[Tom Matthies]

Check out the Society of Broadcast Engineers (sbe.org). There is a wealth of information on many levels of certification in the broadcast business, both for video/audio and IT. All the engineers here (including myself) are SBE certified. Good way to learn and get into the business.

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Phase one went well yesterday. Snow Leopard installed and updated. New drivers for the RAIDs installed and working. Office installed and working after a few updates ( have email again without using my phone). Disk Warrior working again.

Will install Final Cut Studio 3, Boris packages and Creative Suite tonight.
So far, so good.

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[Tom Matthies]

Problem is fixed with a clean install of Snow Leopard & drivers.

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[Tom Matthies]

And Compressor and DVD Studio Pro…sheesh…

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[Tom Matthies]

.png should work. I use that format all the time and it includes an alpha channel.

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[Tom Matthies]

Can you describe your workflow when saving a file in PhotoShop?

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And also beeping if I eject and power down my G-Speed es.

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[Tom Matthies]

Check this link. It may do what you’re looking for.

https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/dh_counter

Tom

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[Tom Matthies]

Thanks Scott.
I’ll probably go back and reinstall everything to a clean drive when I have a few days extra. Final Cut and a few related apps are working fine and I have a number of projects to try and get out the door quickly. If things were totally messed up, I would have just installed the cloned drive back in the computer and reverted back to Leopard. I knew it was going to be fun, finding and installing updated drivers, revised software and such. Other than a few quirky problems, it’s actually working fairly well so far. At least I haven’t found too many issues yet. One weird one is even after updating to 4.4, Disk Warrior is just not working correctly. It’s taking forever to find the disks mounted on the machine and has caused a number of kernel panics while in use. Updated all of the drivers for my eSATA and SCSI enclosures tonight. I’ll see how it behaves after that.
The old Leopard install was soooo reliable. Sigh…

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[Tom Matthies]

Hi Scott.
I did clone my boot disk before doing the upgrade. No, I didn’t do a clean install since this particular machine is a “Swiss Army” machine doing duties including editing, graphics, word processing and MANY other functions. It would have taken a huge amount of time to reinstall and reauthorize all of the other applications if starting from scratch. The dock on this machine has so many icons for applications that the individual icons are so tiny as to be difficult to read. Sometimes a clean install, although the right way to do it, just isn’t practical. I’m paying for the shortcut now. After installing the OS, I repaired permissions and then did a software update through Apple. Unfortunately, it updated all the way through 10.6.8 with one massive 2.3 Gb update so I didn’t have the option to stop at 10.6.2. This is why I waited so long to update-to avoid these stupic issues. The old system running under Leopard was rock solid. No issues at all. I installed a new Radeon 5770 video card yesterday and apparently the only place to get drivers for it is to install Snow Leopard and then upgrade it. After the initial install of SN, the drivers for the video card were still not there. It ran only a single monitor in a default, fail safe configuration. Only after upgrading the OS to 10.6.8 did the drivers get installed correctly and now the card is functioning normally with all three monitor ports enabled. I needed the upgraded card since my older OEM card was having problems handling some 10-bit effects and timeline and having problems displaying OpenGL enabled software properly. I do have to admit, the display is much zippier now and the Open GL effects in Boris are finally working correctly.

It get around the mpeg play back issues, I reinstalled the mpeg components from my original FCP studio disk. While the video is playing fine now, the audio is still missing. I tried to delete the audio preferences and then do a restart. It works for some systems, but didn’t work in my case. Although Quicktime cannot play mpeg files properly, VLC works fine so I can still check files before sending them out. It’s just kind of inconvenient. Also, mpeg StreamClip is broken. Can’t do some things that worked fine before.
Even after a clean install, a number of people still had this same problem. It seems to be kind of hit and miss on who is effected. You mentioned pulling the missing/corrupt components from a backup disk? I do have a clone of the working configuration before the Snow Leopard upgrade. Do you have an ideal which components, if copied from the clone could help solve this mess? I can accept that this was a known issue with upgrading, but SL has been around quite a while now and I still can’t find any reliable solutions by Googling the problem. Lot’s of people have had the issue, but no one seems to definitively know what is causing it or how to fix it. Seems a little strange after all this time that SL has been out.

Anyone get this fixed yet? Let me know.
Tom

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