Matt Doe
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I am running 10.5 on all 3 machines that will in the end access the airport disk.
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Apologies for the double posting
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I work in the QC department of a post house in DC, when it comes to audio peaks for broadcast programming, we flag anything above -10dB (have yet to see any spec from a US broadcaster that says any different), with tone being set at -20dB. Something to keep in mind when you go to mix.
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When you view your exported clip with Quicktime, the background will be black, though if you pull it into FCP and lay it on Video track 2, or whatever, the alpha channel should work its magic, yes?
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I have been having problems with Motion 3 for quite some time. I run a quad 3.0, 6 gigs ram, x1900 system and for the past few months motion has been crashing.
Mainly it would crash if I tried to move around in 3D space with a big sweeping move, or anytime I would switch from perspective view into active camera view, it would crash. Having saved after every change I finally got the project done I was working on.
I thought all would be saved by the new update to Motion, which supposedly brings it up to date with leopard, correct?? (which I am running). I updated all my software and the OS, now Motion will not even open. I click it in the dock and right off the bat I get the “This Program Unexpectedly quit” and yet all other FCP studio programs open up no problem.
I guess an reinstall and re-update of Motion is in order? Any other advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
-MATT
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Someone correct me if I am wrong, but aren’t those cards practically the same minus the stereoscopic display capability of the Quadro.
I am running the 1900XT with no problems with the card itself, Motion has been crashing randomly of late, but that is neither here nor there.
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I have shot a few video podcasts for a team I used to play on with a XL2, I usually white balanced to the dasher boards, if they were white, if not, the ice worked fine for me more often than not. Use the white card if you are at all worried about it coming out correctly.
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The 2.66 Mac Pro should be plenty fast to run what you are looking for. As far as installing with the dual boot, while I have not done that myself, it is a fairly simple process from what I understand using Boot Camp, or parrallels (though you will not get native speed through parallels, but it saves having to reboot everytime you want to get into windows). If you can swing it I would say upgrade to the 3ghz model and as much ram as you can afford. Ram is the key when running parrallels, you need atleast 2 gigs, one for OSX and another for windows.
I myself recently purchased the 3ghz mac pro and upgraded to 6 gigs of ram and have no problems running FCP and photoshop (in rosetta) at the same time. Though at some point in the near future the universal version for photoshop will be out (the beta is already if you have valid key) and you will see a big jump in the performance of the adobe creative suite programs.
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Just picked up a new Mac Pro myself, with the ATI x1900xt 512 mb card, for the minimal price of the upgrade, $250 I believe, if price is not much of a concern you might as well get the better card. I cannot say whether my render speeds are faster because of the card, I am coming from a G4 powerbook so everything is lightning quick for me. But I say if you can afford the extra price of the upgrade, you might as well, especially if you think you may do any work inside of motion. I was able to put atleast 10-15 particle emitters on screen and running within motion and the machine hiccuped for a few seconds and then played everything at once at a full 30 fps, so I think the card is a great upgrade.
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UPDATE: Exported some more last night, this time I saved the files to my 1TB internal RAID, not the 250gb boot drive, and the encode seemed to go a bit faster, but still does not account for the 50% or so of unused processor power…any comments would be appreciated.