Tony! Hulette
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Media 100 (Boris FX) should have compatibility and configuration info for SCSI cards (I know they used to). However, in all likelihood the card of choice is the ATTO UL4D (PCI- X version). You need to follow Media 100’s recommendation for which slot to put the cards in as this is very important for performance reasons (generally you want the SCSI on a different bus than the Media 100 (or any video capture card. Probably in Slot 4). Properly installing the ATTO cards drivers and Firmware is also critical (follow ATTO’s directions carefully). Other than that, you shouldn’t have to make any changes to the system or FCP settings (aren’t you using Media 100?). Checking with the Viper RAID manufacturer wouldn’t hurt either. Often you can find the info you need online at the manufacturers websites.
Here’s the link to the card: https://www.attotech.com/Ultra4D.html
Tony!
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Hi George,
Try resetting the smu on your Mac. Then check your prefs again to make sure Screen saver and Energy Saver are set to off/never. I’d set processor performance to “highest” as well. Just for the heck of it I’d set all the “hot corners” to – (nothing) and try using a stock mouse while testing. Disabling and/or detaching other 3rd party hardware/software is recommended while testing. If none of that helps, maybe it could be related to a set of plugins you are using?
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300341 (for smu reset instructions – guessed at which Mac you have)
Tony!
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Do as Kevin and others suggest: Save your projects to your Mac’s internal drive (not your RAID). Save your media to the RAID. And backup to an external drive or to network location every-night.
Tony!
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The two drive sets should work fine using the same SATA card for both, if I’m understanding correctly.
Tony!
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Good to know. Thanks for the update AJA.
Tony!
Soundtrack Pro: How to use AJA Io to monitor audio
You can use the AJA Io, an external output device, to monitor audio with Soundtrack Pro. However, setting up the Io is different that setting up a typical Core Audio interface. Here’s how to do it:Import a video into a Soundtrack Pro project to monitor audio through the AJA Io.
Open the Soundtrack Pro preferences (Soundtrack Pro > Preferences).
Click the Video Out button.
Select the appropriate AJA output option from the Video Out pop-up menu.Make sure video out is enabled. You can toggle Video Output on and off by pressing Command-F12. (Soundtrack Pro playback must be stopped while toggling the setting).
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This must have been Apple’s plan all along and a major reason they switched to the Intel processors (I know about the heat issues with the PPC processors and that was certainly another reason). With Apple being the only company with a duel boot machine, l wouldn’t be surprised if Apple’s market share skyrocketed over the next couple years. Why would anyone want a box that only ran one OS and couldn’t run things like Final Cut Pro? If Apple’s dual OS machines are a hit, I’d expect the PC manufactures to be knocking down Apple’s door to license OS X for their boxes. Whether Apple will give in to that temptation is yet to be seen.
I always thought that computer hardware (Mac’s and PC’s) and the OS’s (Window’s and Mac OS) would become more and more similar as the years went by. It’s taken along time, but that is slowly coming true. I wonder if one day, in the distant future, Job’s and Gate’s will just merge their OS’s into one? With them both on the same box, it’s only a matter of time before they start using more and more core technology to work better with each other. Not that I expect any merge to happen soon, it just seems inevitable that it will happen eventually. Even if I’m totally wrong, there is certainly some interesting/historic changes happening in the computer industry.
Tony!
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Have it turned all the way up (full dots).
Tony!
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So far, most of the reports have been pretty positive with relatively few problems mentioned (there’s always some percentage of people that have problems). Of course, if you’re in the middle of a project you shouldn’t update until you have some down time. When you are ready follow the often mentioned procedures to help minimize problems and possible data loss.
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Command + Delete will put selected files/folders/applications into the trash.
Command + Shift + Delete (plus return for the warning message) will empty the trash.
You can also right-click on any file/folder/applicaiton to select “move to trash.” If you don’t have a multi-button mouse, you can use Control + Click instead, but I strongly recommend getting a multi-button mouse in the future – not Apple’s, but a good one like the one of the Logitech models.
Tony!
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I like to run two matching internal hard drives on all my Mac’s – one a clone of the other. That way when I install updates on the startup drive, I can always restore, or startup, from the cloned drive if problems occur. Of course, don’t do any updates in the middle of a project.
Tony!