Tumbleweeds in the FCP forum -

I've been gone from the forum for a while. Oh my, how have things changed.
The fourth post in the forum has been sitting without response for 6 hours. Wow.
I guess the changes Apple made REALLY cut the life out of this place.
... cue the theme from "the Good the Bad and the Ugly" ...
x

Older product, not many new users = less questions. Less questions = people coming to forum less often to answer questions. The changes made to the forums also had an effect on the number of posts, at least in my experience. A forum I visit frequently had a very noticable drop in posts immediately after the change and it has stayed low ever since.

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Help needed to sort out the FCP numbers minefield - older G5

Hi people-who-can-help
I am incredibly new to Mac computers and I have to say my experience up to yet has been anything but fun! It has been a time of confusion, great expense and constantly incorrect advice. So I do hope someone within these discussion groups can help me not throw this old G5 out of the window!!
This G5 arrived with OS 10.3 Panther loaded (including installation discs). I wanted to buy and learn to use Final Cut Pro and knew that only an older version would be suitable for this G5. I upgraded the RAM too so it now has the maximum it can handle. Not being hugely wealthy, I tried to find a copy of FCP 3 as I was told that was absolutely the latest version my G5 could handle, even with my 'new' OS 10.4 Tiger that I bought and successfully loaded.
I could not easily find an old FCP 3 for some time, them managed to buy one, but although I had asked if all serial numbers etc were present and told that they were, it has been impossible to load. The CD must be in the drive which is not a problem - as this is an Academic version there are several discs with it, so I assume it was used in a school ICT suite. The fact that I wouldn't be able to upgrade was not a problem as I simply wanted to learn the software and maybe buy a more up to date Mac and software later when funds permitted.
So I have this G5, two OS versions, a copy of FCP 3 Academic which I cannot load and people advising that I should buy Final Cut Suite as then I could use the FCP 6 and everything would be fine. One man even told me that it was clear to him that I had bought not FCP 3 but FCS 3!!
Please help. What version of Final Cut Pro can I run on this machine (PPC processors, NOT Intel) with the OS that I have? Or shall I simply launch the Mac through the window with me following after it?!

Hi Dave, & welcome to the forums!
It looks like FCP5 will work...
Macintosh computer with 500MHz or faster PowerPC G4 or G5 processor or any dual G4 or G5 processors, 512MB of RAM, and AGP Quartz Extreme graphics card; HD editing requires a 1GHz or faster PowerPC G4 or G5 and 1GB of RAM
Mac OS X v10.3.9 or later
QuickTime 7 or later
DVD drive for installation
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA23208?viewlocale=en_US
Free trial???
http://www.bestshareware.net/finalcutpro-mac.htm
Yet I bet there's some real pros over in the FCP forum that could be of better help...
Hmmm, they've changed a bunch, not sure now where would be best...
https://discussions.apple.com/community/professional_applications?view=overview

FCP forum - a bit of a rant

- pass by if you don't hang out here or want to support helpful people. (no humor - only grumpyness...)
One of the great problems with the LAST forum set-up was that if you spent your time helping "new to the forum" users, you often received little if any recognition in the points system. No great insight is required to tell someone to turn on their camera before launching FCP in order to capture, but since each person discovers the forum (and it is only REAL when THEY arrive) this class of response needs to be repeated over and over. As these new users were often totally ignorant of the points system and, since they often only showed up for their one issue then disappeared, they had no incentive to say thank you to those who took the time to help. In their minds, this is all part of the great APPLE machine - why say thank you? However, people who hung around WERE appreciative of things like: humor, community, grumpyness, brilliance etc and recognized the work that was being done.
Now, in the new forum, we have a situation where the ONLY points available are from people - often the new users who are unaware of the format of the forum - who have absolutely no incentive to give feedback. Since these users are either unaware or do not care about the protocols of the forum, no votes for helpfulness/competence are given and the only way a reputation will be built is simply by post count. This seems very wrong to me.
Additionally, I'm noticing fewer of the usual group around here. Perhaps it is me but I am concerned. No one is paid to be here and the only recognition was the points system. Now that seems to be gone or at least seriously compromised ...
So, to new users, if someone has helped you, give them the points. If someone has answered the question, not only mark it answered, give the poster the points. Support the people who help you as they are trying to support you..
rant over. flamesuit on. All responses written on the back of $50 bills will immediately attended to!
cheers.
x
powerbooks to the left/ jokers to the right/ stuck in the middle ... Mac OS X (10.4.3) been there, haven't done this.

I remember the "Helper" system, which relied on Apple granting the status to a community member. The forums seemed to have more direction back then, a tighter focus if you will.
Of course, even then there were irreverent ones, who shall remain nameless ... with seemingly no ambition to be classified a "Helper" as such, but posted for the communities sake. Many still active.
Not sure at all about the whole points thing which seems to have had a filter applied to it.
And speaking of filters - I had a grip drop his tousers the other day and wiggle his but at the camera. So capture everything b/c there was audio involved, applied Broadcast Safe - and he's still there .. wiggling. I mean that's gotta be a bug, right ?

Adding files to the FCP X Music & Sound Facility

Having recorded, say, a Sound Effect using Soundtrack that I want to keep for future use, the logical thought is to export it as an AIF file and add it to the iTunes Library, something I have done in the past. Now iTunes won't recognise the Soundtrack file. I have posted this message on the iTunes forum, but is there a way of adding the file to the Music & Sound facility without using iTunes, or what is the next best option.
What I had tried initially was to copy a MPEG 4 movie, which iTunes will import, however as I was only interested in the soundtrack I took the movie file into Soundtrack and exported the AIF file intending to addd it to the iTunes library so that it would appear in the Sound iTunes listing, but I can't.
Thanks

Hellp Tom
You have got me confused. My original intention was to use Soundtrack to strip the audio from an MPEG 4 movie and save it in iTunes for use in FCP X. The problem was that iTunes wouldn't recognise an aiff file created by Soundftrack 3.01. either from the Movie or from an audio recording from a microphone. However the same aif file introduced into Garage Band 4.1.2 and converted to AAC was accepted by iTunes. It was then availble for use in FCP X. My version of Garage Band only appears to export in either AAC or MP3, so how do I get an aif file into iTunes in order to access it in FCP X?
I could create the aif file in Soundtrack , drag it to my Music Folder, and then import it to my FCP X event folder, but that is messy.
Alternatively is there a way of creating a new folder in the Sound & Music pane of FCP X into which I could put my files, although that isn't an ideal solution?
In what way is an AAC file ubsuitable for FCP X?
Thanks

Pixelated Font out of After Effects and in the FCP timeline

I've posted this questions before, but I'm still having trouble. I create an animation is After Effects that is composed of a layer Photoshop file. Looks fine in AE and when I play the exported movie on my desktop. See below.
I put it on the timeline in Final Cut and Voila! this:
The font pixelates. In addition, I'm getting pixelated font in my layered photoshop files in my timeline. This is an issue I cannot recall having in the past.
I was advised on my last post for this issue not to use the DV-NTSC codec to export from After Effect but no matter what I use I get the pixelation once I put it in the Final Cut timeline. So is is possible that the issue lies with something in my layered Photoshop file? This is ultimately going to play on a 12 foot high screen so there no hiding even a minor lack of quality. Help!
My After Effects is version 6.0
Thanks for anything you can do!

What are the properties of the clip from Ae?
These are my export choices and I've tried DV-NTSC which matches the final cut settings and under advice from this forum the Uncompressed 10-bit and H.264. Same pixelated font but only in the FCP timelime. Plays fine in Quicktime on the deskstop with no pixelation on the font
What are your Sequence settings in FCP?
DV-NTSC
Did you render the clip on the FCP Timeline?
Yes, didn't make a difference
The Final Cut Pro canvas shows you a low res proxy. That conserves resources and should not be what you use to determine quality. Export the clip and view it in QuickTime Player 7--Play beautifully....no crappy font.
(not QT X). Make sure QT7 is set to use Hi Quality Playback (in the Preferences dialog). Better yet, view it on a TV set.
Views on the TV as pixelated.
The typeface that you are using. While elegant and pretty, it is very unsuitable for television--Yes, absolutely agree, but it's a client produced photoshop file that matches the invitations for the Gala. They may allow me to change the font to something close, but even those fonts would probably create the same problem.
Considering using text font in Final Cut to solve the issue, but I just don't want to "say Uncle" just yet. I would like to figure out the problem. I feel like I exist in a constant learning curve...just commentary of life in today's world there.
Once again, any suggestions would be appreciated. Plus I don't understand why my photoshop files look terrible in the timeline as well. I just haven't had that problem before.

Couldn't find the adequate forum. I run win 8.1 and the adobe acrobat dc ap on my computer edoesn't acess the doc cloud. I can´t turn the mobile link on. I can acess the clud from my browser, but not from the desktop ap. I can acess from my mobile ap

couldn't find the adequate forum. I run win 8.1 and the adobe acrobat dc app on my computer doesn't access the doc cloud. I can´t turn the mobile link on. I can access the cloud from my browser, but not from the desktop app. I can access from my mobile app.

Can you please post a screenshot of your Acrobat DC when launched, without opening a PDF?
Thanks,
-Amboo

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Techy_one: the download page should be working:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_spry
anuj: SpryEffects is in 'demo/includes'. We will be including
effects in our next Spry drop.
Severe: We are working on more widgets. They will be released
over time as we finish them. We are still looking into how we can
make Spry support for DW available.
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Allow the user to control the width of the edit forum post input box

I would like to control the width of of the edit-forum post input box. This could be:
automatically adjust the width of the box so that the box doesn't run off the right edge of the window.
have a user global preference to set the preferred width
at least, allow the user to change the width via the change size icon. The three horizontal bars at the lower left of the input box. You can adjust the vertical dimension, but not the horizontal. TenFourFox 4.0.1. This is probably being blocked for some obscure reason.
Here is an example of an over extended right margin:
Curiously enough, the "software" let's me adjust the width & height of the add reason to edit text, but not adjust the width of the more important edit text box.
Robert

Testing
Standard Reply box can be height adjusted but not width.
Same with Advanced Editor
No Adjustment at all in HTL Editor
Edit.
The Edit uses the Advanced Editor
Only Height Adjustment again.
I do seem to remember someone posting about the width and saying they could drag it over the edge of the right hand edge (Into the grey surround)
This may have been a post in the lounge.
It didn't actually try it at the time but have played with it since and have not seen it.
Maybe it is something they "Fixed" in both senses of the word.
Second edit.
I can't alter the box that currently reads "Message Edited by:- ..."
I also can't get this box to accept New lines (they appear in the box but don't post that way)
Corrected Spelling
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and new line with a line space as well

Please fix your web plugin immediately, yes this message in the right forum

Ok.
On my mac, java takes about 5-10 seconds to load in a web page applet from either safari or chrome.
This is 4.9 to 9.9 seconds too long.
PC is a bit faster but not much.
Sun absolutely wrecked java with respect to the web-client.
Please fix this.
Why: Because I want to write web-apps which don't suck. Which means I can't use javascript. Because despite the gajillions of money poured into marketing, it is really very, very slow.
How to fix:
It is very easy.
1. Use PhoneME with JIT. (get startup time to near zero). You might say, "well, we're about to get java to have zero startup time." But this is what you have been saying for ever, and failing at, miserably! Stop trying, give us a JavaME plugin instead.
2. Do NOT distribute monolithic massive class libraries. Instead, give me the opportunity to create class loaders. (I know you think you already do, but please look up the 10 year old bugs regarding the web plugin and class loaders). Make the distributable as SMALL as possible.
3. Are you writing the pluginin "in-between" code in webkit? If you are, fire who ever is writing it. If you aren't, WTF, the connection between the browser and java is slow as a slug. If I was just a bit more of a cynic I would think google is putting in usleep(1000) between calls. Take this code over NOW.
Look, you STILL have a tremendous opportunity in the web-client-space.
You need to show that Java is BETTER than javascript. Which it could be.
But currently it sucks.
It uses too much memory, it has a slow startup time, the connection between javascript and java is slow.
I should be able to write <script type="jar.pack.gz/java" src="blahblah.jar.pack.gz"></script> and multiply my performance by a thousand. Please do it.
I should be able to use a java2javascript library to simplify modifying the dom.
I shouldn't have to write javascript, except for inline code.
BUT INSTEAD I'M SPENDING MY TIME OPTIMIZING GWT.
Javascript sucks, we all know it is rising because of a vacuum of any real performance.
Please fill this void, or someone else will.
Thanks,
-tim

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Locking this thread.

My macbook air will not connect to the internet due to a self assigned IP address. I have tried trawling the support forums, but either I can't understand the suggestions, or they don't work. Please explain to me in simplest terms how to fix this. Thanks!

My macbook air will not connect to the internet due to a self assigned IP address. I have tried trawling the support forums for hours, but either I can't understand the suggestions, or they don't work. Please explain to me in simplest terms how I can fix this. Many thanks!

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From the old forum.... Slow broadband speeds in th...

FROM THE OLD FORUM Original post by John Jorgensen...
Slow broadband speeds in the evening all of a sudden
Posted: Jan 22, 2010 9:17 AM
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Hi,
I have had bt broadband opt3 for almost 3 months now and have always had a healthy 9mb+ connection, however have noticed it being very slow in the evening when I come home from work, I checked the speed last nite as iplayer was constantly freezing and was getting 1mb . A bit upset by this as I got bt broadband to play my ps3 online and to get faster speeds on my laptop, and I use these services mostly at nite.
I checked my speed this morning and was getting 11mb, is this normal or am I being capped I cant believe Id be going over my download limit. Can someone from bt get back to me on this?
Thanks
John
alison griffiths
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   Re: Slow broadband speeds in the evening all of a sudden
Posted: Jan 22, 2010 11:22 AM   in response to: John Jorgensen in response to: John Jorgensen
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Welcome to the world of BT , the tv advert when he says " business slow" when trying to load a webpage is not other companies thats BT.
John Jorgensen
Posts: 2
Registered: 9/2/09
   Re: Slow broadband speeds in the evening all of a sudden
Posted: Jan 22, 2010 12:11 PM   in response to: alison griffiths in response to: alison griffiths
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Yes Alison, I think I can see that now. I wouldnt mind if broadband was a bit slower at peak times, I know thats normal, but when I'm only getting 1mb when my max is 14mb, I just dont feel I'm getting what I pay for. And when it gets to the point where I cant watch iplayer without it stuttering everywhere and online games lagging on the ps3, this is certainly not what I'm paying for.
I was hoping one of the mods here would help me and check my line and see if there is any cap on the line and get it removed.
I really dont wanna phone India, I deal with them 5 days a week as is...
Think I will just send one of the mods an email to check my line and see if it is being capped or if somethings wrong.
anthony dickerson
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Registered: 4/26/07
   Re: Slow broadband speeds in the evening all of a sudden
Posted: Jan 22, 2010 3:52 PM   in response to: John Jorgensen in response to: John Jorgensen
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You will never get decent speeds on Iplayer,
BT limit it because they want you to subscribe to their precious BT Vision service.
The only way you are guaranteed to get decent speeds on BT is to subscibe to BT Vision and also unlimited broadband.
Then you will get priority when you stream TV at your exchange unlike fighting it out with all the other broadband users as you currently are for the available bandwith.the more over subscribed your local exchange the worse it is
Paddy B Mod
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Registered: 10/13/08
   Slow broadband speeds in the evening all of a sudden
Posted: Jan 23, 2010 2:04 PM   in response to: anthony dickerson in response to: anthony dickerson
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Hi John,
I can take a look at the network side of things for you, to see if there is anything I can do to help improve your speed during peak periods. Please could you drop me an email with your BT account details? Please also include a link to this thread. It would also be very helpful if you could run a few speed tests using www.speedtester.bt.com when you feel your Broadband is running slow. I can then check those results from here.
Thanks
Paddy
BT Forum Moderator - [email protected] - if you're emailing please include a link to your thread so I can reference back to it.
Mateusz Sokolin...
Posts: 2
Registered: 10/11/08
   Re: Slow broadband speeds in the evening all of a sudden
Posted: Jan 24, 2010 7:33 PM   in response to: John Jorgensen in response to: John Jorgensen
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Well John i'll tell you what it is...
First of all welcome to BT and I hope you'll enjoy 18months of pain and suffer.
OK here it goes....
If you look at your contract, find a rule that says Fair Usage Policy.
Basically it states that BT will cap anyone that is abusing their lines.
However, it does not say what are the limits after which you are going to be capped for how long and at what times. (I'll come back to this later and explain)
If you ring 08007076044 I'm sure that someone will confirm my theory. As constant 1MBit between 6PM till 11/12 PM is actually FUP applied on to your account.
Ok time to explain my frustration about FUP.
Since I signed my contract with "lovely" BT for constant 4 months I had similar issue but it took me even longer to find out what is going on and how to deal with this problem (thanks to google).
FUP team states that if you exceed 100GB in a month (everyone will admit that these days 100GB is nothing when a single game for PS3/XBox360/PC sometimes is more than 5GB and 1080p film is about 12GB) will cap you for a month at peak times to outstanding and superfast 1Mbit (about 130-150KB/s).
I'be been watching my download and for few months never exceeded that 100GB in a month. Been ringing FUP team to verify when suddenly they told me that from (cant remember exactly) March FUP will apply only to accounts that are using Torrents and other P2P.
you won't believe how happy I was hearing that.... So i've started to download and next month guess what.... 1Mbit connection.
Really mad rang FUP team and asked them what on earth is going on. They confirmed that its only P2P and I've explained them that I only use Youtube, BBC iPlayer, Rapidshare, Steam and XBox Live, Beatport (just don't understand how ppl can use torrents and other P2P as they are just way to slow). So they were happy to take the cap off my broadband connection.
Next month same issue solved exactly the same way.
After that for consecutive few months I had no problem whatsoever until September where FUP Team said that there is no such thing and FUP applies to everyone.
So just want to say that BT is rubbish that can't keep their word.
I went to one of the sales advisor in the shopping centre and asked him how FUP works as it does not say in the contract "how, when, who and what".
So he said that policy is applied based on amount of files downloaded within that 100GB. So if I download e.g. 3x 50GB (although its 150GB altogether) files I wont be affected but 100x 1GB will put a cap on me.
I've been so curious if what he said was right and started to download 2x 60GB and guess what... Got frigging FUP placed on my account!!!.
I've got 2months left with them and will be extremely happy to cancel my contract, moreover, I will do everything in my power to sue them under EU Consumer Rights Law (that states that contract should be clear and fair to both sides) as Fair Usage Policy is one of those things that allows BT to do anything they want to their customers;
1. No clear explanation of what FUP is.
2. Does not states the amount of downloaded data required to have cap on the acount
3. Does not states for how long it will be applied
4. Does not states when it will be applied
If you look at e.g. Virgin Broadband everything is clearly written in nice and understandable way. It warns you at what times FUP will be applied under what circumstances and for how long. Isn't it what we all want to know??
Alex Owen
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Registered: 12/13/09
   Re: Slow broadband speeds in the evening all of a sudden
Posted: Jan 24, 2010 9:35 PM   in response to: Mateusz Sokolin... in response to: Mateusz Sokolin...
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@Mateusz I think I maybe a victim of this outragous stint BT have done. I have 2 XBOX 360's running on XBOX Live, 2 Desktop PCs connected to the web constantly, and 3 laptops, we have a torrent sharing running and World Of Warcraft on one of the PCs. All of this is shared across a 6 person family. How can a family where two members goto to college and university do their college ork, download application such as VB.net do their coursework and revise without the hassle of a **** connection. Seriously BT get your ******* head outta your **** and stop this ********, we are customers, we pay for what we are offered. When I signed up several years ago I could download everything on the net woithout infracions on my line being set in motion. You altered my contract without telling me. You will lose custom from this. Also you have ****** my wireless
Edited by: Alex Owen on Jan 24, 2010 9:36 PM
amanda jones
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Registered: 1/8/10
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Posted: Jan 25, 2010 8:42 PM   in response to: Alex Owen in response to: Alex Owen
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You lot are lucky, We wish we could be capped to 1mbit. Our IP profile is capped to 500kbit because BT say the line isn't good enough for anything more. We are paying for option3 up to 8mbit and BT have said we must continue to pay for it for the remainder of the contract, or buy ourselves out of it early, the reason they give.... Up to 8mbit means up to 8mbit. If you dont get 8mbit then TOUGH LUCK SUCKERS!!
The outcome? We feel like we've been turned over by a dodgey second hand car salesman called BT. The internet deal he flogged us was a dog, a ringer, it wasn't cosher and certainly had a false MOT certificate.
Computer Geek
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Registered: 7/22/05
   Re: Slow broadband speeds in the evening all of a sudden
Posted: Jan 25, 2010 8:49 PM   in response to: amanda jones in response to: amanda jones
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Hi Amanda,
Why have you joined BT Option 3 when you can not get what BT can offer?
No pun intended but you are a bit of a sucker for paying high prices where other suppliers are cheaper and can provide what your line can support.
CG
amanda jones
Posts: 33
Registered: 1/8/10
   Re: Slow broadband speeds in the evening all of a sudden
Posted: Jan 26, 2010 9:13 PM   in response to: Computer Geek in response to: Computer Geek
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we moved house last october to this one, the connection was rubbish from the get-go, BT said the router was broken and we needed a new one, we said OK. That "OK" meant that we had entered into a new contract for option 3 same as out old one. The router wasn't broken, the new one didnt fix or improve the problem, we have since asked for a price reduction or compensation and been told "no". we are in contract and can pay to buy ourselves out of it if we like but otherwise we have to pay for option 3 and recieve fixed rate 500kb.
Clare Thurston
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Registered: 10/17/06
   Re: Slow broadband speeds in the evening all of a sudden
Posted: Jan 27, 2010 11:57 AM   in response to: amanda jones in response to: amanda jones
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Hi Amanda,
I think you'll find that the Hold To Term rules have changed. BT are now unable to charge you for the account if you no longer require it. It is against OFCOM's rulings for a company to make more money out of you as a leaving customer than an existing one. However, You will need to pay for the connection charge (if that has not expired it's original differed contract) which is £40. A cancellation fee of £25 if you are simply cancelling and not migrating using a MAC key and for any hardware. The Routers are advertised at £88 and i would suggest that if they believed on to be faulty then that would be replaced under guarantee and not be put on a differed basis. I would check exactly what they say the are charging you and query this through OFCOM. http://www.ofcom.org.uk/

Months of impecable service form BT as an option 3 customer. (I've even recommended BT to people)
but
For the past 2 weeks peak traffic has murdered my connection.
I can get 14mbit off peak, and it used to drop to about 7-9 at peak times.
Now its down to 1-2mbit at peak times. (no i haven't breached FUP as I check my btinternet inbox for the 80GB warning)
I think its resonable to experience drop off but 90%!!!
BT advertising says fast speeds at peak times. less than 2mbit is not fast. (that the governments minimum standard!!!)
I don't know how to procede because when I'm experiencing these issues if I ring up I will end up waiting so long to speak to someone (because its peak time) the concection wiill be better again.
I can think of no recourse other than to approach trading standards...
Guarnetee me 5mbit at peak times (enough to stream HD iplayer) and I'd be happy
That is what BT vision customers are in essence are getting + what ever their PC is using.
Fair usage? what about Fair Supply.

How do I import old FCP projects that have mysteriously changed to Linux Executable files? Is it as simple as renaming the files with the.fcp extension?

I had some FCP projects on an old G3 tower that I finally want to finish. I was able to grab everything, media, etc. to my macbook pro but all of the Final Cut Pro actual movies/projects have turned into "linux executable files" that FCP X won't import.
I tried googling this issue but didn't really see any good answers. Would it be as simple as renaming the files with the .fcp extension? I can't recall if my old version (really old) of FCP saves projects as .mov or .fcp files, but I'm assuming I'm not the only person this has happened to.
Thanks for your help!

I had some FCP projects on an old G3 tower that I finally want to finish.
What version of FCP was this? The project files can probably no longer be opened in the newer version of the OS. You could try adding the .fcp suffix, but I don't think it will help for this. Projects files are .fcp.
Regardless of the version, no legacy FCP projects will import into FCPX.
Media is a different matter. These are probably QuickTime .mov files. If these are appearing as Unix ececutables, they're probably not recoverable either.

What's wrong with the new forum design.

Thought I'd kick off the list here.
1. O.P. can award a correct answer to themselves.
2. Status stays hidden unless checked, making it hard on both newbies and those trying to help them
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8. Where is the forum how-to and guide?
9. Absurd to ask users to search without a suggested list to work from, the Pages iPad users are constantly landing in the wrong forum
10. I hate the default of sending email advisories and Safari messages of answers in the forum. My Mail Inbox is inundated and I am getting constant pop-ups interrupting my work on my Mac.
…many more but I'd like to let others add to the list
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Don't have time to answer all of this, but here's a start...
1. O.P. can award a correct answer to themselves.
Useful when they've come up with the correct answer themselves. (OPs can't award themselves points, though.)
3. No advanced search (that I can find)
https://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa (or click the blue Search button in the top right of any page without entering any text in the search field)
4. Difficult to see what you have or haven't replied to
The equivalent of My Posts is here:
8. Where is the forum how-to and guide?
https://discussions.apple.com/static/apple/tutorial/index.html
10. I hate the default of sending email advisories and Safari messages of answers in the forum. My Mail Inbox is inundated and I am getting constant pop-ups interrupting my work on my Mac.
https://discussions.apple.com/static/apple/tutorial/email.html
Good luck!

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