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Lee - Jul 18, 2005 6:07:54 pm PDT #3747 of 10003

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Something you should know about Google Earth (beta)... Google Earth is a broadband, 3D application that not all computers can run.

Apple Macintosh computers are not supported at this time (but we are working on it). Windows-based desktop PCs older than 4 years old may not be able to run it. Windows-based notebook PCs older than 2 years old may not be able to run it.

Jessica - Jul 19, 2005 10:47:01 am PDT #3748 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

We recently upgraded our office Mac to Tiger, which had the unfortunate side-effect of breaking both FCP and DVD Studio Pro. (FCP no longer recognizes the firewire, and DVDSP crashes whenever you open a project, or import an asset.)

Is there any way to just restore the system to its pre-Tiger status?

Tom Scola - Jul 19, 2005 11:00:53 am PDT #3749 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Unless you made a backup of the system before upgrading, I think you're SOL.

One piece of advice I can give is to never do an upgrade when installing a new version of Mac OS X, always use the "archive and install" or "clean install" options.

In fact, if you can still save everything off of the system that you need, and redo a clean installation of Tiger, you might find that FCP and DVD Studio Pro will work fine.

Jessica - Jul 19, 2005 11:39:55 am PDT #3750 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The problem is that since we have this machine as part of our promotional partnership with Apple, it's not officially ours to mess around with. It's Apple's, on loan to us. So since Apple sent it to us with 10.3, and then sent us a 10.4 upgrade DVD, that's what we have.

We also don't have the install discs for FCP or DVDSP.

I suspect the fixing of this will have to be done via calling Apple and saying "Thank you for the free computer, now please send us installation discs that won't break things."

Rob - Jul 19, 2005 11:58:40 am PDT #3751 of 10003

We recently upgraded our office Mac to Tiger, which had the unfortunate side-effect of breaking both FCP and DVD Studio Pro.

Did you run software update to get the updates to both Tiger and the Pro apps?

Jessica - Jul 19, 2005 12:03:48 pm PDT #3752 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Did you run software update to get the updates to both Tiger and the Pro apps?

We've run software update several times, yes. And restarted the machine, and uplugged everything and turned it off, and re-plugged everything and turned it back on. Nada.

Rob - Jul 19, 2005 12:06:33 pm PDT #3753 of 10003

So what version of Final Cut and Mac OS X did you end up at?

Jessica - Jul 19, 2005 12:10:38 pm PDT #3754 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

FCP 4.5, OS 10.4.2

Rob - Jul 19, 2005 1:28:48 pm PDT #3755 of 10003

Final Cut Pro: Restoring a DV device connection in QuickTime 7 might help with the Firewire issue.

Jessica - Jul 19, 2005 2:12:02 pm PDT #3756 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Thanks, Rob. I've bookmarked that for tomorrow.

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