Why did I buy Compressor 4?...

Ok so I bought C4 after recently buying FCPX.
Just wondering what advantage it gives me over using FCPX's own Sharing options.
I saved out a Quicktime movie from FCP then opened that in Quicktime Pro.
From there I did a save as and specified a smaller pixel dimension and H.264 compression.
Worked great.
Did a similar spec in C4.
Came out no better than my previous technique.
So Im wondering, what is the advantage of using C4?
Also C4 seems old and dated compared to FCPX and Motion 5.
Are they going to give it an interface update soon?
Just wondering.

Agree that for what you describe, you don't need Compressor.
We don't know about product plans and can't speculate.
Good luck.
Russ

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After finally downloading my MiniDV tapes to iMovie 10.0.6 (Yosemite), I see that there is no iDVD (why did I buy a new Superdrive for my new MacMini). So, can I buy an old iLife 9 and expect it to load to the new machine. This is NOT progress!! HELP

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However, do you absolutely NEED iDVD? There are alternatives, like Burn (free): http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/
I suggest you try it out since it's free. Maybe it'll be enough.

Why did I buy Nokia ??? Its height of testing a cu...

On 18.05.2011 I had given my nokia C6 to the shop from where I had purchased as my new phone was not functioning and its been 12 days since then that Nokia is unable to do anything about the situation. Although the manager Mr.. Aniruddha of the Kalighat Nokia care centre in Kolkata has been extremely polite in helping me out. But my unfortunate phone after being sent miles for some inspection has only reached the Nokia Care Centre only last Friday.
I am just cursing myself that why did I buy Nokia? Can someone do something please ?
Rest of the story goes below:
I am from Kolkata in India and on 01.05.2011 I had purchased a Nokia C6 from South City Mall's Shopper Stop Nokia mobile counter. The phone started giving problems from day 3 but since I was traveling for 16 days I was unable to get it to the same shop. Today on 18th May when I went they told the phone will be sent to service centre and will be returned to me after 25 days. And that too after very rude behaviour of the salesperson. This is ridiculous.
So, I paid for a phone from the Nokia stable and I am unable to use it for more than a month as Nokia would do research on the handset. I have always purchased Nokia handset and ever since mobile services where launched in India. This is the worst experience did not expect this from Nokia. Very bad after sales service.
The problems with the C6 handsets are : software hanging, touch does not work and keyboard not functioning.
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That's pretty standard, my N97 took about 3 weeks to be returned, hope your C6 works well now, in past experience, how long do other phone manusacturers take to repair a phone ? Just wonder as I only have lomited expeience of one problem with a Nokia, so can't judge whether they are slower or quicker than other phone manufacturers at repairs ?
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Why did I buy an 2.7 Ghg I5? What does it do that the regular one doesn't?

While you may not use graphics-intense programs today, as technology goes forward in the future, you'll have a better video system that can handle more intense web video's or web site animations or programs you may run.
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Why did you buy a Nokia Laptop?

Just curious to know why anyone would buy a Nokia Laptop over the many alternatives out there.

I bought it for 5 reasons:
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2 months with no dishwasher and counting - why did I buy a contract?

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Why did i buy a 60g video ipod ?

if i can't watch anything but music videos i buy from itunes ?
one purchase i should have thought about.

Michael,
Here's a another thought. Why don't you go to the iPod 5th generation forum (iPod with video) and brows some of the literally hundreds of posts that answer your question?
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=808
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Hey Guys,
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**EDIT**
I forgot to ask... Do any of the current BIOS's, or will the be a new BIOS that will allow DRAM voltages of up to 3.0v ? And secondly, which of the Ram slots are best suited for TCCD (OCZ EL PC3200 Plat Rev.2) ram ?
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I have the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI motherboard, which is slightly different from the Neo 4 Platinum, but...
I chose the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI because of its feature set, high praise from reviewers, & MSI's reputation. I especially like the built-in Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit audio on my motherboard -- it's the best on-board audio on any motherboard that I could find. Also, the on-board Marvell Gigabit Ethernet LAN slightly outperforms the on-board nForce4 SLI LAN.
My system booted up the first time, although I later ran into a problem with the motherboard. Read about it here. I had the option to return the defective MSI motherboard for another brand/model. I researched the DFI LANParty nF4 SLI-DR, but decided to get another MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI for the reasons listed above, plus I preferred the components/slots/headers layout of the MSI over the DFI.
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WHY DID I BUY CREAT

My experience since January of things not working as they should:
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4/ If not using digital speakers you do have a line-out with full signal.
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Thanks for the input guys. I was using Audigy for years with no problem and upgraded to Audigy 2 primarirly because of karaoke support which really does not exist.
Its funny about the speakers I was thinking about another computer I have with Logitech speakers, it really shakes the place, almost as good as my KEFs I use for the TV. The Logitech subwoofer is full metal construction but have connector problems too, I had to bypass the connectors and solder in my own wire connections direct to the card outputs.
I think at the end of the day the quality of sound the Audigy deli'vers is quite acceptable for a computer sound system, my problem is the build and design quality, both hardware (connecting something which causes a crash) and software. They are not stable. We are after all talking about a US$200 card.
You could look at all the posts on this site and break it down roughly as 50% want drivers, 30% with small annoying software instability issues, 0% changing from onboard sound to PCI sound sound who do not know to disable the onboard sound in bios and 0% other. From that I would extrapolate that about 30-40% of people use the card for other than just straight gaming and thats when you run into softwrae issues I think.
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Well it is complete!!! YAY!!
B, I did try zahni's(sp?) approach... no luck.
Toonz, I had the same issue witht he stand alone of Quicktime, and I am running the current ole32.dll that was mentioned in previous posts.
But all that aside, I have successfully installed both Quictime 7 and Itunes 5.0.1, unfortunately it took me about 5-6 hours to do so, LOL.
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