Rennie Klymyk
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ATI has a 15% off sale now for purchases over $149.99. Free shipping too. You may have to install it yourself but you can keep the stock card for?
https://shop.ati.com/searchresults.asp?dept_id=31
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Set it to display on screen and see if the due sensor cursor is blinking.. It probably needs to sit in a warm dry place with the door open although the manual warns you not to leave the door open facing any light (so don’t put a light bulb in front of it to warm it up!)
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I saw a really nice set up using sliding trays. A cabinet maker/carpenter was hired to build it and he made 5 free standing racks out of 7/8″X7’X3′ fiber board but good plywood would do too. He bought the rack mount strips that have all the mount holes drilled and threaded and fixed them on the front. He then devised the sliding trays that he used some very heavy dudy rail sliders for and more of the same material the racks were made of for the surface of the shelf. The shelves had a little lip on the front so nothing could be accidentally slid off. When bolted together the 5 racks formed a wall and was very solid. The facility used about 4 patch bays for audio and video and the area they mounted into was set back about 5-6″ so the patch cables could hang out and still not stick out past the overall front surface of the racks keeping it neat looking and avoiding any accidental bumps or snags to the patch cables. On the back was a hinged door on each so if you stood in the back you saw a solid wall, neat and clean (made of the same stuff). Open a door and you had access to the gear. Just inside the back doors were oblong holes cut through the sides measuring about 5″X12″ with rounded corners that were spaced from the bottom to the top and all the cabling went through these channels from rack to rack. The front sides and top and the fronts of the shelves all had a 1″ strip of real oak hardwood laminated to it and it looked very classy. Gear could be bolted into the mount strips or the tray style shelves could be positioned anywhere and the decks could slide out effortlessly. Given the price of steel racks and deticated sliders this set up probablly saved them some money and it looked a whole lot nicer (cozy as opposed to industrial) plus it would cut down on stray electricity.
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Mpeg 1 or video cd and s-video cd uses audio layer 2 or mp2 audio format. It is getting less and less common these days for dvd although many players have the decoder. You need to verify the audio file type and decode it to aiff.
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[Mike Cornett] “-1 Separating the OS from Applications, Media, and Documents”
Many apps will only install on the system drive
[Mike Cornett] “-2 Creating two or more start-up disks/partitions. I would like one for personal/gaming and one for my video production business and applications”
Humm, why not do 2 complete installs of your OS and apps on 2 seperate drives, that way in the event of drive failure you will still be up and running. The OS and FCP suite require about 40Gb so I’d keep 80GB free on the partition, any extra space on the drive can be used for your misc. files on the other partition.
[Mike Cornett] “3 I would like 10.3.9 on one partition and 10.4 and beyond on the other.”
Don’t know why you want to work backwards but you could partition the above mentioned system drives to have os 10.3.9 on them as well.
[Mike Cornett] “-4 I would like to up-grade my system, as cheaply as possible, to run Final Cut Studio. I believe all I will need is a new video card for Motion and DVD Studio Pro. Any suggestions as to upgrading my machine?”
ATI RADEON X800 XT 256MB MAC EDITION There is an earlier version for G4 which should be a lot cheaper than the still current G5 card (when are these cards going to drop in price?)
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As Walter said, check vith AJA. I have 66 meter firewire cables that past camera to mixer to deck just fine but I’ve tried sending stuff from the computer on them and it won’t go. When firewire 1st came out 15 feet was the max so you should be ok. I’ve considered moving my computer to the rack also but I tend to get a lot of small tasks that require burning or capturing to/from cd/dvd and that would mean I’d have to get off my chair to feed the disc drive every time.
“everything is broken”
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Your PVM-14M4U was 800 lines so you may like to stay in that range again. Since those models are about 10 years old it’s probablly a bad idea to try to find another. I think the PVM-L2 is 600 lines and while it would be brand new it should be close to what you are used to. I hope these LCD monitors last as long as the CRT’s last. Panasonic had a BT-Y1390 that was 750 lines and has all the features as your old one and were really nice monitors.
“everything is broken”
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Kodak 47b or Rosco #74 or #385 filters or their equivelents will do it. You only need a small piece to put infront of your eyes. I’ve used the free sample kits (about 1″X2″) from rosco or lee for this.
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If you can’t genlock the cameras or shoot a t/c slate one trick is to have someone flash off a photographer’s still camera flash preferably in the background where all cameras can see what it illuminates or if you are shooting 360′ you could flash it on the floor or ceiling so as not to blind the talent. You may want to allow a bit more time between “roll camera” and “action” so people’s eyes adjust. Do this just as “you roll camera” before each take. The flash duration is usually about 1000th/sec and will washout one field or frame with bright light. It is far easier to sync these bright frames.
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Thanks for the input, I think I should contact AJA, maybe they’ve been through this and can recomend a specific card. Maybe I should at least get an estimate on repairing the G5 FW bus but how do you do with out your computer in the mean time. It sounds like this could just happen again if I do fix it. Appearently it may have been caused by the way I connected my dsr-11 to the computer. Firewire is suposed to be plug and play but appearently there are exceptions.