What would you do? Interface/HD question

This post is similar to others made before but they have not covered my exact question. Anyway,
I use an ibook g4 with an edirol firewire interface (10 channel). I need more hard disk space so i would like to get an external hard drive. Do you suggest i get:
1) A usb 2.0 hard drive
2) A firewire hard drive, daisy chained to the firewire interface.
If so what should i look for in terms of specs?
I do normal sized recordings (bands) so not too many tracks, however i tend to use a lot of reverbs and compressors etc.
Specific brands/models would be good too. Cheers

Considering that USB2.0 is a bit faster than firewire, there is a chance that it may work, but to be honest, you would have to try it to see if a USB2.0 drive could carry a heavy load of data back and forth. Of course, if your iBook doesn't have USB2.0 (the latest ones do), then I wouldn't even consider USB in that case.
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just do all the work in FCP or DVD SP
the problem you will run into is that unless they have a HD-DVD player they won't be able to get best quality
try asking on the DVDSP forum
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What would you do? Workflow Question.

I'm doing an offline that was shot on film with the fps varying form 24 to 100. As the delivery material is DigiBeta PAL, I'm assuming the best route is to dump it down to tape at 25fps and then do the offline from that (any NTSC versions done layer). I haven't had much experience in working with varied framerates so I wonder if anyone has any advice. Is this the best way to attack it?

About 6 months after the release of Close Encounters, Trumbull gave a lecture/demonstration for industry folks at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New york-- best projection on the east coast at that time-- and demonstrated some of his high frame rate stuff. Fascinating.
At any rate, I personally would want to sit down with the producer and figure out the best way to proceed with the odd frame rate stuff: what are the effects they are after? do they want to play every 4th frame, ie speed up the 100fps stuff x4 so it looks almost time lapse, do they want slomo? Do they want to time-remap? This is critical to your understanding how best to proceed. Never be afraid to ask questions!
After having that conversation, I'd get straight PAL dubs made of ALL the footage, and then, if necessary have some fun with the transfer house. Digibeta decks have dynamic tracking control and can generate their own speed effects that are MUCH BETTER than anything you can do with software alone.
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Question: Do I need to run and anti virus program with MAC OSX Lion? Have heard different opinions! If so what would you recommend? Was looking at Sophos. Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks

Question: Do I need to run and anti virus program with MAC OSX Lion? Have heard different opinions! If so what would you recommend? Was looking at Sophos. Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks

Do I need to run and anti virus program with MAC OSX Lion? Have heard different opinions!
You will continue to hear different opinions here, where thoughts range everywhere between "anti-virus software is the evil spawn of Satan" to "anyone not running anti-virus software is a fool."
Truth is, this is still a very personal decision on a Mac. Depending on circumstances, it is still very easily possible to stay safe without using anti-virus software, but circumstances and personal preferences vary widely. Besides which, anti-virus software cannot even remotely provide you a guarantee of protection!
To learn how to stay safe (with or without anti-virus software), and how to decide whether to use anti-virus software, see my Mac Malware Guide.

STS question, what would you answer. NO STS employees pls!

You have written a procedure that checks for the existence of students registered for a course. This code must be executed whenever a course is deleted. Which type of trigger should be used to call this procedure?
Key trigger
Mouse trigger
Validation trigger
Transactional trigger
What would you reply, i personally went for the last one
Gus

if this code has to be executed every time a course is deleted, then use a BEFORE-EACH-ROW-Trigger on the table directly.
Only if you need the code in the forms you should write it there.
Watch out for mutating and constraining-trigger-problems in the database.
try it
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If you traded in your mac mini for a windows pc, what would you get?

I have a late 2009 Mac Mini and am just chafing to upgrade. It's slow as molasses. But at the same time, I'm not willing to pay full price for 2012 model, and Apple is way behind in releasing an update. In fact I'm hearing speculation that Apple may be just discontinuing the Mac Mini.
I don't know... But I'm getting tired of waiting. And getting a different model of Mac doens't work for me, because I want to use my own screens. (I'm running two large screens in "portrait" mode.)
Also, I have a Windows 7 PC at work, and I've come to realize that I don't mind Windows 7 and don't see it as intrinsically better than the Apple OS. In fact Windows & has generally been mariginally more stable, and a lot faster then the OS on my Mac. In fact I got both systems around the same time and the Windows 7 system did better with less RAM and is "aging" better.
HOWEVER, what I really love about the Mac Mini is how QUIET it is. I have it in my bedroom, next to my bed, and it's noise is barely noticeable. So I guess I should look into seeing if there area any desktop PC's that are as quiet.
Have you considered switching back to a PC, and if you did what would you get?

I moved away from Apple in 2007 and have never looked back !
I use the ASRock Vision X 420D http://www.asrock.com/nettop/Intel/VisionX%20Series%20(Haswell)/
Its the same size as the current Mini but a bit taller - BUT it is FULLY user upgradeable and about the same price once you make a mini upto the same spec.
I run Windows 8.1 on it and love it - yes there are lots of people bleating on about the 'metro' style of Win 8 but if you configure it (which has been a feature from launch, not a 3rd party hack) you never have to see the metro interface and you have a standard desktop.
As to woodmeister50 comment of : Also, with Win8, many third party add on companies have dropped support etc. is that not the same for Mavericks ?!
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I have a great number of Hi8 video tapes and I would like to burn them onto CDs through MacBook Pro (ME665LL/A), but I do not know how to transfer those footage into Mac. What would you recommend?

Hello everybody! My question is; my parents and I have a great number of video tapes (Hi8 and mini DV) and since I purchased a MacBook Pro (ME665LL/A) I would like to burn them onto CDs, but I do not know how to transfer those footage into Mac. What would you recommend(it can be a software, a hardware or combination of both)? By the way, I also purchased an external DVD-RW(Asus SDRW-08D2S) separately.

Just Google "convert hi8 to dvd" and you'll find a number of software/hardware combinations that will allow you to do what you want. One important piece of the puzzle is whether or not you still have access to the video recorder(s) that the movies were shot on.
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What would you replace an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (256MB) with?

Hi,
I started a thread before asking whether I could replace a 256MB card with a 128MB card, even though the interface was a different shape.
But, as I know so little about Macs and graphics card, it seems wiser to ask
What would you replace an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (256MB) with?
The computer is user for photo editing and normal internet/email use. The photo editing is done on Adobe Photoshop for professional treatment of photographs.
The computer is a Power Mac G5 (1.6GHz) and budge is £80 / $120.
Thanks in advance, Franc.

Hi-
Please check my recommendations in your other thread.
Better options for the 9800 Pro are the Radeon 9800 XT, Geforce 6800 GT, Geforce 6800 Ultra, or if one has the money or finds a good deal, a Radeon X800 XT.
For your budget and uses, the Geforce cards are a performance value buy.
BTW, I have owned all of the cards, used all of the cards, and tested all of the cards.
Graphics Cards- ATI and Nvidia
See my testing pages starting here:
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What would you say my gaming rig is worth?

Bluedevil58 wrote:
I've been offered $700 for the entire set up.If that's true, take it. You're not going to get anything near that from someone who knows how to shop.

I know this is a high level question but just throw a ball park figure at me. This rig was built in 2010. But has been upgraded several times. It's a custom built gaming setup and I have had no hard ware issues what so ever as to date aside from a occasional format due to blue screen of death issues.
It has:
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- First gen i7 processor
- 8GB RAM
- 120 GB SSD and 500 GB HD
- RADEON 7800 HD Graphics card.
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- Naga Razer gaming mouse.
At a rough estimate. What would you expect to spend on a rig like this? I am looking to sell this.
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What would you have?

I have the opportunity to get another Apple Mac Pro "Quad Core" 2.66 2gb memory. I have to replace it with something else though. Its my moms and she was doing some video editing a while back on it but has quit since then.
I figured it would be great to have another Mac Pro so I planned on getting her a new Mac Mini. What would you rather have? A new Mac Mini or Apple Mac Pro "Quad Core" 2.66 that was introduced sometime in 06 or 07?

What would you rather have? A new Mac Mini or Apple Mac Pro "Quad Core" 2.66 that was introduced sometime in 06 or 07?
Other factors such as space availability and usage aside and considering only performance, I'd take the Mac Pro, no question. It'll run circles around any Mac mini and never break a sweat. For many people, though, that extra power isn't needed but the compact size of the Mac mini would be an advantage. For use as a media device, for instance, the power of a Mac Pro would be largely wasted and it's size a serious disadvantage.
So which to choose would depend on many factors which you haven't enumerated here.
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What would you do if you are a programmer and have an ipad 2 ?

The question is clear I think;
What would you do if you are a programmer and have ipad 2
You can read programming books( pdf-s etc. )
Search a topic/code/something without sitting infront of any computer( 3G-wifi )
You can try/test your apps that you developed with ObjectiveC, html5 etc.
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-Regards,
Orkan

Hello Dave,
Thank you very much for your reply. I tried to edit my question, but I think( or I can't find ) there is no post editing feature on this forum. Anyway; I'm a software developer and I don't know very well apple's platforms.
I used an ipod and now I'm using an ipad 2 - But I'm a .net( C# ) developer. [ and I hate object-c ]
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and then what ?
I want to explore the possibilities what can I do more with an ipad 2! ( based on programming )
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There is a nice app ide which is working on ipad 2 > http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/
We (ms users) didn't see any ide like that before... This is different and nice to learn.
I'm asking these kind of possibilities...

What would you do with Intel iMacs with WM97/Thus-T in Word ?

In a school in Marin County there are 20 Intel iMacs running 10.4.11 (512 MB RAM) all networked and running fine. Several students reported a Macro warning notice when launching a Word (Mac 2004 Student edition) document (.doc).    Have looked over the current available anti-viral programs running under 10.4.11 and submitted several files to three different websites which analyze the file against 20 or more virus detectors. Most sites and local apps found the WM97/Thus-T virus in all the offending files.   The only free application which cured the files, rather than quarantining them or deleting them, and ran with 10.4.11 was Sophos.   Sampled only one of the iMacs with a full Sophos scan of the User folder, and it found 47 "WM97/Thus-T" infected files, and cured all of them. Repeat scan of Home folder ----> no threats found.   Some of these infected Word files go back three years, and the machines are running fine.
The students are not supposed to bring files from home, nor are they supposed to take files home. There are a few PC towers and PC laptops on site, all with anti-viral software. The students do not currently e-mail this files nor receive e-mailed files. For fun, I tried e-mailing one of the infected files to myself, and aol and gmail both blocked the transmission.
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What about liability ?   If one of these infected Word files found its way on a Windows PC would the school be liable ?   What is the worst case scenario of this virus on the Mac platform ?    On the Windows platform ?
MICROSOFT: http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=Vir us%3aW97M%2fThus.FP
WEB SCANS: http://r.virscan.org     http://www.virustotal.com
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For Tiger: http://www.clamxav.com/download.php#tiger
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One Accesspoint and two server...what would you suggest?

Hello!
I'm developing an application which handles two wireless barcodereaders. There are two computers, and one of them is connected with the accesspoint.
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I'd be very happy for your help
Greetings Martin G.

I have read up on all about crashes and i cant even open it in safe mode :( i have tried deleting it and reinstalling it but the problem still persists. What would you suggest i do and is there any way i canget hold of firefox 6 for mac?

i have read up on all about crashes and i cant even open it in safe mode :( i have tried deleting it and reinstalling it but the problem still persists. What would you suggest i do and is there any way i canget hold of firefox 6 for mac?

Does the regular Firefox 8 release version work or does the version crash as well?
*Firefox 8.0.x: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
See "Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile":
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile
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I have a 2009 13"MacBook pro running on OS X 10.6.8. How do I know whether this is leopard or mountain? What would you advise that I use as I need to be running OS X 10.7? All help appreciated. Thank you.

I have a 2009 13"MacBook pro running on OS X 10.6.8.
How do I know whether this is leopard or mountain?
What would you advise that I use as I need to be running OS X 10.7?
Also can you advise how I upgrade please?
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Thank you for your response Niel.
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"Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to this computer?" I mean....what would you do? Is it safe to click yes....(Don Don Don...*sound effect*)..please help...

Okay everybody...so I'm on the struggle bus so I'm going from Photoshop cs6 off my old broken laptop to trying to dwn Photoshop Cs2...either way I love PS. Now when I tried downloading it for free from Adobe...succeeded...but when I went to the download folder to install it, it said "Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to this computer?" I mean....what would you do? Is it safe to click yes....(Don Don Don...*sound effect*)..please help...

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