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FCP issues on new Mac Pro?
Ok so I just received my new machine last week. 2.26 dual processor, quad core intel xeon, 16 gigs of ram, Ati radeon HD 4870 graphics card. Plenty of fire power right?
I’m cutting with multicam clips with 3 angles of HDV material. If I use the default rt settings (safe rt, dynamic, full) and I switch the sync to open in the canvas, my picture suddenly looks like low video quality. I also have green bars in my sequence. The only work around that I know of is to switch to unlimited rt, high, and full. I spent a few hours on the phone with FCP tech support a few days ago and they took an active interest in my issue, and they’re “kicking it upstairs”. The apple guy wondered if there was an issue on FCP launch regarding the rt profiling on the new machines. Just wanted to check in with other FCP users and see if anyone else is experiencing anything similar. -
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Travis,
99% of the time anyone with spiffy new hardware tells us they’re getting colored render bars when editing DV or HDV, they are typically dealing with a mismatch between their sequence settings and their media, and any dinking with RT settings is simply grasping at straws. I would highly recommend that you watch and memorize the following brief tutorial, which you should follow without fail every time you begin a new project.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/biscardi_walter/realtime_sequences.php
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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you do not write if you have mediadrives installed in your machine. You cannot run 3 HDV tracks on the same drive you are running the operating system and software. The operating system has first priority The software has second priority your Video filze has tird priority. Moving them to a seperate mediadrive og raid moves them from tird on the systemdrive to first priority on the new mediadrive drive.
Let the machine work for you. Not you for the machine
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Ok, I guess I didn’t give enough information. I’m on FCP 6.0.5 which automatically switches sequence settings to match the first clip added to it. In my case it’s 1080i HDV, as the footage I’m working with was shot with the one of the Sony HDV cameras, I’m not sure of the exact camera model. The drives are as follows: 640gb drive in “bay 1” that contains the OS, FCP, etc. This drive has no media. 1TB drive in “bay 2” that contains all of my media. Just for an experiment I created a new project and imported all the media from an external G-raid2 drive connected via firewire800. I got the same exact results.
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Travis – Did you ever get this issue resolved? I have the exact same new Mac Pro as you – 2.26 dual processor, quad core intel xeon, 16 gigs of ram, Ati radeon HD 4870 graphics card. I am getting green bars when I shouldn’t be. My test is this:
– Place a Bars & Tone NTSC clip onto a standard DV NTSC timeline
– Start adding broadcast safe filters to the color bars.Results:
– On my brand new Mac Pro, on only the 2nd Broadcast safe filter added, the timeline render bar turns bright green
– On my year old 2.16 Ghz dual Intel iMac, I can drop on 4 filters before it turns green
– On my older Intel, (last years model, NVIDIA 8800 card, 8 GB RAM), I can stack on 7 filters before it turns greenClearly something’s amiss here! I should add that on all 3 computers, my timeline settings are identical. Please share with us if you solved your problem and/or learned any new information from Apple. Thanks!
Mike
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