Tony! Hulette
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np Bob, I hope you get it working soon. I suggest making sure you have the latest version of CCC. Also, I highly recommend DiskWarrior as it can repair problems that Disk Utility can’t (get the latest version of it as well). Repair those permissions. OS X is very finicky about that.
https://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/
https://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13260
Tony!
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A SATA II (300) single drive inside your Mac won’t be any faster than a SATA I (150) drive. So just go with whatever is cheaper and the size you need. Either one should work fine, although, some people have had a few issues with the earlier WD drives, so i might avoid them and go with a Hitachi or Maxtor. Your Mac’s controller is SATA I (150) by the way, but that’s not the reason a SATA II (300) drive won’t run faster. It has to do with the limits of the drive mechanism itself.
Tony!
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Officially, no it won’t work. You need an internal SuperDrive to burn DVD’s from iDVD. However, there is a workaround. You can save your DVD project as a Disk Image (File > Save As Disk Image). You can then burn the image to a DVD with an application like Roxio Toast, or you can even do it with Disk Utility. The exact method varies depend on which version of OS X you are using.
Not hard to do, but you’d probably be better off buying a SuperDrive off Ebay, etc, rather than an external DVD burner, in my opinion.
Tony!
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Hey Bob,
Startup while holding the mouse button down. This should open your CD/DVD tray so you can put in the installer disk and reboot. Run Disk Utilities on the startup drive (repair permissions too). Restart and see if everything works. If not, you can reset the password by booting off the installer disk again and choosing that option.
You probably didn’t repair your drive and permissions before doing your clone and/or update. Most of the problems I see are related to that, although, 3 party device plugged into your machine can be another source of problems/errors.
If nothing else, do an Archive and Install or Clean Install off your OS X installer disk and then upgrade from there. Apple will be releasing OS 10.4.4 today, so I’d wait for that unless you’re worried about possible compatibility issues with the new OS version (which no one knows for sure what will work and what may not).
Tony!
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Shipping Jan. 30th. – very nice.
Of course, what still is great about our AJA Io’s is that they worked great with PCI G4’s/G5’s, the PCI-X G5’s, the new PCIe G5’s, and they’re going to work with the Intel Mac’s. Many of us knew when the Io was first released that it would have longevity and compatibility that the internal capture cards just couldn’t match and I’m glad to see that we were right. The Io continues to be a great SD capture device. Take nothing away from the great Kona cards. I use Kona cards in addition to my Io’s (on the same Mac) so I have the best of both worlds with tons of connections for all my SD decks and other gear, plus HD from the Kona cards when I need it. Cool times we’re living in.
Tony!
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[Rennie] “These guys stick to it till the end! I kept expecting to hear “well, you’ll have to send the device in” But at every dead end they perservered and after about 1 1/2 hr on the phone I’m up and running. And not one sour tone from them the whole time. Just polite relentless assistance! WOW!”
They’ve got a great team up there at AJA. They are truly at the top of the list when it comes to friendly, helpful and accessible tech-support. If any of you are ever at MacWorld, NAB or any of the big Apple/Video oriented trade shows, or user group meetings, stop by and say “hi” to John, Nick, Ted, Rudy and the gang and let them know how much you appreciate the way they support their products (you might even get lucky and get a nice bottle of their favorite “special” vodka for your trouble).
Tony!
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It looks like Sonnet will be throwing their hat in the ring in February as well: https://www.sonnettech.com/news/press/pr2006/pr010906_sata_products.html
Tony!
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[Mike] “Now there’s a new camera coming out that I want to buy that has a pretty exclusive deal with Apple Final cut for thier DVCPRO HD codec, so I’m thinking about moving over to Mac.”
Hi Mike,
We’ve all been drooling over the Panasonic HVX200 since NAB last March (actually we’ve been drooling over their future release of a P2 video camera for the last couple NAB’s). It tops on my list as well. Final Cut Pro and Mac will be a challenge at first, but you’ve got the most helpful and active community of Pro users anywhere here on the Cow to help out. OS X is an incredibly powerful and reliable operating system. I suggest reading and following one, or more, of the great Final Cut forums we have here as you’ll learn a lot and find them a great resource. We also have a Panasonic P2 forum which you will likely be interested in.
[Mike] “I’ve got several hard drives filles with MP3, Wav and AVI files that I use in the process of my production work.
Can the Mac read those files? If they can, will I see a loss in performance?”
Below I put a list of the file formats QuickTime currently supports. AVI for the most part is an old outdated technology and was never popular, or used really at all, on the Mac. AVI is a container, like Quicktime, and as such it contains video encoded by many different codecs. Some of those codec’s will play in Quicktime on the Mac and some won’t (most PC codecs won’t). There are some 3rd party players that support some of the codecs that you may have used in your AVI files (or DIVX). I recommend trying the VLC player found here: https://www.videolan.org/ as one possible solution. You can check here for more info on the subject as well: https://www.thexlab.com/faqs/avidivx.html
If you’re talking about using these formats in Final Cut Pro, then you’ll have to convert them to an Apple codec or one that is used by your capture card of choice (AJA Kona 2 or BlackMagic for example) as they won’t play reliably (or at all) within Final Cut Pro. One of the better ways to do this is to play them on your PC and capture them to your Mac through your capture card directly.
I hope that helps a little,
Tony!
QuickTime’s supported File Formats
3DMF (Mac OS 9 & Windows)
3GPP
3GPP2
AIFF
AMC
AMR
Animated GIF
AU
Audio CD Data (Mac OS 9)
AVI
BMP
CAF (Mac OS X)
Cubic VR
DLS
DV
FlashPix*
FLC
GIF
GSM
JPEG 2000 (Mac OS X)
JPEG/JFIF
Karaoke
MacPaint
Macromedia Flash 5
MIDI
MPEG-1
MP3 (MPEG-1, Layer 3)
M3U (MP3 Playlist files)
MPEG-2**
MPEG-4
MQV
M4A, M4B, M4P (iTunes 4 audio), M4V (iTunes video)
PDF (Mac OS X)
Photoshop*
PICS
PICT
PLS
PNG
Quartz Composer Composition (Mac OS X)
QCP (Mac OS 9 & Windows)
QuickTime Image File
QuickTime Movie
SD2 (Mac OS 9 & Windows)
SDP
SDV
SF2 (SoundFont 2)
SGI
SMIL
System 7 Sound (Mac OS 9)
Targa
Text
TIFF*
TIFF Fax
VDU (Sony Video Disk Unit)
Virtual Reality (VR)
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[Bob Zelin] “IO and Kona 2 together is a very powerful combination. “
Agreed. This is the solution I’ve been using since the Kona 2’s came out. The two together (Io + Kona 2) is a very practical solution that gives you almost everything you could possibly need for a very cost effective price. The up-convert of the Kona 2 from the Io feed (that Bob mentions) was really the selling point for me. Plus the ability to have all my decks, monitors, etc hooked up at the same time without cable switching. Besides my own FCP systems, I’ve setup and/or used several other systems with this combo and it works well.
Tony!
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Sorry Dan I don’t have time to fully answer right now, but the short answer is NO. If you want to share files and projects off of one RAID between two or more Mac’s you need SAN software and probably a switch and server. If you want to divide the RAID in half and not share the same files/projects between the Mac’s, then you could get away without the SAN, but you may still want a switch and server to go it correctly. You’ll probably corrupt the drive if you allow two or more Mac’s to access the same files without SAN software or a server setting permissions to only one or the other computers access.
I’d post again on our Xserve forum and see what cost effective (well its expensive no matter what) solutions they might have to offer. ProMax is also a good resource (there forum is worth posting to as well). I’m not big on Ethernet solutions for video as they’ve been unreliable, speed-wise, in the past. However, I’m a little out of date on the latest info with them, so its worth looking into. Fibre connections on the other hand has been rock solid in my experience.
Tony!