With Snow Leopard (10.6), Apple adopted the standard usage of terabyte (TB) which equals 1,000,000,000,000 bytes = 10-to-the-12th bytes. Hard drive manufacturers have always specified drive capacity with standard usage which will now match what Mac OS X reports.


WIth Leopard (10.5) and previous versions of Mac OS X, Apple used the binary interpretation of terabyte, (technically a tebibyte) = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 2-to-the-40th bytes. Windows also uses binary interpretation.


Under Snow Leopard, drive capacity will be shown per drive specifications. For example, under OS X 10.6, a 1TB drive will appear as a 1000 GB capacity drive (but under OS X 10.5 as a 909 GB capacity drive).


For additional information see http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419.


What does this mean in real terms? Do I get an immediate increase in storage space?
Formatting or actual capacity does not change at all, only the \f1 reported\f0 capacity because of the change from base-2 to base-10.


Should I reformat the drives before attempting to plug in a previously 10.5 formatted unit into a 10.6 machine or vice versa?
Reformatting is not necessary at all.


What happens if I plug a 10.6 formatted unit into a 10.5 machine or vice versa?
The volume is seen normally. It is completely compatible and can be transparently moved back and forth.

Save yourself some time and review this list BEFORE migrating to Snow Leopard.

If anyone tests FCP 7, update the list accordingly…

This site just might make your day…

Rodney – DCFCPUG

Given the move from Carbon to Cocoa 64 in FCS, the rewrite of FCS 3 will be interesting to watch for the Snow Leopard release of OS X. Read more at the Apple Insider at this link.

Another article goes further in explaining the general version breakdown in the new upcoming suite:

Final Cut Pro 7.0: for real-time editing for DV, SD, HD and film.
Motion 4.0: for real-time motion graphics and animation design.
Soundtrack Pro 3.0: for advanced audio post production and sound design.
Color 1.5: for real-time professional color grading.
Compressor 3.5: for high-performance encoding with output in various formats.
DVD Studio Pro 4.2.2: for professional authoring, encoding and burning of DVDs.

The codename for the upcoming suite is SIDEWAYS and will be about ~3 gigabytes (2.8 GB image)

Rod – DCFCPUG

Default Gamma setting changed

Apple said that it has changed the default gamma display setting to help both consumers and professionals. The Cupertino-based company made adjusted the default settings to be closer to those used by Windows PCs and televisions. According to the latest Snow Leopard release notes, the default gamma setting has been changed from 1.8 to 2.2 — which is recommended by many professionals — and that applications that override the deftault and assume a gamma 1.8 setting may have different onscreen and printed output than they did in previous releases of Mac OS X.

Although the 1.8 setting has been used as the default by Apple since its earliest monitors and laser printers, Apple already actually recommends on its website to re-calibrate monitors to the 2.2 setting for photographic work.

Chatter on the ‘Net: Snow Leopard and its support for FCP 6 may not be compatible as the rumors abound about a rewritten FCP in the work…

Source: MacNN & FCP-L

http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html

How will that affect editing older projects when the Gamma was 1.8?
Is this going to be a giant PITA?

Tell us what YOU think?

DCFCPUG