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Graphics card not good enough?
Hi, I posted a similar question on the Apple FCP forum but I was wondering if I could get more thoughts on something: I’m starting to get errors on some of the FX in FCP when I apply them to an HD clip in an HD sequence (AJA Kona 3 – Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2 easy setups at 25fps). When I initially apply an effect – let’s say Bad TV – the FCP says:
The effect “Bad TV” cannot be rendered in a sequence of this size with the current graphics card.
But I can then hit OK and adjust the effect, getting a visual result as expected. But, when it tries to render the effect FCP says:
The effect “Bad TV” failed to render. Your hardware cannot render at the requested size and depth.
Change the sequence settings to 8-bit and it’s all ok; FCP renders and doesn’t throw up an error when applying the effects. I checked the Expansion Slot Utility and my Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT seems to be running at full pelt. I was wondering if anyone thinks the graphics card really isn’t up to the job as opposed to a bug peculiar to my set up, and what would be a recommended card?
I’m running a beautiful intel MacPro 3ghz, Mac OS X (10.4.11) 8gb ram, AJA Kona 3, 4.7TB Raid5 ATTO/Sonnet eSATA with FCS 2.
Thanks in advance!
Todd.
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Bad TV is an fx plug class effect that relies on the graphic’s CPU to render so you probably don’t have enough graphics card there…
Jerry
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