[Tony Breuer]

Avid L2 gave me the solution. I removed the alases and pound signs from the path and all is well.

Thanks anyway.

Tony Breuer

[Tony Breuer]

That’s what I thought. That’s why I’m going with the iMac instead of the MAC Pro. But if it;s only $250 more for the better Radeon I may go with it. Cheaper than upgrading in six months or a year. 😉

Tony Breuer

[Tony Breuer]

Would you max out the Radeon to 4GB or is that overkill?

I’m maxing out the ram and going with a 3tb fusion drive.

Tony Breuer

[Tony Breuer]

OOPS! I just clicked the “BUY NOW” button and it’s giving me options.

Whew! Had me worried i would have to buy a PC. A lot of my software is MAC only.

Thanks again, Shane.

Tony Breuer

[Tony Breuer]

Yup, only 8 GB. I went online last night and again just now and there was no “SELECT” button. Only a “BUY NOW” button.

Tony Breuer

[Tony Breuer]

Thanks, Shane. I wasn’t sure because it wasn’t on the authorized list on the Avid website. And also because on the Apple store site it doesn’t let me build a custom machine and the ram is only 8 gigs.

I have a call in to a business rep at the nearest Apple retail store in Albany, NY.

Thanks for your help. You are really generous with your time and advice.

Tony

Tony Breuer

[Tony Breuer]

Thanks Shane. That’s what I was looking for. BTW, my exporting problems today were due to a random problem with a G-Raid Drive that un-mounts itself when running on esata. I guess it was feeling cranky and was acting up so I plugged it in on Firewire 800 and voila the sequence exported normally. But I will keep in mind the video mix down as a solution too. I now have two GRaid 4 TB drives that do that on a random basis. I went on the gRaid forums and other people have had the same problem but GTech support doesn’t know why. Sometimes it’s the Firewire connection that does it and sometimes (like with my drives) the esata does it. I used to really like G-Tech but now I’m a bit disillusioned with them.

Thanks again for the advice.

Tony Breuer

[Tony Breuer]

Thanks Trevor, but I’m going to stick with MACs. All my software is MAC based plus I can run Compressor and Final Cut Pro,

The PCs are fast, but I am uncomfortable with Windows and since I’m totally on my own and don’t have to put up with the IT types at the major facilities or the cable networks anymore, I’m going with the boxes that are within my comfort zone.

Tony Breuer

[Tony Breuer]

Thanks. I hadn’t thought of that. It’s been a very long time since I used a mix down.

BTW is just posted asking your advice on going thunderbolt.

Thanks again. You never fail to give good advice.

Tony Breuer

[Tony Breuer]

Hi Shane, I’m thinking about replacing my 5 year old MAC Pro (2.26 GB Quad core tin 32 GB Ram, esata card. Current project I’m using 3 internal 1 TB esata drive and 1 6TB esata G-Raid and 1 4TB Esata G-Raid. (It’s a VERY big documentary feature that’s started shooting 6 years ago and I inherited a year ago).

I know Avid will probably not support using the GPU any time soon and I don’t think I will have any need for 4 or 5k because I’m offline only. So the new MACPro cylinder seems like overkill.

Any recommendations Thunderbolt hubs or bobs? I have a considerable investment in esata drives both internal and external so I would want both Esata and 800 firewire capability.

Thanks.

Tony Breuer