FX Plug filters won’t render on HD

[John Pale]

does your system have 2 monitors? …that would cut the VRAM in half

[Gabriele De simone]

Also check the current sequence settings, under the “Video Processing” tab: if your rendering choice is one of the “high-precision” ones, switch it to the 8-bit YUV rendering.

High-precision should take four times as much memory as 8 bit YUV (though the exact numbers are something only Apple knows about). Although this is no big deal for plug-ins which use only main memory (they become dog slow, but work) it becomes a serious bottleneck if the graphics card has only 128MB or less VRAM to process your frames.

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[Kevin Monahan]

It has a separate monitor attached to Kona, should that matter?

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[John Pale]

Not the broadcast monitor… only talking about the computer displays.

More than one computer display on your ATI or Nvidia card will split the VRAM and adversely affect performance in Motion and with FXplug filters, as they rely on the GPU to work.

Also using an unsupported display card may cause issues.

I don’t think there is any way the Kona would cause any issue.