Issues running FCE on G5

[Walter Soyka]

“Mercury Playback Engine” doesn’t just mean CUDA co-processing — it’s the term that Adobe uses for a set of technologies that improve performance. Users without CUDA cards can still benefit from the Mercury Playback Engine in software-only mode.

Also, Mercury Playback Engine is not just about playing multiple formats simultaneously — scaling, blend modes, and some effects can also benefit from it.

There was a recent thread called Mercury Playback Engine. New iMac. which goes into a bit more detail.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Fred Jodry]

Walter (and Scott), that problem is Shared Storage.
To prevent this, configure your network cabled hard drive(s) array to be optimized and I`d suppose, “your own”. I mean using a network port as just a high bandwidth port.

[Walter Soyka]

[Fred Jodry] “Walter (and Scott), that problem is Shared Storage. To prevent this, configure your network cabled hard drive(s) array to be optimized and I`d suppose, “your own”. I mean using a network port as just a high bandwidth port.”

Sorry I misunderstood — are you proposing using iSCSI storage?

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Scott Wilkinson]

Guys,

99.9/10% of my time is spent being creative so my knowledge regarding computer hardware is limited.

I’m just a a simple guy who designs full-time in CS4 and wants to produce more video’s.

Your depth of knowledge is a bit over my head.

Scott

[Fred Jodry]

Alright Scott, I was listing some patches to your iMac. If you`re getting an Intel Mac then some of this will get passed by. A tower is better than a one piece iMac or notebook unless your editor doubles as the camera`s computer on batteries at the football stadium.

[Scott Wilkinson]

I’ve been producing a video in Final Cut Express 4 and up until now my clips have been 1280 x 720.mov and 1440 x 1080.mov files and during playback everything runs smoothly.

But I just downloaded a 1920×1080.mov file off the web, shortened its playtime in Quicktime and imported it into my FCE movie. If I play the clip in the Viewer window it plays smoothly (also plays smooth in QuickTime). But once I drag the clip into the timeline it plays notchy.

My gut tells me it has something to do with the 1920 x 1080 sizing. If so any fixes?

Scott

[Tom Wolsky]

Notchy? What’s notchy?

You downloaded this?

Please give the exact item properties of the clips you’re editing and the exact item properties of the sequence in which you’re editing.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Fred Jodry]

Scott, it just sounds like a memory setting misadjustment of your video card causing dropped frames but don`t forget that you might have downloaded a defective video take!

[Fred Jodry]

Scott, it just sounds like a memory setting misadjustment of your video card causing dropped frames but don`t forget that you might have downloaded a defective video take! Try playing it on another known good computer as a check.

[Rafael Amador]

[Scott Wilkinson] “The video footage files reside on my desktop”
NEVER.
Probably this is your issue.
Get an external HD.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com