I love these Apple update products. It makes you look at your functional machine and want it to explode so you can get the brand new Mac product. Maybe not this time. The new Macbook Pro forgot to include a firewire 400 port. But they have included a firewire 800 port. [...]

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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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This is not a tribute post on the loss of George Carlin. Oh this pains me. My Desktop G5 is on it’s last legs… um I know it doesn’t have legs but I’m too pissed to think of anything else. Every time I start it up it freezes on me. I [...]

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This is the first time that I have done a product review on this site for a company that has reached out to me and asked me to do it. Nosie Industries asked me to test out and write a review for FxFactory Pro. I have to say that FxFactory Pro is candy [...]

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Is anyone else having issues with OSX 10.5 Leopard? I installed it a week ago and it keeps crashing applications. Some right away, others will wait till I’m knee deep in capturing or editing. I’m running it on a Dual G5 2.0Ghz loaded with RAM… I guess it is time to [...]

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Yo Apple!!!
Did you forget to include AVCHD support in Final Cut Pro 6? By looking at the tech specs it seems they have. Please if anyone from Apple or another FCP user knows anything about this please let me know. I can’t tell you how many people have contacted me about this [...]

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I have a client that wants to convert an exported Final Cut Pro movie and upload it to youtube. Since she lives in Raleigh and I’m in Greensboro I decided to post this tutorial for her.
First thing is to right click, or if your mouse does not have a right click, control click, on [...]

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Last week I upgraded my hard drive from an 80 GB to a 160 GB for my 17″ Powerbook G4. It was fairly simple. There are many places that will charge you to do this service which is nice if you are a technotard. But don’t worry, if you want to take [...]

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I got an email last night asking about what external hard drive I recommend to use with Final Cut Pro. Here’s the question:
wondering if you have any recommendations for external hard drivemakes and sizes for editing in FCP. I just want to make sure to see what the pros suggest from their years of [...]

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