Christopher Hill
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If it’s an iMac then you won’t be installing any capture card as it’s impossible to access the internals.
And because it’s a Mac you’ll have to find an external interface solution if your direct cable solution isn’t working. I’ve had some success with the Elgato Analog capture device in the past (https://www.elgato.com/en/video-capture) but that would require and analog output from your deck.
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I think the reason it’s subjective is because everyone edits differently and it would entirely depend on your editing methods and practices as to whether or not it’s a bottleneck for you and your process.
Are you editing uncompressed R3D and ProRes 4444XQ? Then absolutely it’s going to be a bottleneck, as would almost any current setup.
Are you editing your uncompressed footage as low-bitrate proxies? Then no, you’ll probably be fine for a few more years to come with that workflow.
Do your edits contain a lot of motion graphics? Fancy transitions? Heavy color correcting? etc. etc. etc. then again, it might be a bottleneck but if you’re editing documentary style with maybe a lower third every now and then, it’s probably not an issue.
So it really all comes down to your workflow. Are you happy with how you’re editing? Does it feel slow to you? Have you tried changing up your workflow to include proxies or altered your graphics usage? Do you even want to? These are all questions you should be asking yourself before you push to upgrade your graphics card.
Something else to keep in mind is your storage medium. In my experience, your storage will become a bigger bottleneck long before your graphics card does. Are you editing from older spinning disks? 2.5″ SSD? or PCIE4 NvME drives? Are they local to your system or over the network?
Sorry for rambling. Just some food for thought.
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As Bret Hampton pointed out there’s a lot that we don’t know about your system that could point to a possible solution.
You also have to be aware of your need for older versions (project compatibility, stability, plugin compatibility etc.), but for the most recent older versions these can still be installed via the Creative Cloud app. This is only for the most recent older versions though, nothing as old as CS5/6.
That being said, I recently went through this process. I went full nuclear on Adobe but one step shy of a reformat. You can go through the steps provided by Adobe themselves in using the CCCleaner tool.
In my case, the CCCleaner tool still didn’t clean out everything. I still had to manually delete a lot of folders/files in my %appdata% and %programdata% folders as well as deleting keys within the registry (<i style=”font-weight: bold;”>beware if you go this route as you can irreparably harm your windows install! Be very sure you know what you’re doing if you do this!).
Whatever your choice, best of luck!
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As others have mentioned, you make life harder for yourself if you spend so much time renaming clips at the OS level. However, if you intend to continue in your path, this is how I would proceed if I were you.
I’m making the assumption that your concern is just being able to identify the clips at the OS level. If so, I would suggest you import all of your clips into Premiere so that you can preview them. Organize them into bins. Then create like named folders in the OS. Re-organize your clips into the folders as you have them in the bins and then use Premiere’s ability to re-link to re-link all your clips. Once it finds one clip it should automatically find the rest of them. Of course this isn’t renaming the clips, but it does provide some way of recognizing their contents at the OS level.
However, if you truly want to rename all the clips it will take a monumental effort in one form or another. Either you will have to rename and then individually re-link to the *new* files (so much room for error following this path), because Premiere won’t see the rest of them. Or, as you allude to, after renaming you will have to re-import and re-encode all of the files.
Don’t know if it’s helpful in this case, but you can use a program called “Bulk Rename Utility” to rename your files following specific parameters. Really fast if you’re renaming isn’t very clip specific (think “Interior Day – 1, Interior Day -2; rather than Interior day with the red filter).
FWIW, I have had better luck playing very high resolution footage without proxies in Resolve than in Premiere so you could give that a shot.
Good luck!
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I realize I’m necroing an old thread here, but this is now possible within Resolve. Use shift to drag a box around the nodes you wish to move and then you can move them as a group.
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I would first verify that it’s actually staying on Hardware Accelerated. I had this same issue and noticed that if I switched from VBR 1-Pass to VBR 2-Pass it would default back to Software Encoding, but if I left it at 1-Pass it would default back to Hardware Encoding.
I’m not sure why 2-Pass makes a difference (perhaps some of the more intelligent folks here can provide an answer) but if you monitor the Hardware/Software dropdown for each change you make you can see which of your export settings are forcing it to software.
Hopefully it’s as simple as that. If not, hopefully someone else can chime in.
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A quick google search will net you some results if you know what to look for.
As another option, you could try what this gentleman did. https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/adobe-encore-cs6-download/td-p/10628904?page=1
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If I had a legit serial number, as you say you do, and were only missing the software, I would just find wherever I could to download the installation files and then use my own serial.
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I’ve noticed that the hardware acceleration is disabled if I use 2-pass VBR (not sure why though). Is it possible this is one of the two variants you’re using?
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About a year ago I installed my old version of Final Cut Studio 2 and then used Compressor to convert them all from CAF files to WAV (since nothing else reads CAF files). I’ve long since moved away from Final Cut to Premiere, but it’s nice to have access to them in a format that’s more readable.
If you still have your old Final Cut disks, or can find it cheap on ebay or the like, you can easily pull from there and do the same.