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Ally Shore
April 28, 2013 at 7:45 pm in reply to: System Setup & RT Playback

No, that’s the issue I’m having is I’m downscaling my media in my sequence and my Video card isn’t fast enough. Sounds like you’re doing it right…so as another noobie…sorry, can’t help more than that. Good luck.
Ally Shore
April 28, 2013 at 3:43 pm in reply to: Question About System Setup

Thanks, your response above popped up on my email two seconds after I made the other post. I’ll look into a fast CUDA enabled card for my machine.

ally
Ally Shore
April 28, 2013 at 2:58 pm in reply to: Question About System Setup

Tom,
I was up to 2am but I think I know my issue. I think Premiere doesn’t like it when you work with 1920×1080 files in a 1280×720 sequence. In FCP (since everything was transcoded to ProRes) it wasn’t an issue. But now in PPro, it’s making me render every frame because it’s scaling every clip. I’m not sure that even if I use a Raid0 on my current system, it will that make it fast enough that it doesn’t care about the scaling.

So here’s the $60,000 question…is there a workaround if you want to create a 720 sequence but use 1080 footage?

Ally
Ally Shore
April 28, 2013 at 2:39 pm in reply to: System Setup & RT Playback

Are you editing in a a 1920×1080 sequence or a 1280×720? I thing I realized that my issue. Unlike FCP which uses a ProRes file for everything, (so upscaling or downscaling in a sequence doesn’t matter) if you try to do that in Premiere it has to render every single clip.

If this isn’t your issue…I hope you can figure out your problem as well.

Ally
Ally Shore
April 28, 2013 at 7:29 am in reply to: Question About System Setup

Angelo,

Also, it may actually use less CPU to edit in 1080p natively and just scale during export. A more suitable GPU could take the scaling work off the hands of the CPU if you do choose to upgrade.

I think that’s the issue. I have always been able to take 1920×1080 footage in FCP and edit in a 1280×720 sequence with no issues. I do a lot of interviews, and since I only have to deliver most of the projects in 1280×720, it allows me to get both a medium shot (68% size of original) and a close up (100% size). Looks like Premiere doesn’t like that, so it’s making me render every single image clip that is 1920×1080. Really? I hope that’s not it, because if it is…that blows. Also, it seems that when you sync your sound using ‘merge’, the new ‘merged clip’ doesn’t act like a normal clip. You can’t use comment markers, you can’t export EDL and there seems to be a few other issues. They do get that the main DSLR workflow involves syncing right?

I hope I’m wrong on this, I was so excited about PPro. AHHHH

Ally
Ally Shore
April 28, 2013 at 4:48 am in reply to: Question About System Setup

Tom,
Thanks for the feedback. The internal drive I’m running now is exclusively for media. My system and is on a separate disk and my project is on yet a third internal disk.

As for a faster graphics card, there isn’t much out there for the older MacPro and I agree, I’m thinking best bang for the buck in terms of increasing performance would be at least a two drive Raid0 through esata (haven’t heard anything good about USB 3, not even sure if the MacPro 4.1 would take a USB 3 card).

As long as I’m asking, I ran my activity monitor and it only shows 2gigs of memory going to PPro. Does that seem low to you?

Ally
Ally Shore
April 28, 2013 at 3:21 am in reply to: Just Switched from FCP – Workflow Hiccups

Hi Gates,
I”m having the exact issue you did. For some reason in the default settings the command-d works, but nothing you set it to in the custom settings will get the default transition to work. (ie: command-t) Did you ever find an answer?

thanks
Ally
Ally Shore
September 26, 2008 at 6:26 pm in reply to: Creating Stadium Crowd with Flip Cards

Thank you. You’re right…I should have checked…my bad.

ally