Anyone using AV XL with internal IDE or Firewire 400 or 800? Do I have to buy a SCSI chain just for the video. I use firewire only for audio and would like to keep SCSI free! Possible?

Don't know about AVXL, but I tried to use Firewire 400 with AVBV on a Mix plus and all it did was crash the computer. Wouldn't work at all. I find the internal IDE is best for video. Keeps the SCSI chain free for audio. I usually play back source material on one SCSI bus and record on the other. This works pretty reliably. However, I am doing film re-recording, so a music multi-tracking session may have completely different needs. Oh, and this is with PT 5.1.3 and OS 9.2.2 rcm

I am just completing a complete film with music, sound design, and post production (foley, adr etc). I jumped into ProTools 6 on the project with my crew and it worked extremely well. I keep all of my studio macs uncluttered of extraneous programs that are not useful in the studio environment. Some of the g4's we have here are used to just do certain tasks like DVD authoring and Photshop. Invoicing and MS Word do not seem to be a problem as well as email and internet. I had a dedicated HD with PT 5.3....on it and ended up never wanting to go back to it after using PT 6 for so long which has been about three months or so. I found going back to 5.3 was a real drag! But, that's just me. BTW no crashes in OSX for over 2 months with PT6. I recommend Norton Utilities update Version 8 which just started to ship about 2 weeks ago and also Disk Warrior for OSX. Both can boot OSX from the CD's and then you can look and repair all of those kernel panics symptoms.

IDE makes it crash under OS X