Just an update on installing the entire FCP 7.0 studio with all the goodies for sound track pro and dvd studio pro. Once all the disk images were copied which took several hours the actual installation took approx 8 to 10 minutes after I opened all the disk images I then launched the Studio installer and enter serial number etc... From then on it did it's own thing with no prompts for any disk insertions and wow was it fast. I'm sure this mainly to do with the preloading of the disk images to the desktop and the fusion SSD drive is fairly empty so I assume all this data went straight to the SSD. One curiosity was under dvd studio pro the idvd themes were greyed out for installation. I don't know if that has anything to do with OS 10.8 or when that was disabled as it's been a while since I installed FCP on a computer. I know this is an Avid list so I can't wait to see how fast media composer 6.5.2 installs. Unfortunately my wife doesn't seem to get as much joy as I do from this, oh well.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, John Moore wrote:
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> Been setting up a new 21 inch iMac and I'm using an external DVD/CD drive from OWC that connects USB 2.0. I've been using this unit with the older iMac circa 2006 after it's internal optical drive died. I'm making disk images of FCP install disks and it's taking upwards of a half hour to create a disk image on the desktop. I'm figuring the FCP install will go smoother off disk images as I've had some issues installing off this external optical drive on the older iMac. Perhaps my previous issues are due to the old iMac is only USB 1. A couple of times I could not install stuff or burn cds from iTunes from the drive. Is there any value in exploring an external optical drive with a USB 3 interface? I would think the drive read/write speeds would be a limiting factor more so than USB 2 vs USB 3 but I'm not getting much info googling relating to transfer speed comparisons. Curious what other's think. I'd even go for the Apple super drive if
> it's going to perform better than the current OWC model I have.
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> John Moore
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> Barking Trout Productions
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> Studio City, CA
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> bigfish@...
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