Zane Barker
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Mark your attitude about this seems to me as if Apple should write there OS with your concerns as there biggest priority. Apple focuses on the “average” computer user. You are NOT the average computer user.
[Mark Palmos] “Media clips are not system clips! OSX should put Media clips separate from mission critical files… that is pretty certain. “
The average computer user does not clearly make that distinction. When something goes wrong on the computer the average computer user they blame the computer as a WHOLE.
[Mark Palmos] “Spotlight prevents people from searching Media files which Apple puts in the library… “
Again think in terms of the “average user” if they were to go and do a spotlight such and all these thousands of things showed up they would get mighty confused.
[Mark Palmos] “If apple are really being so careful, they should at least be consistent. “
Building an OS is NOT an easy thing, what you are using now took YEARS to get to. You cannot expect Apple to suddenly make an OS that will fit just YOU. I do not want to offend you by saying that, but it really seems as if you do not understand that Apple must make the best product possible to the “average” computer user. Like I said before you are NOT an average computer user.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Your old machine most likely does not have BootROM support for big drives.
If thats true your machine probably cannot support a drive larger then 200GB.
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[Mark Palmos] “its extremely annoying how apple treats users like dummies. If I want to delete something I should be able.”
Think of it this way it is easier for Apple to prevent people screwing things up then it is for them to fix the screw ups people make.
You are the first person I have heard complain about it. Apple is NOT treating people like dummies, they are maintaining the integrity of there OS.
[Mark Palmos] “The fact that apple puts audio samples and motion and DVD studio pro templates in the library folder is incredibly stupid”
Its actually the best place for them I believe, where else would they belong. If they were placed elsewhere they would be much more likely to get deleted and messed up by people who don’t know what they are doing. And if your average user opened iMovie or iDVD and all of a sudden all the templates were gone they would not like it at all.
[Mark Palmos] “If I want to delete something I should be able.”
And you can, just be prepared to face problems caused by possibly deleting the wrong things.
While you may be able to distinguish between what is needed and what is not, the vast majority of computer users is not. The way Apple has set up there OS is the reason Apple Computers are gaining big time in the computer market. The OS is set up to be easy to use, and vary stable. That ease of use and stability has everything to do with the way Apple set things up.
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[Ron Coy] “He said it’s a G4 Powerbook. It woudn’t be that difficult,”
It may not be hard but I have still seen people damage other components that end up costing a LOT more because they didn’t know what they were doing.
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Spotlight cannot be manse she show you what is in the library. Its like that for a reason. If you delete the wrong thing in there it causes problems.
What utility are you using? If it is any good it will let you delete from within the utility itself, it may have an option to show in finder, or at the very least tell you where it it located so you can go there manually.
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Because it sounds like it is the project file that has the problem here are a couple of things to try.
Do a save as on the project thus creating a entirely NEW project.
Copy your sequences and past them into a NEW project, then save the NEW project.
Use media manager to create/copy everything to a NEW project.There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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[annie smith] ” I will be doing basic moves to these stills.”
If all you are doing is motion on still photos I recommend using a program called Fotomagico. I use it on ALL my photo slideshows. You can bust out a photo slideshow in the fraction of the time it takes you to do it in FCP. Or you can also use iphoto or iMovie, you don’t get the control you do in Fotomagico though.
[annie smith] “I was told that the sequence settings should be the same as the source settings in order for me to NOT have to render the files in the sequence”
That is true when you add video, but you will need to render eventually if you are doing stills in FCP.
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[Rich Bruce] “Tried everything”
What is every thing to you?
What exactly have you tried?[Rich Bruce] “It happens whenever i open or export from the project in question,”
Where it is ONLY one project, most likely that one project file is corrupt or damages in some way.
Will it let you do a save as and save it as a different file name?
If so does the same thing happen with the new project?More info on what you have already tried please we could give suggestions all night long, but we don’t know if our suggestions are included in your “everything”
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[Rob Paul] “I’ve never owned a Mac before, but I need one for film school”
I have never heard of a school that requires you to have your own editing machine, they will most likely have a computer lab you can use.
Because you are in school I am guessing that you will want a laptop. If that is the case then get a MacBook Pro. It will have designated video ram where a MacBook shares its video ram with the system ram. The MacBook Pro will also have a express slot that you can get a esata card for and then use esata hard drives.
The base model MacBook Pro is fine, but you will want to up the ram to 4GB
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Try deleting your render files and export again.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!