Michael Gossen
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In my opinion, it is good practice to have them set/check their scratch disk when they start up anyway. That will only help you keep track of all those files later when you start running out of disk space because 5 months worth of render files are piling up.
Don’t know about the “students” directory, but let’s think it through. When you trash your preferences and open FCP again for the first time, the “Choose Setup” dialog appears and one of the things it asks for is the “Primary Scratch Disk”.
I think this is always a Volume as opposed to a directory. Is this where “students” is showing up? If that is the case, then I would tend to think it is a network volume. Again, I think it should be the system volume by default, like you would think. That is unless the the student accounts aren’t actually set correctly via AD to direct network user system folders locally. Then OSX would think the network volume is the system volume. The students wouldn’t have write access to create the necessary folder structure for scratch disks, crashing their FCP. When you log in as a network user Administrator, you do have access to make a directory structure on the “students” volume, i.e. FCP launches. Make sense?
You can check the /Volumes directory and see if there is a mount. Use Apple+Shift+g in Finder to get the go to folder dialog and type “/Volumes”. Are there other drives/directories listed? Triple check your AD setup.
Michael Gossen
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Usernames are one thing. When you bind to Active Directory, one of the things you are asking for is a UID to define that user to the MacOSX kernel. This is a number that OSX uses to define your permissions for the ensuing session. In terminal, when logged in, you should be able to get the UID by typing “id”. We should try basic steps first though before dealing with AD.
First things first then, sorry I jumped ahead a little bit. Where are you trying to set your scratch disk? On a local volume or a network one? Have you followed and unlocked permissions along this path in a finder level?
Michael Gossen
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That will only work on your broadcast monitor as it is downstream of FCP. What does help if you don’t have a broadcast monitor is to set your Canvas view to 100%, even if that is too big. FCP does a poor job of resize if it is not set to an evenly divisible percentage. That will allow you to see the fields in FCP. Now you might not be able to tell if they are reversed, but it couldn’t hurt to try.
Michael Gossen
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What are the UID’s of the network users? Are they the same? Are their usernames different? What are you using OpenDirectory for if they connect to ActiveDirectory, or is your OpenDirectory attached to the ActiveDirectory?
Michael Gossen
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What is the final destination of your piece? I think the suggestions would vary if you were broadcasting, going to web, trade show projector…etc.
Michael Gossen
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H.264 at 320×240, 15 fps, AAC stereo audio @ 32kHz, around 300 Kbps should turn out to be a around 100MB. Hope that helps (Based off of the Compressor preset H.264 300Kbps).
Michael Gossen
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In terms of the translation, that is called Localization. Combine that with what the other guys said to create your impressive title, ie King of the Localization Universe…
Michael Gossen
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How about a Band Pass filter or a Low Shelf? You can isolate frequencies, then work with EQ…
Michael Gossen
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For the timeline, since I keep one hand on the mouse, holding down ‘Shift’ will allow you to scroll horizontally…if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel that is. I find myself using that all the time. The mighty mouse ball just isn’t the same.
Michael Gossen
Helium Digital Media