[Mark Palmos]

hello all

For me, Blu-Ray is the best solution. At the moment is it a little slow, a little costly but it is more future proof than others because they will get a lot faster and cheaper in a short while, and in the meantime you will be building up a library of disks you can use into the future.

Physically, disks are a lot easier and more efficient to store than any of the other methods, and their size lends them well to being archived in easy to access libraries. At work we have a bunch of usb drives floating about – looks messy and is clunky.

thinking green for a momet, the idea of buying hard drives and stacking them up, knowing their shelf life is short kinda makes my stomache turn… such a waste of natural resources.

300gb tapes are probably best, but the faster tapes drives are still extremely expensive.

GO BLU RAY
just have to find that panasonic 4x mac compatible drive now!

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Bill Bilowit – Tareco Pictures] ”
Coming soon is Panasonic’s dual-layer Blu-Ray SATA burner promising zippier speeds”

hi there
is the drive you mention the SW-5583-C?
I went to panasonic’s site and could not find any drives which are OSX compatible.
Thanks
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Bob Flood] “my 3.1417 cents”

hey bob old buddy, we are now using the same edit system you know?! so i can just let you know its really 3.1415926 cents – so stick that in your xmas pie.

catcha later
mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi there,
Great, thanks.
I live in the UK which would make it a little trickier, both the blu-ray burners ive seen have to be bought in the usa then shipped here.

yours
https://www.mcetech.com/blu-ray/

and the fastmac drive
https://store.fastmac.com/product_info.php?cPath=9_24&products_id=337

there must be more than TWO!?

thanks all.
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Craig Seeman] “Sony also says you can change the .mp4 to .ts and the resultant file can be played on Blu-ray player or PS3 (which is a Blu-ray player).”

Craig, I wonder if you can change the .mov to .ts to do the same trick? If not, wihout any other equimpent one would have to double up on transfers to the mac.

I dont have a blueray to try it on.

Mark

[Mark Palmos]

[Craig Seeman] ”
I’m only getting 1.3x via USB to my G5 Dual desktop. Yes it’s a USB2 port.”

Hi Craig
there must be something wrong here mate!
ive just plugged the camera with the sony clip software and drivers installed into my 6 year old PC with xp and timed the import of a HQ (35mbps) 2minute41 second clip… 35 seconds. So it should definitely be a little faster than 4x with USB2.

I dont know what to suggest, i know on PC’s sometimes you have to remove the usb drivers then restart windows to have it able to see usb2 for the fist time (“enhanced usb”) – perhaps some mac fundi can help you out there.
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi Darby

[Darby Edelen] “The keyboard shortcut to access the dock for keyboard navigation is not the same as the keyboard shortcut to show/hide the dock by default.”

yeah, i got that a couple of days ago, and it one CAN access the dock icons without a mouse.

you misunderstood what i meant about the menu commands in windows vs osx. In windows you dont have to know the keyboard shortcut commands to be able to access them, every single menu has one leter which is underlined, and when you press ALT-letterunderlined, the menu expands. Down arrow moves the highlight to browse the items you want. Right arrow moves you to the next menu etc, so you never have to use the mouse to access commands, even if you dont know the keyboard command in Windows.

AFAIK there is no way to do this in OSX, its not different in OSX, it is missing! (and there are several other missing elements in OSX)

I wonder why a professional application like Photoshop or Final Cut would not allow you to use the keyboard to toggle between options on the requester pop ups? In windows there is no choice, the user always has the full power of what is available, and like the menu paradigm, all pop ups have a keyboard shortcut to get there quickly, like ALT-C to cancel, ALT-O for OK etc…

Its not just a question of “different ways” of doing the same thing – in these examples OSX seems retarted as there is no way to do it without a mouse. (AFAIK)

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi Joe, ok, gotcha.
About the backlog, its odd, most shops here (london) say they have a backlog and that i could get a camera by end of january, but one of them said i could get the camera in three days (the day after he was receiving a bunch) – so if you do want one, id phone every shop in town, and the nearby town too…

All the best, have a great xmas
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Steve Wargo] “you need to take your left hand and support the underside of the camera. Good thing they told us.”

LOL
yes, the thougth of using the other hand had completely escaped me. thank goodness for manuals.

[Mark Palmos]

hey don
yeah, 9x real time, but i think the usb is about 4x real time… hence my maths 😉
catcha later mate
mark.