[John Rofrano]

Sound like you have it working. Just be careful with having two partitions with two different versions of OS X. As you have seen, sometimes apps from one partition will be visible to the other. Glad you got it working again.

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[John Rofrano]

Running old software does leave you susceptible to all sorts of attacks. I doubt it has anything to do with the WannaCrypt attack which is targeted at Windows computers but it does use an SMB exploit and Mac supports SMB as well so you have to be careful.

~jr

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Yea, I’ve seen this happen with my system too. Your Mac is seeing the /Applications folder from the other partition and using it instead of the local /Applications folder. The questions is which one got confused? El Capitan or Snow Leopard? I’m guessing that El Capitan saw Chrome on the Snow Leopard partition and updated it.

One way to recover, is to export your bookmarks from Chrome. Drag it into the trash and empty the trash. Then re-install Chrome from Snow Leopard so that you get the correct version again. Then don’t use that with El Capitan. You might need to temporarily rename it, install Chrome in El Capitan and then rename it back again. The key is to make sure that you are pointing to the correct /Applications folder when you start Chrome on each OS. Putting the correct version in the Dock should help.

~jr

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[Walter Miale] “As per instructions I installed El Capitan on a dedicated partition on the internal drive. Now when I click on Startup Disk in System Prefs, the drive partitions other than El Capitan are greyed out, so I cant restart on the old system. So of course I cant access Eudora etc. plus I cant figure out how to get started w Apple Mail. HELP!”

Reboot your Mac and when you hear the chime, hold down the Option ⌥ key until you see a screen with hard drive icons. One will be your El Capitan partition, one will be your Recovery Partition (if you have one) and one will be your Snow Leopard partition. I actually renamed the my Snow Leopard partition from “Macintosh HD” to… “Snow Leopard” so it would be easier to distinguish.

Select the Snow Leopard drive my highlighting it and press enter (or click the mouse on it) to boot into it.

[Walter Miale] “Further: should I install the El Capitan update ASAP (question mark). . .

Yes. It’s always a good idea to apply all of the security and other updates as soon as possible.

. . . and then install Affinity, and-or. . .
go back to the OS 10.6.8 partition (assuming I can get there!) and install CS2″

I would start by installing CS2 on Snow Leopard and see if it works as you expect. Then you don’t have to spend any money on Affinity until you get tired of rebooting at which point, buy Affinity and “move forward”. 😉

~jr

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[Ellen Garvey] “Upper left corner has a pulldown “render options” – just above “formats””

Yea, it seems to be popular to have options hidden behind pull downs in a lot of software these days. On one hand it’s a good idea to keep the user interface uncluttered but on the other hand it does make it difficult to find things at first. Glad you found it. 😉

~jr

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[harry singh] “…can you please guide how to render 1920x1080p 25 frames with 80mbs render in mpeg .ps in vegas pro ?”

I agree with Wayne, Vegas Pro doesn’t support this. The closest is to use the MainConcept MPEG-2 encoder with the Program Stream PAL template and you can change it to HDV and get 60mbps but that’s as high as the bitrate goes.

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[Robert Withers] “My sense is that periodically (5-10 years?) we are forced to buy new stuff because of the conscious-or-not collusion of computer manufacturers and software publishers. “

I doubt that it is collusion or that any conspiracy theory applies here. The simple fact is that manufacturers must continue to add new capabilities in order to attract new income or else the business will fold. I’m running macOS Sierra on a 2010 Mac Pro which is now 7 years old. Will I need a new computer in the next 3 years before it turns 10 years old? Perhaps, but 10 years of service from a computer is an incredibly long time for it to last. You really can’t complain at that point.

[Robert Withers] “I am editing my film/video on a Mac computer running 10.8.5 and both computer and software date to 2013. This works very well but I am paying rental on software which enables the publisher to continually update with versions that I can’t use on my system.”

I agree. Subscription software is the latest scheme in extracting money from your customer base. Now companies have no incentive to improve their software to attract customers because they can simply hold their existing customers for ransom by having their software stop working if they stop paying. I will not subscribe to this form of ransomware. It’s a loosing proposition for the customer.

[Robert Withers] “And I don’t expect to keep any particular hardware running forever if I want to use it everyday.”

Yes, but when your hardware dies, you can always buy used hardware that someone didn’t use every day! There are lots of refurbished 2010 Mac Pros that have a lot of life in them. I picked up a 12-core Mac Pro for $2375 a few years back and it’s still running great. They are priced down into the teens now so you can still buy old hardware and continue to use your old software if you want. I have a partition with Snow Leopard on it for when I need to use DVD Studio Pro and it still works great.

~jr

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Adobe has changed their proprietary NVIDIA CUDA ways and now also supports OpenCL which is supported by both AMD and NVIDIA so there is no longer a need for a proprietary CUDA card anymore. Get a new iMac with an AMD graphics card and enjoy FCP X.

~jr

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If you want to get that parallax effect, move the background image further back in 3D space in Motion and then resize it so that it looks the same size as it was. Then use a Camera to compose the scene and add a slight pan or rotation and it really makes the image stand out because the background will be panning slower than the foreground image (i.e., parallax).

~jr

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NEAT Video is still probably still the best.

There is also CrumplePop VideoDenoise for $99. You can get the demo through FXFactory and see for yourself if you like it.

~jr

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