[muglo] Re: Performa 6400 Avid Cinema

Thanks, Eric, for the suggestions.

I was able to solve my problem with a workaround. I downloaded an update Avid
Cinema v. 1.1.5 (which turned out to be an ungrade (i.e. the complete
application!)) and was able to manually copy the required plug-ins, Avid Cinema
Extension, etc., from the Avid Cinema CD-ROM to my hard drive.

This enabled me to capture video from my digital camcorder, add titles, and
save the movie to disk. The only flaw that has surfaced is that, when preparing
the movie for export one option involves clicking on a button labeled "Save
movie for ..." and making a choice of medium from a drop-down menu. Trouble is
the menu does not appear when clicked! I've checked around and confirmed that
the required items are indeed in the Output Formats folder where they are
supposed to be, but for reasons unknown Avid Cinema doesn't recognize them. I
had wanted to choose the option "www/internet", which I believe is a Quicktime
format.

I wonder whether this flaw results from my not installing Avid Cinema in the
approved manner from the CD-ROM.

My alternative was to load the Avid movie into Premiere 3.0 (sans titles),
create new titles, and save it as a Quicktime movie.

Your suggestion to partition my drive seems a good idea. I note that a product
Partition ToolKit is available, but it requires a G3 and Mac OS 9.1/9.2. Any
thoughts on how to partition, without having to initialize the whole drive!

Bob


Eric D wrote:

> You may want to check out possible bug-fixes available for your version of
> Avid Cinema (if it's 1996 there must have been a few bug fixes at the very
> least).
>
> As for trouble-shooting... without knowing what the disk problem error says
> and to what device (CD-error, HD error, etc) it refers our hands are pretty
> much tied. Also, what computer are you running? A 2.4 GB drive is *awfully*
> large for 1996. I suspect there may be issues on your HD that could only be
> solved by partioning the drive to have one partition that is under 2 GB in
> size.
>
> >From: Bob McDaniel <mcdaniel@xxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [muglo] Performa 6400 Avid Cinema
> >Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 21:12:53 -0400
> >
> >Hi
> >Today I tried to re-install the Avid Cinema software from the CD-ROM
> >that came with my computer when I bought it in 1996. It came with Mac OS
> >7.5. My attempt was unsuccessful when I got a disk problem error.
> >
> >I am currently using Mac OS 9.0.4 and recently replaced my original 2.4
> >GB hard drive with a 60 GB drive. I suspect that this is the problem.
> >Can anyone confirm that?
> >
> >Thanks for any advice or help you can offer.
> >
> >Bob
> >
> >
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