Don Smith
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The MotionSmarts site no longer exists because it was hosted on MobileMe.
Can someone post that script OR list the steps it accomplished so I can try to replicate it?
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Even after downloading the NVidea driver for the GTX285 for Lion, restarting, loading the latest CUDA driver, C4D still shows only the ATI card. The GTX card is listed in the expanded About This Mac so its functioning.
It’s really a intellectual puzzle at this point but I would like to find out why so I can migrate my solution to the other two Mac Pro machines in my shop.
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Kerry.. I got the power splitter and have put the GTX card into my work Mac Pro along side the ATI, which remains as the ‘boot’ graphics card.
C4D only lists the ATI card as the OpenGL accelerator and also says at the bottom that all necessary extensions are loaded.
Do I need to go out and find drivers for the GTX card? I was assuming (the Army tried to teach me not to do that) that the drivers were built-in to OS X because the card is marketed for the Mac pro by Apple.
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Kerry.. Got the GTX installed on my work Mac Pro. The ATI card remains the ‘boot’ graphics card.
However, C4D reports that the ATI card has OpenGL and at the bottom it reports that I have all necessary extensions to enable OpenGL.
No mention of the GTX card.
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Kerry.. I now have the power splitter and have installed the GTX card in my work Mac Pro and left the AIT5770 card as my ‘boot’ graphics card. The GTX has nothing attached to it other than the power splitter cable.
I now have C4D running and under ‘OpenGL Capabilities’ it lists only the ATI Radeon HD 5770 OpenGL Engine. No mention of the GTX card. At the bottom of that window it says ‘Your graphics card has all necessary extensions for Enghanced OpenGL’.
One, I’m surprised that the ATI does OpenGL (along with OpenCL), and two, I’m surprised that the GTX does not seem to be recognized by C4D.
I’m not complaining about the performance of C4D, I just thought it was using the CPU only and that the GTX card would help.
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Shot in the dark here…
In FCP7, the order in which you make a selection will change the order of clips on a timeline. In other words, in FCP7 I could CMD-Click clips out of sequence, lay them all in a timeline at once, and their order in the timeline will match the sequence in which I selected them.
I might, maybe, possibly be the same thing working here. Maybe, could be, the first time it worked you selected the video first and FCPX makes that the ‘reference’ for the other clips. Kinda. Maybe. I’m just saying that if all else is failing but you know it worked once, this is worth a few seconds to try to see if the software is thinking like that.
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Try deleting your FCPX preferences.
There’s a free app for doing that at:
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I had to take out a Cuda card (GTX285) and put in an ATI5770. Once I did that, FCPX went from running like a stubborn mule to smooth and fast.
I’ve now learned that you can keep the NVidea card in the Mac Pro but you’ll need to get a power cable splitter. The NVidea card will accelerate Adobe apps. Another poster on this site taught me that the Mac Pro has plenty of power for both cards. He uses the AIT card as the ‘boot’ card in the bottom slot and the displays connected to it, and then splits off power for the GTX card so it can accelerate CUDA software.
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Kerry.. Here’s Chris demo’ing his AutoCam plug-in for C4D. You may like this because you can move your camera without keyframes:
https://vimeopro.com/cineversity/nab2012/video/41430265
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EXCELLENT work Kerry!
Chris not only does C4D but he’s also a commercial director of national spots. He does all the Ram Truck commercials for example.
Choose Chris Smith from the list of directors.
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