[Steven Gonzales]

Try this:

https://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/3gpp/faq.html

[Steven Gonzales]

This questions comes up a lot. A search on “sound effects” for this forum will give you tons of information.

[Steven Gonzales]

Boy, if you were crowding people on the airplane with the 17″ powerbook, you’d need to borrow part of their seat back tray to use a 24″!!

[Steven Gonzales]

Sound isolate the rooms. I recommend this book:

https://www.soundproofing.org/infopages/EPAmanual.htm

“Quieting in the Home”. Previously reprinted by the EPA as “Quieting: A Practical Guide to Noise Control”. 120 Pages, 8.5″ X 11″ Profusely illustrated. Technically accurate, yet simple and non-technical.

[Steven Gonzales]

travel matte – alpha

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_travel_mattes.html

[Steven Gonzales]

Does anyone know why the maximum ram is 3gb on the new 24″ imac? With 2 slots, you would expect it to support up to 4 gb.

[Steven Gonzales]

One more thing to remember is to have one “control cable” going from Kona to the switch box, and the cables going out of the switch box to the 2 decks should be “straight through” cables (same pin assignments at both ends). With serial, you’ve got to keep the transmit and receive wires going to the right places!

[Steven Gonzales]

Have you considered a used tower? You should be able to get a dual processor G4 for under $1000, lesser machines for less.

Throw in the purchase of OS 10.4, and you’ve got a useful machine even when you upgrade to a G5.

[Steven Gonzales]

As an aside on working with producer or director, a trick of multiple video lines I have used:

The directors says “no, get rid of that shot, I don’t want it” but it has been in a long time, I will leave the clip in location on another track (my “potentially returning clips” track), and turn off “clip enable” (makes it invisible).

That way, when he inevitably changes his mind and wants that exact clip again, I know exactly where it is.

[Steven Gonzales]

If you’re not under warranty, I’d pull the drive out to see if it’s the drive or the firewire bridge (or maybe power supply) that’s dead.

Is it a single drive or a raided pair? I’m not sure how to test the raided pair, but a single is rather easy to check.

I have a wiebetech firewire TrayDock and bought a drive tray for IDE and a drive tray for SATA, so I can get at either type of bare drive.

An sata you could pop inside the G5. Perhaps you have an old G4 machine to slap the drive into if its IDE, to see if it shows up.