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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: External DVD burner recommendations - 16 years agoPixel drop out??? Surely that's encoding and not the burner's fault? As much as I hate their hard drives, my very very very early 2x LaCie External Superdrive (with a Pioneer burner in it) is still going great guns at least 5 years on.... Just don't ask how much I paid for it....though I basically forwarded the cost onto the clientby jusrus - Café LA External DVD burner recommendations - 16 years agoHi all, Can anyone recommend a good external DVD burner? Should I look for one with a Pioneer drive inside it? Surely not LaCie? JR.by jusrus - Café LA Re: -R DL vs +R DL - 16 years agoJude, is the burner in your MacPro like this? First google hit shows :-by jusrus - Café LA Re: LaCie portable HD. - 16 years agoClassic. Reminds me of a promo photo I sent out a few days ago, where all 3 of us were SMOKING. INSIDE. A pub! Ahhhh....the memories. I can just see my kids going 'you used to SMOKE? cigarettes????' Seriously, LaCies have a smell of their own sometimes.by jusrus - Café LA Re: HDV to DV Pal - 16 years agoDom - sounds like an interesting experience - can you post your final?by jusrus - Café LA Re: LaCie portable HD. - 16 years agoWow. LaCie in a header - been a while It does vary due to your own milage, but I would also vote for firewire over USB - nothing but issues recently with a (client's) USB2 only Lacie. That and the fact I could smell it before he opened his bag. Seriously.by jusrus - Café LA Re: MacBook 15" to edit? - 16 years agoBen and I have very similar setups! Though my MBP is first gen 1.83 CoreDuo, with only 1.5gb of RAM. My Dual 2ghz has 3gb of RAM. Generally I find they perform *about* the same. There is no doubt on processor intensive tasks, the G5 still wins (encoding DVDs, high format rendering). Can exactly the same work be achieved on the MBP (without Color). IMO yes. Just might take you a bit lby jusrus - Café LA Re: G5 won't shut down - 16 years agoYep, it does here Koz (both tricks). Tried holding option? Optical drive working ok otherwise?by jusrus - Café LA Re: Migration to new iMac - 16 years agoI agree with Jude. I start a machine as clean as possible. Look into a utility called YourBackup - it will move all your keychains/bookmarks/emails etc etc across with ease. Reinstall all applications - especially is you are going PPC - Intel? And if you've ever read a post on here you'll know how anal we all are about file management - so moving your data across should (hopefully) be a mby jusrus - Café LA Re: Tip of the week for editors with failing eyesight. - 16 years agoYep - it saves me on a daily basis in ProTools and FCP. And my eyesight is still excellent - at 28. Ask me in 10 years...by jusrus - Café LA Re: connecting a outboard mic pre to a G5 for VO's - 16 years agoC3000 is a classic. That would be my choice. I think the poor link in the chain here (and I'm definitely one of the audio snobs who 'can hear it' as descibed above) is using the .35 minijack in. If I had that amount of stuff, I'd definitely be getting a mid range firewire or USB device. But I agree with the above - all these suggestions will work - your personal milage (and how much you lby jusrus - Café LA Re: Way OT Maybe - MP3 export for Quicktime - 16 years agoHmmm...if its in iTunes (which I know it is), would they really have to pay for it in Quicktime as well? Its quite laborious in iTunes I find - for myself I use the AAC codec for iPodding etc, but find that peecee people have issues with AAC.by jusrus - Café LA Way OT Maybe - MP3 export for Quicktime - 16 years agoHey all, Thought this might be worth mentioning as it seems to come up here from time to time. Allows you to export audio from Quicktime to mp3 - it amazes me that this doesn't come as part of Quicktime. Intel UB. All good on G5 & MBP here. I'm a happy man. JR.by jusrus - Café LA Re: HD input/editing/Output - 16 years agothanks for the link Jude - is the formatting weird for anyone else on Safari 2.whatever? Fine in Firefox btw.by jusrus - Café LA Re: Macbook Pro question - 16 years agoJohn Foley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wouldn't recommend anything smaller than the 17" > without an external monitor to display FCStudio 2. Not for all purposes I wouldn't have thought - simple cut editting is simple and easy on a 15. But yes, colour and motion almost require bigger than 17inch, which is of course, easy enough to plug in wby jusrus - Café LA Re: OT: Adobe Products + FCP - 16 years agoFlash can be handy for sure. Never bothered getting my head around Illustrator, though I should. Photoshop since version 3. I remember how exciting layers were - was the version 6? I find the updates now more performance than tools. Haven't yet spent much time with CS3, but the new toolkit layout was annoying, but was OK after 20 minutes. And it certainly flies under Intel compared to Cby jusrus - Café LA Re: How can I convert a "VCD" to use in FCP or convert to make a dvd in DVDSP - 16 years ago"I think the Carthaginians used MPEG1 in 800 BC. " Gold. FFmpeg all the way with this one for me. I did a few of these last week - what on earth were people thinking????by jusrus - Café LA Re: Travelling and checking gear... - 16 years agoAs a regular flyer domestically in Australia, this makes me laugh.....a LOT. When I was in the states August/September last year, there were fluid issues because of the terror threats in the UK. I've never heard such complaining in my entire life. Ever. And I spent 22 hours straight in a car last week. I reckon I'd take losing my stuff....its insured. Aren't you just as likely to getby jusrus - Café LA Re: MacBook Pro Owners' (part Deaux) input...please... - 16 years agoI have had one for 18 months or so. 1. Could you give me some PROS & CONS of ownership / working daily with this sucker? Pros. Speed, keyboard, monitor quality (though obviously not for colour correction), FW800 on new ones, big hard drives now. Cons. Slow HD speed on stock, lack of expansion options with tower (gfx cards and extra HDs), slow manufacturer uptake on expresscard/34.by jusrus - Café LA Re: OT: The successor of render beep - 16 years agoAwesome - I'll give it a try tonight!by jusrus - Café LA Re: OT: The successor of render beep - 16 years agoAndreas, You are the master! It would be truly excellent if this could/would use Skype - cheaper, and takes away the reliance on the cell phone too! JR.by jusrus - Café LA Re: Green Screen Rendering help please and BEST WEB COMPRESSION - 16 years agoRicky, They are really interesting real world tests - thanks for reporting them back. This is interesting to me personally - I'm with Jude and reckon maybe your external drive is proving a bottleneck? Did you do all your tests with the same USB drive? My Dual G5, IMO, would suggest far better results than what you are getting. I don't think its easy to qantify the difference two inteby jusrus - Café LA Re: iPhone - 16 years agoAgreed about geeky phone factor from those above (wayne/derek etc), but I now absolutely need my phone to have - A huge address book (over 1200 entries in mine!) A calendar (i sync with iSync!) Bluetooth (to sync it all) Crazy? Maybe. Not carrying around a physical address book or diary? Gold. Having it backed up for when I leave it on a tram? Perfect. Sometimes you just have to bby jusrus - Café LA Re: OT: The End of Run and Gun? - 16 years ago"Oh boy...I can see where this thread is going....".... Me too, so I'm going to steer it somewhere different.... I have just re-read the article, and I think the other major issue here is anyone filming potentially 'sensitive' buildings/areas etc. Here in Melbourne, Australia, post 9/11, we've had a number of instances of people being interviewed/questioned about filming our poteby jusrus - Café LA Re: Elgato turbo.264 - 16 years agoNo technical reason why they couldn't do an MPEG2 stick that I can think of?by jusrus - Café LA Elgato turbo.264 - 16 years agoFYI. Imagine if this thing could do MPEG2 encoding?by jusrus - Café LA Re: OT - Widescreen on G4/400 Sawtooth tower? - 16 years agoOK. Turns out the G4 had an ATI Rage Pro 128 in it. Tried this morning - DVI no widescreen, but VGA no problems on a cheapie ASUS 20 inch WS. So I'm off to buy a monitor. I'm in Melbourne, BTW, Nick (I think we've been here before) Thanks for the offer - after all, this is all about making use of redundent equipment!by jusrus - Café LA OT - Widescreen on G4/400 Sawtooth tower? - 16 years agoHi all, I have a G4/400 tower with a gig of RAM sitting here. I've got a work experience kid next week, and figure I might use this as an oppotunity to get it going again. So I want to get a budget LCD for it - VGA input obviously not a problem, but I'm not sure whether the graphics card on it (of which I'm not EXACTLY sure what it is!) will be able to do widescreen res? My initial researby jusrus - Café LA Re: best firewire cable? - 16 years agoHe's lucky - he's got good heating. I never worry about these things - did I mention it was a LaCie hard drive? (Hears himself opening proverbial can of worms). Seriously though - if people in this day and age don't back up, there ain't nothing I'm going to say to make them feel better. But back OT - best quality firewire leads? Anyone? Or do you just use whats at hand or comes with tby jusrus - Café LA |
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