HD For Indies

MORE NOTES ON TIGER INSTALL:

-Installing FCP & Motion (existing versions from 2004, not new 2005 versions) gave an error about permissions after rebooting - QMaster wasn't happy

-After installing FCP 4.5, DVD Studio Pro 3, Motion 1.0, and iMovieHD (gotta have that AIC!), ran Disk Utility - it found only a couple of very minor privilidges to repair. Looks like the Installer in 10.4 MIGHT be nicer about leaving things tidier.

-running Software Update after installing those only found DVD Studio Pro 3.0.2, Motion 1.0.1, and iMovie HD Update 5.0.2 - the other stuff that 10.3.x would install, having to do with the Pro Apps stuff, must already be included in 10.4 Tiger. Nice touch.

HOLY BATF**K, Batman! 1920 pixel wide movie previews look GOOOOOOD on 23" LCD. This is the best looking trailer you'll see outside of the movie theater, PERIOD. Better than broadcast TV by a longshot. The detail is AMAZING. Even film grain is maintained - it's FANTASTIC.

Even if you're running OS X 10.3.x, you can download QT 7 and probably see these as well. WOW. Unfortunately, a dual G5, with a 1920x1080 (or greater) capable screen is required.

You can go to the Apple - QuickTime - HD Gallery and either view the 720 res stuff, or for Serenity, BBC wildlife, and Batman Begins (aww yeah, you know which one to click on first), and download the 1080 res fatties.

It's nice that Safari has returned to reporting download speeds in KB/sec- even while loading QuickTimes in the background the downloads of the 1080 res stuff continues - at 100 and 180 KB/sec. Apple's servers (and Time Warner Cable in my area) are fast.

-mike