Mrvideo
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The ATI Radeon 9800 MAC Edition – which is 4x AGP/DVI and AGP outputs and 128 MB DDR works just great in my Quicksilver 2002 – dual 1.0 GHz MAC. Since I have a 22″ Cinema Display – ADC, I needed to purchase the Apple DVI-ADC adapter to make it all work.
I needed that card to run Motion.
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[Rob G.] ” I should only burn 4X DVDs in it?”
No, it doesn’t mean that only 4x media will work, just that any media will only work at 4x (that might be rated at 8x, etc)
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[Tony!] “Carbon Copy works great”
Just keep in mind that (unless it has changed within the last 48 hours) CCC does not work in Tiger at this time.
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Back up every thing “first” or you will regret it later. Get a Firewire drive and Carbon Copy Cloner and backup your boot drive.
Then as Tiger is a new install and not and updater, format and initialize your disk and then install Tiger.
If any of this fails you can either boot off the Firewire drive and/or move the contents back to your boot disk.
Personally, I am removing the Panther disk to a Firewire enclosure and installing a larger boot disk for Tiger.
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Boris RED is a very handy plugin to FCP. If you are comfortable using RED, then by all means get the MAC version and you are home.
Shake and Motion are different than is After Effects. Shake is priced as and position as a large frame compositing tool. Great for film work and large frame sizes. Motion is a powerful image compositing tool that can propably deal with better than 50% of your compositing needs – Quickly. Using Behaviors instead of keyframes you can get things done quickly and still have keyframe control where needed. Unless you have Combustion – Motion is a better particle generator than about almost anything else and for the price some use it specifically for particles.
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You have some decisions to make. You Powerbook is virtually useless to you with a cracked display. The was probably more extensive damage to it as well.
My suggestion is to take it to an Apple dealer and get a quote for repair. If the cost to repair exceeds the cost of a new one – well, there’s your answer.
Trying to use it in a broken state is just going to be more frustrating than it’s worth.
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I have the same computer you have and I have two FirmTek SATA adapter cards in two PCI slots each hosting one 250 GB IDE drive converted to SATA. I have used a couple of benchmark tests and seem to get around 65 MB/sec writes and 70 MB/sec reads on the two 250 GB drives striped with the Apple RAID 0 in Disk Utility.
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With Apple showing control support for the Mackie Onyx? (I think it was) who knows what is scheduled for future updates to FCP. THe Mackie was being used as MIDI control for Motion however???????
Obviously with QT 7 and 24 available tracks of audio in/out. you are going to need a multitrack interface.
I personally have a MOTU 896HD Firewire interface which has 8 ins/outs and uses Firewire 400 as the transport into/outof my MAC. That interface has a direct output to my powered monitors – the Mackie HR824’s. I do not have or need a hardware mixer since the MixPlus software is a virtual mixer within the hardware interface.
Also the AJA and Decklink PCi cards can support various levels of audio ins and outs within FCP.
I would suggest you think about the reason you need all this stuff before you invest in it.
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Thanks for the heads up Walter. They keep getting more insidious, every year.
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Yessuree! Matter of fact I was just working on a sequence when an unrendered came up and as I looked up from the computer I saw the very same screen on Fox.
It is a well publised story that Fox has been firmly moving to Final Cut Pro for their sports department and find it blindly fast for quick turn edits. The article mentioned the Elvis (EVS) diskrecorder and how a recently completed sequence is made LIVE is just seconds.
Very exciting.
PS. I wonder who got wacked for sending off an unrendered sequence for air?