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Upgrade to Intel Mac Pro or Go PC?

October 2nd, 2008 by Andy Coon | 4 Comments

This is not a question for anyone that uses Final Cut Pro or even a MAC. That is a question that is being debated at a small college. I’m not going to use names here, but a colleague of mine emailed me asking for help in pointing the administration in the right direction. [...]

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How to Encode Faster in Compressor with Apple Qmaster

September 23rd, 2008 by Andy Coon | 4 Comments

This was a real pain to learn. I hope this helps many of you DVD Authors that have a laptop and a desktop. Good luck!
How to Encode Faster in Compressor with Apple Qmaster from Andy Coon on Vimeo.

Tags: Apple · Featured · Tips · Video


Why Does HDV Suck in Final Cut Pro

August 25th, 2008 by Andy Coon | 5 Comments

Why? Can anyone give me a reason why capturing HDV always crashes the log and capture and the timecode breaks so easily. The only setting that I can use without any worries is the Apple Intermediate Codec. The problem with that codec is the same as the HDV, it breaks the video [...]

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Qmaster Cluster Buster

August 14th, 2008 by Andy Coon | 1 Comment

I wasted yet another day trying to figure out how to run a Qmaster Cluster between my desktop and my laptop while encoding a file for DVD Authoring. Bad news is I tried so many tutorials and looked endlessly through the compressor/qmaster discussion board and found jibberish…until I came across a post that had [...]

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I’m Looking For Leopard Server

July 28th, 2008 by Andy Coon | No Comments

Has anyone used Leopard Server and have an available copy for sale? I want to install it on my desktop and network my laptop and another desktop to an Xgrid to get the best processing power to my applications. Also want to set up Qmaster and encode at higher speeds. Has anyone [...]

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A Working Fix For HP PSC 1210 on 10.5 (Leopard)

July 26th, 2008 by Andy Coon | 1 Comment

I was just about to smash and trash my HP PSC 1210 all-in-one printer when I found a post that showed me how to sneak around a couple of downloads and install bits of drivers for other printers. If you go to HP’s website all you will find is chaos and confusion. If [...]

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Back To Full Speed

July 24th, 2008 by Andy Coon | No Comments

I want to thank Sara and Ryan Meader of macosrumors.com for the sweet video card they agreed to sell to me. The video card is an ATI Radeon X850 XT OEM Card the fastest card I could’ve gotten for my machine. Which I’m really happy to get. I’m in no shape to [...]

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Mac Professionals I Need Your Help

July 13th, 2008 by Andy Coon | 1 Comment

The video card I’m looking at is the Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition. Here is some information that worries me this card is not compatible to my G5.

Exclusively for PCI Express® based PowerMac G5 systems
Feel the power of ATI’s world class Radeon™ X1900 G5 Mac® Edition. Designed exclusively for PCI Express-based Power Mac® G5 [...]

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Found The Culprit

July 9th, 2008 by Andy Coon | 1 Comment

It was my video card that was crashing my G5. I did everything that people suggested in my previous post and I appreciate the quick responses. I took out all the RAM and started up the computer with paired RAM one at a time and it kept crashing… I reformatted a hard drive [...]

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Apple Remote… Did Leopard Eat You?

May 3rd, 2008 by Andy Coon | 1 Comment

I bought my Macbook Pro last year and it came with Tiger installed on it. One of the first things I did was open up Front Row and test the cool new feature with the Apple Remote. To be honest I’ve had no use for the remote until tomorrow when I’m going to [...]

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