Quicktime 7.4.5 released

[Mitch Ives]

[Wayne Carey] “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. “

Same codec…

[Wayne Carey] “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 “

Thanks for taking the time to direct me to this. I don’t know how I managed to miss this, but I’ll yank the two 1 GB modules and just leave the two fours in… easy enough. Again, thanks Wayne…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com

[Mitch Ives]

[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! “

After removing the two 1GB Apple memory modules and leaving nothing in but a matched pair of 4GB modules, I am now getting all the things that others are reporting… green screen that was rendering that doesn’t appear rendered anymore… cross-fade issues. I even got some instances where double clicking a clip in the timeline loads a different clip in the Viewer. Doing it twice manages to load the correct clip.

This is all on one of the 2008 MacPro 8-cores. Everything is a fresh install. I’m beginning to think they should call these machines the Mac Edsel instead of the MacPro. None of our other machines do this. Primatte Pro Keyer works fine on every machine but the 2008 MacPro 8-cores. Something is definitely different on these machines…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com