[Mitchji]

Hi,

The Kensington Software is good, does what you want. I suggest more buttons. I have five with my Kensington Optical Elite and could easily use five more, so I have a Shuttle Pro on the way.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

For color correction you can save some money and get a montitor with P22.

I posted this question about a year ago and Philip Hodgetts who had researched this issue for a book on Color Correction responded as follows:

“P22 phosphors have relatively slow response times, contributing to ghosting, but that’s only compared to rare earth phosphors 🙂 in practice P22 *are* the SMPTE C phosphors. The color points set are P22 Red, P22 Green and P22 Blue.

They differ from the much earlier NTSC phosphor colors from 1953. Mostly in the green point.

Gee, not everything from 6 months research and writing on a color correction book was wasted. :)”

When asked for clarification he responded:
“There is no difference. Period. The SMPTE-C Phosphors have color points defined by the SMPTE society by P22 Red, P22 Green and P22 Blue. These are the standard phosphors. It is possible to get faster response times from rare earth phosphors but the color points have to be P22 Red, Green and Blue for them to be SMPTE-C.”

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[Chris Poisson] “All your points may be true, but you miss my point. You’d think Apple would get better as they get older, and I have gone through major OS upgrades from OS 6 through 10. And NEVER in any of these stages have I seen this kind of failure.

I am a loyal customer who has come to expect that Apple figures this kind of shit out before they release a new OS or app. I could put up with a 1-5% hiccup as you mentioned, but not this kind of total failure.”

Hi,

First of all its not realistic to expect Apple to solve all of these problems before new software is released. No matter how much testing they do its a drop in the bucket to the “testing” done by thousands of customers.

Second of all these kinds of computer problems are not exclusive to Apple. These kinds of problems are very common with complex Video Editing SW systems. You should plan your upgrades so that if there is a problem you have a way to resolve the problems without taking a big hit. I am also planning to install Tiger and FCP Studio on a new drive. Then if something doesn’t work I only need to reboot. Avoiding burning your bridges behind you is not rocket science.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[Per W. R

[Mitchji]

[Michael Belanger] ” Is 10.3.9 a safer choice or really is there no difference.
I mean, is fcp 5 really worth taking the risk at this point or should I wait till it becomes clear that all works well
“

Hi,

I am not sure which is safer but if you need to make a change 10.4 has more future.

Don’t take a risk! Purchase (if necessary) another drive and use SuperDuper or CCC to clone your boot partition. Then boot to it and test it. Then if things go south with the new software you only need to boot to your cloned partition and you are back in business. More info here:
https://www.lafcpug.org/tutorials/basic_tiger_upgrade.html

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

https://www.lafcpug.org/tutorials/basic_tiger_upgrade.html

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

I think there is an upgrade path from FCP 4 edu to FCP 4 normal.

You can also purchase FCP 2.0 here which should be good for the upgrade:
https://store.purplus.net/apficutpro2.html

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi Per,

[Per W. R

[Mitchji]

Hi,

The easiest thing to do would be to use the new drive for your new system install. I would do a totally fresh install on the new drive. Set it up with Journaling ON. This will be totally risk free because you won’t have to touch the original drive. When you are done you will be running on a new drive which should last longer than your current drive.

I would repair permissions after the OS install and a few times while you are installing your software.

Then I would manually copy your data files from the old drive to the new drive. When you are sure everything is working correctly on the new drive use CCC or SuperDuper or the Restore Tab in Disk Utility to clone your new drive to the old drive and keep it as a backup (you can use SuperDuper to keep it up to date).

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[Jerry Hofmann] “External SATA arrays will handle uncompressed 10 bit NTSC or PAL, however they aren’t going to be fast enough for useful storage of HD uncompressed, that would take at least a dual channel SCSI array.”

Hi Jerry,

HDCAM is not uncompressed but these results and the opinion sound promising:
https://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_storage_soltz.html
Excerpt:
“Below are benchmarks for this 4 drive raid using AJA’s Test Utility and the eSata8 card. The Tempo 4×4 card returned similar results. My own tests have given me 6 layers of realtime in DVCPRO HD 720p from footage captured from the Varicam as well as the ability to playback 8-bit 1080i HD. Granted this is from footage which was supplied to me and not captured on this system form HDCAM deck. It also was tested on a relatively empty drive. I would not recommend 8-bit uncompressed HD on this configuration. Based upon these benchmarks for a 4-drive raid, I do believe that an 8-drive raid would handle HDCAM.”

Best Wishes,

Mitch