RT Settings

[David Battistella]

What kind of hard drives are you cutting from. RT performance has a lot to do with Hard drive speed.

David

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[Jennifer Arani]

Sorry took so long to get back with you. Thanks for the help…
I am using sing the standard drives that come with a mac pro
no raid, mac journaled file system, 7200 RPM SATA drives

[David Battistella]

I am sure you know that you should not be using the internal harddrive as the media drive. You really should be using an external drive or another internal drive on the MAC PRO.

Also,

You might try using something like FCP rescue to save your preferences and then delete them and restart. This will default FCP back to normal when you restart the program and it should do it’s “profiling for RT Extreme thing when it boots up.

David

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[John Fishback]

What codec is used for your media? What are your sequence settings?

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 2 (FCP 6.0.5, Comp 3.0.5, DVDSP 4.2.1, Color 1.0.3)

Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN

[Jennifer Arani]

We use H.264
my Sequence settings were 1440X1080
I finally found out that I used a preset format like NTSC the popup menu would populate. Its when I go with the anything out of the ordinary that the pop menu gets smaller.
Unfortunately A lot of my work is for a set of TVs that use a, not so hot, Dell computer to run the video. The only thing that would work on these 16:9 tv’s with a computer that spits the video out in 4:3 was to use the 1440X1080.

Thanks for the responses anyway.

[John Fishback]

With H.264 you’ll get no RT as it’s not an edit codec. It’s a delivery codec. Why not edit in ProRes or other good codec, export a Quicktime and use Compressor to make the H.264 from that. This way you can edit properly with little rendering and still end up with an H.264 delivery file.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 2 (FCP 6.0.5, Comp 3.0.5, DVDSP 4.2.1, Color 1.0.3)

Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN

[Jennifer Arani]

THANK YOU!!!

I hate learning by mistake. Thanks