[Mark Palmos]

Thank you all for your informative and entertaining input!

I wonder If i could sneak through customs with this under my arm. It would pay for a trip to the US to buy it there and fly back here. Maybe I can fly out with an old tower case and fly back with a new one. Maybe they will not notice, maybe I can do NLE from cell block 9 and discuss raid 6 vs 5 with inmates?

Or maybe Lyn can come visit me with a prebuilt system?

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi, yep a bigger system drive wouldnt hurt any!

I am thinking of using a local computer store to integrate it, but I will not buy the matrox card right now. I dont want to wait for the card because I am busy on a project using my laptop and am a bit anxious thatthe heat of my laptop may cause hardware failure, and this is a project I CANNOT mess up, so I want a well ventilated powerhouse.

I am wondering why the words of warning from so many people. I built my own Discreet Edit system way back when, and there were a LOT of gotchas there with windows NT4, IRQ’s etc etc… Have people been having horror stories? I certainly would like to avoid spending the better part of 2800 pounds ($5000) on this box only to find it does not do the job!

Till later
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Aanarav Sareen] “Are you planning on building this yourself? If so, I would advice against it. We just put up an Axio system and tried to build it from scratch. There were too many hardware conflicts and we ended up getting a system from one of the Matrox dealers. Works perfectly!”

Hi Aanarav,
Well yes and no, I was planning on buying the stuff from various online shops and then giving the bits to a local computer shop and have them build it. I will be using it as a DV only software based system for a month or so till the RTX2 comes out, then decide whether I want/can afford the Axio LE or use the RTX2. Why the caution? On Matrox site they list those components as most reliable/compatible.

I would have thought the motherboard was suitable for both LE and RTX2 matrox cards. I dont know if any of the Matrox dealers would put together a system like that from bits I bought, I am guessing they would want to put a mark up on each component and then charge for integration… at least that’s what I would do!

Thanks,
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[David Cherniack] “Alpha canals? They can be more painful than root canals.”

yep, they hurt quite a bit, at least 8.

catcha later david,

mark.

[Mark Palmos]

It works absolutely fine for me.

Just click on the first of the numbered.tga files, select the numbered stills box and whammo, instantly in the bin as a single media file.

If it is greyed out, the files are not named as required. Use irfanview to quickly rename them correctly.

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[David Cherniack] “Keep sub-timelines to one layer or not at all.”

Hey there David,

do you mean keep it to one sub-timeline depth, or to have only one layer of source on a sub timeline?

[David Cherniack] “I’d prefer having 32 root canals.”

does that include an alpha canal?

later
mark

[Mark Palmos]

i guess I ask becauce the audio tools in PP seem to be highly under-rated.
mark

[Mark Palmos]

they say it is coming with a driver upgrade…
i would wait for axio to do it, they are great cards.
mark.

[Mark Palmos]

thanks joel
mark.

[Mark Palmos]

I dont know the answer to your question, but i am curious, why are you doing a mix in protools anyway? PP’s audio tools are superb – certainly do more than what I have ever demanded of a mix.

Mark.