Seeking educated opinions

Hi All
After having a discussion regarding the upgrade of our educational equipment (currently PC based Premiere Pro), in which I argued for a move to FCP (which would match with the rest of our editing equipment), my counterpart argued that we should keep using Premiere Pro (but on a Mac platform), as, he claimed, this is the preferred software for integrating with motion graphics/3D media. Can someone give me some educated opinions on whether this is still true and/or valid?
cheers
-j-

I don't think many professionals use Premiere.
I'll disagree there, but with an explaination. I think many Pros do use it, but only in certain circumstances. I believe it is used in short form work, commercials, shorter DVD videos or web videos, other specialty areas.
Where you will not see it is in feature film editing, broadcast TV docs or dramatic or comedy shows. It just isn't suited for these workflows. So if you want people to be marketable in these areas, to get TV editing work, then you need to teach and use Avid or Final Cut Pro.
Shane

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As you know, Rogers wireless in Canada is milking the iPhone for everything that it can... I won't go into a tyrade about this so...
Side by side comparison, the iPod Touch and the iPhone are pretty similar with the exception of the phone and camera.
My question is... will the iPod Touch give me the same internet, mail, google maps, widgets, etc CAPABILITIES as the iPhone 3G (and just by some cheap cell phone)or will I be limited to the WiFi hotspots and my home/work networks?
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Hold the phone!!!!!
From the Rogers site:
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SO... moiblieME won't be covered? Apples own applications won't be covered by Rogers plan? Am I the only one who doesn't understand this? ***?!?!?!?!

Application scope objects(opinions wanted)

Hi All
Looking for educated opinions on the pros/cons of application scope objects. I am thinking about creating a read-only application scope hashmap representation of some static data in my database. When queried at the database level it can cause relatively long delays (3-4 seconds) and sometimes must be stored in many sessions on the server. I am thinking just one read-only object stored at app scope will cut down on the waste of memory, as well as skyrocket the speed of retrieving this data.
Please give me your opinions!!! I can tell you a little more about the app if you need more info to make an educated statement...
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Greg B

You can use the Properties Object for static data that can be persisted on a filesystem. Also, I assume that you can hold quite a bit of data too. A file read should be faster than a database query. Also if you do the connect once and save the connection for several reads, that works too. The only real slow operation, outside of large resultsets, would be the initial connect.
I always design up two or three possible solutions and sometimes I protpotype each one. Sometimes one of the tests will prove to be the exact opposite choice of the one you thought would work.
Now that I have written your response, I think that you could create a custom class to hold data, but would that not just be a copy of the properties object. If it's key/value you need, that's the choice.
Stand back and ask, "What is the data type of the high level objects?"
Also, SUN has good articles on almost everything in the JDK.
David Whitehurst
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RAM Memory question for Mac Pro 2.66 Ghz

Hi all. I've got a MacPro 2.66 Ghz machine and I'm wondering if I need more RAM. Depending on who I talk to, I get a different answer so I'm hoping for some educated opinions. I've been monitoring my system and I get the following numbers from the Activity Monitor:
Wired: 1.20 GB
Active: 1.81 GB
Inactive: 957 MB
Free: 53 MB
Although it appears I have quite a bit of memory between inactive and free, the computer at times performs "choppy" and slow. I get the "beachball" frequently. I've verified the disc volume and also verified permissions and there appears to be no issues.
Based on the fact that the computer is used heavily by two users, is there a possibility that I do need more RAM? Or should I run an diagnostic on the computer to confirm if there is another issue. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Hello wenwon (and welcome),
1. Assuming you've decided (wisely) to follow the suggestions to add RAM, I can only add that you should shop around - for only - "certified" RAM for your Mac Pro. Just for example, I've found macsales.com to be a good source: I bought 4 x 1 GB certified FB-DIMM w/ ECC RAM for a fraction of Apple installed price. Performance has been completely satisfactory.
Tips: adding RAM to the Mac Pro is easy & fast but must be done exactly to the instructions. macsales.com provides a good video tutorial which will help. Also, you will eventually hear that adding RAM causes more power consumption and higher running temp than, for example, adding hard drives. This is true: but read reviews such as the one on AMUG <http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/intel/macpro/>, which allievates that concern.
2. I firmly agree with AjanovicH; don't jump on 10.5 as soon as it comes out. I had the chance to talk in person to a developer and he "seconded" my own "wait for maturity" standard. Besides, he also said that 10.4 has (obviously) reached full maturity and stability. How long you wait is up to you - just keep track of subsequent point releases (as in: 10.5.2, etc). And - do keep track of what's being said on the 10.5 Discussion threads and whatever other sources you find reliable. My own rule of thumb is to wait until the XX.x.5 release comes out. Minimizes the chance of spending time with problems which do come during the interim releases.

Problem With clearing GR-IR account (MR11)

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We follow a three way match (PO-GR-IR) for our purchase orders. for some cases the third step of IR was missed and vendors were paid from FI. Now we wish to clear the DR balance in the GR for these purchase orders.
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Sanjeev

Hi Nandita
Can you please elaborate
"clear the Vendor Open items with the payment items posted to the vendor account.
Based on the payments done, use Debit Memo's/Credit Memo's for additional stuff."
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Sanjeev

How do I properly manage audio files with iTunes?

Hello Dear Readers,
I am going to start using iTunes exclusively for my music collection management. Previously, I had only used iTunes for managing content for my iPhone 4. Now, I am wanting to import all of my media (music) files into iTunes for general use and playback.
For example, I have over 3,000 music files, and I would like to know the best way to get them into iTunes. From a lynda.com training video about using iTunes, I learned that there is a folder called "Automatically Add to iTunes", which is monitored by iTunes for new files to import into the iTunes library. However, I would like to know if this is the *best* way to do this. For example, can I just*move* my 3,000 music files into this 'Automatically Add' folder and then let iTunes do its thing?
Will iTunes *move*the files that it is able to manage OUT of this folder and into one of its managed folders, such that there would be no duplicate file left behind? Is it correct in saying that the files that are left in this folder that were not able to be handled by iTunes and must be handled differently before they can be imported into iTunes. Or is there just an all around different, and better, way to get these music files into iTunes? Thanks for your advice and opinions!
There is also the issue of what to do with the commercial CDs I have (less than 50). I would like to discard these and just maintain them on digital form, e.g., my 2 TB hard drive. However, I am getting varying opinions as to how to do this. I need 2 things: 1) to archive the CDs for retrieval later in case I need the songs that are on them, and 2) MP3 versions of the audio CD files for use on my flash drive which plays on my car audio system. These would also be the files that I manage in iTunes.
Some people have suggested using Exact Audio Copy to make a FLAC and a LAME MP3 copy of myCDs. Others have suggested keeping an ISO copy of the compact discs for reference archive. Personally, I am wondering if I should just import my commercial CDs directly into iTunes, and then pay Apple $25 annually to maintain copies of these, as announced by Steve Jobs at the WWDC that this cloud functionality was forthcoming.
I am in need of some informed, educated opinions and suggestions as to how I should proceed.
Then, there is also the naming convention of the files. When the files get ripped from CD, I can add the freedb information to them for the ID3 tagging. However, I need to know how to specify in what system that the file names are comprised. This is what I am thinking of as my folder and file name format, at this point.
For the naming scheme of the audio files, I am proposing the following:
For most music by 1 artist on a disc, I would do as follows:
Folder Name: AlbumArtist - Album Title (year)
File Names: Track number (from 1 on up, with NO leading zeros) Track Title
For compilations with various artists, I would use the following for the schema:
Folder Name: VariousArtists (album artist) - Album Title (year)
File Names: Track number (1 on up) Track Title - Track Artist.
Do these seem like reasonable naming schemes that would be good for using on all audio software and equipment, such as my iPhone, my car audio flash drive player, and in iTunes?
I know that this is a lot to ask, but I am just trying to learn how to do things correctly and most efficiently so that I don't have problems down the road with my iTunes library. I welcome input, discussion and of course, dissent! Thanks!
~Antonio

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The presentation would of course be most effective if I could export it as a single QuickTime movie - 1024 x 768 resolution. But I have not been able to do this, either on my own or with help from Apple employees at an Apple retail outlet. (I cannot remember whether we tested Keynote '08 or '09 at the store)
The best I've been able to accomplish is to break the presentation into ten parts and export them as ten QuickTime movies at a reduced resolution of 800 x 600.
I've been able to create a full length single movie - but only as a web-sized lowest quality (H.264) QT movie - in which the hyperlinks work but the slide captions cannot be clearly read.
This interactive education presentation would be so much more effective if I could export it as a single high-rez QT movie.
So I am searching for a solution to this problem, if it indeed exists using Keynote '08 or '09, and feedback/educated opinions from Keynote users who have encountered the same problem. Is Apple aware of this limitation? Might Apple address it in Keynote '10 whenever that arrives? Is there additional software available that could solve this problem?
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External Drive Partition, Lost Files

As the title suggests, I made a mistake that "erased" all my files on a backup external hard drive, after splitting a partition in two and installing Mac OS X Leopard on the new partition. I use quotes in "erased" because the data itself is still there, but the access to it isn't anymore. Before thinking about using recovery software and going through the harsh process of churning through hundreds of GB of data to recover files that could be corrupted in the end, I wanted to seek the opinions of more knowledgeable people to see if there are alternative solutions that could be more simple.
Here's my situation and all the steps that lead to my current state. I have a iMac with Core 2 Duo Intel processor, 2.66 GHz, 2 GB of RAM and an internal hard drive of 320 GB, with Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.8) installed. For backup and temporary transfer of files, I use an external USB hard drive, a Seagate FreeAgent with 500 GB (500 billion bytes = 465 GB actually).
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Now, here comes the thing that I'm not 100% sure about. At this point, I don't know if the big partition was already erased. Both partitions (455GB and 10GB) always mounted on the desktop just fine. I was probably just "presuming" that everything went fine.
Then I proceeded to install Mac OS X Leopard from the installation DVD on the small 10GB partition, which went fine. It's only at this moment that I realised that my big partition was empty. Shortly after, I set the permissions of the big partition to read-only, assuming it would minimize further damage.
That's about it. At this point, my first thought was, what exactly just happened? In my mind, playing with one partition should not affect the other ones, but apparently, something did anyway, for a reason that is beyond my knowledge. Right now, I'm still wondering what operation did do the damage, the partition split or the installation of Mac OS X? Why would any of these operations erase the big partition?
And here's another important point to ponder. Before the partition split, my external hard drive was formatted as APM, Apple Partition Map. After the split, or after the Mac OS X installation (which one, I don't know), the partition scheme had changed to GUID. Maybe this is the key to solve the problem.
I know that my data is still intact, at least in most part, and I know that the file structure (B-Tree information, and stuff like that) seems to be intact (completely or partially) as well, because I visualized some sectors of my drive with a tool called iBored, and I recognized some folder and file names.
That's all the details I can provide. Right now, I feel like any low-level operation on my external drive is like defusing a bomb. One little mistake, and boom! So I prefer to do nothing until I can get some advice from others.
Thank you for your help!

I had the EXACT same issue last night.
Today, I downloaded Disk Drill and it is scanning and recovering my lost files from my external hard drive.
http://www.cleverfiles.com/partition-recovery.html
I thought I was going to have a heart attack when none of my files showed up on my Finder and I did not have a clue what I was going to do as my hard drive has practically my whole life on there!
As we speak, disk drill is in the process of scanning my hard drive and locating lost files.
Next step is to recover the files..
Estimated Time Remaining: 3h 20m
I will let you know if this was fully successful. It looks like it wil be though so I say you do what I'm doing and start recovering!

Is there a problem displaying Signatures in Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869)

I have created signatures; webarchives were created; assigned to enabled account; SignaturesByAccount.plist updated; when I click "New Message" there are no signatures. I have followed all the Apple instructions without luck.
Any answers, suggestions, educated opinions or wild *** guess ? ? ?

I've never actually done this, but don't think it will work for the purpose of running a task in a regular app like Synk Pro. Launching Synk Pro - even, I would think, from a logout script - will cancel logout. Of course, if Ham1000 is willing and able, he could probably replace Synk Pro with a call to rsync from a logout script:
http://www.bananica.com/Geek-Stuff/Synchronize-two-folders-on-a-Mac-with-Rsync/
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For video editing, I will be using both Final Cut Pro 7, and Adobe CS5.
Is the new 13" Macbook Pro enough? I'm asking both for the lower-end and higher-end 13". Or should I just go with the 15"?
I'm just seeking for opinions from more experienced mac users, since this is my first transfer from Windows to Mac. Also, I'm taking into consideration in the price difference among these different models.
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It will render much faster on the new quad cores then any other MBP ever made. This new release is really a pretty major deal in the laptop world to my thinking. If I didn't just get a new iMac, I would be probably getting one. I don't do a lot of video and I use FCE not Pro so my need isn't as great, but I do a lot of photography and with several things open at once so the power matched with sufficient ram is pretty amazing. But is it absolutely a must? I had a friend who just until this year was a film music editor and he was using Pro Tools on a G4 Power Book though he had to start working around the machine limitations at the end of the day, but it is possible. Still for the money, the new machines are a great deal at pretty much the same price as what they are replacing. I know I'm advocating here, but I'm just a user not and employee:)

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I would guess that if I set up the appropriate symbolic links using ln(1), the OS, apps, user homes and data will work fine spread out over 2 disks, but perhaps there are some gotchas I'm not aware of, or lessons someone's learned by trying this before me...
Wear leveling helps, and, well the Macs sold with SSDs work... and this SSD comes with a 2 year warranty, so maybe I shouldn't worry... I think this SSD doesn't have TRIM support,
There are detailed FAQs and product specs on Wintec's site, but at least some of the info is wrong, so I'm here seeking other opinions on how best to use it. For example, I have no trouble sleeping and waking it and do so often; I didn't have to enable hibernate mode. The specs suggest that booting off the SSD is a good idea, but the troubeshooting/FAQ don't seem to agree with that at all.
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I saw someone post somewhere that things had worked fine for them doing this using symbolic links, so I tried that. It was not a good experience. Most of the apps would run, but the Dock would treat them as different apps, as would Little Snitch. I want to have a more stable setup - one that will keep working (after a reboot) if I have to remove the SSD to use another ExpressCard (like for eSATA) or to save battery or because it's failed.
I logged the output of df -h as well as of mount while a bootable 10.7 Lion DVD was running, which looks like a good method to copy, though I'm not sure what the OS was doing to make it so; IIRC there was no fstab file. Here are the output logs:
Filesystem     Size   Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk2s3 1.4Gi 1.1Gi 361Mi    75%    /
devfs         126Ki 126Ki    0Bi   100%    /dev
/dev/disk4    512Ki 144Ki 368Ki    29%    /Volumes
/dev/disk5    512Ki 140Ki 372Ki    28%    /private/var/tmp
/dev/disk6    512Ki 156Ki 356Ki    31%    /private/var/run
/dev/disk7    512Ki 144Ki 368Ki    29%    /System/Installation
/dev/disk8    512Ki 252Ki 260Ki    50%    /private/var/db
/dev/disk9    6.0Mi 1.9Mi 4.1Mi    32%    /private/var/folders
/dev/disk10   2.0Mi 224Ki 1.8Mi    11%    /private/var/root/Library
/dev/disk11   1.0Mi 148Ki 876Ki    15%    /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays
/dev/disk12   512Ki 160Ki 352Ki    32%    /Library/Preferences
/dev/disk13   512Ki 152Ki 360Ki    30%    /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
/dev/disk14   1.0Mi 140Ki 884Ki    14%    /Library/Keychains
/dev/disk0s2 465Gi 364Gi 101Gi    79%    /Volumes/HD
/dev/disk3s3   45Gi   34Gi   11Gi    75%    /Volumes/FastestContent
/dev/disk1s3 3.9Gi 3.5Gi 317Mi    92%    /Volumes/Image Volume
/dev/disk2s3 on / (hfs, local, read-only)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
/dev/disk4 on /Volumes (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk5 on /private/var/tmp (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk6 on /private/var/run (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk7 on /System/Installation (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk8 on /private/var/db (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk9 on /private/var/folders (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk10 on /private/var/root/Library (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk11 on /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk12 on /Library/Preferences (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk13 on /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk14 on /Library/Keychains (hfs, local, union, nobrowse)
/dev/disk0s2 on /Volumes/HD (hfs, local, journaled)
/dev/disk3s3 on /Volumes/FastestContent (hfs, local, journaled)
/dev/disk1s3 on /Volumes/Image Volume (hfs, local, read-only)
It's good to see that there's a way to do it that is likely to work well, as Apple uses it.
Bluehz' comments I noted above are from 2003, but are still more impressive/thorough than anything recent I've seen! BlueHz's post incudes a link to good scripts for handling mount points for swap and applications (of Oct 11, '02 vintage • Contributed by: Numbski) that I'm planning to use/adapt.

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I am seeking some opinions on the the functionality/usage of the data provided under the Informer Tab - Management View Section. There are several sub-sections in this section that would appear to provide some very useful summary data at a management level. However, I've been informed by one of our consultants that the usage/functionality of this section is really not helpful, because the data can't and is never accurate. I'm confused, if this is feeding from other data loaded in the system...why the discrepancies and un-usefullness? I hesistate to believe this section would be apart of the system if limitations prevented its accuracy. Are any other of you using this section? Is the data accurate? Do you find it helpful?
Your advice, comments, and experience greatly appreciated!
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The informer tab is just that - an informer. So long as your ruleset has been setup properly, and your background jobs are synchronizing properly to the backend systems, and you've set the background risk analyses to update the management views, there shouldn't be any inaccuracies in the informer tab.
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I was in the store today and asked a couple sales reps, each giving me their opinions that personally didn't sound like "educated" opinions. I want a hard drive camcorder with 60 GB and that is the "best" meeting that criteria. Should I look at Canon's, Panasonics, JVC, or Sony??? I want it to be super easy to use with ease of DVD creating as well. Battery life should be good also. Vista compatible a must. I would appreciate any "educated" opinions that I can get. Thank you..

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2. After DU loads select your external hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the drop down menu one. Set the format type to MS-DOS. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to MBR then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
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Micro on the way--questi

I'm awaiting deli'very of a 6gb zen micro (dark blue), and would like some educated opinions before I start using it. I'm probably a geezer compared to most of you and not quite as high tech, but not a dummy, and I've got a Muvo N200 that I've been using and loving.
. Before I start loading my music, should I consider upgrading the firmware for any reason? I don't want to upgrade down the road unless I have to, and would rather not do it once I've got a bunch of music loaded. I'm unlikely to use music services (I don't even own a credit card), will get most of my music from CD's and having friends get me mp3's.
2. Is the file organizing similar to the N200? Or do you have more options? Can I create playlists easily? For example, if I load my music onto the Micro as complete CD's, can I later pick and choose songs from different CD's to play them in sequence?
3. I've seen different opinions on running with hard dri've players. I run with my N200 strapped to my arm, and I'd swear the thing doesn't get jostled any more than if I was walking with it. I've got a very smooth running style, and it would be great to go running with the Micro. What about dancing?
4. I've seen different opinions about getting the longer lasting battery sold for one of the other models (can't remember which) and using it in the Micro. Any thoughts?
5. Will the belt clip accessory for the Micro fit into the armband for the N200?
Thanks for any help.

. Yes, i would check what firmware your micro comes with first, the new players come with firmware version ..0, if you plan on using subscription music services such as napster and yahoo unlimited then you must upgrade your micro to the "play for sure" firmware update that found under the download section of the Creative site. You should always check for new firmware updates because updated firmware usually corrects small bugs in the firmware prior to the new firmware version, some firmware also improve the functionality of player.
2. I'm not sure how the N200 is organized, if its drag and drop then the micros file system is different. The micros file system organizes all music into albums/artists/Genres/all tracks. The micro allows "keyword search" where you can search for part of a name of a track and it will narrow the song you are looking for to a couple of tracks depending on how specific you are. The micro also allows "find artist" this is also a search function that allows the user to search for artist by the first letter of their name. Creating playlists on the micro is a very simple task, you just compile a group of songs into the "my playing menu", bring up the sub-menu and select "save playlist as"
3. Although its not recommended you can run with a harddri've player but do so at your own risk. If you jostle your player too much you can cause permanent physical damage to the dri've. All harddri've DAPs have a small amount of ram (random acess memory) that the harddri've dumps into, this means the the harddri've stay inacti've most of the time as long as you don't skip tracks or changes playlists/artist. My recommendation is that if your really set on running with this thing then create a playlist and lock the player, this way no buttoms are pressed while running significantly lowering the amount of time the harddri've is accessed while your running. Depending on how you dance you can seriously kill your harddri've within minutes
4. The new Micro Photo has a 5hr battery life claim on it, it has been confirmed that it will fit into the regular micro but i haven't heard of anyone trying it out yet.
5. No, the micro comes with a belt clip that you can order off the creative site or it might come with your micro depending on whether you got the limited edition or the basic package. I have the belt clip and i wouldn't recommend running with it, its not very sturdy.

Another K9A Memory Thread

Hi everybody!
Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I was hoping I could just get some quick educated opinions.
I've found a lot of older threads regarding why 4GB of RAM was unusable in certain setups, specifically mine (MSI K9A Platinum) and figured out that Vista 32x just can't run 4GB.
I've already bought 2 x 1GB sticks (Patriots) and can get everything going on 3 sticks. I keep hearing that it would be much more efficient (and faster) to buy a single 2GB stick to replace the first two matched pair. Then just throw in one of the excess (1GB) into one of the last ports.
Is this true? Should I just keep the extra single stick and keep running my old two on dual-channel?
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