A few magnetic timeline questions.

I've gone back 10 pages and not found these topics. So a few questions.
1) When I delete a clip a gap is left. One should have the option of Ripple-delete AND Non-ripple-delete. Is there a Ripple-delete> How does one SIMPLY delete the gap?
2) Even in TRIM mode, somtimes a trim doesn't ripple. Bug?
3) Although there are no tracks -- below the string of clips -- there is a an odd set of "shadow clips" that match the clips above. What are these?
4) When clips are deleted, these "shadow clips" remain but no longer exactly below the actual clips. What's going on?
5) When draging clips, they'll pop up or down "tracks." What's going on?

"Do yourself a favour and actully take a little time to learn how to use it before you criticise it."
Having written a book on iMovie I certainly agree with learning an application.
BUT, after 20 years of using almost every NLE -- it seems crazy that simply sending a clip to a timeline and deleteing a clip from a timeline would -- given it's Apple software -- not be intutive!
Frankly, watching a tutorial seems overkill when you were able to point me the right direction with a few words, "OK. None of your clips are on a storyline."
Perhaps what's needed is TIP in Apple's PDF for those who come from iMovie and have zero reason to bother with stories and magnets. TIP:
1) Click Append to send to Timeline after setting IN and OUT on a clip in the Event Browser.
2) Press delete to remove a clip with ripple.
3) Press forward-delete to delete leaving a gap.
4) Drag a video-only or audio-only clip, after setting IN and OUT on a clip in the Event Browser, above or below an AV clip to create an "insert."
5) Drag edges to trim -- which oddly works in both A and T modes.
For me everything else about FCP X seems intuitive -- although I have not yet found a way to place a clip at a TIME so it doesn't move. In other words stick to a spot. Gee, isn't that what tracks are for.
So now that FCP X is mostly working for me I'm happy. But, iMovie is still faster at: Rotate clip in Event Browser; place clip as Cutaway, PIP, etc.; apply Ken Burns effect. For ME speed and ease is what makes an NLE "superior." When I want power I use Media Compser or FCP.
Thank you for your help!

Similar Messages

  • Final cut x - Customize interfaced / turn off magnetic timeline

    Hi.
    2 vital questions about FCPX:
    1. Can you turn off the magnetic timeline?
    2. Can you change the hideous gray-letters-on-black-background interface and make it black letters on a light gray or white background?
    I've searched (including the manual with no index) and can't find these answers.  Thanks in advance for your help.
    In case you're wondering why these questions are vital to me:
    I use FCP 7 and I make movies.  Narrative pieces.  Not youtube videos.  So the magnetic timeline is like trying to work while someone snaps a rubber band on your face.  I'm sure it's useful when you're editing "Mikey Bit My Finger," or "David After the Dentist," or some sports event, but it's the opposite of useful for narrative work.
    And the ridiculous white-on-black interface...? Seriously?  There's a reason books aren't printed that way.  I'm not staring at that hideous black screen all day.  No way.  That's a deal breaker.
    Anyway, I'm going to have to switch editing systems in a year or so once FCP 7 no longer is installable on new machines, so I figure I better find out these 2 vital questions.  Otherwise, it's off to Adobe Premiere or (shudder) Avid 
    Thanks for your answers.

    Yep, click the icon for the clip you want to move, hold down the P key and place it anywhere. It would be nicer if I could just turn the magnetic function off in the timeline. Much nicer... Because that clip I just moved will return  toward the beginning of the timeline the moment I move something upstream via trimming it. PLEASE allow us to turn it off. It's silly not to have that option.
    On the background color, Premier is the same way, as is everything Adobe now. I have the Creative Cloud and use Audition for a bit of fast audio sweetening because FCPX, isn't as good at it. Premier also handles the MTS files that clients bring in from their DSLRs... FCPX doesn't handle those natively. Why? (And lets not get into a discussion of "wrappers", please. Just do it.) Also silly and disfunctional. Apple is supposed to be all about "functional" but the interoperability with common files types like MTS leaves much to be desired. I'm an Apple evangelist since 1983, and this program, after using FCP since inception, feels more like a downgrade. Fast? Yeah, but that's not the bigggest priority in creating. Flexible? Talks with Premier or Avid? Shares and plays well with others? That's what we need: Openness and options. Keep working on it. Thanks.

  • A few post config questions on new setup

    Hi Group,
    Just a few post config questions.
    First, how can I confirm my controller is in fact associating properly with an NTP server?  On a typically cisco product, I could just do a 'show ntp associations' or a 'show ntp status'.  I cannot see a way to confirm this on the gui or command line.
    Second, on my guest network with web-auth, if one were to choose to not use https for web-auth and instead use unsecure http, would that be possible and if so where in the gui?
    Thanks.

    The third field is from a WLC running v7.4 not v7.2.  I usually would install a 3rd party certificate, but what eles you can try is issue this command on from the CLI.  It had issues working with certain code versions, but you might as well give it a try.
    config network web-auth secureweb disable
    Thanks,
    Scott
    Help out other by using the rating system and marking answered questions as "Answered"

  • How do I reduce playback choppiness? And why did my magnetic timeline feature disappear? Clips no longer fall into place 'magnetically' fill in before/after another one like they used to.

    I'm wondering why final cut pro x runs as slow as it does. Isn't it touted to be the best, fastest software out there? I'm running a 2011 model macbook pro 15", version 10.6.8 with the 2GHz intel core i7 and 4gb of ram. Anything I can do to make it buffer and just overall run faster? Clean out my hard drive maybe? And when I first got fcpx, the magnetic timeline feature worked as expected but now clips move freely wherever I drag them to, and if I try to put one clip between 2 different ones, it doesn't go in between magnetically but rather sits below the 2 clips and doesn't get played. I'm very confused. It's kinda nice to be able to put clips wherever I want and not in set locations due to the magnetic feature, but I also hate moving the entire lineup of clips just to squeeze an extra one in there, because (this is another weird issue i've been having) when I do that, the clips don't stay perfectly aligned like they were before I move them, they get all jumbled and such, i.e. some clips will move and be overlapped with other ones).
    thanks a bunch,
    Colin

    You probably inadvertently switched from the "arrow" tool to the "position" tool .
    Note the little button on the left above your timeline.
    When the position tool is selected (just by pressing 'p'), whenever you drag items in the timeline they are positioned right where you drop them. The magnetic timeline is not "turned off". Indeed, a "gap" clip is automatically created to fill the, er..., gap. Notice the gap clip in the picture below:
    Just press 'a' to select the arrow tool. And delete any gap clips that you don't want.
    I agree that you can probably benefit from a number of tutorials that are available online. My favorite is at izzyvideo.com (it is free).

  • Music video/magnetic timeline - how to keep things in sync?

    I'm working on a wedding video that is set to music.  Certain parts of the song really belong with certain clips.  It would be great to park those clips over the song and have them always be connected to that point in the song.  But with the magnetic timeline, any adjustments made prior to that point in the song will move around the clips so they are no longer aligned where I want them to be.
    I love the benefits of the magnetic timeline except this...when you're really trying to set things to a music track, it seems impossible to really lock down transition points or align markers relative to the music and have them stick with further modification.
    Hopefully there is just something I'm missing about the way I should be working with it. 
    What are your workflows and tips for aligning video to specific points in an underlaying audio track throughout an entire project?

    So I started arranging my project where the music track was the primary storyline and all video is connected to it on a secondary storyline.  In theory this seems like it is working.  But there's one thing I can't seem to wrap my head around still.
    I would like to connect certain things to my secondary storyline (as if it were my primary storyline) such as B-roll and connected audio.  This way if I am adjusting things on this secondary storyline, these audio and/or B-roll clips remain in sync with the clip they belong to.
    Seems like turning these "connected" clips into a compound clip somewhat solves the issue, but I don't like two things about this method:
    1.  The different elements are not visible until you go into the compound clip.  This lack of visibility of the elements in the timeline bothers me.  I like to see the different "tracks" all at once.  (such as how in the image below I can see the two audio tracks connected to the video clip).
    2. If I connect all the clips (like in the image below) into a compound clip, I get one big clip that has blank video in front of and in back of the actual video.  This makes transitions and dealing with collisions difficult or impossible in and out of this video since this compound clip can't be added to the secondary storyline.
    What I would like to do is be able to anchor clips into a secondary storyline like you do to a primary storyline.  Is this possible?  How does one lock audio to a clip in a secondary storyline? 
    When video is on primary storyline, audio elements are connected to it.  As I move the video around, the audio remains where it should. I like this behavior.
    A compound clip of the two audio tracks and video track have black area before and after video, making transitions and adding it to the secondary storyline impossible.
    Any way to attach these audio clips to the secondary storyline without a compound clip?

  • Turning off the magnetic timeline?

    Where the **** is the off switch?!?!?!  I hope there's an option to turn it off occasionally.  I don't always want things sliding around on their own, especially when I'm trying to time something to music!!!!  I've been a FCP editor since day one and a professional editor for 15 years, I see how the magnetic timeline can be useful, but if I have to have it constantly engaged I have a feeling I'll be jumping off a bridge very soon!

    Hey Syntax,
    AVOID editing on that middle layer (STORYLINE LAYER...the cursed magnetic layer).  Create a gap on that layer and stretch the heck out of it so you have lots of space to work with ...than just work above that track.  I find working on the upper video layers makes life a lot easier.  Starts feeling more like it should.  Just grab and drag clips around without fear of other clips slipping out of sync with the lower audio track!  Hope that helps you.
    I really love that you can expand the clips when they have audio and independently grab and lengthen audio independently from the video and visa versa.  Also I like the tracks come and go as necessary.  And clips get out of the way when they need to as well by bumping above to a higher or lower layer.  That's VERY cool IMO!
    We need Apple to get rid of that middle STORYLINE layer..IT'S ANNOYING!!!!!!!!!!!

  • The Magnetic Timeline changes my timing when I add a cross disolve.

    I am enjoying the FCP X but I am having a serious problem that I can't seem to shake.  I am woking on a music video where I have a clip above my storyline that I want to fade in and out of view.  In FCP 7 I could put the video in track 2 then add a cross disolve to the track and bam I have got a fade in out for the clip.  My problem in FCP X is as follows:
    1.  I have a long clip in my main story line that is timed with music so it cannot be moved.
    2.  I have a daughter clip above it that is croped to be a partial frame.
    3.  I create a compound clip from the piece of the main storyline and the daughter clip.
    4.  I add a Cross Disolve from the transitions menu.
    5.  Now the music track is longer than the storyline, because the magnetic timeline litterly shortened the storyline.
    I also tried making the daughter clip it's own storyline and still the cross disolve transition physically shortens my timeline rather than using the handles of the file.  I have litterly hours on each side of the clip so it is not that.  Any ideas or am I stuck keyframing to death.

    I tried the new story line, but it still will take the edit point of my blade cut in the clip and treats it like the very begining of the file rather than some where in the middle.  Maybe I am blind, but here is the problem as it stands in my mind:
    When you use the blade tool in FCP X to cut a clip it treats the two pieces like whole clips that have no handles.  In FCP 7 when you cut a clip with the blade and copied it, it still knew that it was part of a larger clip and would go back in time to find handle info for transitions.  FCP X seems like it can't do this which means it trashes my timing in order to make handles.
    If you can solve this riddle that would be great.  It almost feels like a program flaw that will have to be solved in an update.  Empisis on SOLVED in an update!  (Just in case apple is reading)

  • Setting project default file locations and a few random interface questions

    I apologize for the randomness of this post, but it seemed better than spamming a bunch of different posts in a short period of time.  I've been using Premiere Elements 9 for about 6 months now and there are a few little things that I'd like to tweak.
    I'd like to change the default file save location for a project.  I've got different projects in different folders and it seems like I should be able to set a default save location for each project.  All I've ever been able to find in the help is how to set the scratch folder, which is different.
    I'd like to change the default encoding preset for a project.  For example, I have a custom preset for mp4 under the mobile phone category.  It would be nice to have that be the default whenever I pick the mobile phone category.
    With birthdays and concerts and plays and all that stuff I have about 50 videos and a couple hundred large photos already.  Every time Premiere loads, it takes a few extra seconds to load up all of the thumbnails.  I hide all the videos and pictures on the Organize tab and save the project, but it never sticks.  Is this just impossible?
    Finally, every so often, the end-of-clip marker acts funny.  I don't know what the proper name for it is, but it is the thing under the mouse cursor in the picture below.  It used to automatically move on the time line as I added or deleted clips.  Somehow I clicked a button and it no longer does that.  After a week or so of not working, it goes back to automatically adjusting as I add and delete clips from the timeline and then it will break again.  Ideas?
    Also in the timeline, I now have this huge gap of nothingness on top of video 1, see picture.  My ocd says that Video1 and Audio 1 should be at the very top and the gap should be on the bottom.  Ideas?
    Thanks,
    Bob

    I kind of wish you'd have spread these questions out over a couple of posts so that we could answer each thoroughly. If I answer all of them in depth in a single post, this answer would be the size of one of my books! (which, by the way, contain many of the answers to these questions.)
    1. The default save location for your videos should be the last place you've saved your video to. So that should happen automatically. Although in my books I recommend that, whenever you start a new project, you create a new folder for it. This is good housekeeping and a good way to keep your tmp and render files in the same place on your drive, which has a number of advantages.
    2. You can't create a custom project preset. The only presets available are the ones Adobe provides. And, although they are pretty extensive, some non-traditional formats (like video from some mobile phones) are not well supported. You may be able to get it to work -- but it's usually a hybrid solution and, personally, if you plan to use your phone's video as your main video source, I'd recommend you look at another video editing program. Premiere Elements doesn't do the hybrid stuff well. It's ideally suited for video from traditional camcorders.
    3. The thumbnails you see when the program loads are not in your current project. At least not until you import them into your Project panel. That Media panel is merely a preview to what's in your Organizer catalog. As I explain in my book, it's usually best to ignore this panel until you really learn your way around the basics of this program. It's very confusing. Fortunately, it adds very little load time to the program itself -- regardless of how much time it seems to add.
    4. The thing in the illustration is the Work Area Bar. It's used to isolate a segment of your timeline for rendering, etc. Usually, it will shrink and grow as you add and remove video from your timeline. Unfortunately, there's a bug in version 9 and, if you manually change it once during a project, you'll have to manually change it for the rest of the time you work on the project. But, if you drag each end of the Work Area Bar to cover your entire timeline of videos, your project shouldn't misbehave.
    5. The "gap of nothingness" on your timeline is just room for you to add more audio and video tracks if you'd like to. It's a good thing to have! BTW, as I'm sure you know (and my books, once again, explain) you can toggle the tracks on your timeline so that they display as either compressed (as in your illustration) or wide open, which allows you to see your clips and control audio and video levels. Once again, this is a very good thing!
    Happy moviemaking.

  • NMH405 Impressions after the first days - and a few beginners type questions

    Hi All, After some research I took the plunge and acquired a new NMH405 (I really would have liked the non existing "NMH400" i.e. no drives).  I removed the 500GB drive and added two new 1.5TB WD Green Caviar Drives and set it up as Raid-1 After a few error messages and waiting for a very long time while the drives resynched I manage to get it online as z-drive to my vista system.  I played around with the built-in backup tool (I like it!).  I tried the builtin player after having placed some of my iTunes albums on the media hub and decided that I did not really like that option to much.  I then simply moved my itunes libraries to the MediaHub and used the iTunes application on Vista as a front end.   That works very nice.
    I have a few questions, probably showing my limited knowledge of network attached drives.
    Q1.  Are there any other way to power off the device than pressing the little bottom on the NMH405 (aka my NMH415!)? When powered off I assume the only other way to power it on is via the bottom again?
    Q2.  I have noticed the device is offline for ages after having either recycled Windows Vista or the hub itself.  Why is that? And what can I do to bring it online in a orderly fashion?  There must be a way to get that ugly red crossed NAS showing as green and online as a z-drive in "My Computer" a lot faster.  
    Q3.  I reformatted the 500GB drive that the box came with, added it to Disk enclosure box and attached the USB to the front of the NMH405, after a while it said on the front panel that it had detected the drive and asker whether I wanted to import the content.  I declined that (partly because it was empty!).  Now how do I access this drive? I would like to (occasionally) use it to back up files from my Raid-1 setup (you newer know what could happen there...).  How do I use this USB attached drive?  Also i noticed it did not show up in "My Computer" - actually "Computer" in windows?  Adding it directly to my windows system it is detected instantly?
    Thanks for any pointers or answers to enhance my user experience.  I am still learning here.
    best regards
    Solved!
    Go to Solution.

    Q1. Your correct, there's only one button at the front for powering on/off. There is though an option to reboot the device inside the web interface thru the configuration > system option.
    Q2. It really depends on how fast your network can establish a connection, a mapped network drive is fine but I noticed that it slows down the bootup or login process when you turn on the PC. What I did was just create a shortcut on the desktop (location \\nmh410\media) which points to my mediahub and did not map the mediahub anymore to drive z.
    Q3. If its a fresh 500gb drive with nothin on it yet, then you would need to create a partition on it first by connecting the external USB drive directly to the PC. Check out this article from Microsoft about partitioning. I think an external USB drive icon will not show up on the PC since the external USB drive is plugged in onto the mediahub USB port. To gain access to that external USB drive which is plugged in onto the mediahub USB port, I just create a shortcut to \\nmh410\media\device . For backup you can use the NTI backup software that came with your mediahub.
    Cheers.
    Message Edited by Wilkins377 on 12-11-2009 09:38 AM

  • Few basic SRM questions .......

    I recently completed the SRM training from SAP and I have few basic questions and need help. Full points will be rewarded.
    These are my questions and it is based on SRM 5.0 Classic Scenario with R/3 backend
    1. Invoice  & confirmation transferred to R/3 via  ALE ? .  All other documents are transferred to R/3 via RFC?
    2. Based on the configuration, if the material is available in the backend then reservation will be created. Other wise PO will be created.  For text items, PR will be created.
         a. Who (purchaser) will process the PR in R/3 and how it is processed?.
         b. Who (purchaser?) will process the reservation in R/3 and how it is
             processed?. Assume no sourcing is setup in this case and No MRP run.
    3. How the vendor is linked to the Material or product category in SRM?. During the vendor replication from R/3, vendor and material/prod category link is automatically maintained?
    4. How the vendor is linked to a specific purchasing org/group? Is it based on the prod category assigned in the org structure for each purchasing org or purchasing group?
    5. How to do delta prod category replication?
    6. How to do Delta Material Replication?.
    7. Contracts and vendor list:-
        In our SAP training we created these from the browser. But in the actual
        implementation how do we create this?. Is it always from the browser?
    8. Direct Material and Plan driven Procurement.
       Can we use catalog items as direct material?. Just for example - > What
       about ‘Car Batteries’ that  is directly used in production and has the inventory
       also. But we are using electronic catalog for procuring this item. Is it possible to
       order this as direct material?
    9. How to replicate Plant. How to use DNL_PLNT?. Is BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_ALL will replicate all the PLANT's and its locations from the R/3 backend?
    10. In the HR system, which transaction we can view the org structure?

    Hi
    Answers to your questions ->
    1. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/e9/d0fc3729b5db48e10000009b38f842/frameset.htm
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/74/ec7b3c91c1eb1ee10000000a114084/frameset.htm
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/55/d77c3c3fd53228e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/77/e97b3c91c1eb1ee10000000a114084/frameset.htm
    2.  Provided the necessary role is given to the Purchaser (Buyer) in the System.
    a) Yes
    b) Yes
    3. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/e5/f5e938b4ece075e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/70/00c73a584611d6b21700508b5d5211/frameset.htm
    4. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/2c/867d3ca2156c6ae10000000a114084/frameset.htm
    The vendor ORG has to be seperately created through trasaction PPOCV_BBP before replicating the Vendors from the R/3 System.
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/70/00c73a584611d6b21700508b5d5211/frameset.htm
    5. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/42/d3b671ba67136fe10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
    6.  http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/29/d586398dcfd74fe10000000a11402f/frameset.htm
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/05/9b8139437eac2ae10000000a11402f/frameset.htm
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/f5/b4bcdac7c40c4dba53e3695d18236c/frameset.htm
    7. Yes, from Browser it's quite easy and is quite user-friendly.
    8.
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/d3/4b9c3b122efc6ee10000000a114084/frameset.htm
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/18/db183d30805c59e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
    9.
    You can use the following three routines to download locations from the backend system and store them as business partners in SAP Enterprise Buyer.
    BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_ALL
    To get all the location numbers from each backend system that is connected
    BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_FROM_SYSTEM
    To get all the location numbers from one particular backend system
    BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_SELECTED
    To get selected locations
    Previously, locations were not given business partner numbers in SAP Enterprise Buyer. If you are configuring an upgrade, you can use routines BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_FROM_SYSTEM and BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_SELECTED to check that the following conversions have been made:
    ·        Conversion of user favorites
    ·        Conversion of user attributes
    ·        Conversion of old documents
    Routine BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_ALL checks these automatically.
    Once you have run the routines, the location data is available in the SAP Enterprise Buyer system. Table BBP_LOCMAP contains the mapping information (in other words, which business partner number corresponds to which location in which backend system).
    For more information, see SAP Note 563180 Locations for EBP 4.0 – plant replication
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/62/fb7d3cb7f58910e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/77/e97b3c91c1eb1ee10000000a114084/frameset.htm
    10. PPOCA_BBP(Create) / PPOMA_BBP(Change) / PPOSA_BBP(Display).
    Regards
    - Atul

  • A formal 'Hello' to the community and a few Arch-related questions

    Hi guys.
    As a long-time Genoo and part-time Arch user I finally made the switch to Arch complete. Since I've been reading here quite a lot in the last year I thought I could as well create an account (acutally I did that a while back but never used it) and say hello.
    I've been running Arch on my laptop for about the last year. Coming from gentoo as my first ever Linux experience, Arch seemed the next logical step whenever I should grow weary of endless compiles and re-compiles (which is about now). I'm an enthusiastic Xmonad user which is why I'm particularily fond of this forum and it's Xmonad community. That's also the reason why I stumbled upon arch in the first place. So far it hasn't let me down once and I'm really happy with my (now 2) setups.
    With a little help of some of you guys on IRC I installed Arch64 on a RocketRaid 2310 Raid5 a few days ago. It's running really smooth and I'm quite impressed by the overall difference (in speed and usability) of kdemod KDE4 to my gentoo compiled one.
    For those interested as to how exactly I installed (there seems to be quite some controversy about the RocketRaid cards), here's how I did it:
    1) Boot from the Arch64 install cd
    2) Set up the environment for compilation of the driver:
    - fire up the network
    - edit the mirror file to my likings (a whole lot of German mirrors over here)
    - blacklist the packages kernel26, ndiswrapper, ndiswrapper-utils and tiacx
         The kernel shouldn't be updated unless anyone knows some magic kexec tricks from inside a live environment
         The other packages somehow depend on the kernel package
    3) Pacman -Suy base-devel
    4) Download the driver package, unpack and make
    5) rmmod sata_mv, modprobe rr2310_00 (The sata_mv module has to be unmounted, otherwise the raid controller will crash
    6) Mount the raid drive and install
    I did a manual installation since that's what i'm used to from gentoo (and since I don't trust the installer all too far with the whole raid setup) and the rest of it went pretty smoothly. I had to go for by-label uuid'ing my partitions though because they come in randomly on each boot.
    I do have a question now:
    Is there any way to conveniently trigger rebuilding the RocketRaid driver whenever a new kernel has been installed? I did create my own PKGBUILD of the driver from an old one that's in the aur so all it would take is to tell pacman that every update of kernel26 should automatically force-update the driver even though it's version hasn't changed. The alternative is of course to just keep compiling my own kernel as I did on gentoo but I'd like to not have to think about any of that stuff and just use the system.
    Or, if anyone has another cool idea how to handle this, I'm open to that too.

    barzam wrote:Why don't you create a wiki entry as well with your guide? I bet it will make someone's life easier in the future!
    I didn't think this was such a big deal. Also they way I did it, though working for me, is not the most elegant solution. One would rather build his own install cd with the driver included that then can serve as a backup system in case the raid driver is not rebuilt after a kernel update.

  • A few more Solaris questions

    I'm sure this isn't the best place to post this, but I currently have a file server running Solaris 11 with a raid-z2 pool and I'm building a new vmware server out of some parts I've managed to get some good deals on might I add.
    I'm building on a supermicro x8dt3-f board that has an LSI controller on board with a pair of xeon 5570's and 48gb ram. The processors and ram actually came from a sun blade that was tossed out for recycling, sadly the box had never been opened, but i got these for pennies on the dollar, so i'm happy
    I'd like to move the current Solaris file server into a VM on the new ESXi 5.1 host and passthrough the LSI controller.
    I've been reading, and reading and reading and i find the more i read, the more questions I have and the less clear some of the answers are getting.
    First, from what I gather, Solaris 11 has only been added to the supported guest list in ESXi with the recent esxi 5.1 version as I understand? So all should be fine here? Can someone confirm?
    second, i've read about issues with LSI controllers under solaris 11. Is this something that has been addressed in 11.1?
    Third, trying to find the best method to conver the physical system to virtual under ESXi
    The first thing I plan on doing is backing up my data from the pool, though it will be scattered across a few systems. Then I plan on exporting the pool to move the disks physically to the new controller in the VM. The question I have here, is will the share flags and permissions be retained when I import the pool? or do I have to redo all that?
    But then, what's the best method to move it to a VM? The one document I see come up the most is moving a physical solaris system into a zone on another system. Can it be transferred to the global zone? Could I do a new install in a VM, and move the existing install to the global zone, import my pool and call it a daY?
    Or do I dd the OS disk, convert the image and drop it into vmware, get the hardware working, and then import the pool?
    Or is there a better way? Has anyone got any online docs in mind that may help specifically with this migration? everything i'm finding is scattered, maybe i'm not looking for the right things but I could use some pointers if anyone has suggestions.
    I suppose I should note, i have it integrated with an Active directory, this is why i'm worried about permissions being retained when i import the pool
    I just want this to go as quickly and smoothly as possible, with as little headache as possible. it's my home setup, so realistically it takes the time it takes as long as things go smooth

    I know this may not be the answer you are looking for, but I think you are making it more difficult than it needs to be.
    One other option is to leave your Solaris Storage server on the bare metal of this new beast of a machine you are piecing together. Then, use VirtualBox 4.2.6 which is support quite well in Solaris to run whatever virtual machines you where intending ESXi to be used for.
    This way you have the fastest possible storage setup without the issues of hardware passthrough. And the fast storage now benefits the VMs running on it. Not to mention the other neat options now of running lzjb compression for the VMs. either using zvols for the VMs, or just virtualbox vdi files sitting on a compressed zfs filesystem.
    As far as the LSI 1068E controller goes, their website only shows drivers for Solaris 10. So unless Solaris 11 has the drivers built in, you may not be able to use that controller. Believe me I feel your pain in this one.. I have the d#$$!est time finding good SAS HBAs for Solaris 11.1 and the few I did find had questionable drivers. Areca 1320 cards seem to work well, as do Adaptec 64xx and 68xx raid cards. LSI has a new line that supposedly works with Solaris 11.
    My advice is to try a baremetal install of Solaris 11.1 on the new machine and see if you can recognize drives on the LSI controller, if not then use the 6 onboard SATA ports if that is enough for the drives. Otherwise purchase an Areca 1320 which is only like 230 bucks for the 8 port version. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816151116R

  • A few Online Number Questions

    First of all, I live in Canada and it doesn't appear that I can get a Canadian online number.  Any idea when that will become available?
    Also, is there any way to change the Call Display feature to display not only a business name, but also a number that is DIFFERENT than the online number.  As I cannot get a Canadian online number, I would need the call display to read my business name, and then the local Canadian phone number that I would like people to call (so they avoid long distance charges).
    Any help you could provide would be apprecaited.
    KC

    I have a similar question.
    Any idea if Online Numbers might be available for India ? Any timeline as of now ?

  • A few standards related questions

    i've got three questions:
    http://www.accent-mg.com/agape/test
    1. what's the deal with the footer? it seems like my
    "containerwide" div isn't meeting the "footer" div correctly. but i
    don't see anything in the code that would allude to that...
    2. how do i get my rule/ornament, the one just below the
    maroon bar, (reference:
    http://www.accent-mg.com/agape
    ) below the header .png? do i use z-index?
    3. once i get this all set up in css, is using a cms like
    textpattern or expression engine much easier? i tried to use it
    with a website that utilized tables, with no success. am i going in
    the right direction in regards to xhtml setup to optimize use with
    these cmss?
    thanks a lot.

    Hi theOne
    Thanks for the reply,
    I'll take a look at the CSS but I'm not going to be modifying the wiki-server on Leopard as there seems to be little point with the next release isn't far off. I'll be putting it to use when I upgrade.
    Contacts - it's something i've thought about. The place I used to work at had Netscape Directory Server and Imperia (CMS), we managed to add a nice search feature on the intranet there which was always used. It would be great if it was easy enough to add another search button with that accessing open directory or something similar. We'll always keep the FMPro database though as I use it in conjunction with a few other DB's, so it's not a big deal. Integrating FMPro would have been handy for accessing a few of our other databases in one single place.
    You are right, you can't turn off editing on individual pages or the blog/wiki. For me it would be great, as it would allow the intranet to be more of a group experience. If the company was 10 or 20 people then it would be an easier decision to allow them all write access to it. We are just over 100 in London now and that makes it more likely someone will get too button happy with their mouse. Still we have an easy to use intranet out of this, which cost us nothing so I can't complain. If we outgrow the wiki server faster than Apple add features we're not too stuck and could move it to Wordpress or similar. I am looking forward to adding podcasting and the mailing list features in the next release.
    Thanks again all
    Beatle

  • A few "maybe" simple questions

    I am using Dreamweaver for a few sites and having some problems.
    1. For this website http://holtzenwoodwork.com It was built using netopia e site builder and has .nxg file extensions.. No matter what I do pictures will not show up in DW.. Anyone used these extensions before?
    2. http://www.faxtopia.com/ this e-fax site is writen in PHP when I try to add any Flash content to a page it just shows a Flash icon on the page not the actual .swf
    I have much to learn maybe someone could point me in the right direction.

    e-fax site is writen in PHP when I try to add any Flash content to  a page it just shows a Flash icon on the page not the actual .swf
    What did was add the root folder to site management.
    The ngx stuff I will nee "luck" with thank you
    Last question
    This Christmas Stickers website when editing locally and in live view the search bar does not work, But on the server it works fine if you check the link I posted
           <form id="search_mini_form" action="http://www.rentons.com/cart/index.php/catalogsearch/result/" method="get">
        <fieldset>
            <legend>Search Site</legend>
            <div class="mini-search">
                <input id="search" type="text" class="input-text" name="q" value="christmas" />
                <input type="image" src="http://www.rentons.com/cart/skin/frontend/rentons/default/images/btn_mini_search.gif" alt="Search" />
                <div id="search_autocomplete" class="search-autocomplete"></div>
                <script type="text/javascript">
                //<![CDATA[
                    var searchForm = new Varien.searchForm('search_mini_form', 'search', 'Search entire store here...');
                    searchForm.initAutocomplete('http://www.rentons.com/cart/index.php/catalogsearch/ajax/suggest/', 'search_autocomplete');
                //]]>
                </script>
            </div>
    Is this normal or am i doing something wrong here, Thanks Jacob

Maybe you are looking for