Robert Ober
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Second the motion:-)
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I also used Episode. I still have Squeeze running on one of my Macs even though it is EOL as well.
I would suggest ffmpeg with a good GUI on top. I use FFWorks on my Macs. Check:
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=windows%20front%20end%20for%20ffmpeg
(never use google anything)
Good ffmpeg books and videos from Jan Ozer at:
https://streaminglearningcenter.com/
Hope you find something that works for you,
Robert
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Using hard drives for backup or archive is not a good idea. Especially if you don’t occasionally spin up the drives. Tape is many times more reliable. Due to budgetary constraints (I’m poor;-)) I’m still using LTO5 which is still working fine.
It’s not IF a hard drive will fail, it’s when!
Robert
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Have you solved this?
I find the latest version of Desktop Video is not always the best and somewhat device dependent. I have an Avid DNxIO which is a version of the original Ultrastudio 4K and sometimes use an older version of Desktop Video.
Take it EZ,
Robert
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Have you tried a Relink with All Drives checked? Maybe “ignore extension” or whatever?
Robert
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I’d suspect the market is really small these days for physical media. I like it, but most folks just stream and/or buy downloadable content.
Y’all take care,
Robert
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Just tried the 17.1 Studio install on my cheesegrater with High Sierra and the dongle inserted. Installer gives error about incompatible OS and will not install.
Sucks!
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Hans,
Good point. I assumed it wouldn’t install.
🙂
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macOS(OS X) has been 64 bit for some time. My understanding is that is started with Snow Leopard. What Apple killed with Catalina was the ability to run 32 bit apps. That is not even the issue with Wirecast and Resolve not supporting High Sierra and Mojave. I have not seen any info as to why they do not, but I would think it is not wanting to support the older OS versions as things like Metal are not there.
I am an IT Consultant among other things so I do have Windows running on this cheesegrater both in Bootcamp and Parallels. But surely you understand that running Windows is an extreme last resort for most Mac folks. And those inexpensive Windows machines are crap compared to the build quality and reliability of a cheesegrater. I know as some of my customers have some of them.
I also don’t understand why folks defend corporations. They are not your friend.
Y’all have some fun,
Robert
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Oliver,
I have appreciated your writings over the years, but keep in mind that many of us are on tight budgets and even some bigger organizations still have cheesegraters running mission critical apps. It is not that difficult to allow one’s apps to run on older versions and just have a caveat that states it will not be supported.
And as you probably know, one can upgrade a cheesegrater with SSDs, RAID, and NVIDIA graphics cards and have a system that will do DCI 4K and probably higher frame sizes.
I will restate a previous sentence more pointedly, allowing the betas to run on the older OS, but not the release is really crappy. Having worked at a large software company and a large computer manufacturer, I can assure you the release versions are very close to the last beta.
Y’all take care,
Robert