Man alive – yayyy, I am working with the new 2.5GHz MacBookPro and 4GB Ram. This is such a blessing since this machine; along with a 20″ iMac, is a amazing gift we received recently. I cannot say if it is a massive improvement over the 2.33GHz version I was using with the standard 2GB Ram, well not yet. But I have had some serious problems with it.
First with the Sonnet Tempo Express Card that was solved by correctly installing the drivers.
Second with the AirPort switching off and not being able to switch on until a restart is executed, this does not happen much anymore, but I hope the problem does not happen anymore with the release of 10.5.3.
Third with regular crashes:
Last night; while putting together a Title Package for the new series, the MBP kept crashing with the umm grey screen of death – 9 times. I was using Motion 3 with a only one graphic, a filter on the graphic, and two text elements that had simple behaviors. The only thing of suspicion here was the filter. I was trying out the 15 day trial of FxFactory 2.0.3 and the 3D Shatter filter from the CoreMelt Stylize package. hmmmm.
I really hope that the crashing was because of the filter and not the Ram, the ram would be such a nuisance to sort out.
Anyway, I plan to put the MBP through it Paces with FC2, Shake, Logic Studio and ProPresenter3. Awesome.
But I still dream and pray for a 3.2GHz Mac Pro with 16GB Ram, maybe then my Motion projects will run closer to the desired frame rate; hahaha
Ok, I have tried many things to try figure this out. Just when I thought that it was FxFactory, Perian or Application Enhancer, I realized that the Grey Screen of Death only occurred when my Sonnet Tempo was inserted, hmmmm. Now I am waiting to see if it will crash with the ExpressCard unplugged under the same conditions as when it did crash with the card inserted.
I have figured it out, the Sonnet Tempo Express Card driver! I downloaded the latest version and now I don’t have the crashes anymore.
Before I installed it I managed to test this theory by plugging in the express card and watching, for once with satisfaction, the grey screen of da da deeeath. And then after updating the driver I was not able to get the crash to occur.
Interestingly – it always seem to crash when Motion was open and once with FCP. Granted I have been working with Motion quiet a lot recently.
One thing I have not figured out, and I hope that it is addressed in the 10.5.3 – which should have been released like yesterday, is why Air Port switches off and then does not come back on until I restart, hmmmm.