Sean Oneil
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I’ve had problems with mysterious green lines, as well as problems with a full green screen. There’s a lot of scattered topics on this. I think the first thing to do is trash your FCP preferences. As well as your QT preferences and AJA preferences. And reinstall all the AJA software.
Sean
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Any BR player should work in a G5. If it’s SATA, use an IDE adapter.
Sean
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No. With Firewire it’s the same live or from a tape.
Some camcorders have an SDI output sending a raw uncompressed stream, so that capturing live is much higher quality than recording it to tape.
Sean
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Player penetration is always a concern. As long as the browser tells you to “Click here to install plugin” and the installation is really fast (my memory says that installing Flash takes 2 seconds) then it shouldn’t be a problem.
Sean
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Do a Google search for “MacFuse” – it can give you read/write access to NTFS disks on Tiger or Leopard.
Sean
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[Bob Zelin] “This is a SATA drive, which is incompatible with the MAC Pro that still uses a parallel ATA (IDE) interface. “
Bob, there are two additional SATA ports on the Mac Pro motherboard.
Sean
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[Joseph Moore] “Current versions of the Flash Player support H264. “
How does that work? Does the client still need QT installed?
Sean
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Thanks, I’m trying that out too.
Sean
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Thanks guys. I just found On2 Flix Pro Exporter. Installing the demo now. I think it’s exactly what I was looking for.
Sean
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[John McClary] “Sounds a little crazy but is it even theoretically possible?”
Not sure there’s a way to mount specific clients as read-only. I fooled around with it once just using OSX permissions like you suggested. Results were weird. I’d copy a folder to the disk using one client, and the other client couldn’t see the files. Even after I disconnected and reconnected. Even if it worked, I think every time you remount it the permissions for the client get reset to RW. And I think even mounting it with multiple clients can cause filesystem corruption.
If you want a crazy idea, the one I had was to run an OpenSolaris box and set up it’s iSCSI server. OpenSolaris uses the ZFS filesystem (which is the best filesystem there is – it’s better than using hardware RAID-5). OSX Leopard can read ZFS, but not write to it. So I wondered what would happen if you connected a bunch of different Mac iSCSI of FC clients to it. It would at least be safe since the Macs cannot have write access at all.
And since it’s ZFS, not HFS+, the server box would have local access to it and you could give it a mount point, enable SMB service, and access it via regular filesharing for all your write access needs. Does anyone really even need block-level write access?
Anyway, just a thought. If you’re serious though you should consider buying MetaSAN. Aside from preventing data corruption, it has disk caching and other things that make a SAN functional.
Sean