ollars on storage solution that just fail why not spend half on something that is not going to fail. —well, thats it for marketing. This is why I would wait to buy the drobo:  Firewire800 usb 2.0

I am a video editor and yes I need the bandwith specialy with HD footage but why would I consilidate my storage if I dont gain any speed? Granted is not drobos fault that we havent seen hardware for firewire1600 or usb 3.0 but Ill know when to buy drobo when  firewire1600 and usb 3.0 comes out only then it will make sence to get rid of all my drives and more to a centralize solution that is going to last me a least a few years.

UPDATE:

Another set back of the Drobo is that the Data Read and Write are not that fast compared to stand alone external drive.

BELOW : Standard firewire speed:  Average 80MB/s compared to about Average 45MB drobo.

I bought my mac book pro since April 17, 2007 and as of today it has been about a year an a half since I had my laptop. Today’s refresh of the notebook line is impressive yet I knew that at some time my laptop was going to get old and I set some guide lines until I upgrade.

• 1 gig of video card memory.
• 3.00+ Dual core Processor or quad mobile processor
• Be able to go more than 4 gig of ram
• OS 10.6 stable.
• Fire wire 1600 and or eSATA

So I am predicting that all of these features will start to show up some time in the summer of 09 and maybe by christmas 09 / new years 2010 I will see myselfe getting a new laptop and that will be just in time since my insurance is up April 2010. I better start saving up then. How about you? Maybe by that times windows 7 is up and running may give us a surprise. Who knows? =) cheers

Recently our lab was upgraded to final cut 6.0.4

and while I was been using final cut studio 2 four about a year the little 6.0.x are not backward compatible meaning that anything created with final cut 6.0.3 was not compatible and other computers was is odd but thats the way it is with final cut.  Little advice. DONT EVER UPGRADE IN THE MIDDLE OF A PROJECT!!! NEVER!! You are not a beta tester and unless your program is not working the way it is suppose to, Don’t ! ! it will be pain. Well I upgraded and BOOM my file that I had been working for the past year ( its a comp that I am always updating) stopped trying to render!!! what that heck? It would not render. There was  a “general Error’ well it would have been fine but I had a dead line at 9am the next day and it was already 10pm. I googled my fingers away trying to find an option. See it is fine if you are going to start a new file but the old files don’t transfer that well most of the time. I searched and searched and it was about 6 in the morning when I found the error. What was the error? I had downloaded some pictures off my email and had included them in the composition. All I had to do was to  open up those pictures and save them again. And presto! my file rendered and I had lost a night of sleepy time and I was tired but I met the dead line and that is what is more important.

I love working with final cut in dual screen mode because I have a laptop and the screen gets to small when working on a long project but there is a glitch in final cut 6 under tiger and I don’t even know if it is resolved in Leo 10.5 but after a while the screen flickers the video and I have to restart final cut.  At any rate the advantage of having an extra screen to have your time line is so great because it allows you to work faster.
large-preview-with-dual-screen-track My screen setting for final cut 6 that you can load by going to windows, arrange, Load.

Cheers

Well, the subject is more complex that what I can explain here but If you new to 3d or computer graphics, let me guide you.

Modeling (wikipedia) :

Usually you want to start by modeling an object. To do that you will need a program, there are many programs out there that can do this but if you are new to 3D you might want to start with an awesome program called MODO. Modo will make the modeling progress as easy are working with clay and with the amount of training that you can get for cheap on their website you will be up and running in no time. If you are familiar with photoshop you will find the layers to be what you would expect from photoshop. Once you have done a model, it is time to render it.

Rendering (wikipedia)

Rendering in modo is as easy are hitting the F10 key. It is taking a picture of the object you just model. In modo realistic results are very easy to obtain.

There is much much much more to talk about 3d but seriously. Give modo a try. The cup above, I made under five minutes with modo. They have a free trial. check it out. Let me know your experiences.

Cheers

Update Sept 14 08:

I found a great tutorial that shows how to start with modo/3d by making a cup/mug . at http://www.vfxworld.com/?atype=articles&id=3759
I recommend clicking in the print view and click on show pictures.
And just in case the article goes offline, vfxworldcom_modocup

Enjoy,

How to perform an uninstall of PowerChute Personal Edition when the original disk image is no longer available on Mac OS X 10.2.x

It will be necessary for the customer to download the most current version of the install image. You may do so from http://www.apc.com/tools/download and select PowerChute Personal Edition 1.3.2

When downloading the file please note where the file is saved to. Once the file has been downloaded it is necessary to mount the installation image to their system.

You may then double click on the mounted volume to view the contents of the installation image. Within the image the customer should see an uninstall script. The customer may then just double click the icon to run the script or they may execute the script by extracting it to a local directory. You also have the option to run the script by clicking and dragging the script to an open terminal window.

It is important to note that the uninstaller needs to be run by an Admin user. If the customer does not have the proper rights they will get an error when running the script.

Once the script is initiated and completed they will get a message in the terminal window saying that “PowerChute Personal Edition has been uninstalled.” If they dragged and dropped the file into a terminal window the window may just close.

It is then safe to unmount the installation image and delete it.

source

Now if you need to download the files you can go direct download page. And you don’t need to have a login. Also if you need to install PowerChute Personal Edition Mac OS Personal edition or business access to the ftp server connect to:

ftp://ftp.apcc.com/apc/public/software/macintosh/osx/

with your favorite ftp client. I like Cyberduck for the MacOS because its free and open source, also you can use Filezilla, I just prefer Cyberduck because Filezilla has drop support for Mac OS 10.4 and I still use 10.4 and I will not upgrade untill 10.6. The only thing I miss is Bento for Filemaker and backup from 10.5 other than that 10.4 is still good for me.