DV for Teachers

Update firmware while booting from OS 9.2 CD.

Users: root is initially given the same password as administrator – change its password! Must use root to install UNIX apps or to install NetBoot.

FTP login problem: old FTP access when activated, started its own services; probably need to just restart FTP server or something else again. reiterated by instructor later

Can’t create new users from scratch in Macintosh Manager. Must use Server Admin app. CAN create Group in Server Admn, and then create user within that group with Mac Manager.

Global Utilities

ACGI Enabler – adds AppleScript/CGI

Console is more inportant under X – keep an eye on all running apps

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FTP——-

Print and keep this one, teachers. Charles Roberts advises on setting up Final Cut Pro 3.0 on OSX in a school lab setting:

“This article is a suggested method of project setup for an NTSC Firewire FCP editing station under Mac OS X. It was developed in a busy multi-user college editing lab. It is a system for ensuring that individual projects are properly configured and that each editor’s work is safe and secure in a lab where many hands pass over one FCP station everyday.”

“Today a complete digital cinema installation in a theater would cost about $200,000 (most of that cost is in the projector). If you want to set up a postproduction house capable of digitizing, encrypting, and previewing digital cinema films, you might have to add another $50,000 to $100,000 on top of that (not including a top-of-the-line telecine machine). Compared to the front-end and back-end costs, the actual transmission or physical distribution from the post houses to the theaters is negligible. We’ll look at how digital cinema proponents plan to deal with these cost issues a little later; but first, let’s take a look at the process and companies involved in a bit more detail.”

Within ten years, maybe less, the nature of film distribution and exhibition could change radically. How will distribution changes affect other aspects: movie-going, production, financing of productions, and so on? Will Kodak effectively transition from chemical-based photographic emulsions to fully digital image capture? Add to that the changes in broadband in homes and web streaming, and the industry could see the biggest shakeup in more than thirty years.

Nels Johnson at DV.com: Filtering Web Media News: “The overused phrase “high-quality video” makes me think low-quality, possibly meaningless verbiage ahead, and perhaps cut and pasted from marketing literature. When I see the words “quarter-screen, 30fps, MPEG-4 video,” I keep reading with great interest because I feel the reporter and editor understand their readers’ sophisticated level.” Guidelines for wading intelligently through the bushwa filling trade papers about streaming media.