From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: May 16, 2012 11:47:03 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] fast!


Hi Milton,


I had a very brief opportunity to test capture using the 6 megapixel Grasshopper Express camera this morning. It appears that all frames were recorded. One brief moment of panic as the dreaded "no IIDC cameras found" message appeared… until iChat launched. I'd forgotten about that!


Thanks for the info on Spotlight and the possibility of working in Snow Leopard. I am hoping to use this new machine to test the waters of Lion and beyond. The rest of my computers at work are stranded at 10.6 from the need to run an ancient version of Filemaker Pro. So I will have two laptops on my desk til I can migrate the files into a current version. 


Also hoping Adobe gets my CS6 package out to me shortly. It's been a week of jumping through hoops on that one…


cheers!

Alan




On May 16, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Milton Aupperle wrote:

Hi Alan;


Glad to hear it and thanks for the compliment. A 7200 rpm hard drive  

should be able to keep up with the 80 megabytes per second through put  

of the Large Format FW800 Grasshopper cameras.


One thing that can screw throughput up is SpotLight indexing stuff. I  

have basically disabled it on my Capture Macs AND external media. The  

simplest way to do this is to add your hard drive(s) to the list of  

locations it can not search (launch "System Preferences" app, click on  

the "Spotlight" icon and  then clicking on the "Privacy" tab). There  

are other draconian means too, using the command line tools and  

altering certain system level config files to permanently disable it -  

but those are much more involved.


On a side note, if any of you are not thrilled about being forced to  

use Lion with your new Laptop, there are reports that you can instal  

Snow Leopard:


http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/macbookpro/index.html#d16may2012


on them too.


For testing purposes, I have at least two versions of OS X installed  

on all my Macs. My old G4 Laptop is the current champ for most  

installed versions on a single hard drive with 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 and  

10.5 installed in different partitions.


HTH..


Milton Aupperle


On 15-May-12, at 8:44 PM, Alan Friedman wrote:


I just brought home a new MacBook Pro… I'd been losing a lot of  

dropped frames on the newer Point Grey cameras and five year old  

laptop. Astro IIDC absolutely screams on the new I7 quad core  

processor stacking movies. I hadn't anticipated such a dramatic  

speed increase. I haven't had a moment to capture new movies yet,  

but can hardly wait.


Thanks for this, Milton!


cheers,

Alan





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