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Neat new help site - osx help

Worth checking out.

http://osxhelp.com/

Mac Pro/NVidia 8800 GT: poor performance, graphics glitches - MacFixIt

Curious behavior from this card. It's around $300 and has 512 MB ram.

Poor performance As noted in a posting by Bare Feats, the Mac Pro's stock Radeon HD 2600 XT beats the GeForce 8800 GT in a number of pro appliction benchmarks. The publishers say: "We're puzzled by this when you consider it has twice the VRAM and a faster core. Could the Radeon's architecture be more optimized for Core Image effects?"

[From Mac Pro/NVidia 8800 GT: poor performance, graphics glitches - MacFixIt]

FCS Remover - Uninstall Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Compressor, Soundtrack Pro, Color, DVD Studio Pro, LiveType, Cinema Tools

Nuke it from orbit...it's the only way to be sure.

This app nukes everything.

This utility allows you to uninstall all Final Cut Studio components with the press of a button. Apple does not offer an uninstaller, making removing or downgrading to an earlier version very difficult. Simply deleting the Final Cut Studio application icons does not remove the suite, nor does it make it possible to reinstall it again. FCS Remover allows you to quickly and easily uninstall Final Cut Studio either permanently or in order to reinstall an earlier version over the top.

[From FCS Remover - Uninstall Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Compressor, Soundtrack Pro, Color, DVD Studio Pro, LiveType, Cinema Tools]

SUPERMEET - NAB Vegas!

Just to let you all know that tickets are now on sale for the 7th Annual NAB FCPUG SuperMeet to be held at the MGM Grand Hotel, April 16 as part of NAB week.

http://www.lafcpug.org/nab_2008

Cool ProRes notes

Ran across this interesting post on using Prores in Standard Def. Worth a quick gander.

2 weeks ago I finished my testing on the ProRes SD flavor of Apple's new codec. While many have tested the ProResHD variant, the SD variant hasn't been quite as scrutinized.

[From ProRes SD Results (Finally) | Post-Production

Red Giant contest...

Red Giant Software is sponsoring a contest to let users submit their best work using Red Giant Software’s Magic Bullet Looks or Trapcode Form tools and win a chance to show their work at NAB 2008.

Users will upload their videos to the My Toolfarm web site where other users can vote on the submission from now until March 24th. The winner will get to fly to NAB and present their work at the Red Giant Software booth at NAB 2008. Winners will be determined by user scores on the My Toolfarm web site and by a panel of Red Giant Software judges.

To enter and get detailed eligibility information go to:
http://mytoolfarm.toolfarm.com/contest/

Mac Hints & Tips

The always excellent mac hints and tips is out for Jan/Feb

[From Mac Hints & Tips]

Some new QT features

I was poking around the new Quicktime and found a couple of features worth mentioning. (I don't know how many of these are QT 7.4)

1) Use high quality video setting when available. Do you know how many calls I get from people who export DV out of FCP and ask "Why does it look bad?"

2) Show timecodes when available - wow, I can see mucho use for this. I don't know if it's possible to embed that from an FCP timeline, but boy, it'd be nice not to have to render that (feel free to chime in.)

3) Show content guide automatically. Ever start up QT and have it stall as it pulls down that damn content guide you've never used? Yeah, turn that crap off here.

4) Enable Final Cut Color Compatibility. I can see that I'm going to have to eventually write up a guide about this. But yeah, that's why your colors shift.

This just in...Apple not Exhibiting @ NAB this year...

Curious. I just heard that Apple isn't exhibiting on the main floor @ NAB.

Anyone can verify?

I'm sure they'll be lots of backroom stuff, but not on the main floor. Not Avid and now not Apple.

More on that here