Jonathan Holt
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So he’s using FCP on two laptops at the same time, he’s still one man with two hands working on a single machine at any given moment.
My thought is that hopefully they will offer a discounted license so we can all be legal, but only own one copy of the software. I know they offer this with educational facilities that have 20 Macs in an editing lab. At the end of the day, the software is extremely affordable for what it is, and while I don’t think stealing software is fair, I would like to see Apple offer a version of software (I.E. “Family Pack”) like they do with other products where you can install on up too X amount of machines. Paying $1000 over and over again is pretty ridiculous especially when you are in my situation and have 4+ Macs running FCS apps at nay given time. One legal / not so legal way around this might be to by the educational version (doesn’t allow upgrades to new version) which is around 40% cheaper for each of your machines. Then you wouldn’t have the network protection error.
At the same time, some of you guys are a little too high on your horse acting as though someone who asks a question here is automatically a devious person looking to steal something. He quite literally may have not known Apple’s EULA and should be considered “innocent until proven guilty.” It seems as though there are some very cantankerous individuals in the business and it dis-heartens me because I bet with that kind of attitude, business is pretty rough for them. These people who want to be super-secretive about their workflows and equipment and feel that everyone is just out to undercut their inflated prices need to realize that FCS is only $1000, and video production supply is going to continue to grow as the demand does. In the last year I’ve seen at least a dozen new “Production Companies” pop up in the Austin area because someone thinks they can get rich quick by buying a pretty camera and a MAC. Those with talent will always have a job, those without will have to move on.
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Can you give me the format I want? I may go purchase another drive and I am assuming it will will need to be formated before I use it. Basically this drive wont let me transfer anything over a certain GB IE 5? That seems a little ridiculous.
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You may be on to something. The hard drive is MS-DOS FAT 32. I have not been able to move really large .mov files onto this hard drive before to back them up. Is there a way to increase the file size limit? I’d really like to use this 1TB Seagate drive as my scratch disk. I cant format it now, as it has to much on it and I can’t back it up on anything.
Thanks for the help.