Pasi Koivisto
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https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/support/desk/e/download.htm#avccamvmac
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Editor, Colorist.
Mac Pro, 4×3 Ghz, 8 Gb ram, ATI 1900XT, KONA 3, Sony PVM20L4, Tangent Devices Wave. -
What is the reason you don’t want the drives available for other applications? In my experience file sharing on the mac works very well and most applications wont touch the shared drives unless you tell the applications to do so.
One work around would be to just mount the shares when you need to copy data and then unmount it when you’re done.
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Sounds to me like you perhaps downloaded a application that swaps these keys, it’s the only thing I can think of. But then again, if you do a safe boot and this problem still exists this shouldn’t happen.
If you boot from the install disk that came with your computer and start one of the utilities from the menu, are the keys still switched? Just trying to figure out if anything has changed on your system drive or if it’s some other problem.
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Yeah, those numbers are closer to what I expected. I will need to do some more research on this. Of course, it doesn’t help that it’s one 500P and one D500P enclosure but it’s been built as need has grown and I didn’t want to throw stuff out.
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In Mac OS X 10.5 and later, while started up (“booted”) from the Mac OS X 10.5 installation disc, a user’s home directory permissions can be reset using the Reset Password utility.
My 2-bits
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The only thing I can think of would be that there are problems either with the graphics card or the drivers for it.
Did you do a clean install or a update? Clean installs, meaning wiping the drive before you install, usually works better but updates works in most cases.
What I would do is
1. Boot from the os install disk you got with your computer while holding down the d key. This will boot up into apple hardware test, run the extended test and see if anything fails. If not..
2. Download the latest combo updater from Apple, 10.6.2, and install
that one over your install. Since it’s a combo install it’ll contain complete files of everything that has been updated which probably includes the graphics drivers.3. If you have a external drive you could try to install the OS on and try to see if a clean install will help with the issue do that, otherwise doing a clean install on internal disk, after doing a bakup of course, can help. In my opinion the best way is to format the drive.
4. Contact Apple.
My 2-bits.
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Editor, Colorist.
Mac Pro, 4×3 Ghz, 8 Gb ram, ATI 1900XT, KONA 3, Sony PVM20L4, Tangent Devices Wave. -
If you’re willing to spend some more dime and want just a little bit more protection have a look at Drobo and Netgear ReadyNAS. Both of them offer protection from a drive going bad.
The ReadyNAS is also a Network Attached Storage device so it will act as a network server and be accesible from both XP and OS X. To the Drobo you can buy something called DroboShare which will do the same thing. If you need performance the Netgear one is the better choice and the Drobo is very nice from a ease of use point.
That said the really paranoid people who are serious about backups also suggest a “off-site” backup (meaning a copy of everything in another location). The easiest solution would be to use something like Carbonite, Dropbox or similar.
My 2-bits.
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Depending on how much material there is I would probably use the codec of which I have the most material and then convert the rest of the material to the same codec (if it’s a good enough codec). Probably using compressor to scale the smaller clips since it does a better job than FCP and can batch process all the files. It also makes it easier if you’re going to do any online work on it.
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The codec is called Motion JPEG A/B in QuickTime, if you can’t see that codec in Video Settings of QuickTime you need to enable “Show Legacy encoders” in the quicktime advanced preferences.
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Well, the bugs usually surface with new OS updates but the bugs genereally get fixed with smaller updates to the pro apps. And since 10.5.8 has been around for a while most of the bugs should be fixed.
I believe 10.5.6, QT 7.5.5 and FCP 6.0.5 to be a stable combination.
I always use Combo updates on my FCP machine because there is a difference between combo and “delta” updates. The delta updates only contain differences between the original file and the updated file where as the combo update contains the complete new file. This helps with problems caused by a original file not being in the shape that the installer expects. Say a 3d party software changed something, disk permissions not being as they should etc.
If you’re really serious about doing it the right way I would start of by repairing the boot disk with Disk Utility, then repairing disk permissions, then boot the computer into safe mode (holding down the shift key while the computer boots up) and then applying the combo update. Of course you should have downloaded the Combo update before booting into safe mode as stuff like AirPort gets turned off in a safe boot.
All this said, I am using 10.5.8, QT 7.6.4 with FCP 6.0.6 wihtout any problems.