Optimizing Tiger and FCP 5

For some reason i keep getting dropped frames on playback after upgrading everything to tiger and fcp 5...
(i have two installations on seperate drives, one still running FCP 4.5 on OS 10.3.9 and the other with Tiger and FCP 5)
i'm wondering about setting in Tiger and FCP, perhaps some one can either make some suggestions or direct me to a page that lists these.

does firwire 800 run on the same bus as 400 (the one i am using for my ntsc output to monitor)?
I thought i could run a firewire 800 drive with a firewire dv camera at the same time.
hmm.
I actually do have another fireiwre card installed but i am running more than one drive, a piece of digidesign hardware (digi 002) and a dv camera... thought i should be able to do all that with all of the firewire ports i now have but maybe not..

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Check your firewire cable. shouldnt be any difference between printing to video on 4.5 or 5. Or perhaps its something else. I am honestly aware of many problems I and some others are having with Tiger / FCP 5, this is not one of them that I'm aware of.
PS Welcome to discussions!!!

FCP-just upgraded to tiger and FCP Studio-reports 'Missing FW connection".

I just finished upgrading 3 computers to OS 10.4.7 and FCP Studio, then installed all the obvious updates.
The first 2 computers, a G5 and G4, had no problems seeing and capturing video via FW.
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SB
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Often in upgrading the OS, QT or FCP for some odd reason QT will get knocked slightly off kilter. The usual solution it to force a full reinstall of QT.
This is how:
Go to /library/receipts and delete any files that say Quicktime followed by a number e.g. Quicktime703.pkg
Go to the Apple quicktime site and download the appropriate version of Quicktime to your hard drive.
Run the Quicktime installer.
Repair Disk Permissions for your System Disk (Disk Utility > Select the system disk > Repair Disk Permissions)
Reboot
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x

Bella Keyboard problem w/Tiger and 5.0

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Using an external FW drive, I installed Tiger and the FCP 5 Studio and whatever drivers I could find. I have it so I can edit and my NTSC monitor works, but I haven't been able to get control of my Sony Betacam SP deck.
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I spoke with AJA Tech Support in California, I tend to work at night so ringing around the world was alright. I spoke with Rudy who was really friendly and when I explained the crashing FCP but the successful Motion and After Effects, and the FCP Prefs part solution, he told me about the Utility in the System Library, inside a folder called Core Services that is called the Expansion Utility, here he got me to explain where the various radio buttons were set and the messages visible there.
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Quicktime 7.0.3 and FCP 4.5

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Yes...there are major issues. Do not use QT 7, 10.3.9 and FCP 4.5. VERY FEW people have gotten it to work right. If you go to Tiger, QT 7 and FCP 4.5, you might have better luck (might) but best to stick with QT 6.5 with FCP 4.5.
A few peole might say "hey, but it works for me," but those people are dwarfed by that ones that it doesn't work for.
http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/newreadpost.cgi?forumid=8&postid=868910&pview=t#head

I'm a user of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and, as well, a user of Google fead reader, which will stop to work from July 1st 2013. Does anybody know of any alternative RSS reader which works on OS X 10.4? Thanks in advance.

I'm a user of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and, as well, a user of Google fead reader, which will stop to work from July 1st 2013. Does anybody know of any alternative RSS reader which works on OS X 10.4? Thanks in advance.

Hello, you still might be in luck...
TenFourFox is the most up to date browser for our PPCs, they even have G4 & G5 optimized versions...
http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
In TFF>Preferences>General>Manfe Add-ons..., type rss in the Search all add-ons bar...

Can I run Tiger and Leopard on the same computer

Hi folks.
I've been meaning to install Leopard for ages but have never got round to it (I bought the retail box when it first came out). I have upgraded my RAM to 2GB and my hard drive to 320GB with no problems.
My upgraded hard drive has been partitioned into 2 equal parts of 160GB. These appear on desktop as Mackintosh HD1 and HD2. HD1 is the disk with all my files, music, OS etc and HD2 is empty
I have 2 bootable clones of my present system - one is on a 160GB external and the other is the original 80GB HD that I replaced.
My question is this - can I install Leopard on to my 160GB external HD, then clone it on to the empty HD2. If I do this would I be able to run both Tiger and Leopard on the same Macbook?
Is there any problems with this plan? Would I be able to transfer between the 2 OS and how do I install Leopard on the external drive. Is it just a case of inserting the Leopard DVD and choose the external drive as the target?
As usual thanks in advance
Del

# Original Tiger in the internal HD, New Leopard in the external HD.
# New Leopard in the internal, Legacy cloned Tiger in the external.
# Split internal, one partition with Tiger, another with Leopard.
Leopard is backwardly compatible with older Macs, just make sure yours fulfills the minimum system requirements, both use the same filesystem format, so each can see the other. You can't run both at the same time, unless you purchase the server version of Leopard and run it virtualized. 99.9% of Firewire external HD's are bootable, some USB's are bootable but have to test first. You can choose which system to boot from by pressing the Option key at boot time, before the chime. Just make sure the external HDD is plugged in and turned on if that's where you want to boot from.
When I migrated my PBG4 from Panther to Tiger, got an external FW HDD, cloned Panther onto it, upgraded using Archive and Install, cleaned up, customized and tested it. When I was satisfied all was ok, cloned the original Panther onto another partition of the external HDD, wiped and tested for failure the internal HDD, then cloned the known good and tested Tiger into it. Only thing that died along the way was my old and ancient Photoshop v2.x, that refused to run on Tiger.

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Hi. I installed Tiger and now my multi function printer/scanner/fax is not recognized by my computer. I have the Brother MFC 420 CN. I downloaded some drivers and such which I thought would resolve the issue, but still it does not work. What can I do? Thank you.

According to this page:
http://www.brother.com/E-ftp/macosxstate.htm
The MFC-420 CN is not listed. Sounds like you have a printer whose driver never was updated. Contact Brother technical support and ask them to fix that issue.

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I plan to back up my personal files and any
downloaded software I have.
Amazing that. You've told us that numerous times, but
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Hi,
I have a mini mac running tiger and I need to update my itunes and ipod touch which i cant currently do in tiger.
I dont want to upgrade my hard drive as most of my programs wont work with the update, eg. photoshop and dont want to buy a new photoshop package.
As i have a spare external hard drive, I was wondering if I could run leopard or snow leopard on that and update itunes that way, thus keeping tiger running on my mini mac, and have the option of which system to run. Is this possible?
Many Thanks.

Hi, yes you can, & with a big enough drive you could partition it for multiple bottable OSX Partitions.
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    * Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor
minimum system requirements
    * 512MB of memory (I say 1.5GB for PPC at least, 2-3GB minimum for IntelMacs)
    * DVD drive for installation
    * 9GB of available disk space (I say 30GB at least)
You have to call Apple & likely ask for a Product Specialist to get it, if they still have it! Helps to tell them you have an iPad/iPhone & you can't run 10.6.
List of Applications Not Compatible with Leopard...
http://guides.macrumors.com/List:Applications_Not_Compatible_with_Leopard
Snow Leopard/10.6.x Requirements...
General requirements
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    * 5GB of available disk space (I say 30GB at least)
    * DVD drive for installation
    * Some features require a compatible Internet service provider; fees may apply.
    * Some features require Apple’s MobileMe service; fees and terms apply.
Which apps work with Mac OS X 10.6?...
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
It looks like they might still have it...
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDAzOA
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Is it possible to install both FCP7 and FCP X on your hard drive without running into problems?

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Matrox MX02 Mini and FCP 7...

We have been using the MX02 Mini essentially for HD monitoring and have run across a few issues that have hindered productivity. It appears that one or two of these issues have been fixed in the latest 2.2.1 software release. The following remain. Has anyone experienced the same?
1) Audio scrubbing... audio cannot be heard on a per frame basis, usually audio is heard every three
frames or so.
Apparently this has not been fixed.
2) Audio playback. In the viewer... Hit play... Playback begins but the audio drops out and then
resumes... hit stop and playback repeats the last bit of what was playing before you hit stop.
3) Audio distorts, similar to an analog overdrive sound, when hitting play every 10 times or so.
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1) Audio scrubbing... audio cannot be heard on a per frame basis, usually audio is heard every three frames or so. Apparently this has not been fixed.
Well, that actually is the main thing that was addressed in that update. I didn't have the issue for a while, then I upgraded to snow leopard, and there it was. But that was something with the 2.0 and first 2.1 drivers. But the latest driver that was just released, 2.1.1...fixes that. For a lot of people, me included:
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/132/860478
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/132/860397
As for the other issues, that are all audio related... they should have been addressed too.
Make sure to update PROPERLY. Uninstall the older drivers, then restart. Install the new drivers... and when the updates erase and then update the firmware, when the computer will shut down, and you need to unplug the MXO2 mini for at least 5 seconds, then plug it back in. Then start up the system.
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Thanks!

Graphics.
However, as I keep telling everyone, I have an almost prehistoric 2004 G4 eMac (1.25GHz 768MB RAM and 32MB VRAM) which ran and still does run, FCE 4 and FCP 6 perfectly well.
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