Mike Mihalik
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RE: “What is the best and least expensive way to properly clone the system drive. I think Walter mentioned that time machine breaks compressor (not sure though).”
Use Apple Disk Utility System Restore to clone one volume to another volume. Slow, but thorough, and guaranteed to work with each version of OS X. If Disk Utility needs an update, Apple includes it with the version of OS X you are running. Make sure you Repair Permissions and Restart before starting the clone, and not start any other applications or use your computer while the clone is being made. Also, be sure to check that the clone you just made will boot your computer.
That being said, there are other free backup tools that will make bootable backups: Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper, and SilverKeeper for example.
Best to make a clone to a spare disk and hide it while exploring the latest and greatest updates and upgrades.
One last thought – make two backups. One to hide for awhile, and another to use as the volume you actually upgrade before modifying your primary boot drive.
Mike
LaCie -
What I have done is record the play in HD with a half-field field of view. This captures all the action for all the players.
Then to produce the highlight reel for a particular player, I’ve used the pan/crop tool to zoom in on a particular player and follow his/her play.
Alas, this is manual and time consuming. Have not thought of a way to automatically do this. However, with practice this becomes pretty fast and easy to do.
Shooting in HD provides the extra resolution to compensate for the zooming in. Actual output is to online video hosting sites like Vimeo and YouTube, and also a DVD. Some coaches want DVD; some are happy with online. IN any case, make sure the action is worth watching rathy that a blurry or macro-block mess. If you can clearly read the numbers, you are probably OK.
Mike
LaCie -
For internal drive in a Windows Vista PC, I used LG GGW-H20L; no problems at all.
For external, I used a LaCie Blu-ray burner connected via USB2 or FireWire/IEEE-1394. (https://www.lacie.com)
What is nice about DVD Architect 5.0 is that basic menus can be created. I edited my HDV video with Vegas Pro 9
You can burn to BD-RE discs as well as BD-R. What is nice about the BD-RE discs is that you can erase and burn again, multiple times.
Disclaimer: I am employed by LaCie
Mike
LaCie -
Drivers for your motherboard.
With build-your-own computers (I think that is what you have done), many times the drivers bundled with the motherboard are rather old. Check with the manufacturer of your motherboard to be sure they are up-to-date.
Neither Vista nor XP automatic updates will know about motherboard specifics.
Many I/O errors are due to faulty motherboard drivers.
Mike
Mike
LaCie -
I am using Vegas 9 (have also used 8) on a Q6600 running Vista Premium and Ultimate.
Also using with LaCie drives.
I’ve had no problem rendering several projects, each about 1 hour in length.
I have rendered captured HDV on the timeline, as well as QT/MP4 projects created on a Mac using Final Cut Express and iMovie 9.
Rendered projects have been used to make DVDs and Blu-ray discs, as well as clips that have been uploaded to Vimeo and YouTube.
INternal drive is stock SATA drive. External drives are several LaCie drives. I’ve used USB2, FW400, FW800, and eSATA at various times without issues.
Several things to check:
– does the timeline play completely without issue?
– check your RAM
– make sure your FireWire interface is OHCI. There can be issues with non-OHCI chipsets.
– if using XP, and have 2GB or more of RAM, disable your virtual/paging memory. With Vista, default settings for paging memory are OK.Sorry, I don’t have Vegas 7 to test for you, but it is several versions old.
Since you rolled your own computer, you may want to be sure you have all the current motherboard drivers.
Mike
LaCieMike
LaCie -
Mark,
On your other questiosn. LaCie does not repair out-of-warranty drives.
Replacement power supplies are available for purchase from our website, or from your reseller. There is a nominal charge for these supplies. There are several models available.
If you have questions, you can call our tech support using the contact info at our support website.
Mike
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Mark,
For the ones I analyzed, they were several years old.
Mike
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The issue you refer to is one where over time, the power supply degraded, and the drives may not spin up due to it not being able to supply voltage and current within tolerance.
Replacing the power supply is the fix.
This was a unique problem experienced by a few users with drives that were a year or more old. Switching power supplies with another drive or replacing with a new power supply resolved the issue.
Replacement (or spare supplies) can be purchased from LaCie; replacements were provided at no charge to customers whose drives were still in warranty.
Mike
LaCie -
Sean,
I am from engineering, and wanted to respond to your post.
1) All d2 Power supplies are compatible, same connector, same pin location (5V, 12V, GND, GND).
LaCie logo, Plug definition, Voltage and Amp are printed on the power supply itself. (not on the product)
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David,
Actually, the drives we use in our products are considered OEM drives, and are provided to us with one year warranties in North America.
The 5 year warranties are offered by drive manufacturers for Enterprise level drives and for consumer drives sold into the retail channel. This is for the bare drive only, and does not cover the equipment they are installed, nor for external drive products.
You pose a valid question. In past years companies, including LaCie, did provide 5 year or multi-year warranties on products. Over time, the industry moved to 1 year warranties due to the issues identified in my previous email – it was not cost effective to maintain drive and replaceable parts inventories.
If 5 year warranties are important to end-users, they will have to go the route you have identified – building your own drives,and dealing directly with the drive manufacturer in years 2-5 of the drive warranty.
Mike