Opinion question re: storage of media

I have very little space left on my mac. I would like to reclocate my photos to an external hard drive to free up space. Currently I have two external hard drives, both 2 tb, and a time machine that I think is filled. Would you keep both photos and movies on one hard drive and use the other hard drive as a backup, or would you separate the movies on one hard drive and the photos on the other and let time machine back up both.

Keep ALL the media on one drive and TM on it's own drive. NEVER NEVER NEVER mix a backup drive with any storage. The reason being is if/when that drive crashes you will have lost all the data and backup! For the media drive you may need a high speed drive and bus. The only reason I can think of for a high speed drive would be if you put photos on it and do lots of editing on them in something like Aperture, Photoshop etc...If that does describe your needs get a 7200RPM drive AND use the fastest bus your computer has. This will probably be Firewire or Firewire 800 depending on what iMac you own. If this does not describe your needs as long you keep the media (movies, photos & music) on one drive and the TM on a separate drive you're good to go.
BTW if you haven't seen these you will find them helpful:
iPhoto: How to move the Library to a EHD
iTunes: How to move the library to a EHD

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Hi Si,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
See this article for some troubleshooting tips that can help if your iPhone isn't recognized in iTunes:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
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Basic question about storage and safety in iMovie '11

A very basic question about storage and safety:
I want to keep a backup of my raw footage on my external hard drive prior to begin working on the movie in iMovie. I want to do this:
1. Upload the digital files from my camcorder to my Desktop *(as opposed to iMovie)*
2. Duplicate that footage/clips.
3. Put the duplicate clips/footage into a folder labeled with the name of that footage (like "Fun At the Dentist" or "Jimmy Learns How to Yodel").
4. Drag the folder with the footage/clips into my external hard drive into a pre-existing folder titled "Backups/duplicates of all of my raw footage/clips." This big granddaddy folder will house all of the child folders of different movies.
5 Then, open up iMovie '11 and import the raw footage/clips from my Desktop rather than from my camcorder.
6. Then I want to make a duplicate of my finished movie and put it in my external hard drive in a "Finished Movies" folder.
I know that the original raw unedited footage will always be in iMovies '11 but I want the original to also exist immediately accessible in my external hard drive.
QUESTION:
Is this viable? Is it wise? (I know it goes an extra unnecessary step, but aside from that.)
*Do you have any precautionary advice?* Should I do something in my iMovies '11 preferences? What?
In earlier years with iMovie '04 or '06 (cannot recall) I made many novice errors and ended up losing audio to my finished movie. I also lost footage.
This time around with iMovie '11 I don't to make such novice, ignorant errors.
Thanks so much for any comments to this question.
-L

Yes I'm sure it will work great for you.
The iFrame format is something Apple has come up with. The reason for its existence is unknown to me so I can only speculate. But it seems to me that Apple "invented" this format in order to have devices such as Ipod/Ipad/Iphone/Ixxx create clips that are editable on consumer hardware such as already mentioned devices but also standard Mac computers, without the need for format conversion.
iMovie converts most input formats during import, which takes a lot of time, and this need for conversion often comes as a surprise to most people new to home video editing.
iFrame has a resolution of 960x540 which is long way from the common standards of 1920x1080 and 1280x720. If your end target is YouTube however, this may not be too bad though. However if you intend to go with YouTube HD, you may find iFrame footage to look wrong since they are effectively upscaled to a higher resolution.
Technically iFrame uses the H.264 algorithm, a smaller frame size (960x540) and a rather low compression scheme. This will result in large files, but the plus side is that the files are ready for editing without the need for any conversion and iMovie will natively edit the files.

E4200 - USB Storage with Media server

Pros: Decent basic router
Cons: Advanced features don't work, not worth the price, poor support, critical forum posts deleted
Other Thoughts: The Linksys e4200 is supposed to be a high-end router, with media server capabilities. It is NOT. The media server feature does not work and has not worked correctly since product release. Linksys keeps promising a fix, but customers are still waiting. Support forum members have been pressing the company for a solution, but Linksys merely deletes critical post from the forums. This is apparently their idea of how to "fix" the problem.
There are certain features that make a router a high-end purchase. If usb storage with media server capability is one of the features you are looking for, you should avoid this product.

Hi,
USB HDD uto 1 TB with file system NTFS ot FAT32 works just fine, if any issues try taking up the back up for the data already present on the HDD and then try to format the HDD using the router''s formatting tool available under set up page - Storage...
Please share your issues faced with the same....

Question about moving iTunes Media folder/library

Hello,
I'm responding to the article listed here: iTunes for Windows: Moving your iTunes Media folder - Apple Support that describes moving your iTunes media folder. I have a massive music library/playlists (over 350 gigs and growing). I'm planning to relocate my media folder to Dropbox because I have ample space there and it will allow me to run my library off of multiple computers (though not at the same time). My question is this: if I follow the steps and consolidate and relocate my library to the new Dropbox folder, will all my new uploads and downloads/purchases/imports also start automatically going to this newly specified location? I want to make sure that it would.
Thanks

Well the way that Dropbox works for me (just documents and data, not iTunes) is that I have a complete copy of the files in my Dropbox folder on my computer at home, and at work, and in the cloud on Dropbox's servers. Each time I update one of the files it is uploaded to Dropbox and then downloaded to the other client machine. When using another computer I can access my files from the Dropbox web interface, or use the Dropbox app on my iPad. It sounds like you are hoping that you can have all of your files in the cloud, and only in the cloud. I don't think it works that way.
For 350Gb and growing I think that realistically you need to stick with local storage. I clone my library to a 1Tb portable drive which I physically take to and from work, At each location I use SyncToy to synchronize the local and portable copies of the libraries effectively giving me three parallel clones of the library at all times.
tt2

Azure CDN vs Storage vs Media Services and Streaming Units

Hello,
Quite new to Azure and these services and after much poking around cannot quite find the answer to my question so I'm writing it here. I have a video that I have uploaded under storage but one cannot access that through the listed URL. So under
Media Services I created a new Media Service and if you look under Content you can find the URL for the video which I have published.
So, I then under configuration for this Media Service went under Streaming Capacity and turned it up to streaming capacity 1 unit = 200mbps at $4.50 per day. Which seems expensive for just wanting one video to be available on demand.
So I'm needing some help. I created some CDNs but not sure what they do and if they should be connected to my video. All I know is that it is costing me over $5 day to have one 47MB be available to play as soon as the user clicks on the link on
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this would help greatly. Thanks in advance for any discussion on this.

Hi Paul,
Streaming capacity doesn't only provides guaranteed bandwidth, but also enabled additional features such as dynamic packaging and dynamic encryption. If your intent is only stream one video file and just use progressive download, I would recommend you to
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for the corresponding storage account.
Thanks,
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BIG QUESTION/ QuickTime or WIndows Media Player

Tomorrow morning i need to make a recommendation as to what product to go with for handling all web based video content. Stuff like streaming educational videos to live press feeds. Basically It's a no brainer for me, I say quicktime, but this would mean a complete overhaul off their network, which is fairly new. So the question is, what would be the definitive reason to go with Quicktime and what does it offer the WMP doesn't.
This will have an effect on a large amount of people that use windows based PC's. So Quicktime will be a hard sell, but I believe its the way our industry is going and has gone.
Any advise at all would be greatly appreciated. I have studied all I can and just need to hear from people who actually use these products.
Thank you..
G4 Dual 1.25 2 GB RAM, Mac Pro Dual 3.66 5 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8)

QuickTime is really a no-brainer.
Start on the content creation side: EVERY professional media production tool I can think of (well, except for those intended to author Flash...) supports QuickTime natively, most actually use the QuickTime frameworks internally. In my own shop, we use mostly Avid Xpress Pro systems, and every one of them can generate a beautiful QuickTime movie with very little trouble, but about half of the systems will obstinately refuse to export a watchable Windows Media file.
For the content itself, QuickTime provides a scalable multimedia architecture that can easily integrate into just about anything you want. QuickTime Streaming Server and QuickTime Broadcaster are perfectly capable streaming products, and if you don't want to invest in a MacOS server, you can run the Darwin Streaming Server instead; I believe we're running it on a Solaris-based machine here. Best of all, the streaming tools are free.
Are you into custom presentation and Web delivery? QuickTime is the only architecture I can think of that allows you to embed a custom player *into the movie itself*. Do you have special features you wish to include? Once I visited a web page where they used a JavaScript player, an ActiveX control, Windows Media Player, and a ton of JavaScript to provide multi-lingual subtitles for a news videotape. Had they chosen to use QuickTime instead, the text tracks and alternate audio tracks could have been embedded into the movie and some very simple JavaScript controls could have been used to control the QuickTime plug-in. Quite simply, if your needs extend *at all* beyond the most basic problems of presenting audio and video files, QuickTime has the technical capabilities that *no other multimedia platform* can provide. Yes, you can stream or serve any kind of video file. But if you want to go beyond that, you need QuickTime.
Finally, it's worth mentioning that QuickTime, unlike Windows Media, is truly a multiple-platform solution. It stops short of being totally platform-independent, but as a cross-platform architecture it again far surpasses Windows Media, in that the entire QuickTime architecture is available in the freely downloadable QuickTime Player for Windows. By comparison, the MacOS version of Windows Media Player is buggy, incomplete, slow, and was abandoned by Microsoft about four years ago. One may argue that QuickTime is not installed by default on Windows machines (so what? Windows Media Player is not installed by default on Apples, either!), but the market strength of Apple's iPod product line has largely taken care of that problem. Apple offers a generous distribution license for QuickTime, and at least when you install QuickTime on a Windows machine you get full QuickTime functionality.
In my opinion, the decision is still a no-brainer. QuickTime is the obvious choice for multimedia delivery.
Caveat: Do you expect any other opinion on Apple's QuickTime discussion board? Still, I think the case is pretty clear.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

HT4847 Question re: storage for photos

I bought storage for photos, and yet I keep getting the notice that there is not enough available storage to take a photo. Yet, I only have taken ten photos and my settings tell me that of 15.0 GB in iCloud, I have 14.9 available. What can I do?

Keep ALL the media on one drive and TM on it's own drive. NEVER NEVER NEVER mix a backup drive with any storage. The reason being is if/when that drive crashes you will have lost all the data and backup! For the media drive you may need a high speed drive and bus. The only reason I can think of for a high speed drive would be if you put photos on it and do lots of editing on them in something like Aperture, Photoshop etc...If that does describe your needs get a 7200RPM drive AND use the fastest bus your computer has. This will probably be Firewire or Firewire 800 depending on what iMac you own. If this does not describe your needs as long you keep the media (movies, photos & music) on one drive and the TM on a separate drive you're good to go.
BTW if you haven't seen these you will find them helpful:
iPhoto: How to move the Library to a EHD
iTunes: How to move the library to a EHD

General question about storage, networking, and using large amounts of data

I have been using a powermac tower G5 up until now. I bought my daughter a macbook pro 15" i7, talk about a zippy little machine. What a screamer. I can't believe how fast it is with final cut express, Aperture, and Photoshop. I tend to use higher end stuff, video, photos, etc. Hence I need not only a good fast processor, but the storage....need lots of hard disk space.
oh, did I mention I bought this for my daughter who's about to go off to college? Heh, when I'm home, she loses the machine to me.... *evil grin*
Anyways, I haven't considered using a laptop before for me personally as I just don't care for the small screen size, no mouse, and things like that.
Seems I've changed my opinion, esp seeing as the new mouse track pad is a game changer. I still am not crazy about the small screen size, but I can get over it.
The one thing I can't get around is the small disk storage. I have 4 TB on my big machine. Between my video, photography, and music, I am nearing a full TB of just raw stuff. If I count all the things I've stored, especially finished videos I make of photography projects, well you can image the chomping that occurs on disk storage.
So what is a man to do about storage?
I'm really getting hooked on this zippy little machine. The idea of dragging it around is compelling. Having my work not tied to a desk is fun.
but the lack of storage is sucky, terribly so.
I have one possible option, taking the G5 and making it a server. I can use it for backup and high speed transfer, working on the transfer part today.
I thought I'd poll the collective wisdom of the community and see what do you peeps think is the best overall way to handle such a situation?
What is the absolute fastest best way to use external drives? Firewire 800 is ok, but when working with 400gb aperture database files....
I'm hoping there is some way to start posturing myself to really use a laptop for my full computing experience.
Or am I trying to make a small portable machine act like a tower? Is this not a reasonable hope at this point in time?
I'm open to suggestions. I'm going to purchase something when my daughter takes this laptop with her to college. Either a new mac pro tower or laptop. I love the portability but need speed and massive storage.
Thanks for opining.

Storage:
1. Replace the drive with a larger one. Up to 1 TB is now available for notebook drives.
2. Get a portable external drive for additional storage needs. See the options at OWC as an example.
Drive speed:
1. FW 800 should be fast enough for your work. If the computer has an ExpressCard slot then consider a card supporting full speed eSATA. You may then achieve speeds closer to the internal bus.
A laptop is not a tower so stop thinking of or comparing to your tower. Besides the laptop's speed compared to your G5 is more like comparing a Ford Focus to a Ferrari F150.
As for "polling" opinions here: polling is forbidden by the forums' Terms of Use.

VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION: Backup/Storage problems

Please help!!!
Ok. I'll try to explain this but it's kind of confusing so I'll do my best.
OK, so a few weeks ago, (maybe 2 or 3 weeks I don't remember) I had about 30 GB free on my MacBook Air's Macintosh HD storage drive. I have a Windows partition that takes up about 48GB out of my 121 total GB. The mac part of my computer has like 72 GB. Like I said, I had about 30 GB free on my mac side; I had about 9-15 GB or so of pictures from my iPhone, photo stream, and laptop. I had about 18 GB of apps, etc.
This was on November 10th I think, and the only thing that happened between then and like 1 week ago was free space went from 30>> 27GB or so.
Problem: iCloud almost full from iPod backup, iPhone almost full from videos and pictures.
Proposed solution: Move iPod and iPhone pictures to MacBook Air so I have space on iCloud, iPod, and iPhone.
Anyway, for Christmas, I got a new Seagate 1 TB backup external drive thing. I thought this was plenty of room for my tiny computer. I decided to backup my computer.
Problem: I forgot to transfer my iPod and iPhone pictures >> MacBook Air >> Backup
Proposed solution: Move photos from iPod and iPhone to MBA and go from there.
On Christmas, I decided to just synch everything. I plugged in my iPod and put my photos onto my computer and deleted them from iCloud (at this point, I was trying to free up space on my iPhone). I had about 3.2 GB on my iPod of photos and videos, and I transfered them to my iPhoto on my MacBook Air. I deleted them off of iCloud. Then, I plugged in my iPhone, and I transfered my 6.5 or so GB of videos and pictures to iPhoto.
What happened: I transfered all of my iPod and iPhone stuff to my MacBook Air. My iPhoto now has about 16-17 GB of stuff.
Problem: My backup doesn't have my pictures. The last time I backed it up was before I had all my pictures on my computer.
Proposed solution: Get all iPod pictures in one folder, get all iPhone pictures in one folder, move them to the backup.
I didn't want to backup my computer with my pictures on it, because if I deleted them from my computer and backed my computer up again, my backup would delete the pictures it had backed up. If that makes sense.
Proposed solution: Move folders to backup. Like so:
After doing all these transfers all night until 12:30, I thought I was done. Then, this morning, I remembered that I still had to delete my pictures off of my computer, because they were now on a flashdrive (forgot to mention that) and a backup.
THIS IS WHEN THE BIG PROBLEM OCCURS/IS REALIZED
OK:
1) I go to iPhoto, select all of my pictures, and I move pictures to trash
2) I go to the trash bin/can/whatever it is and I click "empty."
3) I thought this would free up the 15 or so GB on my computer.
4) I go to Finder, and I realize that iPhoto has indeed shrunk from 16.9 or so GB >> 1.27 GB.
5) I go to Finder >> Macintosh HD >> info >> says I have 24.38 GB free. I'm happy.
HOWEVER
I go to the upper left-hand corner, click the apple, hit about this mac, hit more info, hit storage... AND:
My iPhoto went from 16.something >> 1.27 now. I deleted like 15.64 or 15.65GB. This is now under backups. My Photos and movies number shrunk, but my other and backups increased dramatically
What happened/Problem: The exact amount of storage space I deleted from iPhoto is the amount for Backups (it differed by like 1 MB). Coincidence? How did this happen?! Why did this happen?
What happened/Problem II: Now there is 23.65 GB under other?!?! All I did was move pictures temporarily to my computer and then I deleted them, and I also backed up my computer using Time Machine to back it up to my... backup.
What finder thinks:
My Question: WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED AND HOW DO I FIX IT. I thought this would free up space on my iPod, iPhone, and computer, but it took away free space on my computer. I've read online and I can't find a solution or answer. Finder and storage say completely different things. I don't know how much space I really have, and why they differ.
What is this and what do I do to remove the other/backup space? I threw away the pictures and deleted the iPhoto pictures, but it thinks they are still there? I've tried searching finder, but I can't find out where all my space is vanishing to.
Thank you so much for reading and please help! It would be VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.

Personally, I say you forget about the data allocation feature of "About this Mac." I swear, someone in Cupertino designed that feature to drive up support calls more than provide insightful information on your storage allocation.
You are correct that the "backup" component is the local snapshots of Time Machine and that flagged as allocated space frees up in the event that you need the space. In Apple's defense that functionality of Lion & Mt. Lion is pretty neat. Even though it just gives people another excuse to be lazy about not keeping a good and proper external backup solution.
Notice my Backups allocation, it's Zero KB. It's always Zero KB. There's a terminal command to stop OS X from creating the local snapshots, it'll require you to authenticate in terminal to process the command.
The command - sudo tmutil disablelocal
In the event you change your mind and want to re-enable it, the command for that is as follows -
sudo tmutil enablelocal (you'll be prompted for the admin password again)
For what it's worth, there's no harm in disabling this functionality. It's just extremely important that you maintain current backups of your data at regular intervals should you decide to disable this functionality... you know like you had to do with every other version of OS X (pre-Lion).
Regarding the "other" category, here's a pretty good write up.
http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html
Personally the accuracy of the reporting categories are a bit wacky. Even more frustrating is that you can't dive into what exactly is considered "other" or see it color categorized in Finder. Perhaps that'll be a feature of OS X 10.9 - Ocelot*
*I have no idea if Apple will even release an OS X 10.9 or what it'll be called, it was a joke. You can call off the forum police.
If you're looking for an accurate representation of what's on the drive, where it's located in the various folder directories and exactly how much space it's using then a program like:
- Daisy Disk
- OmniDiskSweeper
- Disk Inventory X
- WhatSize?
All will be much, much better for those purposes. I used ODS for years and love the product, I just recently started using Daisy Disk after a recommendation from someone on these message boards. All of them are "free" but many of them require you to pay to enable features. But for the purposes of inventory, categorization and displaying of your data that functionality is free.

Lumia 520 internal storage shows 'media-2gb' but t...

I have this lumia 520 and yesterday after watching hoards of videos on youtube i discovered in storage check that media and files has reached 2.6 gb and i don't know how! as I have an 8 gb micro sd for storing media and internal memory has no media. now I m left with only 2 gb of free space in internal memory. what is happening? and yes! i do not download videos from youtube. here is a pic attached.
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I noted from your screenshot that you are using the built-in storage check app but you can install the Lumia storage check app from Beta labs that also allows you to move map data from the internal storage to an SD card to free up a bit more space.
http://betalabs.nokia.com/trials/Storage-Check

Question on Storage, Site Location; UB

please clarify ,
Question A
We create article for a SIte (one DC and one Store),Pur org,vendor, sales org.
1.Is it means we cant buy it from other vendors
2.if i maintain physically articl in one DC and 3 Store .Do i need to extand or what ? plz give t code or path to do it .
3. A storage loc automatically come . How it is comming .
Question B
Also we create Site as a master data.
where we create the Storage location . I fould it is not in SPRO - enterprise structure .
cozz i need it do the STO
Question C
i did a mark up of 15 % and procured for 50 and STO sold to a Store 57.7.
No accounting documents are generated ? since its proforma .
at time of billing i can see Statistical value as 57.5
i want to where this 7.5 /- diff price hit ?

Hi,
You have to create site as master data only...
Site will not display in SPRO
enter SITE No in OX09
it will lead to creation of storage location.
Create storage location.
Retail Process
Store create STO to DC (ME27)
DC create Delivery based on STO (T.Code - VL10B)
Do PGI (VL02N)
Store create Good Reciept based on Delivery (MB0A)
But In Real Scenario
STO is created in POS
This data is uploaded to Retail server as IDoc
And
Same Good receipt is done in POS and uploaded data to Retail Server
Same process is happing for price, promotion, ect.
Detail Go through Retail Document
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46b/helpdata/en/50/94f500470e11d1894a0000e8323352/frameset.htm
Regards
Vijai Jain

A few questions from a Virgin Media customer

Greetings everyone
I am currently a Virgin Media customer but considering switching to Infinity as VMs service continues to degrade and I think it's about time to jump this sinking ship. I have some questions if that is okay;
-From a casual glance at this forum it seems that most people aren't having extreme packet lost, random disconnects, no service for days, unhelpful call center staff outsourced from other countries, poorly designed modems, lies about when services will be fixed, etc etc that we experience on VM. Is this an accurate conclusion, or are there many of the same problems on BT too?
-With VM I just have the internet; no phone or tv package. I have no need to call anyone and absolutely no use for a phone. Can I get a similar package with BT, or do I have to take and pay a phone package on top on the internet?
-I'm a rather heavy downloader, ~40GB a day usually. Is Infinitys "unlimited" downloads truly unlimited like VMs are, or are there hidden "fair usage" clauses?
-Does BT Infinity employ traffic management and bandwidth caps, and if so what are the thresholds of these?
-Any ex-virgin media customers who can share their experience and offer advice is great too.
Thanks everyone, I hope to be joining you soon

I've been infinity 2 for about 10days customer service is bad its a right hand left hand thing, they constantly go over the samething and always send an open reach person out to you stating that they will charge if it's the house or other equipment.
Mine hasn't been right from day one but im still told about the charge nothing has change within the first 10mins of open reach fitting it. I'm talking about my personal experience have a butchers through the forum you will find you answers! Fore warned if fore armed!!

Opinion question

So, I "took the plunge", and decided to buy my first mac. I decided on a Mac Book Pro. So I go to the apple store, and pick out the 15" MBP with the glossy screen. I take it to check out and it all looks good. They apply my $200 student discount, but they can't do the expedited checkout, because I have a miniature credit card. So they put me in the big line.
Finally, when it's my turn to check out, they guy is asking me some questions (he was ecstatic that I was a grad student in CS that decided to switch to Mac). Anyway, he stops checking me out and tells me to hold on a sec and returns from the back of the store with another box. It's a refresh. Exactly the same specs, except with the matte screen. So at first I'm ambivalent, because I've had many laptop issues with dead pixels before, and "refresh" scares me. After he re-re-re assures me that it's treated as a brand new product, and all return / warranty stuff applies, I decide to go for it. So instead of $2500, I pay $2000, $200 student discount, $300 refresh.
The laptop is in perfect condition, no dead pixels, no dents , no scratches. The question of opinion I have for you guys is the following. Do you think it's worth it to take the screen I like less to save the $300. I do like the glossy better, I think it's brighter and richer. On the other hand, it's not like I love glossy and hate matte. The matte screen is nice, and I don't at all dislike it. I know this is a very subjective question, but what do you guys think. Should I save my $$ and stick with the screen I like slightly less, or should I take it back and tell them that after thinking it over I want to pay the extra $ and go for the glossy. I have until Jan 7 to decide.
Thanks for your input,
Rob

I just bought a MBP last weekend. I looked at glossy, compared it to the matte, and bought the matte--and that is after reading many posts about the "grainy" effect of the matte screens. Here's what I think about that. Its all blown out of proportion. The MBP line has much brighter screens than any previous Mac laptops. So, you are going to see the matte overlay more than if it was dimmed a little bit. Dim the screen by maybe 20% and that "grainy" effect disappears. I also think the whole "grainy" thing is so "diffuse" an issue, no one really knows if there screen is a problem. A dead pixel is a dead pixel. Nothing subjective there. Banding at the bottom of the screen is banding. Not much subjectivity there (mine has it, but barely, and I don't really care). But "graininess?" I wonder how many people heard that, then looked at their mattes screen, and said to themselves, you know, now that you mention it.... I did this same thing to myself. Then I hooked up my MBP to my beautiful external 22" matte finish monitor, loaded two Pics in PS CS3, slid both around, and notices almost no difference--especially when I turned down the brightness on the MBP screen.
Now, having said all that, one of the main things I do on my Mac is digital photo editing. I would say I have a pretty picky bias against a bad screen (and have had a few--not on the MBP). This screen is so much better than the screens on my two previous iBooks, and on my son's PB 12" it isn't even funny, and that is despite having noticed that, if I wanted to think it was grainy, I could say it was. I think any matte finish LCD screen, with brightness turned way up, will end up looking grainy.
This reminds me of the argument that surfaces in D-SLRs, where camera companies have to balance good sharpening against noise. More sharp equals more noise. Less noise means softer shots. Apple decides to issue a brighter (and probably more expensive) monitor so its easier to see during the day, especially with a glossy screen competing with glare, the tradeoff being graininess at such bright levels. People notice the screens are much much brighter, but also more grainy. They take their MBPs to the genius bar, and so on. I for one am glad Apple gave me the choice: bright screen for office work during the day (who cares about graininess--I can see the screen more easily for Word, email, Safari), dimmer screen in my home office during the day and night (when detail matters, and I want the screen dimmer for more accurate color rendition, and easier to deal with when using Logic). Thanks Apple. Its about balance and choice.

CPU Usage Question between Premier and Media Encoder

Hey guys,
Here is the question. I just built a new machine with the following specs:
Intel i7 2.66GHz process overclocked to 3.2GHz
12GB Memory
Nvidia 260 Overclocked video card.
When I export a video from Adobe Premier into Media Encoder, all 8 cores peg out at 100% and thus my CPU temp get hot really quick (78 - 80 degrees Celsius)
Now if I take the same original video file and just drag it into Media Encoder, my 8 cores only show about 24-40% usage and the temp only gets to around 55-60 degrees Celsius.
What is causing such a big difference in CPU usage? I'm afraid to use Adobe Premier as it causes the CPUs to max out everytime. I want to edit my videos, but as stuck with just using AME on the original files.

I suspect its simply because in the first case Pr and AME are both running. In the later, just ame loading the Pr project. In the forst case two projects are running simultaneously, the one in Pr and a temp copy in AME.
But more troublesome to me is why youve built a system that cant be maxed out. IN editing, we Want the CPUs to peg to process as fast as possible. IMHO; You should re-think the design of your workstation if it overheats so easily.
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