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Friends:  Bob Zelin  Chris Harlan  Chris Kenny  Craig Seeman  Jeremy Garchow  John Davidson  john lijo  Jon Rutherford  Jonathan Bierman  Marc Grant  Walter Soyka | | | | |  | Why cant adobe have the best of bothby Richard Cardonna 2 weeks agoAutodesk,Maxon,&intuit both have subcription and perpetual lic in all products. Adobe says it has 500k paying subscribers whence they claimed to have had 2million perpetualseats. Why writeoff 1.5 mill | Re: Pixelmator Responds
by Andrew Richards 2 weeks ago
Shawn Miller "why not offer a cross platform solution " I think one of the reasons the Pixelmator team has been able to build such a mature image editor so quickly with such a (relatively) small team
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| | | |  | AE drives the NLE decisionby Oliver Peters 3 weeks agoI edit and do training from time to time at broadcast facilities. What I've seen has been FCP in the commercial promo department and Avid in news. The general flow I've seen is to cut a base layer in +7 | Re: AE drives the NLE decision
by Andrew Richards 3 weeks ago
Christian Schumacher "Apple can do better in the Pro Apps department, namely FCP X, Motion, Compressor, Aperture and Logic all working together in tandem. " I wholeheartedly agree. My personal top pi
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| | | |  | Three seat 1Gig fibre channel Xsan old setupby John Smith 4 months agoI've been running this three mac pro setup for 7+ years with success but the technology has evolved and I haven't. I'm planning on adding 2 new IMACs with a 12TB thunderbolt Promise Pegasus to the set | | | | |
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| | | |  | Lionby Rich Rubasch 7 months agoHi all; We are still all Snow Leopard here and are considering upgrading to Lion to enable Kona AJA drivers for Adobe CS6 and Avid Symphony which require it. BUT....I can't find a Lion installer for p | Re: Lion
by Andrew Richards 6 months ago
You can no longer buy Lion, but it can still be downloaded by Apple IDs that bought it when it was available. If you know anyone who bought it, they can log in to the Mac App Store and re-download the
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| | | | | FCP X as a databaseby Oliver Peters 6 months agoOut of curiosity, for you champions of FCP X as a database... How is FCP X any more of a database than Media Composer or Premiere Pro with embedded XMP data Somehow I simply don't see that as being tr | Re: FCP X as a database
by Andrew Richards 6 months ago
Walter Soyka "I'd be very curious about your opinion on SQLite performance at scale. As others in this thread talk about larger numbers of events and projects (with unknown amounts of footage, ranges
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| | | |  | XSAN - jump from sanmpby Francois Stark 8 months agoHi I am considering jumping from SANMP to XSAN and have a few questions. I have the following available: - Four ADTX Ciprico 15 disk arrays, each with two controllers and 2 x 2GB fibre links on each c | Re: Luns - example
by Andrew Richards 8 months ago
Francois Stark "My point is - without being able to test the controllers one by one - as I can do naturally with sanmp - I wouldn't be able to isolate these issues. Is there any way to test controlle
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| | | |  | Pegasus R4 formatting question....by Andrew Clark 8 months agoHello - Seeking advice on the best way to format a Pegasus R4 unit. Looking at Disk Utility (in Mac OS), I see the only options are: - Mac OS Extended (Journaled) - Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrytp | Re: Pegasus R4 formatting question....
by Andrew Richards 8 months ago
Andrew Clark "I'm just wondering HOW much of a performance hit that Journaling actually affects video editing." Negligible. When it was new a decade ago, you might have considered going without it fo
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| | | |  | Amazon Glacierby Dustin Parsons 9 months agoAnyone heard of Amazon Glacier Sounds like it might be pretty good for long term archival solutions. I wanted to try it out but from this article it appears that, "It is worth noting that typical end- | | | | |
| | | |  | Which OSXby William Jon Miller 9 months agoJust was given an older imac (see below for specs) and wanted to know how far I can upgrade OSX. Currently it has 10.4.11 (tiger). Can I upgrade to Lion or Mountain Lion or perhaps only to Snow Leopar | Re: Which OSX
by Andrew Richards 9 months ago
If you have other Macs withSnow Leopard or Lion you can use them to download the Lion installer again and use it to make a bootable install disk. You only need Snow Leopard if you have no other Macs t
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| | | |  | How does an IP host locate a server on a SAN?by Tom Elgin 10 months agoIn a SAN, devices are identified by their WWN. In TCP IP, devices are identified by a MAC IP address combination. So, how does an IP host communicate with a server in a SAN, when the server doesn't sp+1 | | | | |
| | | | | SAN fabric question...by Tom Elgin 10 months agoI'm a bit confused on the concept of what constitutes a fabric. The info I've read states that a fabric is one or more SAN switches connected (it didn't say they had to be connected together). I've al | Re: SAN fabric question...
by Andrew Richards 10 months ago
Tom Elgin "Can a single switch be called considered a fabric " As far as Fibre Channel is concerned, a fabric is one or more switches. Tom Elgin "When you connect two or more switches together, is it
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| | | | | OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and Cache-Aby Bob Zelin 10 months agoOi. Anyway, thanks for the support notes with an alternate on how to get this to work. I wish it was not such a pain. It was a pain in 10.7, and it's a pain in 10.8 bob Zelin | Re: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and Cache-A
by Andrew Richards 10 months ago
Netatalk has been AFP3.3 Lion-friendly since v2.2 back in January, v2.2.3 came out in May, and v3.0 just released in July. I've been using it successfully since 2.2.1 with Lion and now Mountain Lion o
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| | | |  | SAN 2.2.1 Open Dir Users issuesby Tom Barton-Humphreys 10 months agoHi guys When we give permissions to groups or individual users to have read write access to a folder, it only works for the root folder - all sub folders require adding individually. This is a real pa | | | | |
| | | |  | Xsan 3.0 is comingby Juan Salvo 11 months agoWas excited to notice a minor point with regards to the upcoming mountain lion release. We're getting an update to Xsan... 3.0. Should be interesting. Nice to see it isn't dead... yet. Online Editor C+1 | Re: Xsan 3.0 is coming
by Andrew Richards 10 months ago
Ian Liuzzi-Fedun "While it is a filesystem I was looking for some real shit - maybe PCs without StoreNext, HSM, or any of a dozen things people have been asking for." I'd expect their licensing agree
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| | | |  | Apple Patentsby Eric Santiago 10 months agoThis might interest some of you. http: fcp.co final-cut-pro news 884-apple-s-new-patent-hints-at-collaborative-media-production-with-final-cut-pro | Re: Apple Patents
by Oliver Peters 10 months ago
Kevin Patrick "Are there too many patents I don't know how to answer that question. Do people or companies benefit from patents I think so." I think you have to go back to the original intent of copy
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| | | |  | miniSAS to eSATA not port multiplierby Neil Sadwelkar 10 months agoThis has been dealt with here many moons ago but slightly differently to my query. So here goes... Does a miniSAS to eSATA cable work with the Atto H680 SAS HBA, if connected to single drives Not port | | | | |
| | | |  | Let's talk tape storage and technologyby Tim Jones 10 months agoHi folks, As many of you know me from the REDUser forums and other media forums, I've been asked to come online by a few friends on the left coast to add some chatter to the Creative Cow world. I've b+1 | | | | |
| | | |  | So if Avid goes under, then what?by Andrew Kimery 11 months agoBranching off from the thread about Avid selling off its consumer line of products and seemingly gloomy financial outlook (http: forums.creativecow.net readpost 335 38711), what happens if Avid can't | Re: So if Avid goes under, then what?
by Oliver Peters 11 months ago
First of all, Avid isn't going anywhere. The video edit software, ProTools, ISIS Unity (shared storage), Euphonix and news room products all seem to contribute equal percentages to the bottom line. So
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| | | | | Prores in OSX 10.7by matt johnson 11 months agoI just got a new macbook pro running OSX 10.7 and I installed the Adobe Production Premium 5.5, and I'm trying to get a number of codecs installed, but there doesn't seem to be anywhere to install the | Re: Prores in OSX 10.7
by Andrew Richards 11 months ago
Here they are: http: support.apple.com kb DL1396 ...but the installer won't let you install them unless it sees FCPX, Motion 5, or Compressor 4 installed. You could try it with Pacifist though. Best,
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| | | |  | record applications on screen 10.7.4by gary Jarvis 11 months agoSo, I treated myself to a brand spanking new Macbook Pro Yeahhh, I picked up the 15" 2.3Ghz and suped it up with 16gigs of Ram and a 750gig 7200rpm HD and this baby flies, especially taking into consi | | | | |
| | | | | Archive Assistanceby Tom Nelson 11 months agoI think I've got most of my issues resolved except for the ones that are Avid-related. Hence, I'm also posting this in the Avid forum. I recently posted a query about a searchable database for Access, | Re: Archive Assistance
by Andrew Richards 11 months ago
Unfortunately, if you have to work with what you've got, you're going to remain stuck with a series of workarounds. StorageDNA has an integrated solution for what you want to do called Evolution, but
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| | | |  | Copying files from Win 7 to Stornext SANby Patrick Morgan 11 months agoPeople of the Forum (Thought I would be formal) I have a question regarding the Stornext SAN solution. We use the windows Copy command in our application to move files after creation from a staging ar | | | | |
| | | | | Archiving Footage, running low on storageby Geo Monterosa 11 months agoI have an issue. We have a limited amount of space in our server. Currently we have a mix of video formats, ranging from apple pro res, Xdcam, dvcprohd, HDV, SD, H264. We are currently using FCP 7 and | | | | |
| | | | | Others insight....by Eric Santiago 11 months agohttp: www.reduser.net forum showthread.php 80810-Apple-s-announcement&p=1022034#post1022034 | Re: Others insight....
by Chris Harlan 11 months ago
Michael Gissing ""I just don't think that Apple is ready to give up what they have worked so hard to achieve... the loyal support of the professional. That ship has already sailed." Agreed. If you we
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| | | | | Blog: Return of the Pizza Box?by Andrew Kimery 11 months agoThe recent, um, 'upgrade' to the Mac Pro followed by the unconfirmed leak (which was later confirmed) about real upgrades possibly coming to the Mac Pro next year got me thinking again about what a to+1 | Re: Blog: Return of the Pizza Box?
by Andrew Richards 11 months ago
Andrew Kimery "If ThB is currently wide enough for a GPU to just 'do math' as opposed to driving a display I think that opens the door more for an integrated, or at least non-user replaceable, non-st
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| | | |  | http://www.lwks.com/by Erik Lundberg 12 months agoI was beginning to think it would never show. But now that it's here, how does this change your view (if at all) on the NLE-scape of 2012 Where does it fit in, and how does it compete with the rest Fo | Re: http://www.lwks.com/
by Andrew Richards 12 months ago
Herb Sevush "It is free as in free and open, free as in Linux is free, Wikipedia is free. It is not free as in sunshine is free." There's two kinds of free. Best, Andy
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| | | | | Computers = Trucks?by Andrew Richards 12 months agoJohn Lilly, former Mozilla CEO, on where all this computer stuff is going. Anyone familiar with my posts around here will rightly surmise that I tend to agree with his sentiment. Feel free to draw any | Re: Computers = Trucks?
by Chris Harlan 12 months ago
The Prius is an overpriced status symbol I don't know about that. It starts around 24 or 25 grand, and if you live where I live, where gas is usually a buck a gallon or more over the national average,
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| | | |  | Just so we're clear...by Greg Andonian 1 year agoTHIS is NOT an "event"... ...THIS is an EVENT. ______________________________________________ "THAT'S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it pl+3 | Re: Just so we're clear...
by Walter Soyka 1 year ago
Alan Okey "You're showing your age as well. The kids these days would have written "your old."" Alan, I hate to say it, but you might be showing your age, too. Wouldn't a kid today write "ur old " Wa
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