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Can’t play HD video
Did a quick search, but couldn’t find anything.
I work in an SD environment, but have been asked to create an HD clip. Made it in AE 1920×1080 and rendered it out as an qt Animation. Brought that into m100 and get error “Could not Play because the CPU was unable to process the video quickly enough” almost instantly. Also tried rendering to M100HD codec. What am I doing wrong & what are my options?Activity Monitor shows less than 10% CPU usage!
M100 12.7.1
Dual 3.2QC
8GBram
OSX 10.5.6
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Are your drives fast enough? Media 100 HD codec in 1080 is around 150MB/sec. Do you have the ProRes codec installed? Try rendering into ProRes to see if this is a drive performance issue.
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I don’t have the ProRes codec, and I believe I have to have Final cut to get that (correct me if I’m wrong)
Drives should be fast enough. 1.5tb “huge systems” raid array and a Dual Channel SCSI card “up to 320mb per channel” (atto ul5d).
Also tried playing of of my internal Sata raid… same problem. -
Then I would guess that either your card placement of your boards inside the Mac is not correct, or that your PCI Express lanes are not set up correctly.
What kind of Mac and board do you have?
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G5 Dual 3.2QC intel Xeon running 10.5.6
ATTO ExpressPCI UL5D SCSI cardSlot 1 video card
Slot 3 Aja Kona LHe card
Slot 4 Atto CardI don’t remember why they’re in this order… but I must have had a reason… 8>)
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Slot placement sounds good, so I guess it is the Expansion Slot Lane assignment. Go to your HD, into System->Library->CoreServices, and look for an app named Expansion Slot Utility. Start it and make sure that your profile is set to 4X, 4x, 1x, 16x; usually the second topmost choice. You can find more informations about that here.
Also make sure to check if you have the newest firmware and drivers for the Atto card, and the recommended Aja drivers for your Media 100 software version. Plus, how much RAM do you have in your system? -
Tried to open the expansion slot utility and it gives the error “Expansion slot utility is not intended to run on this system”.
I have 8gb of ram.
Checking on the Atto drivers now.
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Atto Drivers are current 4.33
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Then one thing you should try is to download the V13.0.1 trial to see if this fixes your issues (maybe install it to a second HD). I am not sure what your problem is, but maybe there is a bug with 12.7.1 and OSX 10.5.6. Or there is a problem with the Atto board, interfering with your Kona card…
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Or try a “slow import” of your media clip. Check the “convert to selected media standard and compressor” checkbox in the Import dialog, and make sure that you have selected a HD format and Codec. Maybe there is something wrong with your media files.
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Thank you for your help troubleshooting this. The slow import option did not work for me.
I will keep trying… maybe time to call Wick!
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