Normal? Can’t Play ProRes HQ on MacbookPro 2.66 wo rendering

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Jeff Coleman] “Do you all have the latest software and MBP firmware?”

Yes. Can you do me favor and choose a new easy setup that mathces your format/frame rate with a codec of ProRes HQ, make a new sequence and try again?

Jeremy

[Jeff Coleman]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Can you do me favor and choose a new easy setup that mathces your format/frame rate with a codec of ProRes HQ, make a new sequence and try again?”

Did it. Same thing. Red bar with RT Video Playback Quality set to “High”. You get gray bar?

[Jeremy Garchow]

Okay, one more thing. Make sure your prefs are set for an external scratch drive, then quit FCP.

Go to your User > Library > Preferences > FInal CUt Pro User Data folder and delete the:

Final Cut Pro Obj Cache
Final Cut Pro Prof Cache files

Relaunch FCP.

Yes, I get rt playback.

Jeremy

[Jeff Coleman]

Just finished with AppleCare folks.
Problem SOLVED.
Apparently a corrupt preferences file in the user’s Preferences folder.
This was more than just trashing FCP prefs. I took out all the preference files from that folder and relaunched FCP again. This time it played those clips with NO red render bar.

Now I’m off to trying it with the IO HD attached.

Thanks for your help.

[Jeff Coleman]

Hmmmm I spoke to soon.

Connecting the IO (no new software added since previous test) I do notice even with external video turned off that I get jittery playback.

And after playing the clips for about 15 minutes with the IO HD active, now the red render bars are back on my HQ clips and will not play without being rendered.

Strange.

I’ll get back as soon as I know something. If not sooner. 😉

[Chris Poisson]

Yes David, thanks for a bit of sanity.

Have a wonderful day.

[John Pale]

Turn off real time scopes, if you have them turned on.

[Andy Mees]

Hey Jeff

>This was more than just trashing FCP prefs. I took out all the preference files from that folder and relaunched FCP again

For your future reference, that process is exactly what it referred to as “trashing your preferences” … there are number of helper apps around, both free and commercial, that make the process a breeze, plus add a lot of extra features (like backup and restore). My favorite is the excellent (and free) Preference Manager from Jon Chappell of Digital Rebellion:
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/pref_man.htm

Hope it helps
Andy

[Ben Holmes]

I would have thought for a laptop system running ProRes, the drives he is using were totally sufficient. I use FW800 drives like the G_Drive often, and have never had any problems.

Whatever his problems are, they are not drive related. My creaky ol’ 2.33Ghz MBP will play ProRes, HQ or otherwise, just fine in real time. Time for a system reinstall methinks…

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[David Roth Weiss] “Read Gary Adcock’s white paper on ProRes. HQ is essentially overkill unless you are working with 2K files. “

…and (this is often forgotten) any material that natively originates in 10bit quality or higher, including AVC-I. If you notice the new FCP7 has native AVC-I ingest, but when you put the AVC-I file in a timeline, FCP changes the timeline to ProRes HQ since there’s no AVC-I decoder.

Jeremy