[Tom Ma]

but is the Intel i5 capable of hyperthreading?
I hear that the i5 in iMac’s are NOT capable of hyperthreading, whereas the i5 in MacBook Pro is capable.

anyone know?

[Tom Ma]

Thanks John. I will give it a shot, and post what my result is.

thx

[Tom Ma]

Thanks John. I do have a Blackmagic card and drivers, but seems it does not work.

I guess I have to hunt down a PowerPC Mac and reinvent the wheel.
Lesson learned on saving quality footage for the future in 3rd party codecs.

[Tom Ma]

I would go with a Blackmagic HD Extreme.
For accurate and affordable color monitoring, go with a Sony PVM series monitor if you can still get your hands on one. The Blackmagic card can output SD, or downconvert HD to SD to the PVM for accurate color monitoring.

If you need to go to tape, rent a deck, the Blackmagic card has the outputs for this.

I am running this system with CS5 and it works great.
I honestly trust my Sony PVM at home over my $15k Cinetal at work (for color anyways)

[Tom Ma]

Updating the OS fixed it.

[Tom Ma]

I did try that, did not work. Still getting the same error message.
I tried all type of memory settings combinations. Disk cache on, off etc.
Either way, causes a crash. any suggestions?

[Tom Ma]

thanks Walter for a serious answer.

Which training videos did you go with?

[Tom Ma]

a great new feature request. I am sure it woul dbe difficult, but you can do this in Illustrator.

I am finding that many studios are not upgrading as much as they used to, maybe because Adobe is not adding crucial features, maybe economy, but either way, it makes handing off work cumbersome.

[Tom Ma]

so wait, Adobe allows 2 active installs of CS3 for one license (purchase)?

So I can have one copy installed on each machine, and run them both? (not at the same time)

[Tom Ma]

you’ll love this one…

https://www.nabscripts.com/Forum/Scripts/myScripts/maskColorChanger.jsx