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FCP7 Switcher finding extending rendering for playback times in PPro
Wondering if you folks using PPro CS6 in house on fairly large projects know something I’m missing. Any tricks to operating at peak performance? Working on a pretty intense edit applying multiple fx, composites, frame sizing and some picture in picture(for me, this is my first major project edited on PPRo). I’m finding the render times for playback excruciating.
It’s like working in FCP1.0 on a 400Mhz G4 or something. Ha. My system is beefy enough. Using thunderbolt to eSata drives, Quad Core i7 3.4Ghz, 32GB Ram SSD boot drive, etc… Adobe preferences set to cache and perform well.. I’m finding that FCP7 would handle this much much faster than PPro is. Too bad PPro didn’t have an unlimited RT feature or similar..or be able to even handle Prores encoded material at the speed FCP7 does (working with native footage here as I was told there was no time saving advantage to editing with prores in PPro).
What are you guys doing for workflow and set up? Am I missing something? Any suggestions? Thanks.
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This has been a trend with Adobe CS and the Mac.
When I have a complex edit going it grinds my mac to a halt.
Very disappointing.We can hope Adobe and Mac get it figured out or….
What are your video previews set to in your sequence settings?
Chris
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my preview settings are set to 1920×1080 prores 422 with maximum bit depth and render quality unchecked.. is there anything different I should do? thanks.
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Ya, preview files are temp, use a lower quality. Use a mpeg codec. Something less taxing on the system.
When you export, APP will reference the original media for a high quality export.Chris
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thats fantastic news Chris. Thanks! Now if we can get Adobe to offer copy and past of transitions and individual effects from clip to clip..
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I’ve been making fx presets just so I can have easy access with same settings.. but that’s kind of a pain..
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You can copy and paste individual effects from clip to clip. Just select the clip highlight the effect you want to copy from the effects window and hit Ctrl-C (Command – C on Mac) and then Control – V (Command – V on Mac) on the clip you want to paste it to. You can also select several effects on one clip to copy as well.
Dennis
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Dang! I thought I tried that.. I’ll try again.. been trying to drag from fx window onto another clip.. thanks. “It’s V Dummy! Not A!” That’s another thing I’m trying to get out of my brain! haha Trying not to keep FCP keyboard layout.. figure if I’m gonna switch, I’m gonna switch..
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How much RAM does your system have? Do you have a graphics card that enables CUDA and the Mercury Engine? Those are things that make CS6 sing.
Shane
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Shane, he’s got 32GB of ram.
thunderbolt to eSata drives, Quad Core i7 3.4Ghz, 32GB Ram SSD boot drive,Chris
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[Chris Tompkins] “32GB Ram SSD boot drive,”
See…he lacked a comma, so I thought he had 320GB SSD drive, but accidentally left off the “0.”
Shane
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