Quicktime 7.4.5 released

[Walter Biscardi]

[Warren Eig] “Fortunately I have not seen this. By any chance is any of the rendering taking place in the GPU of the graphics card? If so have you looked into swapping that out?”

This would be remarkable for both machines to have bad RAM and bad graphics cards at the same time.

And I know the Graphics Card is good because all the renders in Color are clean and that almost solely relies on the graphics card.

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[Warren Eig]

Walter,

It was a shot in the dark. Why I’m not seeing this and you are, just goes to show the many permutations of software/driver combos out there.

Warren

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Warren Eig] “It was a shot in the dark. Why I’m not seeing this and you are, just goes to show the many permutations of software/driver combos out there.”

Could also be that 4GB is a “magic number” to make the problem happen. Who knows. At least we can get projects out running with 2GB.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Rennie Klymyk]

Can you add those 2gb ram you took out into your octa for 6 gb in it?

On a side note I just installed the latest itunes update and on opening I got this message:

iTunes requires QuickTime 7.4.5 or later to play videos purchased or rented from the iTunes Store, or to use music purchased from the iTunes Store in other applications (such as iPhoto or iMovie)

I hope this update is more than just some type of watermark detection for said copyright media.

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[Mark Maness]

Let me throw in a wrench….

Everyone who is seeing this issue has 4 gig of RAM, right?

I ask, because we have a Mac Pro Quad 3.0 with 8 gig of RAM and a Mac Pro Octocore 3.0 with 8 gig of RAM. The Quad 3.0 was purchased in August and the Octocore was purchased last month – both from ProMax.

I have not seen this issue at all and we’ve done alot of work with these systems. I wonder if it has something to do with the 4 gig range of memory.

Hmmm…..

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[Jeremy Doyle]

I have the render issues with an 3.0 octo from last year and have 10.4.11. It usually only happens for me when using pro-res however. Sometimes other codecs, but mostly pro res.

[Mitch Ives]

[Wayne Carey] “I have not seen this issue at all and we’ve done alot of work with these systems. I wonder if it has something to do with the 4 gig range of memory. “

Actually, we have 10GB in the 2008 8-core, but then again our render issue is different than Walter’s and some of the others…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
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[Mark Maness]

Ok…

I’ve got another question for everyone…

What codecs are you using when you see these render issues?

I’ve been using AJA Kona3: DVCProHD 1080i29.97 and I haven’t seen this. Maybe we can find a common thread in this issue.

[Mitch Ives] “Actually, we have 10GB in the 2008 8-core, but then again our render issue is different than Walter’s and some of the others…”

As for you, Mitch. You error is probably related to memory. Apple recommends certain memory requirements for the Mac Pro system for FCP. You system should have something like 2 gig, 4 gig, 8 gig, or 16 gig. Anything else can cause issues similar to yours.

Don’t ask me why. But I know that FCP is really particular about it memory requirements. Here’s what Apple says:

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304492

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Wayne Carey] “I’ve been using AJA Kona3: DVCProHD 1080i29.97 and I haven’t seen this. Maybe we can find a common thread in this issue.”

Same codec, same frame rate, same capture card. Also happens in 1080i/25 and 720p DVCPro HD.

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[Mike Jackson]

I’ve been having these same rendering issues for the last month, on two vastly different edit systems… Crossfades mis-rendering, going black, having shots freeze, text overlays mis-rendering or vanishing entireley… even banding in dips to black!

It’s been happening on both my home system (dual 2.7 G5 with 3 Gigs RAM) and the office system for my current project (8 core MacPro, super new but don’t know the stats off-hand). The one commonality with both has been ProRes 422(HQ) and Uncompressed 10-bit sequences, with both color and motion rendering set to best. Dropping color rendering back to 8-bit solves the problem… except of course for the fact that color rendering quality is poorer.

I’m actually happy to know it may be a QT problem… I’ve been tearing my hair out…