Mac help

[Finn]

Great. Can't buy anything from the Apple Store in NZ. Bastards.

[Big Dave]

Great. Can't buy anything from the Apple Store in NZ. Bastards.

I love saying this - Tell it you are in Australia and it all works.

[bugjuice]

Great. Can't buy anything from the Apple Store in NZ. Bastards.

what bank are you with?
apparently some credit cards use an Oz number instead of the NZ numbers, so buying stuff online can cause a prob. Apple checks where the card is billed to, via a code in your credit card number. If you've got a card that has the 'Oz billing' code, then it'll give you jip. Try Oz, like db says and see
I've bought stuff before, and it worked..

[RantyDave]

Hey, I've just been playing with iDVD and I think I've found your problem:

It's a huge, steaming piece of shit.

I've been daft enough to try building a project with a reasonably large number of files contained on a network drive. Translation: performance is shit. It, kinda stupidly, encodes the files into MPEG2 (needed for DVD's) in the background but appears to try to encode the files in parallel. Result: live lock. It uses bugger all CPU trying to do too many things at once. It looks like it's crashed but actually it hasn't (look in the activity monitor). In my case the solution could well be to leave it for a while. Read: possibly a number of fucking hours. And also to never try an iDVD project with a large number of individual files. And to never try an iDVD project across a network. And to burn whoever in the iApps team designed this self important retarded piece of shit.

Had I played with iDVD on the day of it's release I'd have written a replacement myself. Unfortunately I feel the train has left that particular station.

Bugger. Damn. Very annoyed. I don't like it when things don't work properly.

Dave

[bugjuice]

files contained on a network drive.

might be your problem right there. Keep everything needed for the project, local.
also, what specs are the mac you're running it on? tis a bit RAM hungry

[Big Dave]

Poor ol' dave.
He doesn't remember leaving the video rendering or the 3D modeling ray tracing till last job of the day so that you could let it run overnight.

It does seem better suited for making a disc for Aunty Doreen than professional applications.

Localise and let it run whilst you push out zzzzzzzzzs

[RantyDave]

might be your problem right there. Keep everything needed for the project, local.

Well, I know that now, don't I

also, what specs are the mac you're running it on? tis a bit RAM hungry

2GB MacBook Pro, so it's not that. It's also on a gig network, so it's not that either.

Anyway, it appears to have sorted it's life out now. Or at least it had until I switched the windows machine (that was the network drive) off. Somehow a 1.3GB project file doesn't actually include the stuff it was going to write to disk. Or maybe it hadn't finished encoding. Oh well, I'll got back to torturing it tomorrow.

Dave