[Mark Palmos]

Hi

Interestingly, Apple did not have a booth at the recent Broadcast show in London, but Avid and Adobe had their own booths. Apple products were demo’ed by retail vendors as well as occupying some of the Demonstration Areas – showcasing workflows etc.

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hey David, remember Discreet Edit, we could do DOZENS of audio layers without rendering – on a two processor P2! FCP is pretty darn lame in that dept.
Catcha later
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[walter biscardi] “I opened the Mac Pro. Installed the drive into the 2nd optical slot. Took about 10 minutes.”

Hello Walter

Did you use the supplied SATA cable?

Where did you plug it in – to the slot under the fan carriage or in an empty drive bay?

if on the motherboard, how did you manage to remove the memory, drives, fan chassis etc without the instructions Fastmac do not provide!

did you remove the piece of plastic from behind the aluminium “gate” which slides up when you eject the drive. Fastmac say this needs to be done too.

now im REALLY curious!

Tx
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

oops,
very trigger happy here.
sorry

[Mark Palmos]

Hello Walter and others.

I am very curious as to how you managed to install yours Walter. I’ve had an extremely poor experience with my FastMac and have not been able to make it work yet, spent the better part of the day trying.

Really the drive should be an IDE drive (if that is fast enough) because the MacPro has an IDE ribbon cable right there in the optical drive enclosure, ready for a second optical drive to be installed. The MacPro is designed as though to prevent you from doing anything inside the box, incredibly bad layout inside. You have to remove half the components to simply put the sata cable into the slot. Then, courtesy of fastmac,

1/ the sata cable is way too short to go from the motherboard slot to the drive and we have had to run a 3rd party cable over the drive trays, so the case will not close properly because of this.
2/ the sata cable provided should be a 90 degree cable for it to work with the small gap where the sata controller is situated
3/ the drive tray itself is too wide for the MacPro!!!! The drive is screwed into the drive caddy using the 4 supplied screws. The drive caddy is placed in the slot exactly. The original drive ejects fine, the FastMac drive bangs against the enclosure, unable to open.

I have just written to FastMac, perhaps they sent the wrong drive!

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hello Walter and others.

I am very curious as to how you managed to install yours Walter. I’ve had an extremely poor experience with my FastMac and have not been able to make it work yet, spent the better part of the day trying.

Really the drive should be an IDE drive (if that is fast enough) because the MacPro has an IDE ribbon cable right there in the optical drive enclosure, ready for a second optical drive to be installed. The MacPro is designed as though to prevent you from doing anything inside the box, incredibly bad layout inside. You have to remove half the components to simply put the sata cable into the slot. Then, courtesy of fastmac,

1/ the sata cable is way too short to go from the motherboard slot to the drive and we have had to run a 3rd party cable over the drive trays, so the case will not close properly because of this.
2/ the sata cable provided should be a 90 degree cable for it to work with the small gap where the sata controller is situated
3/ the drive tray itself is too wide for the MacPro!!!! The drive is screwed into the drive caddy using the 4 supplied screws. The drive caddy is placed in the slot exactly. The original drive ejects fine, the FastMac drive bangs against the enclosure, unable to open.

I have just written to FastMac, perhaps they sent the wrong drive!

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hello Walter and others.

I am very curious as to how you managed to install yours Walter. I’ve had an extremely poor experience with my FastMac and have not been able to make it work yet, spent the better part of the day trying.

Really the drive should be an IDE drive (if that is fast enough) because the MacPro has an IDE ribbon cable right there in the optical drive enclosure, ready for a second optical drive to be installed. The MacPro is designed as though to prevent you from doing anything inside the box, incredibly bad layout inside. You have to remove half the components to simply put the sata cable into the slot. Then, courtesy of fastmac,

1/ the sata cable is way too short to go from the motherboard slot to the drive and we have had to run a 3rd party cable over the drive trays, so the case will not close properly because of this.
2/ the sata cable provided should be a 90 degree cable for it to work with the small gap where the sata controller is situated
3/ the drive tray itself is too wide for the MacPro!!!! The drive is screwed into the drive caddy using the 4 supplied screws. The drive caddy is placed in the slot exactly. The original drive ejects fine, the FastMac drive bangs against the enclosure, unable to open.

I have just written to FastMac, perhaps they sent the wrong drive!

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hello Walter and others.

I am very curious as to how you managed to install yours Walter. I’ve had an extremely poor experience with my FastMac and have not been able to make it work yet, spent the better part of the day trying.

Really the drive should be an IDE drive (if that is fast enough) because the MacPro has an IDE ribbon cable right there in the optical drive enclosure, ready for a second optical drive to be installed. The MacPro is designed as though to prevent you from doing anything inside the box, incredibly bad layout inside. You have to remove half the components to simply put the sata cable into the slot. Then, courtesy of fastmac,

1/ the sata cable is way too short to go from the motherboard slot to the drive and we have had to run a 3rd party cable over the drive trays, so the case will not close properly because of this.
2/ the sata cable provided should be a 90 degree cable for it to work with the small gap where the sata controller is situated
3/ the drive tray itself is too wide for the MacPro!!!! The drive is screwed into the drive caddy using the 4 supplied screws. The drive caddy is placed in the slot exactly. The original drive ejects fine, the FastMac drive bangs against the enclosure, unable to open.

I have just written to FastMac, perhaps they sent the wrong drive!

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi all,

Im now 100% sure the problem was caused by the process I had used – exporting the previous master timeline in Premier as a DV MOV then using that in FCP as a source file.

It was ok by itself, but when there was a transition between that file and the other source clips in the project, there was a problem.

those other source clips were created by rendering the premier pro avi files to mov files but using quick time on the mac.

so there you go, user error… fcp worked perfectly when i replaced the offending clips.

thank you for all your help, live and learn i guess

Mark

[Mark Palmos]

[Thax Clave] “If I wanted to create this scene, I’d make sure to shoot it with the effect in mind.”

yeah, very important, and also MUCH easier if you film it with the camera completely static on a tripod. Then you can be sure that the background of the static man will be the same as the background of the moving man and it will not look unnatural.

mark.