Sean Oneil
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Our two preorder copies of Tiger arrived this morning. Surprisingly the upgrade installation worked fine and everything is running smoothly.
But unfortunately what you guys are worrying about is absolutely true. A Tiger upgrade throws away Quicktime PRO 6 and installs Quicktime 7 Standard. The Quicktime Pro 6 key that came with my Apple Production Suite does not work.
The really annoying things is that along with two copies of Tiger, I also preordered two “Final Cut Studio” upgrade packages. So I’ve essentailly already paid for Quicktime Pro 7, but I can’t use it until Final Cut 5, Motion 2, etc. is released. This is quite a customer service quagmire that Apple created here. I SHOULD be able to call them and say “Tell me what my Quicktime 7 Pro registration number is” but the chances of that working are slim to none.
I actually really need Quicktime Pro to function well at work. I have to convert audio to 48.8khz all the time and I have a script that automatically does it in QTPro.
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How can you try it if there’s nothing to plug it into? The IO is the only device in existence that would understand it. Every single other Firewire video device on planet Earth only understands DV streams, MPEG streams, etc.
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I have 8 SATA drives and I edit uncompressed HD without any problems. I got a G5 drive bracket kit which lets you add 3 additional drives internally. The 8 disk array is 2/3rds full and I still get 350 MB/s with the Blackmagic speed test. When the disks were empty, it was about 460 MB/s. I use SoftRAID to make a 128kb RAID0 (Apple’s Disk Utility only does 32kb).
Initially I had a Sonnet 4+4. Whatever you do, for dear life, do NOT use Maxtor drives with a Sonnet card or the Highpoint RocketRaid. It’s a known yet little mentioned problem. If you already have Maxtor drives, do NOT get a Sonnet. Instead get two 4-port Firmtek cards. Firmtek cards, on the other hand, have issues with Hitachi drives (but they will at least warn you of this before buying their products- unlike Sonnet).
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Media 100 IS a bicycle. I’m a 100% FCP convert but I could jump on a Media 100i system and be cruisng right away.
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How are you capturing it? Firewire or SDI? If it’s Firewire, don’t use a Blackmagic option. The Blackmagic settings are for SDI and analog. Use Apple’s DVCPro HD settings in the Easy Setup menu. Then switch to the Blackmagic setting so that you can view it on a monitor as you work.
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Not really. It has two inputs for dual-link mode. When you switch to single-link, you just use the Channel A input.
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Well what kind of TV is it? Does it have a DVI or component input? If it has DVI you can plug the TV into the Mac as if it were your computer monitor and then use Cinema Desktop to view the footage. If it has component input, you can get an RGB->YPrPb transcoder and plug the TV into the VGA port (decent transocders are expensive – you may as well buy a Blackmagic card at that point). There is a program that will adjust the resolution and timing of your graphics card (ATI or Nvidia) so that it matches broadcast standards. The program that does this for Windows is called Powerstrip. There is one for OSX but I forget what it’s called… sorry. Try Google or the AVSForum. Whether the color is exact and things like that, I don’t know. It may not be what’s refered to as “WYSIWYG”. I don’t know enough about how Cinema Desktop works. For WYSIWYG you probably need an editing card.
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Anyway, they’re all worthless as far as I’m concerned. Get a SATA kit from Firmtek. Twice the speed of any FW800 system and half the price.
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Be careful that it actually is 24pA. I made a gigantic mistake using the “Modify->Remove Advanced Pulldown” to a bunch of clips that were actually just regular 3:2 pulldown. The candence was off and so the media was completely ruined. I had to batch re-capture everything and then do a reverse telecine for each clip in Cinema Tools.
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What kind of environment do you work in? LaCie drives are the only ones I’m aware of that do not come with fans.