Tiger and Cinewave GRRRR----REAT! So far anyway...

I use two drives in my G5 - both have FCP and I use one to upgrade and see it if it works, and if it does, it goes on the other drive.

So I installed Tiger today. And so far - FCP opened up, the HUGE drives (DualMax 160s) still work, the Atto card still works, the drives comes up with no problem. And I did a little cursory editing and so far so good.

I tried a render - certainly no slower, might be a hair faster.

The suprise was that I have a PowerMate USB Volume Control that I use to expand and shrink the timeline - (zoom) - and before it was sluggish, annoyingly sluggish. But I prefer it to using keyboard macros (which were also sluggish). But now? Not sluggish. It felt like I went from a G3 400mhz to dual G5x2.5., but all I did was install Tiger. It is almost instantaneous, and now so fast that there is no wait. Anyone know why this would be?

I cut online HD 1080 material, which is usually buggier than anything else (with Cinewave). And so far it has gone through an hour and 15 minuts of timeline without a hiccup either.

I'm now rendering out a 2.5 minute trailer to H.264. I've had (and still have) problems rendering long sequences from the Cinewave HD Codec to MPEG2. So if this works I'll be surprised. If it doesn't work, no surprise actually. But when I went to export to QT conversion it automatically defaulted to h.264. How did it...know? I guess it didn't. Apple must you want you to check it out.

I was thinking of buying a Kona 2 tomorrow, but now I think I might have stay of execution.

I'm not sure I'm recommending it because I haven't played with it for say, a few hours at a time. Who knows? It might just shut down on me. Then again, that would happen with Panther too.

Sounds way too good to be true.

Sounds good, wonder if Avid would feel any pity towards us, and keep cinewave cranking :)

hopeful thinking...

I'm in the progress of installing Tiger, Cinewave 4.7 and FCP 4.5 on a new partition of a G5 dual 2ghz. Will update you guys in couple days.

Read the license agreement! For two machines you are supposed to pay for two licenses. You can get a family pack for private use. For business there's no standard volume discount. (From a technical standpoint I don't think there's any problem.)

Missed that part. Sorry! I knew they did big volume discounts on a case to case business but I was unaware of this. Thank you for putting things straight.

This is all good news as I too am considering a Kona2 in the near future. I still think I have the perfect card for what I do now, and if I can hang on to it for a couple more months, that makes me happy.

How is RT on the card? Do you still see all of the Cinewave features (RT, multi-codec, RT effects like CC)?

Have you tried digitizing directly in QT7 Pro?

Have you tried digitizing directly in QT7 Pro?

What do you mean by directly?

Like opening a QT/Targa file in QT and exporting from there?

Or...?

Dale Launer
writer.filmmaker
G5 Cinewave HD Huge

Yes, QT 7 pro is a now a capture app. It's sweet but nothing more than what a bunch of third party apps did with QT before. This and the H.264 codec (which is truly f-n amazing) are the coolest new features.