John Rofrano
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You seem to have a good grasp of your options so I have nothing to add there. I have 2TB Western Digital MyPassport drives that I believe came formatted as exFAT to go between my Mac and Windows computers and it has been performing fine. Not as fast as HFS+ drives but certainly fast enough to transfer video files.
I also use Paragon HFS+ for Windows and NTFS for Mac and both have been working fine. My Mac Pro has Bootcamp so I use HFS+ for Windows to read my Mac drives from the Windows partition and NTFS for Mac to write to my Windows drives from the Mac partition. (macOS can already read NTFS).
I would let the students decide. Probably the simplest solution is to tell the PC users to format their drive as exFAT on their PC. Do not format it on the Mac. I have run into compatibility issues if you format the drive on the Mac but formatting it with Windows seems to keep both OS’s happy.
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[Robert Withers] “Does this mean High Sierra won’t work with any of my external spinning disks? That would be a nogo. Or just that the installation needs to be working on an SSD?”
High Sierra introduces a new filesystem called APFS which is a faster new 64bit file system that is specifically designed to work with SSDs and is already used by iOS. If you have an SSD as your boot drive, it will automatically be upgraded to this new filesystem. If you have an HDD or Fusion drive you will be prompted as to whether or not you want to convert it. This has no negative affects on any previous filesystem drives as they are all still supported. The only scenario that this would affect, is if you “dual boot” from other drives. The older macOS would not be able to read the APFS drive, which is something to consider for people who do this. Other than that, having APFS as your boot drive should have no negative effect. You can still use and format other drives as HPFS just like you always did.
The best advice from that article is one that I always give: Before any OS upgrade, make a clone of your hard drive with Carbon Copy Cloner to an external drive. If everything does go horribly wrong… boot from the backup, reformat and restore your old OS. No harm done (just time lost).
The biggest unknown for Musicians, Video Editors, and Graphic Designers is: Do all of my plug-ins work? I would wait a while for manufacturers to confirm that the plug-ins you care about will continue to work on High Sierra.
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Who knows where they could have been had they went on with Final Cut 8.
Final Cut Pro X of course! ????
I can kind of see the point to the article. It is a eulogy for an application that wouldn’t lie down years after it was pronounced dead! If people stopped using FCP 7 when it was discontinued then this article would either not exist, or would have been written 8 years ago but the fact is, that this application fundamentally came at a time when new technology like firewire and DV changed the way we edit video and dropping support for FCP 7 didn’t change that. People did not stop using it. They continued to hang on to it until the inevitable day when it simply would no longer work. So it’s a reflection on the dawn if a new way of working that change the video industry forever and the role that FCP 7 played in it. Of course it fails to acknowledge that there is now a better way to work called FCP X… but I digress.
Perhaps I have a different view on the article because this is what got me into video. Back in 1983, I took a course in college on TV production and I loved writing and producing shows but at that time you needed a big expensive studio with big expensive equipment to do it so I never continued it beyond college because my studies took me elsewhere. Then years later in 1998, I realized that, just like desktop publishing before it, I could shoot, edit, and produce videos with a DV camera and a desktop computer! That was a game changer for me. That’s what got me back into video. I could now do it at home and the only thing holding me back was my imagination not my wallet. That was liberating.
So I think the author was acknowledging that the end of an era for some had finally arrived. Now for those of use who moved on to FCP X, that era ended 8 years ago. But I enjoyed reading the article for it’s nostalgic value. It was a perfect storm of technology back then. Considering that I still have my original 48K Apple ][+ and Macintosh 128K in my basement… yea… I have a hard time letting go of the technology that fundamentally changed my life. ???? (…ask my wife)
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I use a Canopus ADVC 300 Converter which has a Time Base Corrector built in. You need a device like this to capture tapes that are bad like that. Not cheap but gets the job done. If you are professional offering this as a service, you will make your money back quickly. For a one-off odd job, maybe buy it and sell it on eBay.
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Thanks Francois. I knew someone here would have the procedure. ????
This is not only for cameras. I have a friend who is a musician and and has a firewire mixing console and the same thing happened to him. He had to waste days trying to get the legacy firewire drivers to work. You wonder what on earth the Windows developers were thinking when they broke support for everyone using firewire devices and apparently don’t care because they broke it in Windows 8 and did not fix it in Windows 10. Hopefully that link will work for you.
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Sorry I can’t be more help but I haven’t used Windows since version 7 when firewire capture worked. I’ve been using a Mac for the past 4 years and it still captures from my firewire cameras just fine. It’s unfortunately that Windows 10 is broken with regard to capturing from firewire cameras but this is what you need to get it to do. Perhaps someone else on the forums that is using Windows 10 with firewire cameras can help?
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No worries. I use to run Vegas Pro on my Mac using Bootcamp with Windows 7 and it ran about the same as on a PC so no surprises there. What people don’t realize about the Mac platform is that the developers are using the exact same Mac that you are which allows them to tune their software specifically for their hardware because they know in advance what your hardware will look like. This is a very powerful concept. Sort of like with “turn-key” systems which always performed better than generic systems.
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[Bruce Richard] “There is some sticker shock when I look at the prices on the i9’s, but maybe I just need to take the hit, and arealize that the extra will be spread out over many years, hopefully.”
If you aren’t betting you business on this then I wouldn’t worry about the Core i9. Yes they are expensive but in business, time is money so time saved is money saved or earned.
[Bruce Richard] “…if I read it right, you said you played around at the apple store with a 4 core for 4k editing, and it worked well. That kind of confused me.”
Yup, that’s right and it confuses a lot of people. Final Cut Pro X on the Mac runs much better than anything on a PC and so you don’t need as powerful a Mac. You can edit 4K smoothly on a Core i5 iMac with FCP X which you would never attempt to do on a PC or even with another NLE on the Mac. Apple has the hardware and software precisely tuned to take full advantage off each other. So you never have people complaining that FCP X doesn’t take advantage of the GPU on their Mac like I hear all the time on a PC. It’s a totally different world when one vendor owns the hardware and software.
Here is one comparison that proves my point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUY9mZoWv0w
~jr
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[Bruce Richard] “He just sent me back an estimate, and he selected a RX580 for the GPU. Also, he specced a Core i7 7700k processor. Not sure what mobo he picked out. A 500Gb SSD, 32Gb of RAM, Windows 10.”
I don’t follow PC hardware anymore since I moved to the Mac and Final Cut Pro X several years ago (and am I glad to not have to angst over what hardware to buy anymore) so I can’t say if AMD is still the choice for Vegas Pro 13 (since I don’t use it). I’m guessing that AMD would still be relevant since Vegas Pro 13 is still the same code base as when I used it.
My only comment would be: Why would you still be buying Core i7 CPU’s when Intel has come out with the Core i9? Especially if you are someone who doesn’t upgrade every 2 years and keeps their PC for a long time. You would think that you would buy the latests and greatest which will last the longest before becoming obsolete? If I still built PC’s that’s what I would do. My last PC 4 years ago was a 6-core, my current Mac Pro is a 12-core. I can’t see buying a 4-core anything in 2017 unless video is just a hobby for you, then a 4-core is probably fine for occasional use but if you do upgrade to 4K in the future, Sony recommended an 8-core minimum and I assume MAGIX does too. Just something to think about.
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[Bill Kranz] “For the 4 pin Firewire out port I hooked that up to my 6 pin Firewire port on the front top of my Windows 10 PC.”
That’s the connection you want to use to capture miniDV. You may have to tell Windows 10 to use the Legacy firewire drivers (Google it). Then use Vegas Pro to capture. No need for the Hauppauge box. That would be a lossy nature while firewire is completely lossless.
~jr
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