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No Real Time Playback
I just did a clean install of Leopard and FCP 6.0.2 on my octo G5.
Today is the first day I’m actually working with it and the only issue I am seeing right now is I do not have real time playback of my clips.
Everything I put in a time line is fine until I put a color correction of something on it and then it has a red line above it. Before the line would be orangeand I would at least be able to play it back and see what was going on.
The RT triangle to the left of the TC in the timeline does not give me the Unlimited playback option that I see in my other suites.
All I have is Play Base Layer Only and under Recode to Tape There is Use Playback Settings ar Full Quality (which is checked now)
The I have Scope Display and below that is All Line (Checked) All lines except Top & Bottom and Limited Lines (fastest).
Anyone know why this is?
Steve Cohen
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What format is the video? And do the sequence settings match that format?
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Both clip and timeline are set the same. either Mini DV or 8 Bit Uncompressed. In this case 8 bit uncompressed.
When I put the clip in the timeline it is fine, but if I do anything to it, put a dissolve on it, add a color correction ( just add it, not even make adjustments to it) or move it 2 pixels up or down in the motion tab, it turns red and I have to render the entire clip. In my other suites it will turn orange For unlimited playback and the system will play it back to the best of it’s ability.
It will skip frames or lower the quality, but it will play it back .
This system will not.
Steve Cohen
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O2 Media Inc. -
What kind of drives do you have? If you are putting dv in an 8bit timeline, the file needs to move up or down a scan line. Double check to make sure your clip is truly dv. How’d you capture it?
Jeremy
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[Steve Cohen] “I just did a clean install of Leopard and FCP 6.0.2 on my octo G5.”
What hard drive array are you using?
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We are using a 16TB SAN conencted through Fiber.
We have never had a problem like this before and still do not on the other 4 FCP systems that are connected to the same SAN.
Even if I open the project (Stego in Edit2) I was working on yesterday in Edit 1 I hav no problems in Edit 1. the project opens fine. I can make any color corrections I want or put any transitions I want on the clip and at worst I will get and Orange (Unlimited RT) but mostly a pale green (Render Proxy) line above the clip.
In Edit 2 I consistantly get a Red (Needs Render) line above the clip.
The system is a brand new 2.8Ghz Octo with 4Gb of memory and an ATI Raedeon HD 2600 video card.
My other systems are Quad Core 2.5Ghz, with $gb of Ram and a GeForce 7800GT video card. some may be lower then that and they all work fine.
This new system is the only on have this issue and not showing me the options that I am used to seeing when I click on the RT triangle next to the TC in the timeline.
These links show the difference in the RT menu from Edit 1 and Edit 2.
Edit 1
Edit 2
Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc. -
When you have that screen with no rt options, that means you are using a codec that is not sponsored by FCPs rt engine. In edit2, hit command 0 to being up your sequence settings and take a screen shot of that.
Jeremy
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These are the same settings that are use in all 5 FCP systems.
The footage is digitized in our ingestion suite directly to the SAN at which point we log into th eproject and start working on it from one of the 3 edit suites after we are done it is opened in the customization suite and the 800 # is added and laid to tape for the stations.
Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc. -
Sorry forgot to mention, but I think I did eariler. the only difference between Edit 2 adn any of the other systems is that we are running Leopard on it.
This is a new system that Apple gave us to replace the one the could not repair.
Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc. -
Okay. I am running Leopard and when I make a 8bit UC SD sequence, I get all of the rt options, so there must be some sort of config issue.
Is it possible to trash your prefs without screwing up the SAN? Do you have any capture/monitor cards in edit2?
Jeremy
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Jeremy;
Thanks for all the help.
We trashed the prefs according to https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/983847#983881
and still no change. The strange thing was that eventhough we trashed the prefs FCP maintianed our window layout.
Yes we do have a capture card/monitor card in all the suites. We have a Blackmagic Multibridge Extreme in the 3 edit suites and an AJA IO in Ingest & Customization.
Thansk again;
Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.
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