Tim Irwin
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I agree with shane’s assessment. In the future when using AVCHD cameras make sure to use the custom naming function within FCP log and transfer. This will keep any two clips from having the same filename.
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Everyone,
Apple still makes a Macbook (not pro) that has a firewire port. It’s the white 2.0ghz one. 1 firewire, 2 usb. You can get a refurbed one for $849 right now on apples site. New ones are 999. Be very careful though, there are two models that appear the same but with one MAJOR difference, one has intel graphics chip, one has Nvidia. if you want to run FCP you need the nvidia graphics. I have this machine and have used it in the field shooting red and transcoding to pro-res to edit. It’s quite a capable machine.
The issue for me was size, I hate the size of the 15″, Even the 13″ is too big for my taste, I long for the form factor of the old 12″ powerbooks. So when they finally put the nvidia graphics in the white 13″ with the firewire I jumped.-Tim
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If you haven’t done it yet, you should take advantage of that octocore by creating a virtual cluster in qmaster. It will speed up any compressor task significantly. see https://www.slccut.com/Apple-Compressor-Tutorials/enable-multiple-core-processing-in-apple-compressor.html for details.
-tim
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We are in Salt Lake City, but don’t mind shipping it somewhere. The deck seems fine now that I got the tape out, cleaned the heads.
It was a sony premium mini-dv tape that got eaten, and I’m inclined to think it was the tapes fault, but frankly, I’d like to send it in to get some CLA anyway. The deck doesn’t get a lot of use as most of our standard def material is on d-beta. We bought the deck used a few years ago and it would help me sleep better if i knew someone more qualified than me had a look inside and gave it some love.-t
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I’m having the same issue, but it seems to randomly fix itself, and later break itself again. I had a thread in the kona forum that had some suggestions worth trying. But so far, nothing has been completely successful.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/98/870585
-tim
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Jeremy,
ok, as you said, It worked for a bit then later that day, wasn’t working. So I routed the line out of the mac pro to the mixer and in the control panel set the system sounds to line out. Log and transfer still seems to randomly decide to let me hear audio. There seems to be no reason to whether or not i can hear audio while playing clips in the log and transfer window. When audio does play through, so far it has always been through the kona regardless of the system sounds setting in the mac control panel.
Any further thoughts?-Tim
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Jeremy,
Thanks for the advice, but in a strange twist, I plugged a cable into the speaker out jack on the macpro, plugged that into my mixer and when I went to log and capture…. SOUND! hooray, but it WAS coming from the kona outputs???? I turned the mac audio out all the way down on the mackie mixer to confirm, and yes, it was coming from the kona. No idea what fixed it. But for now it works.
thanks, tim
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Ahh, yes, that makes sense, I think i did that the first time and after getting the warning message and cancelling, I found the eject button to get rid of folders filling up the log and transfer window.
-Tim
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“they are very easy to delete from inside FCP. ”
Really? How do you do that? or perhaps more importantly, how do I not do that?
Thanks, tim
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New functions Mac Ver. 1.2 (Operation only available on Intel Mac. Not available on Power Mac.)
ACCCKKK, so support is being dropped for the only mac laptop that had a pcmcia slot!!!!! I’m not a programmer, but is it really too much to ask for a universal binary?
tim