[Ron Priest]

[Thomas Morter-Laing] ” I would advise to anyone NOT to buy the standard esata card at this time- get the Tempo Pro version. I’m sure I can elaborate in a few days time :)”

Okay, well that’s the eSata card I currently have so maybe I’m in good shape then. When do you suppose you can let us in on the additional information you have Thomas?

Ron Priest
Videographer
Louisville, KY

[Ron Priest]

Thanks Fredy for that update, I appreciate it. I haven’t purchased my iMac yet. I’ve been waiting to purchase it until a good solution came along for editing FCP 7 and to start learning FCP X on it using my eSata enclosures. This TB to Express/Card 34 adapter seems to be the ticket. I have a MacBook Pro with TB, but I still do most of my in studio editing on my old 2006 MacPro and it of course, does’t have TB. So, I don’t want to rush right out and purchase TB Enclosures if I can’t access them on my Mac Pro to accomplish color correction and encoding for DVD/Blu-ray. I don’t want to be rushed into learning FCP X and will still need to edit most of my current projects in FCP 7, although on the new iMac, and only accomplish color correction and encoding on the old Mac Pro.

I’m going to make this thread known to some other videographers over at Video University. Some of them may have questions for your also.

Thanks again.

Ron Priest
Videographer
Louisville, KY

[Ron Priest]

So Fredy, tell us more! So far so good? I’ve been looking all over the internet for a good working review of this adapter when used with Sonnet’s Tempo Sata Pro ExpressCard/34 adapter. I’m wanting to use it on a new iMac with a FirmTek external eSATA 5 Bay enclosure. It all works okay on my 17″ MacBook Pro with the Tempo Sata Pro card in the MBP 34 card slot. So, I’m hoping it will work just as good on a new iMac via the Thunderbolt eSata Adapter.

Ron Priest
Videographer
Louisville, KY

[Ron Priest]

Make sure you have all of the latest updates to FCP. A fix to this problem was introduced a while back in an update.

Ron Priest
Videographer
Louisville, KY

[Ron Priest]

Hi David

For the longest time I’ve been concerned that my 2006 Mac Pro wouldn’t run 64 bit applications. I was concerned that it wouldn’t run OSX Lion, and or FCPX when it came out. So I bought one of the new 2011 MacBook Pros to make sure I had a system that would.

I kept seeing everywhere the computer requirements to upgrade to Lion/FCPX: “Your Mac must have an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5 or i7 or Xeon processor to run Lion.”

My late 2006 Mac Pro has a 2 x 2.66 Dual-Core processor, not a Core 2 Duo so that had me worried. But, I kept overlooking the last part of those specs where it says “OR Xeon processor” Actually it didn’t hit me that I’ve been overlooking that last part of the specs until just now when I read your post. So, anyway, thanks for helping clear that up for me.

Now I’m trying to figure out how to take advantage of 64 bit apps on my Macs. So to do that, I need to boot up holding 2 keys, the 6 and the 4 Key? Or is it 3 keys 6 + 4 keys. I guess I can google that, or read the manual…. what a concept, “read the manual” How do you know if your machine is running in 64 bit… awe… another google action required huh? LOL

Okay, the following link just answered both of my questions.

https://osxdaily.com/2009/09/07/how-to-tell-if-youre-running-the-32-bit-or-64-bit-kernel-in-mac-os-x-snow-leopard/

Thanks David for your help. 🙂

P.S. For anyone else out there that is/was as confused as I, here is a nice little app to tell you what mode you are running in. Now I’m wondering if I need to always boot my older Mac Pro in 64 bit versus 32 bit, would I see benefits or do I have applications that won’t run if I boot in 64 bit?

https://www.ahatfullofsky.comuv.com/English/Programs/SMS/SMS.html

Ron Priest
Videographer
Louisville, KY

[Ron Priest]

You know I was having this problem a while back and was monitoring this thread, and another thread on the same subject over at at the Apple Forums and no one seemed to have an answer. Well this is not a command I use often, so I suppose it’s been a long time since I needed to “Reveal the Master Clip” but I today I needed to do just that, “Shift F” to reveal the master clip, where the playhead was setting. When I did, I once again got that same old warning “The clip’s master clip is not present. Would you like to add a master clip to the Browser?”

Well I’m like… bull, the clip is setting right there in my browser, what do you mean you can’t find it? How stupid it that? So I decided to select “Y” for FCP to create me a master clip, I wanted to see what it would create! So I did and it created a color Matte.

Well after investigating I noticed that it was creating a color Matte because I actually had a color matte in track 1 of my timeline where the playhead was setting. I have 2 video tracks, track one is a bunch of color matte’s I used for timing a quick cutting sequence, and the actual clips that I’m using are being placed onto track 2. So I turned off the auto select light (switch) for track 1 and now it can locate the master clip. So I suppose it uses the same rules as copying a clip. It will look for the master clip of the lowest track that has it’s auto select turned on.

You would think it would work the opposite way huh,? You would think it would look for the clip on the highest track. An easy short cut key to use is option click on the auto select switch of the track which you want to do the search. It will then turn on that select switch, while turning off all other track select switches. Then simply do your “Shift F” to find your master clip on that track, then when your done, option click that track select switch again to turn it and all of the other tracks back on.

Actually though, the easiest and fastest thing to do is to simply insure the clip is selected in the timeline, then the “Shift F” will work as expected no matter what track select switches are on or off.

Ron Priest
Videographer
Louisville, KY

[Ron Priest]

Hi Rafael

I use Disk Warrior, I was wondering what your suggestion was?

Ron Priest
Videographer
Louisville, KY

[Ron Priest]

Yes, I’m seeing the same problem on my system with newly captured ProRes Files. However, looking back at my older ProRes files captured in FCP 6 before Snow Leopard, I notice those files didn’t have any file extension either. However, they did contain the file type description as “QuickTime movie” as the new ProRes files captured via fire wire (note I said captured not converted) contain the file type decryption of “document” and control clicking (right clicking) on the file and clicking on info shows the file has no extension and the “hide extension” is NOT selected. Further it shows the file being created by TextEdit (which I suppose is the default for document files).

Ron Priest
Videographer
Louisville, KY

[Ron Priest]

Hi Kevin

Thanks for looking up that data for me, I appreciate it. I’ll try again to contact the manufacture, oh that reminds me, I actually found a phone number, I’ll try to call them as soon as I can get a chance. I too am concerned how well they support the Mac. Someone else had mentioned that I might try to do an archive reinstall, that’s a little scary from an old PC guy’s point of view.

Ron

[Ron Priest]

Hi Walter

You suggested to “add more storage if you need to since a single drive is never a good idea for a media scratch drive.”

So, If I’m editing in ProRes without a RAID, are you saying it would be better to have my captured source files on one drive and use another drive for my render drive? (Both separate from my applications drive of course)

Ron