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Tips on Configuring Mac OS X for Final Cut Pro
Published by Matthew Jeppsen August 15th, 2007 in NLE, News, Tutorials
Splice has a solid set of useful tips to consider when configuring your Mac editing boxen for use with FCP Studio. Suggestions like changing conflicting Dashboard and Exposé shortcuts, turning off the Sleep energy saver on your scratch disks, and performing Software Update checks manually rather than automatically. (For HDD Sleep mode, check out Spindownfix) For what it’s worth, I personally would disagree with the Software Update suggestion…I tend to forget to run things like that on a regular basis. But as the article suggests, I often will postpone auto update installation until I’m between editing projects and others have worked out the new Apple software kinks. Anyway, a good set of tips for FCP editors, check it out.
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Yo- Spindownfix killed my lacie 500 gig drive… do not be fooled.
Can you be more specific? How did it kill the drive?
As I understand it, Spindownfix simply is a frontend for the operating system command “sudo pmset -a spindown 0″, which simply tells the OS not to sleep that drive. You’ll find varying opinions on this, but many geeks suggest that leaving a hard drive spinning is actually less stressful on the hardware over time than cycling it off/on repeatedly. YMMV of course, but it strikes me as odd that toggling a sleep setting would have a serious adverse effect on a healthy drive. In the case of editors, it’s really more of a convenience.
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I doubt that an app like SpinDownFix would nuke a drive. More likely a coincidence.
It’s more likely that the lacie drive just failed on its own. They have a bad rep for that. In fact Lacie is probably the least unreliable drive on the market. All parts are lowest bidder and there is no consistency in the quality.
Everyone I know has had a lacie drive fail on them.