John Foley
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There is no command that can compare copious amounts of files on two different volumes and tell you what the differences are.
The best way to make sure that one drive has the very same files as the first is to use Carbon Copy Cloner on a bare-empty drive/volume and copy every thing, bit by bit.
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I wouldn’t necessarily run away but I would make it painfully clear that it can not be done in 2 weeks and it is going to cost them dearly for delivering sloppy materials to work with. Just decide what your time is really worth and don’t count on working on this more than 8 hours a day.
It is very easy to get sucked into a project but this mismash of formats and no timecode will kill your creativity if it becomes the big thing to sort this out.
Kinda why assistant editors exist.
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A single stream of 10 bit uncompressed will probably work on a single internal SATA drive but to be safe, use two such drives and the Apple Disk Utility to stripe them as RAID 0. You will need a PCI Serial ATA controller card to add two disk drives, but you will definitely get the bandwidth that you need.
The Decklink Pro SDI card is probably the best value since it can do other things that the Decklink $295 can not.
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There are ways to interface with a Windows formatted drive in MacOs X but at a larger level, you’re fighting an uphill battle to justify one application. After Effects and Combustion are both PC and MAC and they are the accepted process in most PC based houses.
I personaly don’t get the PC only mentality but the price of a MAC is not the defining reason for choosing a platform, to me. If it works for your facility, I seriously doubt you can effectively change any minds with Motion.
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Get the Peachpit book – Apple Pro Training Series: Motion by Damian Allen and you will learn that and much more.
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Go forth and shoot your own footage to use. Why not?
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Motion is extremely stable on my dual 1.0 GHz MAC. There is not one thing I have ever asked it to do, that failed. Sure, learn to Save – SAve – SAVE and often but depending on which MAC you are using, Motion 1.01 should be rock solid!
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I use a USB/FW 400 powered hub I purchased at meritline.com for $35.00. I needed extra USB ports for iLock dongles.
Keep in mind that with 3 Firewire ports, you need one of them to connect to the MAC Firewire port.
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If this isn’t someones idea of an April fools joke – it should be.
Computers break- computers flake – they ain’t a toaster. Users flake- users like to blame anything else except them selves for “GLITCHES” in hardware and software.
Considering the masses of people who use the very same applications that you do, and seem to have no trouble; wouldn’t you think you’d get the fact that it could be you or your system OR….
NO one forced you to upgrade to the next version of OS X. Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro and Motion all work great on my dual 1.0 Ghz MAC.
Why doesn’t it work for you??????