John Pale
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Basically, you have to turn your genuine Mac into a Hackintosh, by using a non-Apple boot loader called Chameleon.
This is because Mountain Lion does not have a 32 bit kernel and a 64 bit kernel as earlier MacOSX versions do. There is only a 64 bit kernel. The Mac Pro 1,1 and 2,1 can only physically handle 32 bit EFI firmware, so they cannot boot the 64 bit kernel normally via EFI. They can boot the 64 bit Kernel like a PC, using BIOS..but that involves a very complicated hack.
If you do it wrong, you can render your computer completely unbootable…so I will not post the procedure here.If you are still interested, you can go to the forums at netkas.org and read the very long thread about it.
I do not recommend doing it, unless you are very advanced with the terminal and Hackintosh stuff.
Even if you are advanced, I still think you are better off getting a used machine off e-bay that can run the 64 bit kernel normally, if you want to run Mountain Lion. That would be a MacPro 3,1 or newer. Lion runs very well on the hacked Mac Pro 1,1 in true 64 bit, but Mountain Lion has some odd power management issues, and some random flakiness that make it not worth the effort on a production machine. If you want to do it for kicks on an extra machine, knock yourself out. It’s kind a fun to get it working…like mission impossible.
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It sounds to me like you have a Mac Pro 1,1.
You cannot run Mountain Lion on this machine (without extreme hackery, anyway…yes, I’ve done it )Lion will work fine with FCP 7, though no real reason to upgrade beyond Snow Leopard unless the features of Lion are important to you or other software you have requires it.
Your original 7300 graphics card is very slow by today’s standards, but FCP makes very little use of graphics acceleration. However, if you want to use Color, you might want to look for a used AMD Radeon card 4870, 5770.
Color likes AMD instead of Nvidia. Newer AMD cards won’t work, so you’d have to find an older one on the used market,I ended up selling my Mac Pro 1,1 and getting a used 3,1 used as a stopgap until see where Apple was going with Pro machines. Nowhere, so far..but that’s another thread.
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You have to click source clip then the sequence, in that order. If you click the sequence first, you don’t get the option as it only works on sequences.
Make sure nothing else is selected in ther bins that would confuse the issue.
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This behavior in 6.5 differs from earlier versions where lassoing was not necessary…just track selection. It has been a topic of heated discussion on the Avid Community board, and may possibly be regarded as a bug. Look for this to be changed back to the original behavior in 7.x.
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Select the low res clips in the bin.
Select the sequence.
Open the Relink dialog and set it to Relink to selectrd master clips in open bins.
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Check the frame rate in your settings. Make sure it’s not set to double your sequence frame rate or something.
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Switch your project to SD in Avid temporarily and you can export OMF.
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Audition does not import OMF or AAF but it will accept a project from Premiere, which does.
You can try that.
I was just having a similar problem last week. The RTAs plugin was not garbled but was ignored in any exports. Only worked when playing live.
I suppose, if I had a tape machine I could output to tape then recapture the audio.
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“Like he stood in the way of Apple’s success for all those earlier years?”
Steve killed licensing Mac OS as one of his first tasks upon his return to the Apple helm. He was dead set against the Mac clones that were being sold at the time.
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The name Sidd Finch made me laugh out loud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidd_Finch
Still, I would not rule out licensing…even after hearing all the convincing arguments against. I don’t think they dropped “Mac” from OSX for nothing. I’m sure if the bean counters can figure out a way to make money with it, they will do it. No Steve Jobs to stand in the way now.