[Colin Mcquillan]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I think it also has to be dual mono and not stereo”
I’ve been outputting prores files from FCP and FCPX for KiPro playout for many years and have never had to specify dual mono or stereo before.

When I re-encoded the files I exported from FCPX in Adobe Media Encoder (CS6) audio was set to stereo and the KiPro was able to playout the file just fine.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

[gary adcock] “So with the update did you bother to check the settings to make sure that the audio compression is set correctly? “
yes, I did bother to check…

[gary adcock] “What are the settings you are using?”
1080i60 Prores HQ
48kz audio

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

I put a 3gig 7970 in my 3,1 tower. HUGE increase in speed/performance over the original nvidia card that came with my machine.

I was also on the fence whether or not to upgrade to the new MacPro, but with this card I feel I am good to wait until the 2nd generation of the Tube-Pro.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

The Mini Monitor Shane suggests is a great affordable output device for monitoring. I do a lot of cutting while on the road and use one to tap into hotel TV sets or my SmallHD monitor that I travel with.

One thing to keep in mind when using one of these output devices with FCPX is to set your viewer to “Better Quality” instead of “Better Performance” as you will not be able to see any fields/interlacing issues and such even on the external monitor. (When set to better performance FCPX only outputs at a lower resolution, even to the external display which can mask issues.)

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

Since the update to 10.1/Mavericks all of the projects within one of my libraries has become extremely laggy beyond use. 3 seconds lag after any edit, nudge, audio adjustment – anything beyond skimming and playback. My other libraries seem unaffected. This particular library had many short projects within, all keyword tagged. Copying one of these projects into another library did not solve the issue – the project is still laggy even once copied into a different library. I am able to create a new project, then copy the edited sequence/contents of an affected project and paste it into the new project – the new project does not inherit the lag – so leads me to believe it is perhaps an issue with the keyword collections during the update.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

I haven’t seen this issue yet – though rendering basic titles on my machine is now taking much longer since the update. Everything else seems faster and snappier though.

I’ve also had to turn off auto-render since updating as it now causes my machine to intermittently freeze when it kicks in.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

Of course best case scenario is to never rename a master file once it has been imported into a project! But the same issue could come up if trying to replace media by relinking to a different file if it is contained in another fcpx library.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

This is the card I bought:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/141058814279?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

You do need to be on OSX 10.8.3 or newer for it to work properly. That is when apple included the drivers for this card with the OS. I was on 10.7.x when my old card crapped out on me. When this one arrived I was able to boot while on 10.7.x with this card, but performance was choppy and awful – installed 10.8.x and it woke right up. Just upgraded my tower to Mavericks yesterday and all is still whizzing among just right!

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

I’m unsure about which of those two cards would be the best solution head to head, but from what I’ve read FCPX and Motion perform better with the AMD cards…

I recently upgraded the 1gig Nvidia 8800GT card in my ’08 Mac Pro tower to a 3gig AMD Radeon HD 7970 and wow! I am blown away at the huge rendering speed improvement. It blows away my newer top end MBP as well. Before the GFX card upgrade the MBP was faster.

Next upgrade will be a solid state boot drive – With that and the GFX card I should be good to go until the second or third generation of the new tower (Never like jumping in with the first version of anything!)

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

How well is C4D using the GPU these days? I’m a couple versions behind and it is heavily CPU dependant for rendering and really only touches the gpu for previews.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.