Zane Barker
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[Anders Haavie] “Native 64bit, so that things are faster”
For FCP to become 64 bit, it will take much more then you might think.
First to make it 64 bit it would require a complete re right of the software code from the ground up, its not just a matter of tweaking a few things in the existing code.
Second FCP relies on the quicktime core components that are in the OS. Currently quicktime is still 32 bit so placing a 64 bit FCP on top of 32 bit quicktime core components would still make FCP act like a 32 bit application. Because these components are core to the OS, it is extremely unlikely that a simple quicktime update would make those quicktime core components 64 bit. So for quicktime to become 64 bit your looking at a completely OS (aka snow leopard).
With that said, just having FCP be 64 bit with out any other new features at all would make it well worth the upgrade. The reason that FCP currently has a limit on how much ram it can use is because it is 32 bit. This article from Apple explains that https://support.apple.com/kb/TA27734
Loosing the ram limit would make a huge difference in the performance of FCP.There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Even though you are chose the external drive as the place to save the file to, it is still important to have plenty of free space on the system drive. This is because as the computer is working it writes temporary times to the internal (and with video those temporary file can get large).
ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS leave 10-15% of your system drive free if not more.
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[Chris Blair] “And I’m not just talking about editing or shooting or technical stuff. I’m talking about … running a business efficiently and managing people (employees and clients”
AMEN, the worst employer I ever had NEVER understood any of those things because he had never worked for anyone other then himself. Needless to say I only stayed there a short time before I got out of there, and with in a year or so after that every one that had been employed by him, had left and his business partner separated himself from the guy because he had absolutely no clue how to run a business.
Work experience at a production company is MUCH more then editing, it is how do deal with customers, how to deal with employees, how manage a business.
A “Video Business” is 10% Video and 90% Business.
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My first thought about what you would like to do is not to just right in after graduation to begin your start up company. You will gain invaluable work experience (and a steady paycheck during your transition into the real world of being out of school) by working your field of choice. I would not even think of starting on your own full time for at least 3-5 years after graduation.
As for letting potential employers know of your plans. NEVER lie to an employer, it may come back to bite you. For example say you work for a company for a short period of time never having told them that you has planed to only stay there a short time. You then start up your own thing and lets say that it fails and that you now need to find employment. In looking for work potential employers vary well might contact your past employer and if that former employer tells the potential one how you treated them, it is vary unlikely that the potential employer will hire you.
You talk about doing side jobs for your own business to get it started. Be VARY careful about that and make sure that your current employer is ok with you doing similar work on the side. Many companies have non competition requirements, meaning that while employed for them you cannot work for another place, or even on your own make money by doing the same services that you do for that company. (Why would a company want to invest in you and pay to train you to only to have you use what they taught you to benefit a competing company while you are still there employee.
Regarding your question about putting the info in a cover letter, if you do that you most likely will NOT even be given an interview. BUT do not hide that you want to try and build your own business on the side. It would be more appropriate in my opinion to bring it up in an interview, then to simply put it in a cover letter.
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How full is your media drive?
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What are the specs on the G4?
What type of media are you using?
Is the media stored on the system drive or an external drive?
If it is an external drive, how is that drive connected to the computer?
How full are your hard drives.Will some more info from you, we might be able to answer your question?
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[Russell Lasson] “You could try using Time Machine and then whenever you want to go back to how your system was after a fresh install, it will let you revert back. “
Time Machine is great for data files and some applications, but for pro apps like the FCS that install components into the OS itself it does not do to well because Time Machine does not back up system file. So when you restore from a Time Machine backup FCP is probably going to act funny because the computer is now missing the components that FCS put into the system files.
[Russell Lasson] “You could also make a fresh install on one partition, then just use carbon copy cloner to clone the drive over to the partition you use on a regular basis. This would just be a one click overnight thing. “
PERFECT idea. And depending the size of your system drive it will probably only take a couple of hours to clone from the master.
Also if by zero all data you are referring to having disk utility actually wright 0’s over all the old data, that is not necessary at all, plus it takes forever to do.
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[David Poznanter] “The movie files I’m ending up with are all stupidly small compared to the huge size of the photos i’m using, but i can’t figure out how to get FCE to make bigger files for me. “
First what type of camera images are you using? jpg, tiff, raw etc, and what resolution are they?
And what sequence settings are you using in FCP?
If you are doing stop motion check out iStopMotion I have heard good things about it.
https://www.boinx.com/istopmotion/overview/There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Are you updating vie software update, or are you downloading the updates via Apples web site?
Also what happens when you try to run the update? All you said is that you cant update.
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[Baz Leffler] “Why would I want to leave 50% free?”
[Carsten Orlt] “until you try to connect the harddrive in a couple of years and it’ll not startup”
Exactly. the more full a hard drive is the higher the risk of corruption. It may corrupt the Disk partition causing it not to mount or it may corrupt the files themselves.
For editing definitely leave 50% free. For archiving you should be ok of you leave 25% free.
Also it is a MUST to keep the drives in anti static bags. And if the files are supper important then you should have it on 2 archive drives.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!