each with it’s own automation, not all in one). Save the automation as a plugin. Then, you right click on desktop, select ‘more’, and then select automator, and your processes will be there as however you named them in a list. Better yet, you can select as many automations as you’d like with allot more intricacies than you’d expect. Automator is the BOMB!
Be sure you enable assistive devices under system preferences/universal access.

15. This is possible when you encounter a file type that osx is unsure of. It lets you select from a list, or guess. Otherwise, preview will try to do it.

Did you install the studio updates and leopard updates from last week? Solved almost all of my issues, especially sharing on a network.

I love OSX too! Leopard has made my life so much easier now that ichat lets me share screens and control screens. No more painful time consuming descriptions to granny on the phone, just gimme 2 seconds and I’ll show you how it’s done. It seems like many of your concerns are related to learning the OS and it’s intricacies. I moved from Avid/PC to FCP/Mac and it was painful at first. However, I am so clearly a macfanatic, right down to my jailbroken iphone. Mac’s ain’t perfect, but they sure to make my life better than Windows did. Think about it like learning a new language, you won’t learn it until you THINK in that language.

Good luck!
John

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John Davidson____ writer | producer | director____https://www.magicfeather.tv