Lawrence Marshall
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If you have only the new drive in your Mac and nothing is on it, you will get the blinking question mark. Your G5 is looking for a system folder to start up with… right now your second drive is completetly blank, so your Mac has nothing to start up with.
Who is the manufacturer of your second drive? I seem to recall that certain Seagate models will NOT work in a G5 with the internal SATA connector. I ran into your very same situation, and it was a Seagate SATA I was trying to install (the Mac wouldn’t see it, etc.). Substituted a new Hitachi drive and all was well.
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You can also use a reference movie from the M100 timeline in Flip4Mac.
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If you’re on a Mac and want to stay there, use Flip4Mac Studio (www.flip4mac.com). Set you back $49.00. I don’t know if it’s any faster than Cleaner.
I also use ProCoder on a PC. I export the timeline as self-contained, dump it to a hard drive, hook it up to a PC (you’ll need to have something like MacOpener on your PC) and encode it there.
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I’m way out on the other extreme, using a Pioneer LX-1 DVD dual-DVD recorder with component, composite, and SDI video in, along with balanced XLR audio in. Very expensive, but also very handy when I have to burn two discs at the same time (which is usually “all the time”), and the quality is quite good.
(watch that spelling in the previous post, Greg… it’s spelled “disc”…)
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I’ve beeen wondering how this virus thing works with the new Macs that can also run Windows. Soooo… can the Mac OS/partition on the hard drive get “infected” if Windows is booted? It’s a hard drive that gets infected, not hardware… so would an entire drive be affected (or locked up or erased), go down if infected, or only the Windows partition? Will viruses creep over the Windows/Mac moat and blast away at Mac files?
Larry M
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Haven’t seen this one yet, which I own:
Panasonic AJ-SD93 (a DVCPro50 recorder/player)
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Try using your mouse to hit the “stop” button instead of the “O” on the numeric keypad.
I was experiencing the same thing on my HD system… only a few digitized files would get through and then the next one would be corrupted. It was M100 tech support who suggested mousing and clicking the “stop” button instead of “O”. That fixed the problem. It’s not as handy and quick, but I’ve not had one failed digitizing situation since. Learn to keep the cursor over the “stop” button, and click the mouse when needed.
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If these are talking-head interviews, and if by chance your client wants guaranteed playback on multiple machines, I would suggest MPEG-1 or Windows Media files before MPEG-2. I’ve had lots of “MPEG-2 in Powerpoint” experience, and you’d be better off going with a format that is more universally playable (e.g. – if a computer doesn’t have a DVD player and/or decoder with MPEG-2 playback capability, you won’t get video playback. MPEG-1 has less issues and more likelihood of playback on different machines).
An MPEG-1 with a high-encode bit rate (8-10 mbps) can look mighty good at full-screen and still play smoothly. I’ve integrated talking-head MPEG-1 interviews into presentations, and instead of going full-screen, I expanded the video frame to maybe 70 percent of the slide, putting into a mortice on the slide’s background or building some other interesting graphic around it.
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I am cutting a 16:9 show right now (720×486 anamorphic). I export a self-contained file, open it up in Quicktime, and export a 16×9 WMV file using Flip4Mac (selecting the 16×9 size setting). Not sure why you are crashing… did you try a self-contained file using another codec (e.g. – Photo JPEG)?
Larry Marshall
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I can verify safely recording to a Mac laptop and external SATA drive (using a SATA PCMCIA card) for 2-hour blocks at a time with nary a hiccup in FCP 4.5…
Larry M