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Click HERE to register now My Dock Dont --> - 16 years agoHi All My usually smooth Mac decided to go alittle Wonki on me -- The Dock dose not want to come out from hiding -- Its there but I can only use it if Hide is off -- I looked in Apple Kbase and could not find answer - I searched FAQ here and still no love -- The Dock would not come out 2 days ago - I reset Dock settings then it worked One day Fine-- Today dock wont come outby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: FCP switch to Avid Express How Hard? - 16 years agoLynda.com has Avid 5.5 express training -- OnLINE so you can watch today- - On the Lynda .com search Avid -(not listed on home page) --Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Can't Render - 16 years agoSame thing happened to me-- trashing FCP users preferences-- Fixed it -- Look in FAQ for instructions how to do this --by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Sequence = 4hr. limit? - 17 years ago4 hour timeline - equals rubber room -- -- Jay --by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: UPDATE: Can anyone make me feel better about Mac? - 17 years agoTry this- do a Safe Boot and repair permissions on boot drive and then restart-- Doing this once a week equals smooth Happy Mac -- Jay --by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: POLL : Virus infection and Mac - 17 years ago1- Used Mac 7 yrs- 2- Never any type virus --I am online 8 to 12 hours aday - 3 - No damage-- 4- no virus detected 5 - No virus software 6 - on my windows pc I have had about 40 virus found -- and I am careful -- 7 Yes caused all kinds of problems and cost me about $250 and Many hours of hassel I read a paper that stated there are 20 known Mac viruses- most were last cenby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Sony Zi is chewing up my footage - 17 years agoIs the tape edge wrinkled-scratched? - if it is tape is toast-- tape path damage-alinement -- If tape looks good to your eye - Try head cleaning tape- Dry- Tape Brands-- Dont mix brands of tape-can cause serous problems-- especially with tapes that were made over 3 yrs ago-- mixing different tape lubes(brands of tape )will cause heads to be clogged with cement type goo --quicklyby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Camera is invisible! - 17 years agoTry a new FW cable-they do go bad- clean connectors-- I had a FW cable go bad after it was pluged into a friends cam that the FW connection was Very tight--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Any thoughts on the new Adobe Premiere for Mac - 17 years agoI used P6.5 and P Pro - for 3 horrible years - Constant crashing - never printed out a show the same way twice- software is jam packed full of bugs that never get fixed-- Take a look at PP users web site -- not many happy folks - I did like the Speed Tool -Very cool and actually worked - Titling was nice and very easy to use --- and the option to import video to timeline with or withby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Shutdown..!? - 17 years agoIf you have Fire wire drives that are not being shut down properly(ejected) can cause shut down to hang- Jay-by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Drive Suggestions anyone? - 17 years agoYep I have that model from OWC - works great - I ordered at noon and it was on ups by 4pm same day- The 800 FW cable it comes with is perty cheesy tho so get a better one --Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Mini DV deck - 17 years agoHi Eric the LP mode is going to cause you problems- Higher tape speed allows deck to Fix tape glitches ect- - error correction -it is done behind the scene- LP mode dose not fix these as good- Most likely you are going to have to dub your tapes over to regular tape speed for best results -by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Have some fun with this post. - 17 years agoBuiltin work lites on backs of racks -- no shadows - Paint inside Backs of racks white if possiable to increases visibility- it Helps Alot- make sure No sharp edges -Ouch- Design for change -Mucho Cable ports -power plugs- maybe Mount everything on wheels -- On my edit setup at home I have a Low rider Exercise Bike attachment -- Its Cool -- A Window that overlooks aby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Wacky H264 playback on Video Sites -- - 17 years agoHi All I upgraded to FCP 5- 2 weeks ago and have been testing the QT Conversion H264 and have been getting poor results- on the play back Threw the video sites-- (Looks Good played back IN Mac ) Problems I was experiencing on playback from video sites- Glitchy play back especially the first few seconds -Blocky Huge- no color -bad- This is what I found out -- I think Most of theby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Wacked QT Conversion - 17 years agoWell I spent the last day or so testing to find out what is causing my problems--I think it is different Video sites can handle H264 and some cant-- I will start a new thread and give the results I have so far---Thanks for your help ---Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Wacked QT Conversion - 17 years agoHey Derek I up graded 2 weeks ago to FCP 5.1.4-- QT 7.15- OS 10.4.9 Yep this clip was Really Bad -- it had the Highest data rate that I have tried and it was toast-- I tried putting 3 seconds of black at the begaining of the timeline- the black looks a solid Gray and clears when the show starts-- rest of show looks good -- The play back of the QT conversion looks perfect withby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Wacked QT Conversion - 17 years agoHey Jude and Derek I will try to make conversion from completed QT movie and see what happens-- My system has been running perfect until OS - FCP and Qt upgrade 2 weeks ago-- now I have wacky fan operation-- Here is a link to a 5 sec clipVideo clip click here This clip is worse than what I have had before but this clip has more movement in it-- Thanks--Jay Ps sorry about theby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Wacked QT Conversion - 17 years agoHi Jude-- All the video was edited and titles created in FCP- The videos are real basic - titles then show is one clip straight threw-- talking head type stuff -short 3 to 5 min. I have done many QT conversions for the web and never had any problem till I started using the H264 option- I have looked on apple K base and have not found any info that matches what is happening--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Wacked QT Conversion - 17 years agoHI All I just upgraded a few weeks ago and now when I do QT Conversions Mpeg4 H264 for for use on the web site The first 2 to 3 seconds of each clip is Really Wacked out-- Very pictsulated into about 3 large blocks- gray to white in color - No ledgiable picture can be seen after about 3 seconds the picture clears and looks pretty good -rest of clip-- No dissolves or effectsby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Class Reunion Job - 17 years agoHave everyone wave --makes Happy cut aways-- and loosens folks up too - A onboard light is worth its worth its weight in gold-- Use the best onboard shot gun mic you can get for when you are moving around -- Make Sure you get good audio - there is-- no take 2-- My son works for a company that sell Reunion stuff -- big $ there--- Jay --by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Stuck CD/DVD door - 17 years agoThe manual way is to stick the end of a paper clip onto the small round hole that is on the lower front of the drive--it unlocks the drive door--Jayby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: HELP! How do I UNDO the - 17 years agoHi Gary A friend had this also happen last week-- Control -B is spposed to unsolo it but it did not work-- I think we had to delete the audio and replace in time line to to fix it --Ouch-- Might be a bug-- she is using a 17" PB with FCP 4.5--Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Trashing preferances ? - 18 years agoHi all I have a question about trashing preferances-- Occaniously I have to trash my preferance in FCP-- and it has always straightened things out-- I want to know if the preferances can be trashed for Sound Traks - Title 3d - Idvd and Live type-- I am having some small glitches in these programs and would like to get this straightened out-- If you could point me towards the answers I wilby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Full Screen Viewer - 18 years agoOn my system its -Command -Shift - 6--Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: RAM - 18 years agoThis site has Samsung 2 gigs for $190--Jay- memorysolutions.com/pog5pcme.htmlby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: DVCam vs DV - 18 years agoHi All The way the station tech explained it to me was that DVCam was developed for use in Linear tape to tape editing-- Non linear was still fairly new at the time- DVcam also has locked audio - so audio will not drift - Basic info on the tape is the same-- info is written at slightly differert pitch error correction can be better with DVcam also -- This is something I found out aboutby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA |
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