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| | | | |  | This thing is just too cool!by Kathlyn Lindeboom 6 years agoThe other night we were at dinner with cow leader Todd Gillespie and his wife, Wendy, along with our daughter, Stefani, at a restaurant that has a view of Morro Rock. (Morro Bay, CA) Wendy asked us be | Re: This thing is just too cool!
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
Michael Marlowe " It is Not quite the same but On a Mac using Tiger, if you hold down the Control Key and Scroll It blows up the screen. It does not hold the resolution but does make it bigger and ea
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| | | |  | "No" symbol after restartby Toby Van Kleeck 6 years agoHello All. Upon restarting my Mac G5 (it was a normal restart, it wasn't frozen or anything), the grayish-white screen came up that normally ONLY has the little "thinking" animation that looks like li | Re: "No" symbol after restart
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
It can't find a startup drive OS. Something got corrupted (most likely) or the startup drive has failed. I would startup off of the the installer disks that came with your Mac. You can then try repair
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| | | |  | QuickTime Files Issueby Matt James 6 years agoI have another problem with the client whose Xraid is having affinity problems. They have 6 suites, networked with fiber through Xsan to a 17T xraid setup. Each local computer is a Dual 3ghz dual-core | Re: QuickTime Files Issue
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
I recommend posting your question again on our Xsan forum so the people using similar setups will see it. http: forums.creativecow.net viewforum 180 Tony!
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| | | |  | iPhone is Still Funby Ron Armour 6 years agoAfter almost six weeks, the iPhone is still exciting. Its been a near flawless experience and was further improved with the update. The best part is not having to remember which sequence of buttons to | Re: iPhone is Still Fun
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
I've been using the iPhone since day one and I'm just in awe every-time i turn in on. It truly is an amazing device. The screen resolution and Apple touch screen OS X interface are awesome. There are
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| | | | | which drives for fcp 5.1.4?by PAUL 6 years agoHi Which drivers should I use for FCP 5.1.4 with the I O The CD that comes with the AJA I O only has version 1.3.1 and when I install it does not work. On the cd it also does not have the Control pane | Re: which drives for fcp 5.1.4?
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
Hey Paul, Assuming you don't have any other Firewire devices connected to your Mac, and that you don't have any conflicting codecs drivers installed (avid, blackmagic, etc), I would say its likely you
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| | | |  | Did LiveType go bye-bye in FCS2by Pat DeFilippo 6 years agoHi All, I asked the guys at the LiveType Central table at NAB if LiveType goes away in FCS2 on Wednesday night at the FCPUG meeting starring Walter Murch (which was outstanding, by the way), and they | | | | |
| | | | | Will IO HD work on a G5by sotvo17 6 years agoI have a Dual 2GHZ G5 . Will the IO HD box work with it . I was at NAB and heard conflicting answers from the AJA booth . One person told me it would work with Power PC chips , another told me Intel c | | | | |
| | | | | Soundtrack Pro thru AJA ioby Dave Martin 6 years agoHi Gang Anyone know how to get the audio from Soundtrack Pro through the io Baffling! Thanks!Martin -MacBook Pro - 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo - 2 gig Ram -FCP Studio 5.1.1 - QT 7.1 - OSX 10.4.6 - Firmtek | Re: Soundtrack Pro thru AJA io
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
You can't unfortunately. There's some technical issues that prevent AJA for supporting this much requested capability (unless something has changed since I spoke with them last). Tony!
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| | | | | format hard drive for Mac & PCby Josh Snider 6 years agoHi, I'd like to be able to pass files back and forth between me and the people I work with. They all work on Adobe Premiere on PC's, and I'm on FCP on a Mac. I've heard that if I format my external ha | Re: format hard drive for Mac & PC
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
MacDrive from Mediafour is the best solution I've found (and its easy). Just install it on the PCs and format your drives for the Mac. http: www.mediafour.com products macdrive They been making this p
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| | | |  | Where are you hangin' out at NAB?by Kevin Monahan 6 years agoI guess probably at the Cow, no I will see you guys there on break. Look for me at the Sony booth near the HDCAM-SR decks. I'll be working there all week. Stop by and say hi. I will also see you at th | | | | |
| | | | | missing bezier pointsby HMVideo 6 years agoI drew a path. Now I can't see or edit the bezier points. I right click and choose 'edit points' ... nothing. Trashed prefs ... same thing. Drew a rectangle as a test ... same thing. Can anyone tell m | Re: missing bezier points
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
Are you sure you are not selecting the B-Spine tool It's a wonderful tool for drawing a path quickly, but it does not give you bezier handles (not necessarily a bad thing). If you click and hold on th
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| | | |  | Running FCP on an Intel iMacby Jeff Carrion 6 years agoWe're looking into getting a new system at our office (currently we are running PowerPC G5's Dual 2Ghz OS 10.4.8 and FCP 5.0.4) and want to put together a "budget" system. How will the performance of | Re: Running FCP on an Intel iMac
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
The 24" iMac's are very nice and can do a pretty good job at running many pro applications. For DV editing you should be fine as long as you are using external drives and bump the RAM up to at least 2
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| | | | | column sizeby Bob Vick 6 years agoEverytime I close the finder window and reopen it or any other window within OSX, or if I open a window while importing, it always changes from how I resized it. I open columns to a wider appearance b | Re: column size
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
Hi Bob, Not really the solution you were looking for, but you could get the window how you want it, then double click in the gray area at the top to place the window in your dock. When you need it, it
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| | | |  | New Post for Bob Zelinby Greg Jones 6 years agoHey Bob, Just thought I'd post something on the AJA IO Cow. My AJA IO is working great. I actually own two and never have a problem. I guess when you make something great like the AJA IO, no one has a | Re: New Post for Bob Zelin
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
The great thing about AJA's Io is that it continues to work on every new Pro Mac that Apple releases. How many capture cards would you have gone through in the last few years with PCI, PCI-X, PCIe and
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| | | |  | Io and HDVby Boris Sucre 6 years agoI'm looking for a portable solution for editing on the field HDV but I have been told that the Io does not support HDV playback on a NTSC monitor is that true If it is what are my posibilities for doi | Re: Io and HDV
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
The AJA Io is an awesome device for SD video, but was never intended for HD. The Matrox MXO is the solution most people are going with right now if you have a Macbook Pro. http: www.matrox.com video p
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| | | | | apps will not open?by thunkgrass 6 years agogreetings. all of my final cut studio apps have been opening and working fine. except motion. when i try to open the app, it pops up from the dock and thats it. the program doesn't open i even reinsta | Re: apps will not open?
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
I'd start by deleting the "com.apple.motion.plist" found in your Home Folder Library System Preferences and then launch Motion again. If that doesn't work let us know and maybe we can come up with a f
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| | | |  | FCP slowing down (do I need ram ?)by Anders Haavie 6 years agoI have a 2x2 ghz mac with 2 gig ram, and about 2 hour timeline. It's getting slower and slower to work with. Any tips on how to solve this FCP 5.1.1 and 10.4.7 Anders | Re: FCP slowing down (do I need ram ?)
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
I agree with the post above: you should break the big 2hr. sequence into smaller sequences (one per scene or section). Once all the editing is finished and approved you can put them all together in a
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| | | | | Shared Storage-Is it Worth it?by Greg Jones 6 years agoI just wanted to get some opinions on Shared Video Storage. I know Apple has the XSan, XServe system but are there cheaper, easier solutions out there that other people are using I'd also like to hear | Re: Shared Storage-Is it Worth it?
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
Just and FYI - we do have an XSAN forum here on the Cow and its an excellent resource for info from actual XSAN users and installers. Of course you're welcome to post here as well about SAN solutions,
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| | | | | 30" Cinema Displayby Greg Ball 6 years agoI just bought a refurbished G5 Quad with a new 30" Cinema Display. I'm using it for NLE editing. I've tried to change the resolution, but the most I can go is 1200 X 800. That's the smallest option in | Re: 30" Cinema Display
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
zrb123 "I'm not 100% shure but that card may only support it from one of its two dvi ports" Yep, that's my first thought as well. It sounds like you're not plugged into the Dual-Link port. Tony!
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| | | | | buying a mac! need help!by lisaj 7 years agoI am about to buy a Mac Pro and start using Final Cut but am getting varied opinions on some things. Is the difference in performance between the 2.66 and the 3 gig processors substantial I have a sma | Re: buying a mac! need help!
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
lisaj " I read on another forum that Crucial and others were not shipping RAM for the MAC Pros any longer. They were having too many problems with it" Crucial, OWC, Techworks, transintl.com, and othe
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| | | |  | Soundtrack Pro -> FCP hangsby Bob Cole 7 years agoI right-click on a file (Kona LHe NTSC 8 bit) in the Browser, choose Go to Editor, manipulate the audio with Soundtrack Pro, choose File Save, and return to FCP. FCP displays the colorful little spinn | Re: Soundtrack Pro -> FCP hangs
by Tony! Hulette 6 years ago
Try clicking on the desktop before going back to FCP. If that doesn't work, try quitting Soundtrack Pro first. I"m guessing its and issue where the Kona card is being used by Soundtrack Pro and is not
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| | | |  | Audacity 1.3.2 Beta plays well with Ioby Lee Berger 7 years agoSince Soundtrack cannot utilize Io as an input source, I've been looking for an audio editor that will recognize Io as a source. Prior to Version 1.3.2 Audacity would crash if you chose Io as the inpu | | | | |
| | | | | MacBookPro, AJA, and Fw800?by Scott 7 years agoWhat we want to do: Take our new Mac Book Pro 17" on location, pull out and plug in our Aja IO, somehow feed it video and tc from a Betacam SP (hey, what can I tell you ) and capture 10bit uncompresse | Re: MacBookPro, AJA, and Fw800?
by Tony! Hulette 7 years ago
Bob Zelin "aside from the fact that the MAcBookPro does not have native FW800 ports. " Hey Bob, just a small correction: The 17" MacBook Pro's do have a FW 800 port, it was the 15" models that didn't
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| | | | | Particles Questionby Steven Koeppen 7 years agoIf I take a clip of video or a still image and apply "make particle", is there a way to generate a particle that is individual pieces of the image not the whole image, and make it build a solid final | Re: Particles Question
by Tony! Hulette 7 years ago
A plugin is probably going to be the best easiest way to achieve for the effect you want. A shatter plugin would do it. You can look at Boris Continuum's Shatter effect as possibility: http: www.boris
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| | | | | Motion Powerstartby Michael Jaffe 7 years agoI am looking for a good training dvd for Motion and FCP after having gone through the Final Cut Pro dvd. Has anyone used the Motion Powerstart dvd if so, would you recommend it If not, what would you | Re: Motion Powerstart
by Tony! Hulette 7 years ago
These are pretty good: http: www.digitalmediatraining.com products motion2 index.html and http: www.vtc.com cd motion.htm There are some good books as well: http: www.amazon.com Apple-Pro-Training-Mot
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| | | | | Can't capture more than 20 secby The Lobby 7 years agoHi everybody hopefully somebody can give me a little help with this. I've just installed a Kona 3 into my G5 quad and for some reason I can't seem to capture any more than about 20 seconds at a time b | | | | |
| | | | | Xserve RAID questionby Bobby Mosaedi 7 years agohi all! im having a problem with my xserve raid (14x400), RAID 5 config. apparently someone here heard that these drives were hot swappable, so while the machine was on, they pulled one out, started h | Re: Xserve RAID question
by Tony! Hulette 7 years ago
Hey Bobby, Try using the "Make Drive Available For Use" function, under Utilities in the toolbar on the problem drive. Then try recreating your RAID using including the problem drive. Tony!
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| | | | | trying to convert .m4v file to .aiff or .mp3by Cratin24 7 years agoI am trying to convert a concert video (.m4v) that I downloaded off of itunes to a .aiff or .mp3 file to listen to on my iPod. The video is great, but runs my battery down too fast, so I want an audio | | | | |
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