Mrvideo
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[mus man] “… a violator of all things the CHP hates”
CHP = California Highway Patrol
You don’t remember CHIPS??
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According to all the information I have acquired at NAB and other forums, Motion 2 runs better on Tiger than on 10.3.9. Don’t know if that really is true but it seems to be the passing wisdom.
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I would say that if you are ONLY looking to learn FCP as another tool of your trade then even an iMAC G5 woud be sufficient for that. I am not advising you to try and make real money with that setup thought becaiuse it is not expandable.
For bottom dollar I would advise that you get a dual processor anything, even a dual 2 GHZ used MAC to start with over a single processor. Final Cut Pro uses dual processors for the rendering tasks and buying an older dual processor model vs new single processor tower would be more powerful, and the single processor MAC would be slower that the top of the line iMAC G5.
While it is good to know multiple editing tools, I would dare to say that once you use FCP, you will not want to go back to AVID.
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I am researching this right now. I had an older FW400 drive with the Oxford bridge board running under Jaguar and after waiting a few updates to Panther, I moved it over to Panther and it caused the drive to mount once and disappear once and be unusable after that, even on the Jaguar system.
I wrote off that enclosure as bad and ordered another on to work on Panther. Now that I am about to go to Tiger I a suspicious that the first enclosure is not really bad, just needs a firmware update.
My concern is that using the new FW400 enclosure with a drive is part of the sequence I will need to use when moving from Panther to Tiger.
My question; is the firmware in this enclosures bridge board usable in Tiger or not? If you read MacFixit and other troubleshooting sites, you will pick up a thread about Firewire400 drives not mounting in Tiger.
I am investigating ways to verify what version of firmware is in each FW400 enclosure and what it needs to be for Tiger.
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I don’t know about SuperDuper, as I have never even seen it used, but starting out by installing a new OS version by initializing the boot disk during booted from the install CD/DVD is a very good thing to do.
Finish loading the OS then update to the latest update lke 10.4.1. Thn run Disk Utility – Repai Disk Permissions.
Now install the Studio as suggested by the Apple install documents. Run Repair Disk Permission again and it should be GOOD!
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Thanks for sharing this. Wasn’t aware that there was a disk tool like this for MAC OS X.
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10 streams at 3.6 MB/sec is still over 40 MB/sec. NO firewire drive is going to be rock solid with that data stream.
If you want to do a first class but cheap RAID; try this
Get the SwiftData 200 from http://www.transintl.com that allows you to add up to 4 internal SATA drives in your G5. Populate this with whatever SATA drives you want as a total volume as a RAID and use Disk Utility to build a RAID 0 with up to 4 stripes as each stripe will get you 50 MB/sec of bandwidth.
If you would like security with that, get 4 more drives and use the 4 external ports on the Sonnett card to double the size of the volumes but use either Tiger Disk Utility or purchase SoftRAID 3.2 that will allow you to set up a RAID 1+0 which is the fastest RAID (0) and a copy RAID (1)
With 400 GB SATA drives that would get you over one terabyte of data at near 200 MB/sec and security of a copy on the fly.
People will tell you. yeah, but after the first 2/3rd of the drives, the rate slows to half, but for that you just need to manage the data streams appropriately.
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About the only way to recover this is to have ProSoft Engineering’s Data Rescue as a bootable disc and stop using the computer instantly you notice the data missing.
Once you are sure you have emptied the trash, the data residing on that disk is not yet deleted. It is however open to rewrite over. So if it is not an the active drive, such as the drive the operating system is on, you will have a chance to recover the data if you don’t access the other drive (assuming there is more than one disk drive.)
Load the Data Rescue CD and let it boot your MAC back up and start the recovery process. You also need a place for DR to put the found files.
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No – there is no way to move partition sizes around on one volume once it is set. Much better to avoid partitions altogether. NOT necessary in todays OS.
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[Peter Wiggins] “LCD’s are nice but if your work is going to end up on video, buy yourself a decent CRT
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Not quite sure what he is asking about? Motion works fine on my 22″ Cinema Display”, I suppose if you are wanting to “see” what it looks like on a standard television set witha CRT display, then a second CRT viewable through a capture card or over the Firewire connected deck.What is wrong with an Apple HD display for viewing video on or motion on?