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OT: Forum for EpsonStylus Pro 7600? - 12 years ago

Sorry for this intrusion. Just hoping someone can point us in the right direction. We are having serious problems with an EpsonStylus Pro 7600 printer. Is there a good trouble shooting forum for digital photography or other that might help us with it? Thanks. -Russ

by RJ - Café LA

Re: Clone System HD to another Mac via "Target" mode? - 12 years ago

Guys, thanks for the great ideas. Shane, you're right about pulling out the drives of course, but I'm just amazingly lazy. Guess I'll have to get out of my chair. Ben, is it possible to manually navigate to the FCPS registration and delete it? Somewhere in the user's library? Thanks again, -Russ

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Clone System HD to another Mac via "Target" mode? - 12 years ago

We are setting up a number of FCP7 systems in new MacPros and are interested in setting up one system and then cloning the system HD to the other machines via firewire by putting them into "Target" mode. Will cloning with Carbon Copy Cloner work using this method? We have purchased FCPS licenses/installation DVDs for all machines, but we think this might save us some work instead of i

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Re: OT: Seagate Barracuda 1 TB jumper question - 12 years ago

It's in the garbage. After whacking it with a hammer that is, since it had backup data on it from all my machines. :-)

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Re: OT: Seagate Barracuda 1 TB jumper question - 12 years ago

Thanks for your responses, guys. I downloaded the installation manual from Seagate and the configuration notes indicate that it should be off and if the drive doesn't load then the cpu's motherboard needs the jumper to be present. I've used this drive for a year in a firewire enclosure as my local network Time Machine drive with no trouble. When I put it in the MacPro it started to act flake

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OT: Seagate Barracuda 1 TB jumper question - 12 years ago

Hi, I'm putting a Seagate 7200.11 1TB SATA drive into one of the sleds in my "early 2008" MacPro. The drive has a jumper on it and I've forgotten whether that should stay on or come off. On = "Limit to 1.5 Gb/s Operation" and Off = "3 Gb/s Operation." Can somebody tell me what's right for installing in my MacPro and alternatively if I put it into an extern

by RJ - Café LA

Re: Display card replacement advice - 12 years ago

I tuned out on this, because I didn't think anyone was going to comment... was I wrong. Thanks to everyone who entered the discussion. I went ahead with the 5770 because there are no 5870 to be found. Thanks again. -Russ

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Display card replacement advice - 12 years ago

The ati 2600XT display card in my 2008 MacPro went belly up over the weekend. I found an ati 5770 at the local MicroCenter, but I was wondering about the ati 5870 which is hard to come by right now. Anybody have experience with it and hazard to guess if it's worth waiting until the 5870 supply loosens up? I can get a loner 2600XT for a couple of weeks from a friend. The machine is primarily u

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Re: XDCAM EX Workflow? - 12 years ago

Re: the Z systems tutorial. I've just got to say, LOL! Love it when the MacPro ejects from the desk. -Russ

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Re: 24P Animation Question - 12 years ago

David, Just a thought... Your problems could be associated with the lack of applied motion blur when you rendered your piece. You could do a quick test by applying a minimal slow motion effect and rendering out and testing it on a system where you previously had poor results. Also, how where the stills compiled into one file? In FCP or in QuickTime Player? I have better luck compiling in

by RJ - Café LA

Re: Anybody use the OCW Mercury Elite Pro for RAID? - 13 years ago

Andy, I've been considering the unit for use with ProRes media. Here's the URL for a new review of it: -Russ

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Re: How much SD video on DVD before quality suffers too much - 13 years ago

Thanks much for the reply. -Russ

by RJ - DVD Studio Pro

How much SD video on DVD before quality suffers too much - 13 years ago

I realize this is a somewhat lame-brained question, so please bear with me. I've never gotten into encoding, but I'm doing a freebee for someone and I'm going to have to build the DVD for them. They want to put as much footage from a series of workshops onto one DVD, but not degrade the visual quality too much. The material will be originated in DV, shot on a PD150 and DSR-300. It will be wel

by RJ - DVD Studio Pro

Re: New Mac mini OK for FCP6? - 14 years ago

Thanks for the info guys. After reading the review on MacWorld I might pick one up for myself to replace my old G4 I'm using as an office/internet machine.

by RJ - Café LA

New Mac mini OK for FCP6? - 14 years ago

Hi guys/gals, I have a friend who's an experienced producer (mostly PBS) who needs a simple, low cost system for FCP6, Compressor, and DVDsp. No need for heavy lifting with Motion or AE. I know the previous generation of Mac minis wouldn't work due to the integrated Intel graphics chips set. Does anyone know if the new minis will work since they switched to the Nvidia graphics set, the sa

by RJ - Café LA

Re: fixing echo - big room - 14 years ago

Attenuating low frequencies can sometimes help.

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Re: Oh, no.. not Seagate drives!! - 14 years ago

strypes and grafixjoe, Thanks, you guys are the greatest. -Russ

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Re: Oh, no.. not Seagate drives!! - 14 years ago

I have one of the affected drive models, but I can't figure out how determine the firmware version on a Mac. Disk Utility doesn't report it. Any other ways I can see it? thanks, -Russ

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Re: OT: D-SLR Movies... - 14 years ago

It is impressive, but... only 24p and you have to physically hold down a button if you want to lock the exposure during movie capture, no manual exposure mode - the deal breaker for me. It does bode of future things to come. The hot rumor is that the, to be released later in the year, Canon 5D Mark II will have a HD video mode. -Russ

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Re: Anyone using the Highpoint RocketRAID 2640x4? - 14 years ago

Sprocketz, Thanks, once again, for the great information. You're 4-perf, all the way. -Russ

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Re: Anyone using the Highpoint RocketRAID 2640x4? - 14 years ago

Sprocketz, Thanks much for the reply and information. I'm probably going with a plan similar to yours. Did you move your system drive to the empty optical drive bay? If so, did you use the MaxUpgrades kit? Best of luck, -Russ

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Anyone using the Highpoint RocketRAID 2640x4? - 14 years ago

Hi folks, I finally put my Sawtooth G4 out to pasture for use as my office machine and bought a 2.8GHz 8 core machine (wooey!). I'm doing my first HD project and looking into setting up an internal Raid. The CalDigit Raid card looks sexy, but I'm trying to stay under budget and looking at the Highpoint RocketRAID 2640x4. Anyone have experience they can share about it? Thanks, Russ

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Re: 5.1 audio card or firewire unit for STP? - 15 years ago

jgourd, Thanks for the reply, I was thinking no one was interested on this forum and just noticed your post. Your setup looks like a good one, I'm an Event user myself. I've been eyeing the Focusrite. >jgourd Wrote: > I do not use an optical or coax SPDIF signal as > that would require encoding to AC-3 in real time > while playing back (is this even possible with > STP?)

by RJ - Soundtrack Pro

5.1 audio card or firewire unit for STP? - 15 years ago

Hi folks, I've been using ProTools LE for years to mix after a picture lock and have never been fond of the user interface. I tinkered a bit with Soundtrack Pro recently and I am impressed with it so far. It seems like an able app for 5.1 and I have decide to start teaching myself surround editing and mixing in it. I presently have an Mbox 2 and I've been thinking about upgrading to an Mb

by RJ - Soundtrack Pro

Re: NAB - anyone get a sense if Apple improved MM reliability? - 15 years ago

Thank you Nick. If it works as advertised, it'll make yet another one of my days. Again, Nick, thanks for the redirect and thanks to Apple (if it works). -Russ Nick Meyers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Paul from Apple said: > > "The media manager tools has had minor updates. > Our goal was not to overhaul it, but rather make

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NAB - anyone get a sense if Apple improved MM reliability? - 15 years ago

I was hoping that someone would press the people in the Apple booth at NAB about whether they have done anything to improve media management reliablity. So far, I haven't seen any posts regarding this, so I thought I'd ask. It pretty much made my day when I saw on the Apple site that FCP6 would export OMFs with pan and volume adjustment meta data. thanks for any info, -Russ

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Re: Radeon 9200 PCI card in old G4 w/2X AGP? - 16 years ago

Barry, Yes, there is a currently shipping version for "Legacy" Macs. Here's the ATI link: Thanks, -Russ

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Radeon 9200 PCI card in old G4 w/2X AGP? - 16 years ago

I have an old G4 (accelerated to 1.2 Ghz) with a "Sawtooth" motherboard and 2X AGP slot. I want to get a graphics card with more video memory to enable Quartz Extreme and Core Image in the operating system. My question is: can I upgrade the graphics card to an ATI Radeon 9200 PCI graphics card ($129) rather than the ATIs Radeon 9800 2X/4X AGP card ($258)? Will using a PCI card and

by RJ - Café LA

Re: Final Cut 5 on an old G4? - 16 years ago

I'm running FCP5 without any problems on a machine that was 500mhz/AGP/Sawtooth originally. I upgraded the processor to a 1.2Ghz a couple of years ago and it's currently running 1.5GB of ram. Your problem is going to be the display card. Mine is an ATI-8500 with 64mb of vram which ATI no longer makes. It supports Quartz Extreme, but not Core Image. As I said, I have no problems running FCP5.

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