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	Re: blackmagic and psystar- one more thing by Margus Voll on Sep 15, 2009 at 2:48:18 pm in the Blackmagic Design Forum In the beginning the post was not if it is possible to use self built computer but does mac os support BM on non apple machine. Yes you can work on "self-made" machine on windows perfectly. I have built all my win machines and they work perfect if


	Partitioning external HD for MacBook Pro by Manny Rellesiva on Sep 15, 2009 at 12:37:32 am in the Apple OS X Forum I have Macbook pro where Mac OS 10.6 is installed. it has this specs: Model Name: MacBook Pro Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.53 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 6 MB Memory: 4 GB


	The reason FCP is not 64-bit by Alan Okey on Sep 14, 2009 at 7:58:45 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Ars Technica has a very technical, in-depth review of Snow Leopard, in which Quicktime X is discussed. Essentially, Quicktime is only just now making the 64-bit transition, and Quicktime X has very limited functionality relative to Quicktime 7. The


	g5 second video card? by Richard Warren on Sep 13, 2009 at 11:01:59 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum I am trying to help out my girlfriends mom. She uses final cut pro and after effects. She has a single CPU G5 1.8ghz with 4gb of ram and a radeon 9800 pro in the AGP slot. The 9800 is running dual monitors. She also has a 46" 1080p LCD on the desk t


	Re: Requirements? by Peter O'Connell on Sep 13, 2009 at 10:39:16 pm in the Nuke Forum Hi from the Foundry site: System Requirements for Nuke Nuke 5.1 is supported on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) (32-bit only), Windows XP SP2, XP64 and Linux CentOS 4.5 (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows and Linux 550 MHZ Pentium III or newer processor.


	Re: Final Cut on PC? by David Roth Weiss on Sep 13, 2009 at 10:16:41 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum [Dimitrios Athanasopoulos] "Can I run MAC OS X on PC?" No. Period, end of story. David Roth Weiss Director/Editor David Weiss Productions, Inc. Los Angeles POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™ A forum host of Creative


	FCP 7 and 64 bit by Ugo Danesi on Sep 13, 2009 at 8:31:38 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Dear all, I have a loto of confusion in my head. When I was starting in video editing two years ago, I was deciding to go from Win/Linux and Solaris OS to Mac OS. I was knowing that FCP was a good product for video editing and I have purchased a


	Re: blackmagic and psystar- one more thing by Ken Mitchell on Sep 13, 2009 at 6:13:51 pm in the Blackmagic Design Forum Well I was just wondering. My friend has a psystar it seems to work perfectly with the intensity card.. I was just wondering if anyone had used it with a full serial hd card....I know they exist because 3 people I know have them... only 2 are usin


	Re: Final Cut on PC? by Dimitrios Athanasopoulos on Sep 13, 2009 at 5:55:38 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum Can I run MAC OS X on PC? And if I can...can I install Final Cut Pro on OS X on PC?


	blackmagic and psystar by Ken Mitchell on Sep 13, 2009 at 12:37:14 am in the Blackmagic Design Forum Ok... has anyone used a blackmagic HD card with a psystar computer and mac os? It appears that the higher end computers would work..


	Assertion failed: false can't see bin by Ken Blum on Sep 12, 2009 at 10:24:08 pm in the AVID Editing Forum Hi, I'm running MC 3.1.3 on MAC OS 10.5.8. Quicktime 7.6.2. I am having a lot of problems. First off, I can't launch MC without getting an Assertion:Error message. I can get by that by clicking "debug." Anytime I go to the desktop or anoth


	Sudden loss of AV sync in FCP by Melodie Bryant on Sep 12, 2009 at 8:55:22 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Intel Mac OS 10.5.8, FCP 5. Was working along on a lengthy project - which has been going fine - when all of a sudden sound vanished. I finally found the culprit - my Audio/Video Settings had somehow become reset for audio playback to be FireWire DV


	Re: Help 1080i FCP by Colin McQuillan on Sep 12, 2009 at 6:10:21 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Was this drive given to you from someone working on a PC? If so, do you need to give this drive back to someone working on a PC? If you format to mac OS Extended the PC guy wont be able to read the drive anymore. Only FAT32 is universal to both


	Faster Rendering FCP?!???!? by Kamal Bayy on Sep 11, 2009 at 9:16:08 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Hi there i created a movie using my Panasonic HVX-200 and a clip that is a minute turns out to be almost a 1gb file. When i pull this file into After Effects I render the files with effects then transfer them into FCP 5. I have to re-render them when


	Re: fcp compressor by Dan Monro on Sep 11, 2009 at 6:35:19 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Hey Scott, don't sweat getting lost in all of the settings. I'm an Avid guy, too. As are a lot of us. As my friend says, "the good news is that Final Cut will let you work with any footage from anywhere. The bad news is that Final Cut will let you wo


	iTunes style scrolling images by Mark Adamcik on Sep 11, 2009 at 5:14:49 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum How can I create an iTunes style (carousel) of images? In other words, have a series of images, each coming forward from 1 side and going back on the other side. An additional aspect, is to have a bottom reflection follow the image. industrialrevolut


	Re: fcp compressor by Dan Monro on Sep 11, 2009 at 5:03:56 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Ah, Bach. Good point David. Nothing like viewing SD on your beautiful HD monitor for a crappy image... Dan Monro FCP, Avid, AfterFX, Atlanta MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GB ram Mac OS X 10.5.7 GeForce 8600M GT Final Cut Pro 6.0.5 Quick


	Re: fcp compressor by Dan Monro on Sep 11, 2009 at 5:00:58 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum I'm guessing your culprit is still the settings in Compressor. Remember that Compressor presets are just starting points. "Best" quality simply means less compression than "Good" (bear with me; i don't have it open in front of me). If you can lessen


	iTunes style scrolling image by Mark Adamcik on Sep 11, 2009 at 4:48:59 pm in the Boris FX Forum How can I create an iTunes style (carousel) of images. In other words, have a series of images, each coming forward from 1 side and going back on the other side. An additional aspect, is to have a bottom reflection follow the image. industrialrevolut


	Re: Compressor 3.5 black letterbox not black but grey by Dan Monro on Sep 11, 2009 at 4:33:51 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Thanks Rafael, but if you're talking about the gamma Correction in the filters tab, that affects the video itself. The video looks great - correct - in FCP. It's just the letterbox black level thats too high. Its almost as if I went in and changed th


	Re: fcp compressor by Dan Monro on Sep 11, 2009 at 3:09:55 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Hey Scott, Compressor makes very good DVDs. Give us a little more info, would you? BAD VHS, like interlacing? softness? bad registration? You're interlacing 23.98, so it's going to look worse, no matter what. And you're compressing it to MPEG4, so


	Re: Scale Keyframes instead of moving them by Dave LaRonde on Sep 10, 2009 at 7:35:48 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum From AE's Online Help: "Expand or contract a group of keyframes in layer bar mode [aka the timeline] Select at least three keyframes. Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and drag the first or last selected keyframe to the desired time." Y


	Re: Projecting graphics over live video by Walter Soyka on Sep 10, 2009 at 4:57:25 pm in the Live & Stage Events Forum Hi Andrei, Apple first shipped Quartz Composer in Tiger, so that might still be in play. You'd need to install the "Developer Tools" package from your Mac OS X Tiger disc. Then dig through the "Developer" folder on your hard drive to find Quartz C


	Re: Projecting graphics over live video by andrei zakow on Sep 10, 2009 at 4:52:21 pm in the Live & Stage Events Forum Walter, Thank you for your help. So I checked out Boinxtv but unfortunately it only seems to run on leopard and not snow leopard yet which I think is the only operating system now available. I'm using Mac OS 10.4.11. QC as well seems to only run


	Re: 3.5 hours to render a 5 min. green screen key? by Dave LaRonde on Sep 10, 2009 at 4:03:06 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Now, you folks DO understand that there are ways to get a longer RAM Preview, right? We used 'em all the time in Days of Yore -- AE 3.1 on a Powermac with a single 266mHz processor and 512 MB memory, running Mac OS 8.6. And you think YOUR machines


	Re: why is AE on a PC so much faster then a Mac ? by Adolfo Rozenfeld on Sep 10, 2009 at 2:41:01 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum After Effects is not a 64 bit application on any platform. AE CS4 provides some of the benefits associated with 64 bits apps (also in the Mac OS), because of how the multiprocessing scheme allows to take advantage of far more than 4 GB of RAM by la


	Re: Frame Rate Conversion using Compressor by Dan Monro on Sep 10, 2009 at 2:23:05 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Hey Meg, When you convert, try a custom setting of 23.976 instead of the 23.98 preset. Sounds minor but I had a prores 422 quicktime from an animation house that stuttered in my 23.98 sequence. Converted it in compressor using the pro res 422 pres


	Re: Quoting based on a very brief Brief by Kai Cheong on Sep 10, 2009 at 11:54:54 am in the Business & Marketing Forum We do a lot of work with government agencies & every single one of them has to go through an online tendering system similar to what you've described here. Often, the exec put in charge of managing the tender has no experience dealing with video pro


	Sluggish MC by Bob Sykes on Sep 10, 2009 at 12:10:52 am in the AVID Editing Forum We have 3 Avids that are exactly the same: MC 3.5.1 w/Mojo Unity 5.1.2 fiber connected MAC OS 10.5.6 Intel quad core 4 mb memory Two systems just run along fine. The third is SOLOWWWWWW. For instance, when I click in the timeline, it of


	New Flipbook Software: JefeCheck by Daniel Gollas on Sep 9, 2009 at 11:54:13 pm in the COW - User Announcements Forum Hello, I just want to let people know about JefeCheck, an image sequence player (flipbook) that I developed while working at Ollin Studio. It was developed with a lot of user input from the compositing and 3D artists so it is very easy to use. On


	Procoder problem on Mac by Jose Skaf on Sep 9, 2009 at 9:41:45 pm in the Compression techniques Forum Hi all. This is my problem, I hope someone can help me because I´m going a bit nuts and cant solve this..: I´m on a PC trying to make the best looking DVD I can get out of a HD Avid Project. Did LOTS of test and got the best results with Proco


	Procoder bad results on MAC by Jose Skaf on Sep 9, 2009 at 9:39:40 pm in the DVD Authoring Forum Hi all. This is my problem, I hope someone can help me because I´m going a bit nuts and cant solve this..: I´m on a PC trying to make the best looking DVD I can get out of a HD Avid Project. Did LOTS of test and got the best results with Proco


	Re: Dropped frames on playback by Shane Ross on Sep 9, 2009 at 7:19:56 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum MAC OS EXTENDED is fine...that is what it should be. Hmm.... What else.... #12 Dropped frames on capture/playback Shane's Stock Answer #12: Dropped frames on capture/playback http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58640 1)


	Re: Dropped frames on playback by Rick DeSalvo on Sep 9, 2009 at 7:11:09 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Shane, it is Mac OS Extended (journaled). I'm fairly new to Mac, so I'm not sure what that delineation means. How do I go about changing that? Thanks.


	Re: 2 Aja Kona Cards can handle 2 simultaneus video stream? by Matthew Causon on Sep 9, 2009 at 6:02:43 pm in the AJA Kona Forum Building For Media are claiming simultaneous ingest and playout from a single AJA Kona card. http://www.b4m.com/ Got this in an email (though I couldn't see much on their site about the matter), might be new software showing at IBC The App


	A Little Help! Please... by joe seamans on Sep 9, 2009 at 3:52:40 pm in the AVID Editing Forum I'm trying to capture a small piece of DVCProHD 720p tape through Firewire into a 720p 59.54 AVID MC project. It does capture, but playback is speeded up... like frames were skipped or something. I occasionally get a flamethrower error.: PMDIO out


	XDCAM and Snow Leopard--Complaints and work around. by Lance Moody on Sep 9, 2009 at 1:01:43 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum God, Sony sucks. Here is their message about Snow Leopard: Since this is a very recent release from Apple that involves significant change to the Mac OS it may take several months, perhaps winter or spring for full Snow Leopard support from Son


	Re: reimporting xdcam footage help by Atman Barbabou on Sep 9, 2009 at 8:24:54 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum First, scuse me for my english, I'm french. Hi ! I have exactly the same problem on three Macs Pro "Nehalem", the psychedelic green flash ! I work with AVCIntra 100 native but FCP7 use the ProRes codec to work with (For the timeline compressor a


	Re: error code 1309 by Noah Kadner on Sep 8, 2009 at 11:25:20 pm in the Panasonic DVX100 - HMC150 Forum I'd reformat the drive to Mac OS Extended Journaled. I'd guess you haven't formatted since you got it from LaCie and it's not setup for Mac access over 4GB. Noah Check out my book: RED: The Ultimate Guide to Using the Revolutionary Camera!. Unloc


	Re: Kernel Panic....again by Michael Harrington on Sep 8, 2009 at 9:24:33 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Mac OS X ver 10.5.8 FCP 6.0.6 I've also had problems with distorted audio on the RCA out to my Mackie 1402, use this for monitoring only. Having problems with a stuttered playback, SDI out to FSI 17" Monitor SDI In. This happens often when I play


	Re: Kernel Panic....again by Bassel - Matrox Video Products Group on Sep 8, 2009 at 7:41:38 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Hi Michael, What FCP and Mac OS X versions are you running? Regards,


	Re: Swapping Snow Leopard for Leopard by Andrew Golden on Sep 8, 2009 at 7:29:54 pm in the Apple OS X Forum There should be NO ISSUES installing Leopard on any EXISTING mac hardware right now. Apple has not made ANY hardware releases since Snow Leopard was released so even if you purchase a new computer with Snow Leopard pre-installed, it will still run L


	Re: Do i have Leopard or Tiger? by Andrew Golden on Sep 8, 2009 at 7:19:16 pm in the Apple OS X Forum Hi Zeno, You have Tiger. Anything Mac OS X 10.4.x is Tiger and anything Mac OS X 10.5.x is Leopard. Likewise 10.6.x is Snow Leopard. Hope this helps. Andrew Andrew S. Golden President Illusion Media LLC


	Re: Snow Leopard and Quicktime Advice by Richard Keating on Sep 8, 2009 at 2:40:11 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Just checked mine and it looks like it overwrites the existing QT7 Pro version that come with FCP and replaces it with the new QTX (10) version. There have been some major overhauls with the new version. You can read about them here: http://arstechni


	Full Name of Desktop files by Marjonneke Grech on Sep 8, 2009 at 12:49:26 am in the Apple OS X Forum The files on my desktop now only show 2 letters, an elipse (...) and another 2 letters. Does anyone know how to show the entire file name under the icon? I'm running Leopard on Mac OS-X Macbook Pro. Thank you!


	Can't Capture HD by joe seamans on Sep 5, 2009 at 11:49:32 am in the AVID Editing Forum I'm trying to capture a small piece of DVCProHD 720p tape through Firewire into a 720p 59.54 AVID MC project. It does capture, but playback is speeded up... like frames were skipped or something. I occasionally get a flamethrower error.: PMDIO o


	Re: What codec do you use for lossless video in particular for MAC OS X ? by Victor Burgin on Sep 5, 2009 at 10:06:55 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum > At what frame size? I have a 24 fps 1400 x 1050 (SXGA+) Animation that plays back fine from my Mac Pro, but staggers on my 2.4 GHz 7200 rpm MacBook Pro. Conversion to H.264 gives smooth motion but produces unacceptable artefacts (e.g., posterizi


	Final Cut playback and render problems by aemilia scott on Sep 5, 2009 at 4:59:33 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Hi everyone, First of all, I'm running Mac OS 10.5.8 and FCP 6. I have a Mac Pro 8 Core. Earlier today I was rendering and playing back fine. Then suddenly I opened my project and got the error to the effect of, "Final cut can't render effect G


	Re: quicktime conversion issue by Romina Ordóñez on Sep 5, 2009 at 12:37:05 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Thank you, I'll try to do that, and see what happens. I had touble with capture now in fcp 4.5, then I took the quicktime receipts to the trash and updated quicktime in my G5 Mac Os 3.9 to quicktime 7.5. I solved my capture now problems, and now I


	Re: Proposed San System by Bob Zelin on Sep 5, 2009 at 12:23:14 am in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum Hi Dan - the list you have below is completely incorrect ? Who created this list ? Have you been glancing at this forum for the past year ? My system will do ProRes422, ProRes422HQ, and uncompressed 10 bit STANDARD DEF - it will not do uncomp

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