[Joseph Owens]

Well, the Windows7 base is excited — Sandy Bridge will definitely speed up their gaming-and-download experiences.

There was some wacky speculation about ditching the 5.25 optical drive/bay and slimming the case down.
But probably someone is ‘lion’ to us. But then again… the OS and maybe even the rest of the system may just eventually repose in the CLOWD and when was the last time you used a 3.5″ floppy? What would be difficult about imbedding a “Safe” boot firmware partition — so that if the whole system kacked you could at least limp into the App Store or your Time Machine to put it all back together? I thought that was heading in the direction of one of the big Lion features. Ha! Use your iPad as a lifeboat like the LEM in Apollo XIII.

So definitely the external BluRay burner goes on the shopping list….

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

[Chris Tomberlin] “This happens when I have only the 4000 installed. I have an ATI 5770 but thought that I would try to get the 4000 working before throwing another card in the mix.”

Are you answering your own question? I was under the impression that Resolve configuration required a GUI card plus a GPU for image processing and that trying to run the app with only one card was not recommended. This would be part of the limitations that apply to MacBooks, and once OpenCL is added in the next version, iMacs.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

[Tom Durham] ” FCP has done the proper pulldowns (like from 59.94) for 23.98.”

Hmm. When did they fix that? And how did it figure out the ABCD dominance, or was it flagged AP?

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

[Mike Muraya] “Someone please help.”

Navigate to the Blackmagic website and locate and download the Resolve Configuration guide. From that you will be able to decide what steps you need to take.

Resolve is designed to run with primarily nVidia CUDA-based processing, provided by a rather specific hardware configuration. Resolve for Mac can run on a MacBook Pro under some other recommended circumstances. As I understand the situation, version 8 introduces OpenCL, which will allow limited operation on qualified iMac and MacBook Pros, but for now, only the UI can be displayed on the approved ATI 5770 GPU, which is a tower-only prospect.

Also arriving with the new version will be the two-node plugin for Final Cut.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

[Craig Seeman] “Marvin the Paranoid Android.”

True. I knew it, and I tried to tell you, but I could tell you probably weren’t interested. Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and all they want me to do is background rendering. Talk about job satisfaction…

Marvin

PS, that door is going to deliver an FCPX tutorial, I can sense its growing smugness… God, I’m so depressed….

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

Interesting to me that so many clients, unsolicited, and also media-savvy have already remarked that what they’ve heard is that FCP-X has already “tanked”, and in no small measure due to a very ill-considered preview.

What can you say about an incipient product whose real prospect has already resulted in a massive fan-out of experienced professionals actively evaluating and purchasing the competing applications? By any measure, a relations-disaster, but -big deal – Apple can count on millions of downloads at that price. It just doesn’t matter if anyone uses it, or if everyone does. It will be out there, and if anyone like a third-AD boots up a preview clip on their laptop, then “A-List Feature Working Title” used FCPX in their production and the numbers get bumped up again. So what if the lion’s share of the work is done with any of the competing products — you can always re-jig the stats so the other guys are quote -fighting it out for second place.

Although they state that the numbers don’t matter to them… who is Apple trying to kid? This all has some terrible feel of “disconnected-ness”.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

[Simon Astbury] “Color is going the way of shake IMO.”

Obvious for some time.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

[David Roth Weiss] ” absolutely no information about the disposition of Color”

Oh, I think we have seen enough to figure out the disposition of COLOR to within about 6 decimal places.

With an auto-balance, auto-match and user shape imbedded in the three-way… eliminating the round trip (which is 99% of the problems with the FCS/COLOR “integration”), there is no need to speculate.

Its been “SHAKE”‘d.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

[David Roth Weiss] “Excellent post”

I would add three words to the “ADO” nostalgia — Vital Industries Squeezoom.
Oh, and a couple more:
Ampex RA-4000.

As far as the Hitler rant goes, haven’t the smug tutorials already started? But, the funniest “Rant” takeoffs are of poor old ‘Dolf being informed that there are literally thousands of these subtitled shorts and he really resents being made a laughing stock. Particularly when he’s informed that Terrell Owens has been traded to Cincinnati, or was that Buffalo… oh, well, one of those trades… (I collect #81 NFL shirts, and probably not possible to get every team with my name on it… but close! — maybe Edmonton Eskimos next!)

jPOwens

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

[Michael Gissing] “The fix is to delete the files completely from your drive, change the file name and copy back onto your Mac. Change FCPs default project to PAl 25 fps and reimport the files back into FCP. Now, drop those files into your 25 fps sequence and they won’t drift.”

Interesting. I could not for the life of me figure out where FCP was getting the 29.97 frame rate when I was clearly in a 25 fps project. Hmmmmm. Its almost worth re-opening the project to see if the preview waveforms would line up correctly… nawwwww……

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?