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Choppy playback on second display in Ppro CS6 vs nice and smooth good old Final Cut on Mac
Hi Everyone. I’ve started my own editing business for a local TV network in Argentina. I’m on mac, currently editing with a mid 2011 Mac Mini (intel HD300).
The thing is that I’d love to move to Ppro CS6 since Final Cut is getting old now, but I cannot do it simply because the output to a second monitor is choppy, it pauses, resumes later, doesn’t give reliable realtime that we video editors need, specially when showing the final product to my client every week. When editing with only one display, I don’t have that issue.
I’m editing Sony MTS files which are taken perfectly, my sequence is HD (1440 x 1080) and my output is done through my HDMI port of my mac. In good-old-final cut 7 it works perfectly, but I have to transcode those files first. It’s not an issue of the MTS files, cause I’ve tried different types of files and sequences and Ppro always gives me the same results on the secondary display. My Mac Mini only lacks in GPU power, cause it has a very powerfull i7 processor, two 500gb hard drives and 8gb of RAM, I think it’s good enough for hd editing right?
Which leads me to 2 questions:
– Do I need to have Mercury Playback enabled for a proper secondary output? (I’d have to spend a lot in buying a mac with a compatible GPU card).– Am I missing a hardware device for outputs? (which I don’t need again in good-old-final cut 7).
Thanks,
Flavio. -
2 Replies
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Hola Flavio,
You could be a bit short in RAM, depending on your project,
Ciau
Stefan Kamp, FCP,Ppro,MC,Lightworks
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Do you have your media on a different drive than your OS and PP project? where is your media cache folder located (Preview and others)?
How much RAM memory do you allocate to PP?
What is your frame rate associated with that particular sequence?
Do you have any other program open at the same time?David Baud
Editor & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com
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