Rob Alexander
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FWIW it’s interesting that the macbook pro is more stable – this is the machine which by definition is more ‘standard’ than your desktops. You’ve already mentioned that removing the kona helps things so I’d say it’s almost certainly some bit of hardware (capture card or controller) or its associated driver which isn’t playing well with everything else.
I think I’d be stripping everything out and trying the same actions with just final cut running on internal drives to see whether the crashing recurs. Hopefully adding things bit by bit will throw up where the problem lies. Do you have a note of when you had a stable configuration that you could roll back to?
Please don’t think I’m patronising you, there’s nothing more irritating than not being to trace a problem back and you sound very knowledgable but sharing of thoughts is what this place is all about. Good luck getting things sorted.
PS I’ve read somewhere that QT 7.2 is causing grief to a lot of people, could this be your problem??
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Had a chat with a local mac engineer and described the problem. He said that it’s the power supply, not the most expensive thing in the world but unless I can find another mac that I can salvage one from probably not worth doing. First mac I’ve owned to die 🙁
guess I’ll pull the HD out and stick it in a case.
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Hi,
thanks for the replies. I had searched around the apple forum but hadn’t found anything that seemed relavent – i found the article that you pointed to Tom. No new cards in there but I was wondering about the battery so I’ll try and get a new none today and see if that helps.Fingers crossed!
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I think Blackmagic make a PCIe to PCI-X adapter which means you can buy one of their newer cards now and it won’t be obsolete when you change up to mac pro in the future. You’d need to check but that’s what they were going to do.
Rob
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Well the question is: is your current setup working for you? If it is and you’re making money then why bother? Is there a job coming up that you think you won’t be able to do without upgrading? Get more storage if you need it but from your setup I don’t think you’re going to see much of a performance increase. And sometime in the future when new versions of the software come out and require more of the computer you’ll be thinking you’re out of date and wish you’d waited. From what you’ve described your work to be I’d say an old dual G4 would probably suffice!! Save your money and drink beer :))
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I’m not missing something here but why not just go into the screens preference and drag the menu bar from the right hand to the left hand monitor? worked for me years ago.
Rob
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Sounds like decklink extreme to me – be warned though that no effects processing is done on the card. It’s all on the host processor so you might have to consider upgrading your G4s to G5s / Mactels(whenever they appear).
Ask yourself this also – is there anything that FCP5 gives you that you really need compared to FCP 4.5? Are your suites currently doing what you ask of them?
I’ve got both decklink and cinewave and both work very well. Sure at some point the software and technology will make a big jump and it’ll be worthwhile to make the move. But while apple’s transitioning it’s product line you might be better holding off. Also check in the cinewave forum, quite a lot of users are having success with FCP5 and cinewave (although many don’t use the targa codecs any more).
Just thoughts.
Good luck,
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as mentioned above you need to colloapse the multiclips – CTRL-Click and select “collapse multiclip” (you can select all and then do it for all at once). Remember in Media manager to deselect “include master clips outside selection” if you only want the media for your sequence.
Good luck.