[John Davidson]

Power consumption for periphs like the black magic mini monitor go through the roof. I recommend you guys wait if you can.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Just wait. I’ve had some weird mouse issues and things like that.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

El Capitan .1 update is coming soon. Maybe hold out for that and then install updates for everything. When installing CC 2015, make sure you are NOT uninstalling your 2014 apps. I’ve found 2015 to be very buggy.

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[John Davidson]

[Bret Williams] “But other lags seem to be having any sort of motion generator in the timeline, even rendered. When I have those I have to restart X every half hour sometimes.
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That’s odd Bret. We have our motion templates synced across macs from the server, which if anything should make us encounter problems more than you do. I wonder if there’s something going on in the type of motion generator you’re using? Happy to test it if you want to send it to me.

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[John Davidson]

Effects / levels / compressor. Play with the settings and set limiter to -6 or whatever you want. Lots of posts about this so search the forum for more.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

What does the ‘about this mac’ say is the year model?

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

You find your iMac version by clicking the Apple icon and selecting ‘about this mac’. As long as your iMac is newer than 2007 your mac should qualify.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/190744/which-macs-are-compatible-with-os-x-10-11-el-capitan

Here is the OS X Yosemite Combo link directly from Apple.
https://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1832/en_US/osxupdcombo10.10.5.dmg

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[John Davidson]

What model mac do you have?

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[John Davidson]

Choose ‘Duplicate project as Snapshot’ and it will create a completely unique project, even if you have compound clips.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Merry xmas!

Combine Multiple Files
Quicktime can also combine multiple video files. Start by opening the first file in QuickTime. Next, drag-and-drop another file onto the QuickTime window. You’ll see it appear at the end of the first file. You can drag-and-drop each clip here to rearrange their order. Double-click a clip to open the Trim interface, where you can easily remove content you don’t want to appear in the resulting file.

This also works with audio files. Drag-and-drop an audio file onto the QuickTime window and it will appear on a bar below the video files. This will overlay the audio over the video file, and it will play at the same time as the video. Both the audio file’s audio and the original video file’s audio will play at the same time. You could use this to add background music to a video, for example.

When you save (or duplicate and save) the original file, the additional content will appear at the end of the file — in the same order it appears on the bar at the bottom of the screen. Simple!

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.