[Patrick Kofler]

Hi Walter,
thanx. Since we do also a lot of design on this machine we have a lot of fonts installed. I deactivated the most of them and now boris starts up quickly!

Patrick

[Patrick Kofler]

Hi Nathan and Kaspar,

thanks for your answers. I checked the ram configuration. I think it’s ok, but have a look at the screenshot (https://www.heliosvision.com/ram.tiff) and tell me, thank you. Concerning the bmd card, yes I read that. Now I’m trying to work in dv pal, avoiding the bmd card. Let’s see how long it works.

Thanks Patrick

[Patrick Kofler]

Hi UEM,

I’m experiencing the same problem. Expecially when positioning the cursor at the begginning of the timeline and then pushing play: complete freeze. The new system (new mac pro 2x3ghz, 6 gb ram, xserve raid and bmd decklink sp) seems really to be lot more unstable than the old g5 (with the same xserve raid and a bmd decklink extreme). To me this is disappointing. Is the system still so buggy?

Patrick

[Patrick Kofler]

hi,

as you can imagine, I’m located in the PAL world. To answer also the other suggestion, I could recapturn it as DV, but guys, there is to much difference in image quality. I’ve done it and made a test with exactly the same frame, DV and uc; well, it’s two different worlds. I know it may sound strange, but since the image quality of the beta tape is not the best (there is a lot of noise, becasue of more than one copy generation, I suppose), I cannot capture it with a codec which heavily compresses. I have to get out the maximum out of the material and therefore use an uncompressed codec.

Thanks
Patrick

[Patrick Kofler]

ok, thanks,

but, I worked with simple fw 400 external disks and never had this problem. don’t know? to me it still seems a problem of the os 10.3.9, but I’m not quite sure.

patrick

[Patrick Kofler]

Hi JeremyG,

I’going to experiment with the setups. I will report about that later. The Lacie is connected via the G5’s fw 800 port. Can there still be conflicts? The deck is a Panasonic nv dv 2000. So no component out. By the way, it would mean to decompress the dv material and recompress it into another codec. Via firewire it’s just a copying process, therefore lossless.

Thanks Patrick