[Daniel Alban]

Matrox released something recently with SDI and other goodies that I know can be used with the iMac. Don’t know what it’s called or if it works with laptops. If you have the latest Unibody Macbook Pro chances are that it won’t be possible, since Apple removed the Express card slot on these models (sad but true) I’m thinking this would be the connection that it uses.

Kind regards

Daniel Alban

Copenhagen, Denmark

[Daniel Alban]

Hi Jeremy.

Thanks for the tips.

Do you know why there is a default frame offset when using a Black Magic card and none when you don’t?

I’m looking forward to try this when I get back to work tomorrow.

I wasn’t aware that dual graphic card systems weren’t recommended for FCP. I’ve made another system like that, and that has been running fine ever since. But I guess I’ve just been lucky so far.

Thanks again 🙂

Daniel Alban

Copenhagen, Denmark.

[Daniel Alban]

Hey Richard.

Thanks for your reply.

I’m running 10.6.2. Latest Snow Leopard. Same as on the old system. On the software side the two systems are totally identical which is why I’m so baffled that I’m getting poorer performance on the brand new one.

I haven’t been able to find a Snow Leopard compatible version of CHUD. Do you have a link or do you know how to manually disable hyper threading? But as far as I have gathered from reading about FCP 7 it should be build for hyper threading. I also just did a google search for hyper threading and Final Cut and I couldn’t find any discussions on the subject so I’m a little skeptical about this but I’ll give it a try tomorrow.

Recently another client of mine scraped his trusty old G5. Instead he bought a Nehalem so he could run FCP 7, and I clearly remember him complaining that the dropped frames we all of a sudden were suffering from practically never accured on the G5.

I know that Ati cards usually does a better job at FCP. But in this case I think you could argue that the stock Nvidia card just isn’t usable with FCP. I mean a 2003 G5 doing a better job playing an XDCAM EX HD sequence than a 2009 Mac Pro??? I find it strange that more people haven’t been on the fence about this but I have only found one other discussion about it here on the forum.

So I would love to hear from people who are working with XD Cam material on a Nehalem system.

On the issue of crashing: Today I tried working with my sequence containing lots of multi clips with camera sync off. This actually made it possible to work without constant crashing. This of cause isn’t a solution since I can only see one camera at a time, but it sure beats restarting 25 times a day.

So I sure hope to see a FCP update addressing this issue very very soon.

Daniel Alban

Copenhagen, Denmark.