[Mark Palmos]

hi
check to see if your transfer mode is set to anything but normal… ie it its set to add or screen or soft light or overlay etc, it would do what you are describing.

also check the opacity of both the foreground video as well as the layer that contains it. They have separate opacity settings.

mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Bob Cole] “1) hold data you need; and
(2) are the only place you’ve stored the data you need.”

lol
yep
but i reck a blu-ray disk, verified after the burn and looked after (ie, not in the hands of your apprentice nephew) should last for yonks, well at least that is my hope and expectation!

catcha later mate
mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Bob Cole] “I haven’t kept count, but I’d estimate about 1/25 of my data DVDs fail.”

but bob, a failed burn is completely different from a successfully burned disk which fails after some time. Have you had ANY of those (given they are scratch free, fingerprint free, and have not been left on the car dashboard in the arizona sun for a year!)

catcha later
mark.

[Mark Palmos]

hi craig
I was timing by pressing command C on the folder on the camera’s card in the camera, and pressing command V on the desktop – so a basic copy and paste from camera to computer… which is 4x on both mac and pc.
i think there is something wrong with the G5 usb. It is faster than one would expect from USB1 but slower than USB2. Maybe some virus check or something is going on to slow the process?
mark

[Mark Palmos]

Hi Abraham,
thanks for the detailed response!
a feature enhancement would be for a thread containing invisible entries to have a pink triangle which when clicked brings in all the entries for that thread. Or would having that pink triangle work still have to take up the bandwidth you are trying to save?
Tx
Mark

[Mark Palmos]

Hi there Walter, yep, i just ordered one of them… gonna buy a nice DVD storing folder with an indexing system for when I can buy Blu-Ray on a spindle = greener and cheaper.

The blu ray drives for mac so far:

MCE 2x
https://www.mcetech.com/blu-ray/

Fastmac 4x
https://store.fastmac.com/product_info.php?cPath=9_24&products_id=337

Panasonic 2x
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Panasonic/SW5582BK/

Fastmac is the only 4x I can find so far.

catcha later
mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Bob Cole] “When DVDs came out I think I heard that they had an extremely long lifespan. My own experience has taught me otherwise.”

Hi there Bob,

I think the problem with CD and DVD isnt that they fail easily, they dont, (drop a hard drive on concrete, and drop a CD on concrete, see which fails more easility!)

I think the problem is that when CD came out, there was this spin about how hardy they are compared to Vinyl, you can scratch them and they still sound perfect etc.

Of my 1500 CD’s in my music library, not a single one has failed, and the oldest, Ry Cooder’s Jazz, is 22 years old and has been played dozens of times.

If one looks after DVD/CD/BluRay disks, they will certainly last longer than hard disks. Never put them on tables or on each other, treat them like Vinyl and they will last and last HD just plain dont.

catcha later
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi Bill
Thanks for the heads up,
it looks like its only 2x blue ray double layer, the FastMac is 4x – which is quite a difference when you have lots to copy.
Cheers
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Chris Borjis] “Thanks to a format war and not having a clear cut winner adoption by OEM’s has been very slow.”

Hi Chris
I just bought one of the FastMac 4x Double Layer burners… it seems like the one to go for at the moment – gotta have it shipped from the usa – aaugh well, i will lighten the footprint by burning disks instead of buying hard drives!

Catch yaal later
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi Craig
I did a test where i used usb on my macbook instead of the memory stick, and it took 30 secs to copy a folder containing a 2min2second clip (536 MB)… same 4x speed as the PC using USB2.
till later
Mark.