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Re: TransIntl's Swift Data 200 - 18 years ago"...With your Swift Data 200, are you going to use your additional drives in RAID fashion via a Sonnet RAID card or some other card?" Yes...4 x 250 Gig Hitachi (1 Terabyte) RAID. Boot drive always stays on it's own (outside the RAID - apps & junk only, NO MEDIA). "...I have never used RAID before on a Mac. Since I do not yet work with HD, I do not need RAID. However, using RAby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: TransIntl's Swift Data 200 - 18 years agoSorry aout the "Mac-hatin' trollz" thing... I am constantly hearing it from the PC folks at my facility and it rubs my nerves raw to hear my livelihood referred to as a "boat anchor". Sorry - my bad Gotta disagree about Apple service. I lost a hard drive in a G4 Laptop. The Applestore took it in & shipped it back to my house with a brand new drive within a week. I haveby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: TransIntl's Swift Data 200 - 18 years ago"...Imagine, you spend thousands on a high end Mac and two months later Apple wants to leave you with a boat anchor and wash their hands of you." The only people I ever hear refer to a Mac as a "boat anchor" are Mac-hatin' PC trollz. DH, I am going to do the same thing you are. I am getting a new Dual 2.7 and I am putting in the SwiftData200. I'll just remove all remnants oby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: TransIntl's Swift Data 200 - 18 years agoDid you ask the Apple guy if it voids Applecare also?by grafixjoe - Café LA Re: Will Walter Murch be signing? - 18 years agoDerek, Why are you quoting me as accusing someone of having the "wrong attitude" when that's not even close to what I said? Don't put words in anyone's mouth. You should read the posts a little more carefully before spanking someone (RMPL). My response wasn't harsh in the least...but thanx for trying to turn it into something it's not. If the issue is so, (quote) "trivial andby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: Will Walter Murch be signing? - 18 years agoAmen, Michael! WOW, not the best attitude, wayne. This isn't Brad Pitt we're talking about. We need brilliant talented successful folks in the biz to look up to. I guess you never had someone you "wanted to be like" or emulate? The guy worked on Apocalypse Now, for chri$t's sake. Winner of 2 Oscars - nominated for 5 more. Not to mention that he IS our worldwide Final Cut Pro advocate!by grafixjoe - Café LA Re: UK rip off - 18 years agoI find it VERY difficult to believe that a $1400 box of software is $4000 in the UK Express Pro with a Mojo (1:1) is less than that here ($2499): Is it worth staying there??? Sounds like you have to make 6 figures to live a standard life there. Good Luck - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: Photoshop graphic to move in FCP - 18 years agoCaleb, JPEGS do not support Alpha Channels so that explains the white background. Photoshop will automatically fill transparent areas of a JPEG with white. If you have an image with Alpha Channel (transparency) that you want to bring into FCP from Photoshop, save it as a TIFF w/Alpha or TARGA w/Alpha...or a straight layered PSD. As far as your motion goes, too difficult to diagnose blind... I wby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: Countdown for broadcast - 18 years agoOK, troy...my 2¢ from a Motion Designer's POV: The open is all too quick. The flashing pics and the way the graphic hits suddenly is shocking to me - especially with the tempo / feel of the music choice. I would have taken this section into After Effects, set up all the stills in Z-depth, dropped in a few lights then slowly moved a camera through them - making them look like large 3D panels hanby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: Has This Been Discussed Yet? - 18 years agowayne, Did you read the article? "...You can connect multiple outputs of one node into multiple inputs of another. This allows for a dazzling number of connections between modes, where you can take the duration of one mode and assign it to another, or the color attributes of one mode and assign them to another, or perform various loop-through functions?the possibilities are nearly infiniteby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: Countdown for broadcast - 18 years agoTroy, My guideline: :30 Black :60 Bars & Tone :10 Black Slate countdown from 10 You want to give the engineer enough time on the colorbars to set up (they always appreciated the full :60 seconds). My personal slate (as well as the slates I build for my employers) count down from 10 to the single frame at 2 followed by black. - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: switching from G3 to G4 and OS9 to OSx - 18 years agoMy transition from OS 9 to OS X on my Dual 1 Ghz G4 was the smoothest of any upgrade I have ever done on any computer I have ever owned or worked on. I did a lot of research...getting all the OS X-compatible upgrades / updates for all my software before starting the OS upgrade (especially plug-ins, IO drivers, Disk Warrior, Printer / Scanner drivers, Tablet driver if you use one, etc.). I wouldby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: Photoshop Forum as good as LAFCPUG - 18 years agofounder, I'm not "quoting" dictionary.com here, I am referring to the term "boolean objects" in the grafix / 3D world. Sorry for the confusion and thanx for the spanking ;Pby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: Photoshop Forum as good as LAFCPUG - 18 years agoYou didn't do what I recommended - you skipped the biggest step in #1...change "Pass Through" transfer mode on the group to "Normal". This will keep any transfer modes INSIDE THE GROUP. Oh well... - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: Photoshop Forum as good as LAFCPUG - 18 years agoEric, Since you didn't say what version of PS you are using, I will tell you how I do it with CS2: 1st: This is a pretty advanced feature, but use Groups. Select the 2 layers (the one you want to affect, and the Transfer Mode layer) and go up to that little black arrow in the upper right corner of the Layers menu and select "New Group from Layers", name it & click OK. Click on thby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: Photoshop Forum as good as LAFCPUG - 18 years agoEric, A lot of us use multiple programs and I can probably say that 90% of the membership uses Photoshop. Post your question - just add an "OT" (off topic) heading at the begining. - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: is it me or does wmv just stink? - 18 years ago"...With Flip4Mac Player, wmv plays in Quicktime and you can jog wmv files a frame at a time." This is not better than nothing because NOBODY outside the Post Production community has Flip4Mac on their machines (especially clients). - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: OT: Another "BIGGIE FILM" Edited on FCP HD... - 18 years ago"...Did a mini poll and no one liked the idea of forcing registration. I dont like it much either" ...then the "jayk's" of the world will just spam us & leave - unabated. Bummer - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: OT: Another "BIGGIE FILM" Edited on FCP HD... - 18 years agoHey Mike, What ever happened to making folks register a legit email address?? * * * * * Very good, Koz...I was going to say he sounds like an infidel from Avid * * * * * "...FWIW, I've spoken with someone who was on the editorial team and they cursed it every day. Don't always believe the marketing hype." jayk, Well, your nasty retort isn't worth anything sinby grafixjoe - Café LA OT: Another "BIGGIE FILM" Edited on FCP HD... - 18 years agoThe first "Stop Motion" film to be recorded & edited digitally: Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride"by grafixjoe - Café LA Re: FireWire drive flameout - 18 years agoIt's only a matter of time with LaCie's.by grafixjoe - Café LA Re: is it me or does wmv just stink? - 18 years agoWhat sucks about WMV's are that clients can't step through them frame by frame when approving a piece...which makes it a totally useless format for what I do.by grafixjoe - Café LA Re: my music video is done - 18 years agoCan't view it on my machine. TIPS on posting video links: 1. Encode with a universal codec (suggest Sorenson) for a clip you intend to post for the public. Always figure that 50% of the public will be on a version of QT earlier than yours. 2. When you post a link to a video, post a link to the codec you used to make it so folks can download it if they want to view it. At least list the codec /by grafixjoe - Café LA Re: another scary situation... - 18 years ago"...Annoying, arent they" Yeah...especialy when you have headphones on full blast. INSTANT HEADACHE.by grafixjoe - Café LA Re: lacie drives there is hope - 18 years agoPersonal experience: LaCie = BAD G-RAID = GOODby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: "Traffic" at last night's LAFCPUG meeting - 18 years agomark, Nice to see an Editor appreciates nodes It is an FX Artist's medium that is very powerful and will totally frustrate most old school editors to the point of changing careers (like Avid did to On-line Editors). I, too, believe this is a very important item. Gotta keep up or be left behind - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: I am in editing hell. - 18 years agoSorry...should have said Daisy Chaining is useless for SD video (nobody specified what format was being used). DV works on practically anything. - Joeyby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: Lacie strikes again - 18 years agoSounds like some of your files were not recovered from the failed drive - try running Data Rescue again. The 1 TB Bigger Disk is the biggest POS LaCie ever made. It's not even a RAID...it's one big useless floppy. Bigger is not better with hard drives. I would rather have 4 - 250 Gig drives (RAID 5) than a single 1 TB. At least that way you don't lose all your work if a drive goes down - and theby grafixjoe - Café LA Re: I am in editing hell. - 18 years agoThere is nothing wrong with using Firewire drives to edit if you use this configuration: Set up a G-RAID (500 Gig) FW800 Dual Channel RAID (one drive on the FW800 motherboard port, one on a FW800 PCI card - software RAIDed together). It totally kicks A$$. Daisy chaining is like "spanning" drives (writes to one until it's full, then moves onto the next, etc.) which is totally uselessby grafixjoe - Café LA |
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