[Mark Palmos]

gotcha!
is flip4mac the only wmv solution?
ta
mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Andy Mees] “drag and drop your Applications folder onto the right hand side of the Dock”

Thanks Andy, I will give that a bash today… i should probably be posting this stuff on the osx forum, you are right.

and also, WRT quicksilver, i agree that the less running in the background the better, i could put up with a mouse click or three 😉

till later
mark.

[Mark Palmos]

yes, I have written to Ron L about it, but have not heard back. It seems a bit better today, but yesterday it was taking about a minute to get to a page.

mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi there Andy,
thanks for the friendly reply!
i have a comment on one of yours:

[Andy Mees] “. I don’t know about you, but when I want to launch an app I want to just double click it, not drill down through a folder heiracchy of these otherwise useless to me libraries and frameworks etc.”

yes, absolutely! When starting a programme I wnat to launch easily and quickly… nothing i have seen IMO beats windows XP classic for speed where you put the icons for all the programmes you use in the top level of the start menu, so you press the windows button once, down arrow to the icon you want, press enter and the programme starts. When browsing a computer, I want to be able to see every single file, every location, everything, but dont want to have to open some other (terminal) application. I am not in love with DOS (or unix) i just want to be able to do whatever I want and not be protected and hampered by an EEZEE operating system interface. Macintosh Explorer is not bad, you can copy and paste the path, but OSX open file dialogue will not allow you to paste a path in the search field, and there is no field for entering a path or filename, so this shortcut method is missing.

usually in windows, if i want to delete something, I am sure i want to delete it and press shift-delete, so it doesnt even go to the trash can but is gone for good. If I think there is a 1% chance of wanting it back, i press the delete key, windows says “are you sure?” i press enter and it goes to the trash can (and can be salvaged at a later date).

talking of speed, my 8 core is nice, but does not feel any faster than my dual opteron HP9300 running XP (vista is abysmal)

thanks mate
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Shane Ross] “CUT AND PASTE CLIPS ON THE FINDER LEVEL? Who does that?”

hmmm
power users? people who want to do things with one step rather than three.
drag and drop is so much less powerful, it assumes you can see both locations at the same time. Cut and paste, you could do several operations in between if you want. I prefer keyboard over mouse whenever it is possible… much faster.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi Jeremy

yeah, sure, i am very new to osx so im sure there are plenty things i am yet to discover, like a Finder replacement maybe! I really wonder why apple decided to protect people from the real workings of the computer… there are about 10 things I have written down, but they are on my mac at work, but a few of them are:

why does the delete key not delete in finder? apple backspace is not an intuitive command, and dragging files to a trash can that acts drunk when you move towards it is not much fun.

i would expect a powerful os like osx to allow users to see actual paths, paths written in text which you can copy and paste in any file open requester or any other computer fields to take you immediately to that place.

why cant one cut and paste files in finder?

“applications” in finder are often actually folders containing a bunch of files, why does apple hide the contents from users?

in general, though osx is very sophisticated in many ways, apple tend to dumb down things and its what i find really irritating about the interface. OH yes, the text on screen is fuzzy!! I have tried two sets of two monitors (none made by apple) and the ATI 1900 card makes the desktop and application text a bit fuzzy in places, almost asif the screen resolution is incompatible with the monitors.

gotta sleep now, but if you are really interested i will post a link to my full list once i post it on the edit*ors forum

catcha later
mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[David Roth Weiss] “After 30-days that ceases.”

hey david,
dont you wanna come visit for a couple of weeks and be my personal tutor? actually OSX has been much harder to get to use than FCP… so much for mac being intuititve, that Finder is so lame compared to Windows Explorer – ah well. I took about 45 miniutes trying to work out how to delete some clips on my desktop… and was astonished that you cannot cut and paste clips using finder, only copy and paste (unless this osx newbie is missing something here!)

i may put a post on the edit*ors forum as a first impression of fcp and osx after xp and premier cs3… so far i am very impressed with fcp and its depth and maturity. OSX is another story, I keep on finding it frustrating and limiting.

catcha later mate
mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi Walter,
The deck does not have firewire output, only component… the PAL DV setting is only for firewire input and control (afaik).

but there’s a large woops, after restarting the deck control went completely – so I re-seated the cables and hey presto! Sorry for the false alarm and thanks for the help!

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi Walter,
Easy Setup is set to Format:PAL Rate25fps Use: AJA KONA LH PAL 8 Bit to DV and in the details below it says device control is Aja Kona LH: PAL Sony VTR…

I will restart and give it another bash.
Ta,
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Anders Haavie] ”
You could also try running fcprescue that will delete your fcp prefs. That usually fixes fcp crashing during startup (however, not sure wether you still have fcp on your mac or not)”

Hi Anders,
The fcprescue worked, thanks very much… a bit scary FCP can get completely stopped by a few settings!!!
Btw, I noticed the author of fcprescue is also called Anders, but has a different surname from yours.
Best regards,
Mark.