Another resolution question.....sorry

Thanks to Zac and Bogie for helping me out with the whole resolution questions but I do have one more....sorry. Do I need to log and capture in FCP in order to import the file into compressor to change the codec or is there another way? Maybe direct from the camera so it doesn;t get any more compressed than it is?
Thanks again for putting up with me
Rick

If you shot on DV, for example, capturing it isn't compressing more. It is what it is. You shot it DV, it is DV. What's on the tape isn't "better" than what gets captured to your hard drive.
Anyway, yes, you have to capture or ingest the footage or have some sort of existing movie file to put it into Compressor. You can't take it from the camera directly.

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Another 'resolution' question

Hi,
I have read a couple of other related threads, but I need a little more help to resolve my 'resolution' confusion...
I am applying to a stock agency, and see that one of their requirements is
"...If necessary, interpolate (upsize) the file to 24MB using a specialist, professional software package. If you have a camera that is capable of producing an uncompressed 8 bit file size of over 24MB then leave it that size. We recommend Adobe Photoshop although other software is acceptable. If using Photoshop version 7 or higher select the bicubic option. We advise that you do not use “step” or incremental interpolation. Check your software’s default settings to ensure that all sharpening is turned off..."
My 10 mp camera typically produces high quality versions (jpegs - Aperture 3) of about 8-10mb. I need a nudge in understanding what 'upsizing' and 'interpolation' is - and even more important for me - can this be done in A3 or do I need to buy and learn PS? (I've used PSE in the past, but for two years pretty much only use Aperture except in rare situations.
Thanks very much,
Greg H.

Hi Bill,
I'm applying to Alamy. Are you familiar with them? Their application process only requires 4 photos - most others require as many a 10 before you're accepted.
Alamy requires jpegs. (I was confused at first, because they talked about 'uncompressed' files, which I understood as tiffs also.) Here's from their submission guidelines:
:...We need:
JPEG’s saved at a high quality setting (i.e. Photoshop level 10 or above).
Alpha-numeric file names ending in .jpg.
RGB files, not single channel greyscale or CMYK.
Uncompressed file sizes of more than 24MB. This means you should make your JPEG file from an 8 bit TIFF file that is at least 24MB. If you have a camera that is capable of producing an uncompressed 8 bit file of over 24MB then leave it that size..."
Really appreciate any insight you can give the stock wanna-be-newbie . . . !
Greg

Another noob question - Sorry; I'm new to this - Windows and Xserve

Are Windows machines supported on networks powered by Xserve? Powered? You know what I mean.

Hi
I think I know what you mean? However:
+"networks powered by Xserve?"+
Makes no real sense? An XServe is dedicated Server hardware. What makes it a server more than anything else is the Software installed - OSX Server. Perhaps your question should be: "Does OSX Server/XServe support PC Clients?" The answer is yes. Samba/CIFS/NT Services have been available on all versions of Apple Server OS going right back to IP Manager. If you want to go beyond this and ask the question: "Does OSX Server behave just like Active Directory?" The answer is not really. It can provide Network based Profiles but that's about it as there is nothing built-in that resembles Global Policy Objects (GPOs). OSX Server can and does provide DHCP and DNS Services along with a host of other Services mostly specific to the Apple platform but not exclusively so.
To begin to understand what OSX Server is capable of:
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/specs.html
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/technology/
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/
You could also have a stab at the host of Admin Manuals that Apple make available:
http://support.apple.com/manuals/#macosxserver
Ultimately a better question might be: "What is OSX Server going to give you that you're not going to get from an equivalent Windows Server?" If your focus is providing/maintaining front-line core services for a pre-dominantly Windows PCs environment then purchasing a platform that is designed to support a different client OS is probably the wrong way to go?
Tony

Another KT4 Question (sorry)

It states that it will goto 8x agp, when i go into the bios it only goes upto 4x, and in the user's guide it says 1x,2x,& 4x agp.
have they forgot to put it on. :D

i imagine so,never had the board but i would say it does not offer unsupported options
did you read the link as the cards dont run in x8 at the momment anyway

ANOTHER battery question (sorry!)

Hey Guys,
Having read other posts on here, I'm not sure why my battery keeps dying! After about eight minutes my mac just dies on me, and when put in the charger, will come back to life. I've pasted battery information below, but have a pretty low cycle count, any suggestions ? Thanks in Advance !!! Adam.
Charge Information:
Charge remaining (mAh): 2791
Fully charged: Yes
Charging: No
Full charge capacity (mAh): 2791
Health Information:
Cycle count: 315
Condition: Fair
Battery Installed: Yes
Amperage (mA): -572
Voltage (mV): 12045

Well I take it out of the charger and try to check my email! - Spoke to someone at the Apple shop today and apparently leaving it in the charger means I've got it 'death charging' ?? - he looked surprised at how little it lasted when i showed him the battery info (that I'd emailed to my iphone) - Fans do run, but not constantly, bottom is usually quite hot ! I also have bluetooth etc turned off and only wifi on, hence I don't get it!!

Another newby question -- sorry

Hi All,
I've composed a sequence which has regular fonts --- the fonts are black, with a transparent background. When I export, I just see a black screen in quicktime. I want to import this into Final Cut --- any ideas? How do I get it to display just the black characters?

You won't see the text if you view the file in QuickTime Player.
Import your LiveType movie into FCP and superimpose on the background. It should composite automatically.
If you have LiveType version 1.2 or higher, you can import the project file directly into FCP and treat it exactly as if it were a video clip. No need to render a movie first.

Another RAM question / sorry haha

Hi
I operate an early 2008 MacPro im going to upgrade.
I currently have 4GB of RAM - 4 x 1GB sticks.
I could simply buy 4 extra sticks of 1GB which fills up the 8 slots - all being matched and evenly distributed across the risers etc.
What i was wondering, what if i was to get 2 x 2GB sticks -
would i install the 2 x 2GB on the spare 2ports on riser A, OR
Do i install the 2x2GB on riser A and move the 4 x 1GB on B, OR
Do i leave the 4 x 1GB across the 2risers and install a 2gb stick on A and the other on B - is that a matched pair?
As you can see - even with all the memory posts in this forum im still no clearer in my own situation, if anyone could be kind enough to point me in the right direction it would be greatly appriciated.

Hiya and wlecome to Apple discussions.
I found a discussion (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=421391) that it saying in essence that a matching (suitable) pair of RAM sticks should be installed at the bottom (moving the exisiting ones up, if need be - but you should have free slots); you can find out by going to the Apple in your finder bar, clicking "About This Mac" and then "More Info"; under "memory" (in the new window) it will tell you the empty slots.
The memory wiring diagramme was here:
http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?s=1bc485fb68017d805b88263c72d4e023&attac hmentid=99178&d=1201245197
hope that helps

Another widget question (Sorry)

Is there a way to re-install the original widgets that came with my mac mini?
Thanks again,
Penguinr
Mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Download the '.zip' file from one of the links I've provided below, unzip it, and drop that folder into the /Library directory on your hard disk. If prompted, replace the folder you have in there already.
-Link 1
-Link 2
-Link 3
Brian

Another newbie question (sorry)---Please recommend a good training book?

And where to order?
Thanks.

All these books are great - and I've read them all and done the exercises. But I have to put in my 2 cents and recommend Larry Jordan's book and web site. The book is well written and understandable. His web site is full of great tips, and his free monthly e-mail newsletter is great. Now, he has a new newsletter called Edit Well published in conjunction with Peachpit Press.
Details on all this at: http://www.larryjordan.biz/
Good Luck! And welcome to Final Cut!

Another newb question: multiple virtual servers

Hi, I have yet another ignorant question. I have several unrelated web projects that I am working on, and I would like to be able to set up a virtual server for each one for testing purposes, such as: http://project1, http://project2, http://project3. Can someone tell me if this is doable, and if there are any tutorials/resources on this for someone who has 0 experience running a web serer? Sorry for being so ignorant!

Yes, it is doable.
You can setup virtual server either by IP or by name.
If you have one IP, and want to set them up by name (ex. http://project1, http://project2, http://project3) you can do so easily with this type of configuration:
<virtual-server>
    <name>mydomain</name>
    <http-listener-name>http-listener-1</http-listener-name>
    <host>*.mydomain.com</host>
    <document-root>/www/domain</document-root>
</virtual-server>
<virtual-server>
    <name>myotherdomain</name>
    <http-listener-name>http-listener-1</http-listener-name>
    <host>*.myotherdomain.com</host>
    <document-root>/www/myotherdomain</document-root>
</virtual-server>
....The important part here is that
a) all virtual servers share the same HTTP listener
b) which virtual server serves the request depends on the $HOST request header send by the client. Sun Web Server does the matching for you. It will match $HOST vs. the virtual server's host attribute. Depending on which site you connect to the right virtual server will be used.
c) if the $HOST request header does not match any of the virtual servers, then the default virtual server defined in the HTTP listener will be used.
To create a virtual server, use the Admin GUI, access the configuration, and then add new virtual server. Or use the following CLI command.
wadm> create-virtual-server --config=myconfig --http-listener-name=http-listener-1 --document-root=/www/docs/myserver.com --host-pattern=myserver.com --log-file=../logs/myserver.com-error_logs myserverHost pattern will be used for matching. Some of this elements might be optional.
Hope that helps. And keep the questions coming :D
Edit: Also check the documentation
Using Virtual Servers in SJS Web Server 7.0

Another simple questions

Hello friends:
Another simple question: I need to learn things about Oracle on my desktop.
My machine runs Windows 98. Oracle has some desktop product of its Database Line?
For example: Oracle Personal?
And Oracle Lite? What's the main difference between Oracle Personal and
Oracle Lite?
Thank You
Gracias
Ing. Pablo Romero
CORDOBA ARGENTINA

1. I didn't know the answer to your first question, but I googled it and it says the item is the in-call audio boost.
http://forums.crackberry.com/f71/flag-icon-47659/
2. isn't this setting determined by the carrier? So it's not a setting in the phone, but when you call in to your voicemail you can change your options?

Re: another build question! (sorry lol)

Hi all
right, after days and days of researching all the excellent articles on here ive had to write a post! So apologies for going over old ground
Im going to build a new CS5.5 rig (having had a guts full of Apple and their FCPX fiasco its back to pc!)
so although i appreciate the 990x o'c is prob best option, bang for buck is leading me down the sandybridge i7 2600k o'c option on p67 mobo with 16gb of ram (option to take to 32 down the line when the chips are out)
anyway, im sorted on chip mobo (msi big bang marshal p67), nivida 570 etc , its the drives im struggling on!! Im edit avchd video and some after effects, small amount of 3d, and in FCP i always transcoded everything to prores. Now on cs5.5 it looks like real time performance is possible with high end hardwear.
So mobo, ram, and chip aside, my HDD config im unsure on, ive not really got the cash to go crazy with raid controllors etc, but understand need for seperate drives, etc and tbh might even go downt he cineform route as a prores alternative (prob avoiding hassles of drive speed with avchd)
im thinking as the SSD's are now dropping in price and the ocz are producing these 500 mb r/w speed sata 6 120gb drives for a reasonable price, would 3 of these drives (one for os, one for media , one for scracth disk ) be a good set up or is it a waste of cash and should i raid 0 from bios/mobo?
I appreicate that 120 gb drives for media etc are small, but i would take project media from another much large backup drive and just use the 3x ssd set up as working disks for editing & os? once project over, clear out drives to larger back up and start new project!
Its either that or i go SSD as bootdrive, but some sort of cheap raid set up for my scratch disk, media drives? prob is if i do that, from what ive read (brain dead now) i would be best off with 2 x raid 0 as scratch disk and orginal media respectively when workign with avchd
HOWEVER, on my mobo there are only 4 sata 6 ports, so if i use one for ssd boot drive, and then im left with 3 x sata 6 ports and another 4 x sata 3 ports to raid on? how does this work? any point in getting the sata 6 drives as one would be stripped with a sata 6 drive plugged into a sata 3 port (this was my reasoning behind using 3 small sata 6 ssd's plugged to the sata 6 ports and rest of sata 3 ports as storage and backups!
confused lol!! I just want the overclocked sandybridge system with decent gpu card, as much ram as possible at present, but im thinking my bottleneck will be in the HDD config! any suggestions are much appreicated! im not that techy so whilst have read all the articles am more confused now (plus normally a mac user, so its out of the box configuration usually!) for what its worth looking to purchase something from scan uk in terms of parts! total build cost including a reasonable screen £2,000
many thanks

You have a limited budget, especially in the UK, but then don't we all?
Going for the 980X will triple the cost of the CPU, but even when editing AVCHD material the gains are not sizable enough IMO to justify that cost differential. Add to that you will need 24 GB instead of 16 GB and that carries an additional price tag. Both factors will easily move you out of budget range if you want to have a number of disks and possibly a raid controller.
Did you read my article To Raid or not to Raid, that is the question. It can be found under the Overview tab at the top of the page? (Currently responding from abroad on my notebook and not having the bookmarks available for easy linking). http://forums.adobe.com/thread/525263
With media and projects I would advise against a raid0, because of the lack of redundancy. For pagefile, media cache and previews (scratch disks) raid0 is quite OK. They will be recreated if needed. The performance gain from a raid0 for media and projects over a parity raid is easily offset by the time spent on making backups. For parity raids do not use WD Caviar Blacks, but look at the Hitachi 7K3000 line of disks.
The question of Sandy Bridge versus the old X58 platform is essentially one of 'which limitations are acceptable to me'.
The Sandy Bridge is a great processor and at least the equal to the old i7-9xx quad cores. However, the platform, the chipset, has its shortcomings in terms of PCIe lanes. Whether that is relevant to you, only you can decide. But hey, we would be in serious trouble if Intel did not manage some progress in two years time from the i7-920 to the i7-2600K. So of course the i7-2600K shows much more potential than the almost retired 920, it is the chipset for the Sandy Bridge that is 'flawed' in comparison to the X58, but that is no surprise, since the Sandy Bridge is a 'middle-of-the-road' platform and the X58 was a 'high performance' platform.
BFTB-wise I think that within your budget limits, you should look at the i7-2600K, but with the best disk setup you can afford.

Yet another question; sorry, I'm a newbie

My first podcast is up--I can access it through the link apple provided, plus if I search, but not through browsing. When will it show up? How does it get featured?
Also, mine is a video podcast. Not sure whether it's listed as a video podcast. I used feedforall to code the rss. How can I get it to differentiate and tell itunes it's a video podcast vs. an audio one?
Thanks again.

thanks again, Brian. I also just read your reply to my second question, which clarified the link thing. I think, I get it--I'm a newbie so, just want to make sure I totally understand.
So, hypothetically, the xml file (code) can be inside my regular index.com page and the enclosure can be a direct link to the file playing?
IN the future, I'm planning on having a new vodcast every day, five times a week. If I keep the encoded video files in a folder (let's say, called rss), then all the <link> files can just be my url (which is my index.com) page, but each of the <enclosure> links will be a direct link to each of the videos in the rss folder? Is this correct?
Thanks again.

Sorry but its another Raptor question..

Hi all.
Heres the deal. I currently have about 8GB of audio, about 5GB of pics and about 2GB of documents.
At the moment I use DVDs to back up the above documents, but since the amount I need to back up is growing so quickly, Its taking longer and longer to orgnise and back up. I usually take between 1 and 2GB of pics when I go on holiday and my MP3/AAC collection is growing quickly.
My question is this: Should I go for a Raptor 74GB hard disk and use that as my primary drive and the stock drive as a secondrey drive? or opt for an External hard drive like the Smartdisk crossfire?
If I choose the raptor, is it difficult to transfer everything from the stock disk to the raptor? Will I need any additional software?
Oh, and I should add. The disk on the IBook mentioned in my sig is full, so cant use that for back ups any more.
Thanks alot.
Powermac G5 2.3GHz, 1GB Ram, ATI Radeon 9650, Bluetooth KB and Mous Mac OS X (10.4.4) IBook 800MHz, 512MB ram, Mac OS X (10.3)

It seems from your writing that your needs is for storage space, not speed, so I don't think the Raptor offers you anything particularly useful in real use.
For less then the cost of a 74 GB Raptor (~$160 when not on sale), you can get a Maxtor MaxLine III 300 GB, with a 16 MB cache (~$130), that will provide over 4 times the amount of storage as the Raptor, and provide very close performance numbers to the Raptor.
If I were adding an internal I'd go with the MaxLine III for very good performance, and much higher storage capacity.
As for an external, those too are a good option for backup. I'm not familiar with the one you mentioned, so I'll leave it to others to provide suggestions about it.
Tom N.

Sorry another upgrade question Emagic Logic 6 Platinum to Logic 8

My question here is about upgrading. I have searched the forum and Apples site but have not been enlightened.
A few years ago I briefly used Logic as the front end on a PTs HD system I owned which I still have the dongle for. This was back in 2003. Im pretty sure it was then called Logic 6 platinum and it was before Apple bought Emagic
I no longer have those original disks but I have a hunch they wouldnt be compatible with the newest OS Is that correct?
So, if I go ahead and buy the upgrade how will the software know I'm upgrading if I cant load the old version...which I would rather not do anyway. If I have to produce a serial code that was held on a sticky bit of paper, I dont have that now, and the store I originally bought Logic from has since gone under.
IF I can upgrade, would I get the DVD's with the samples + Manual, or do they send only a disk with the programme.

Correct, you don't need the disks, and you don't need to install old software versions.
When you run the installer, it will ask for your new LP8 serial number, and will then ask you to insert your XSkey so it can check you have a Logic authorisation valid for the upgrade - then it will install LP8, and you will no longer need the key plugged it when running Logic.

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