Scott Sheriff
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Cory
“Remember this formula: P=I*V (Power = Amperes * Volts). Since your lights are 120v, and a single circuit may be 15 amps, that gives you 1800 watts to use before flipping the breaker. Everything plugged in to a circuit will have an ampere draw written on the device. When plugging into a circuit, add up the amps of all devices to see if there is room for your lights. Use multiple circuits as necessary.”Cory,
This is true, and not true. You can run circuits at their rated capacity, but only for a limited amount of time. Except for short term, or impulse loads like motor starts, you shouldn’t put more than 70% of the breaker rating on a circuit. So for a 15A, that would be around 1200-1300W. If you run the full capacity, they will usually only last 5-10 minutes before they get hot and trip. On a 20A circuit you can often get away with a couple of 1K’s, unless the breakers are in a spot that they can’t shed heat easy, like a closet.
Also, it’s pretty rare to get a solid 120V at the plug, its better to use 115V as a nominal ‘real world’ to calculate the load.
And of course this all assumes that there are not any other loads on the circuit.Scott Sheriff
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“Hey, go easy on Jobs … look at the amount he gives to charitable causes.
Matt.”Yeah, he’s a real altruist.
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Todd
“For what seems to be a growing number of non-discriminating clients, cheap-looking crap is what they are willing to settle for, and willing to pay for. Sadly.”IMHO, clients accept “cheap looking crap”, because the consumers (viewers) do. Ad revenues, ratings and cash flow is down everywhere. In the case of commercials, every dollar used by the production, is a dollar that doesn’t go into the buy. The viewers don’t quit watching because of lower production values, so what is the incentive to spend? Look at YouTube. Most of the viral, most watched videos aren’t popular because of what camera they were shot with.
The other reason its ‘our’ fault is that for the quite a while, things that were once considered ‘production mistakes’ are now considered trendy FX, and favored ‘looks’. So when you shoot poorly framed, shaky-cam, and then post in a bunch of scratches, light leaks, and lens flares, your just conditioning the audience to accept lower quality, as ‘art’. So if that’s the look, why spend the money on the camera? To the guy writing the checks, it may seem that the only reason to use the (insert your favorite camera here) camera, is to stroke the DP’s ego.Scott Sheriff
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“Nothing in it for Apple, that’s for sure.”
It’s a PR ‘black eye’, for a company that has an ‘iffy’ customer relations history, in a down economy.
Jobs should have bounced this to a district manager and had it handled. This story has already made it to the regular media, and no one seems to be taking Jobs side. Your only as good as your last quarterly report, and not even Apple is big enough that they should provide the competitors with ammo to use against them.Scott Sheriff
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“Also, beyond ram, what would be the next two upgrades you would recommend for better performance editing and effects processing (Motion, After Effects, FCP 6).”
Bigger, faster processors.
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Walter
“Steve Jobs is known for being nothing BUT rude, obnoxious and arrogant among many other traits. He has built a culture within Apple that follows along with his model.”Thats seems about right. It seems that the only prerequisite to work at the Apple flagship store, is to be a snobby barista that was fired for being rude to the customers.
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“So… On the older style Intel computers, memory should be install in equal pairs across risers. So if you want 8 gig of total memory, you need to install (2) 2 gig bars on Riser A and (2) 2 gig bars on Riser B. This is done for best performance in FCP.”
Thats right. But I think the problem Wayne is having is that he has 2x4GB sticks, and 2x1GB sticks. I think this is causing a bottleneck.
Might try ditching the 1GB sticks and running just the 4’s.Scott Sheriff
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Brenda,
Duh, I gotta learn how to read.
You said quad core, I was thinking dual-quad 8 core. That gives you a grand extra headroom on the budget.
You can probably squeak by a 9k, but you would be surprised how fast the cash goes with the little ‘gotcha’s’ that you run across putting a system together.
Check OWC for some good prices on drives and extra RAM.Scott Sheriff
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Or use the shape gen in FCP, there is a circle.
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In Motion, make a white circle on black. Bring that in to FCP and matte that in for a couple of frames.
Scott Sheriff
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