[Robert Withers]

Thanks, Greg.
Apparently there are two different softwares with the same name, a cause of confusion.
The site says:
“DropSync is a versatile Mac App for working with collections of files in different locations. Whether you’re pushing edits to a webserver or backing up a huge photo collection, DropSync helps get the job done with a minimum of fuss.”

This seems like overkill for what I need to do, which is just copy files from a card to a drive. Though I’m sure it works.

I’ve heard of other utilities that do this and enable a checksum comparison to confirm accurate copying. Back to research. Though why can’t I just do this in the finder?

All best,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Hi Christopher,
Sorry you’re having having trouble.
I stuck a Sony SDXC 64 GB 95MB/s card I use with my Sony RX10 into my Macbook Air with High Sierra and it opened up with no problem. Actually it worked a little better — I didn’t have to use a workaround to open the Private folder. I usually use thisit with an MBP running OS 8.5 but had a little issue today.
Inserted 3 times, no dice, restarted the machine, got it to mount.
These machines are a little more klunky than we would like to imagine.
Good luck,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Hi Greg,
Thanks for your suggestion. I will research Dropsync.
Seems to be an android and phone app featuring Facebook use and dropbox interface, anything but video production.
Still researching. Can you provide a link?
Are there no good ways to use the finder to back up cards?
Thanks,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

I haven’t been following the attitudes and exchanges here but yes clicking on the “Read More” links on the download descriptions does bring up a page that lists minimum and system requirements for each version. Who’d have guessed? Most software developers don’t hide their requirements so carefully. This is helpful information.
Thanks.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

I thought he meant do a screen capture direction from the PP presentation playing on your screen.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

I tried to find this information some time ago and just gave up. Couldn’t even find reference to any Mac OS. Why does BMD keep this a secret? “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it?” I got the same brilliant suggestion, “just download it and see if it works.” Aii. Sick of Adobe model, don’t want a magnetic timeline.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Hi Carlen,
I think of backup/archival storage as two items. 1: The backup I keep next to my edit station in case the drive I am editing on fails. 2: The backup I keep “off-site” (in my case a safe deposit box) in case my apartment burns up with editing station and backup.

I use spinning disks for these though of course you could use flash storage. You will probably get different opinions and data from different people regarding the long-term persistence of data on different media. Spinning disks do need to be “spun up” or accessed periodically to keep the memory from fading. I have no experience with archiving on flash storage devices.

I don’t use any clouds for off-site storage because of my slow upload speeds. I tried one service once but it was not practicable.

You can use RAIDs (multiple disk arrays) for either of two different purposes: to speed up disk access during active editing, or to create an automatic backup during active editing. The second approach would create an onsite backup — you would still need an offsite backup.

I can’t think of any reason to use a RAID for a separate onsite backup disk. That would seem overkill.

Hope this helps,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Sorry I have no real world suggestions but have been reading about weird Pr CC timecode issues for a couple years on various Premiere lists. Check out the thread: [COW] Re: Premiere Pro Reads Incorrect Timecode from Source-Makes Bad XML
Good luck.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Thanks John Rofrano.
This is a very helpful real-world commentary on MPEG4 and and AVCHD.
Best,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

You can get the latest Macbook Pros and iMacs with specs that should cover your needs. I’m keeping my Macbook Pro running OS 10.8.5 so I can keep working with FCP7 and Premiere CC “2013” though I hate being stuck on the infinite rental system especially when I can’t use the latest Pr CC versions.
It seemed too late in the game to switch platforms when I finally half-understand the Mac OS. I’ve discovered there are a lot of secret keys and procedures that you can only find out about by calling Mac service.
I’ve got a collection of Firewire 800 drives that I would replace with Thunderbolt drives if I were totally updating now.
I got a new Macbook Air for general computing and am keeping the old machine for editing. A new Macbook Pro optimized for editing costs $1000 more at B&H but I don’t need it quite yet.
Cheers, R.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City