[Pasi Koivisto]

I think I will serve you best by offering this link.
https://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_sampling.html

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Editor, Colorist.
Mac Pro, 8×3 Ghz, 8 Gb ram, ATI Radeon HD 4870, KONA 3, Sony PVM20L4, Tangent Devices Wave.

[Pasi Koivisto]

You should be able to upgrade to 16Gb of ram.

Look into the Radeon 4870. I use it in my Mac Pro but it’s the revision after your but I’ve read that it works But look into it.

I think you should consider buying 3 SATA drives, but them into your computer and do a software raid 0. It will be very fast and really help with the performance. Just remember to NOT keep project or originals on it as it has a higher risk of crashing.

If you get a video card that can output to a HD monitor most if not all of the HD cards from AJA and Black Magic will downconvert the signal to SD.

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Editor, Colorist.
Mac Pro, 8×3 Ghz, 8 Gb ram, ATI Radeon HD 4870, KONA 3, Sony PVM20L4, Tangent Devices Wave.

[Pasi Koivisto]

Double click in the window.

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Editor, Colorist.
Mac Pro, 8×3 Ghz, 8 Gb ram, ATI Radeon HD 4870, KONA 3, Sony PVM20L4, Tangent Devices Wave.

[Pasi Koivisto]

Ok…

1. Try to boot up into safe mode and then reboot. This should clear out some caches that might be corrupt. And if that doesn’t clear it up.

2. Download onyx and clear out the caches with that.

/P

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Editor, Colorist.
Mac Pro, 8×3 Ghz, 8 Gb ram, ATI Radeon HD 4870, KONA 3, Sony PVM20L4, Tangent Devices Wave.

[Pasi Koivisto]

Do you have a lot of stuff on the desktop? I think this might be slowing you down. What kind of server are you downloading from? FTP/AFP/HTTP???

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Editor, Colorist.
Mac Pro, 8×3 Ghz, 8 Gb ram, ATI Radeon HD 4870, KONA 3, Sony PVM20L4, Tangent Devices Wave.

[Pasi Koivisto]

There are password managers you could use for that. I use 1PassWord but there are alternatives… Have a look around, I hear LastPass is good too…

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Editor, Colorist.
Mac Pro, 8×3 Ghz, 8 Gb ram, ATI Radeon HD 4870, KONA 3, Sony PVM20L4, Tangent Devices Wave.

[Pasi Koivisto]

I would go with a ADC adapter… I am sure the Dr Bott will be fine, it’s not that complicated, it’s basically wires that need to be re-wired. And I would also try to get my hands on a second monitor that’s the same as the other one you have already…

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Editor, Colorist.
Mac Pro, 8×3 Ghz, 8 Gb ram, ATI Radeon HD 4870, KONA 3, Sony PVM20L4, Tangent Devices Wave.

[Pasi Koivisto]

I am pretty sure you could do this with a bash script, ask around on a unix or bash forum or something.

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Editor, Colorist.
Mac Pro, 8×3 Ghz, 8 Gb ram, ATI Radeon HD 4870, KONA 3, Sony PVM20L4, Tangent Devices Wave.

[Pasi Koivisto]

I guess you could always create an action with a save command to that location? Default FolderX might be a good program too.

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Editor, Colorist.
Mac Pro, 8×3 Ghz, 8 Gb ram, ATI Radeon HD 4870, KONA 3, Sony PVM20L4, Tangent Devices Wave.

[Pasi Koivisto]

What do you mean with clustering? Compressor? Network renders in AE?

I think it’s always a good idea to have identical setups on the computers. Same versions of all the software.

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Editor, Colorist.
Mac Pro, 8×3 Ghz, 8 Gb ram, ATI Radeon HD 4870, KONA 3, Sony PVM20L4, Tangent Devices Wave.