BigBadBruno Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 dude, don't buy that monitor! My buddy just sent his back. apparently the hdmi and dvi cables dont accept signals from video cards. only the VGA. You can use it for a dvd or bluray player if you like, but this is a {censored} monitor for a PC. You have been warned. TRave - once again, thanks for the response. I most likely won't ever use that camera, so I'm not too worried about it. The one I'd use more than anything is the EX-1 (a friend of mine owns it) which despite being a hard drive camera, there's a whole conversion process you have to do with EX-1 software prior to loading it into FCP so there probably won't be an issue. Although, if I ever find the cash to get my own camera, I'd get a mini-dv based one. I'm not huge on the hard drive cameras. I feel like if you're in the field and you need to shoot lots and lots of footage, the hard drive style camera becomes very limiting. RSchultz - That must be wicked fast with the solid state drives. But I just looked up their pricing - YIKES! I'm going to try to do a vanilla install, so we'll see. And I do plan on getting the 1 TB drives raided together for scratch disks as soon as I'm up and running. As for the dual monitors, that might be something I do down the road, but for now I was looking at this monitor: http://www.buy.com/prod/westinghouse-26-in.../207540840.html Although, now that I look at it today, the price is now jacked up to $300 - before it was $250. Either way, $300 for a 26" seems pretty good. I will definitely let you all know how the install goes. I'll try to be as detailed as possible. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/151757-fantasy-or-reality-final-cut-hack-pro-workstation-and-windows/page/2/#findComment-1092347 Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Rave Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Just an update real quick. Some of you have asked for a guide so I will give you the one I used and the tweaks I made. This guide came from another thread about i7 so credit goes to that user. Also, if you are looking to do the HD footage from Canons or others then I found the solution. FCP has to 'log and transfer' and with the camera even being plugged in it would crash FCP and imovie '09. What I did was load the clips in Roxio Toast, which ROCKS, and converted it to HD quicktime then took it into FCP. Converting looked to be the same length as a macbook pro transfer. So hope that helps any of you looking to do that. Here is the guide I used and got mine working. I changed 2 things though to have it work. Drivers/VGA/NVINject, nothing else on the VGA nvidia strings. This was for my 9800gtx+. THen Drivers/System/Sata IDE/ Intel Sata. Not AHCI. I was having problems with the AHCI where it wouldn't boot. Try that and let me know how it goes. I'll try helping in anyway I can. I'll also try for a guide of my own here soon. iAtkos v5i Main System - Bootloader / PC EFI V9 - X86 Patches / Decrypters / AppleDecrypt - X86 Patches / SMBIOS Drivers / SMBios Enablers / SMBios EFI - X86 Patches / 9.5.0 Kernel Fassl (Note !!!!!!! Do not use the "Voodoo" Kernel, it has a bug that makes System Clock and video playback go too fast. Also HyperThreading enabled h264 video encoding under Voodoo Kernel seems to perform poorly compared to Fassl (Not sure if this is true, since clock is advancing too fast under Voodoo, it might be that encoding applications think that the throughput (fps) is lower that it really is). - X86 Patches / ACPI / Stock ACPI Modified - X86 Patches / Disabler.kext - X86 Patches / OHR (Without this system shutdown doesn't work properly). - Drivers / VGA / NVidia / NVKush - Drivers / VGA / NVidia / EFI Strings For NVidia / 8xxx / 8400 GS 512 MB - Drivers / System / SATA IDE / Intel AHCI Sata - Drivers / System / ext2fs (This is not needed if you do not plan to read Linux formatted disks) - Drivers / System / Ntfs-3G (This is not needed if you do no need NTFS Write support) - Drivers / Network / Realtek R1000 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/151757-fantasy-or-reality-final-cut-hack-pro-workstation-and-windows/page/2/#findComment-1095424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
regnaD kciN Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Thought I would do a quick update before I forget to. I did buy a sata drive. I sat on vista for about a week and then got the order in. Right now the Lite-on sata is doing great. I did all my purchasing from newegg minus the processor. There is a microcenter by me and it was about 75 bucks less there. Firewire is all onboard. I use the back one for my XL1s and front for a HD. Have not done any export through it. I haven't done that even on my real macs in 2+ years. I just go to dvd or a file for online. Sorry on the lack of info there. Have done no raiding at this point. Mic in works GREAT! Reads as the "internal mic" as well as the line in. So all good on that end. Looks on my case though not to see the front input. Back is all working like it should. Ran all the apps you asked, at the same time and all had good response. Have not had to burn with DVD studio yet though. I don't see an issue arising since I have used Toast with no complications. Again, feel free to ask any more questions. This post is being written on my machine now. Had no issues since the last post either. It is really solid! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/151757-fantasy-or-reality-final-cut-hack-pro-workstation-and-windows/page/2/#findComment-1097371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
btimpaler Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Sorry for the long delay, but I FINALLY got my computer. They were out of stock with the graphics card, then they finally got it, but they only did pickups on weekdays which sucked because I worked all the time, so i wasn't able to pick it up til last week - then I left town for a week. So this Monday I finally got set up, and just got it up to speed on the vista side of things. Not that much of a fan of vista, but the thing boots up so fast and I like the sleep mode - I thought my pc had crashed. Anyway, I downloaded iatkos v5i and kalyway to give each of them a try. Kalyway, for some reason, only read my hard drive as a 168GB even though it's 500 gigs. But I went with it anyhow and erased it using extended journal way. Then I tried installing kalyway - took over an hour for it to install. Booted up, pressed f12 in the bios splash screen, chose my mac drive, and OSX loaded up. A few problems with that though - my ps/2 keyboard didn't work (even though it worked during the setup) so I had to use my girlfriend's mac keyboard, no sound, and it seemed terribly slow. I decided to format the harddrive and try the iatkos way. Iatkos read my harddrive as a 500GB drive to my delight. So I formatted the drive again geting rid of the kalyway install. Initially (and stupidly), I just installed iatkos straight up not customizing it at all. It took less than 15 minutes to load totally in. It automatically restarted my computer, but then when I tried to start up from the hard drive it started to load up and then restarted again. So then, I did what I should have to begin with, and formatted my drive and followed the specs you laid out. Well, I loaded up the iaktos using your specs. It restarted automatically and then got to the loading page with the grey screen, apple logo, and spinning grey loading icon. It hung on that screen for a long while, then went totally black. So I had to restart and then I just logged into windows instead and am now on here. There are some subtle differences between my setup and yours and I'm going to have to do some researching to figure tihs all out. I'm still only grasping the whole kext thing....wait, now I'm reading your post again and I just now noticed that Ididn't follow it exactly as you laid out. I didn't do the things that you changed. I'm a jackass. Okay, I'm going to get to bed now and try it out in the morning. I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks again. Just an update real quick. Some of you have asked for a guide so I will give you the one I used and the tweaks I made. This guide came from another thread about i7 so credit goes to that user. Also, if you are looking to do the HD footage from Canons or others then I found the solution. FCP has to 'log and transfer' and with the camera even being plugged in it would crash FCP and imovie '09. What I did was load the clips in Roxio Toast, which ROCKS, and converted it to HD quicktime then took it into FCP. Converting looked to be the same length as a macbook pro transfer. So hope that helps any of you looking to do that. Here is the guide I used and got mine working. I changed 2 things though to have it work. Drivers/VGA/NVINject, nothing else on the VGA nvidia strings. This was for my 9800gtx+. THen Drivers/System/Sata IDE/ Intel Sata. Not AHCI. I was having problems with the AHCI where it wouldn't boot. Try that and let me know how it goes. I'll try helping in anyway I can. I'll also try for a guide of my own here soon. iAtkos v5i Main System - Bootloader / PC EFI V9 - X86 Patches / Decrypters / AppleDecrypt - X86 Patches / SMBIOS Drivers / SMBios Enablers / SMBios EFI - X86 Patches / 9.5.0 Kernel Fassl (Note !!!!!!! Do not use the "Voodoo" Kernel, it has a bug that makes System Clock and video playback go too fast. Also HyperThreading enabled h264 video encoding under Voodoo Kernel seems to perform poorly compared to Fassl (Not sure if this is true, since clock is advancing too fast under Voodoo, it might be that encoding applications think that the throughput (fps) is lower that it really is). - X86 Patches / ACPI / Stock ACPI Modified - X86 Patches / Disabler.kext - X86 Patches / OHR (Without this system shutdown doesn't work properly). - Drivers / VGA / NVidia / NVKush - Drivers / VGA / NVidia / EFI Strings For NVidia / 8xxx / 8400 GS 512 MB - Drivers / System / SATA IDE / Intel AHCI Sata - Drivers / System / ext2fs (This is not needed if you do not plan to read Linux formatted disks) - Drivers / System / Ntfs-3G (This is not needed if you do no need NTFS Write support) - Drivers / Network / Realtek R1000 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/151757-fantasy-or-reality-final-cut-hack-pro-workstation-and-windows/page/2/#findComment-1116774 Share on other sites More sharing options...
btimpaler Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Okay, I followed exactly what you did and it worked. Now I just need to get my audio, my wireless card, and my keyboard working and I'll be all set. Also, it reads my processor as 4ghz and my gfx card as only 256. But I'm in and it works quickly so this is definitely the right track. Thanks again. Sorry for the long delay, but I FINALLY got my computer. They were out of stock with the graphics card, then they finally got it, but they only did pickups on weekdays which sucked because I worked all the time, so i wasn't able to pick it up til last week - then I left town for a week. So this Monday I finally got set up, and just got it up to speed on the vista side of things. Not that much of a fan of vista, but the thing boots up so fast and I like the sleep mode - I thought my pc had crashed. Anyway, I downloaded iatkos v5i and kalyway to give each of them a try. Kalyway, for some reason, only read my hard drive as a 168GB even though it's 500 gigs. But I went with it anyhow and erased it using extended journal way. Then I tried installing kalyway - took over an hour for it to install. Booted up, pressed f12 in the bios splash screen, chose my mac drive, and OSX loaded up. A few problems with that though - my ps/2 keyboard didn't work (even though it worked during the setup) so I had to use my girlfriend's mac keyboard, no sound, and it seemed terribly slow. I decided to format the harddrive and try the iatkos way. Iatkos read my harddrive as a 500GB drive to my delight. So I formatted the drive again geting rid of the kalyway install. Initially (and stupidly), I just installed iatkos straight up not customizing it at all. It took less than 15 minutes to load totally in. It automatically restarted my computer, but then when I tried to start up from the hard drive it started to load up and then restarted again. So then, I did what I should have to begin with, and formatted my drive and followed the specs you laid out. Well, I loaded up the iaktos using your specs. It restarted automatically and then got to the loading page with the grey screen, apple logo, and spinning grey loading icon. It hung on that screen for a long while, then went totally black. So I had to restart and then I just logged into windows instead and am now on here. There are some subtle differences between my setup and yours and I'm going to have to do some researching to figure tihs all out. I'm still only grasping the whole kext thing....wait, now I'm reading your post again and I just now noticed that Ididn't follow it exactly as you laid out. I didn't do the things that you changed. I'm a jackass. Okay, I'm going to get to bed now and try it out in the morning. I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/151757-fantasy-or-reality-final-cut-hack-pro-workstation-and-windows/page/2/#findComment-1117301 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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