Don Smith
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Great tip T!
FCPX is better but still not ‘like BUTTAH!’ using the 5700. For example, if I click away to another program and come back, it takes FCPX between eight and ten seconds to get responsive.
I’m still getting a pause between clicks and resulting action in the two to three second range for practically everything I do. Once in a while its immediately responsive but that’s the exception. I can scrub the horizontal position number in the Inspector, for example, and it’ll still be unresponsive for a couple of seconds and then the clip with jump to the new position, which will be too far because I scrubbed the position number without feedback and don’t know when I’ve gone too far until the jump occurs.
*sigh*
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Not a full stress test yet but a couple of observations..
The ATI Radeon HD 5770 (1024 MB) is clearly better. We’ll see more as I get into text overlays. We’ll see whether it no longer ‘locks’ into Play and won’t come out until a forced restart as the day progresses.
Note that this card has two Mini Display ports and one Dual-Link DVI port. You can use any two at one time, never can you use all three at once. Only the Dual-Link DVI port can drive a 30″ screen to its full res.
The 30″ monitor that’s at half res is truly a pain. It’s 1280×800 while the 30-incher that I display FCPX on (hooked to the Dual-Link DVI port) is at 2560×1600. I suspect that the half-res is due to the Mini Display Port only servicing one link of the dual-link monitor and thus I end up with lower res than if I had a 27″ display hooked to that port.
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I’ve put the 5770 card into my work Mac Pro 3,1 (2008) and sadly it won’t drive both my 30″ monitors at full resolution. I can get full res on one of the monitors by plugging it into the dual-link DVI port but the other 30-incher has to be adapted to one of the mini-display ports and it’ll only do half the res.
While irritating is not unworkable. I will work today on the full-res 30″ screen while doing the Finder windows and email on the low-res screen and see what happens today.
In the meantime, if the 5770 drives FCPX much better, which ATI card should I get to drive both 30″ screens at their full res?
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Except that you describe the symptoms much better Dave than my “runs like a stubborn mule”!
T says he’s got a ATI Radeon 5770 in his 2006 Mac Pro. I do too at home. Yes, the same card on the same model machine. I just haven’t done much to task FCPX at home since I’m using it all day at work. So, when I go to work this morning I’m taking the ATI Radeon 5770 card out of my home machine and putting it in my work machine to see what happens. I can try his suggestion at no cost to me. Will post the results here.
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That’s very nice of you. I can do that tomorrow. laboring under a deadline today but I’ll pop up tomorrow with that screen cap. Thank you.
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Thanks for you comments T….
“Runs like stubborn mule” means that everything responds slowly. I do a lot of videos (but I’m careful to use Event Manager X to only have a couple active at a time) which require lots of text overlays and basic motion graphics. To put text into a text effect, for example, is far from ‘buttery smooth’. Every click or text entry gets a delayed reaction. Clicking on the horizontal position number and scrubbing left or right results, most of the time, in nothing happening for a couple of seconds and then the graphic starts jumping to catch up. Once in a while the movement might be smooth but that’s the exception.
Sometimes I play the video and it won’t stop. FCPX becomes unresponsive and I have to force quit it.
Maybe I should switch to an ATI card. As I said in my earlier post I keep my Mac Pro updated and I’ve rebuilt the boot drive from the ground up to avoid the Migration Assistant bring old crap into the new system.
This is an 8-core Mac Pro 3,1 with 10GB of RAM. Latest OS. Latest FCPX and Motion 5.
Do ATI cards accelerate FCPX or Motion 5?
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I just had something similar happen.. I split a clip to cut out a few seconds and dressed up the timeline. I started hearing the phantom, as you call it. I expanded the clips and saw that the cut didn’t take out the audio and after the timeline tightened up, the extra audio sounded below the clip that came earlier. I forget the details but I could not make it go away simply by dragging back the extra audio. It seemed to be a bug in the system. I think if you expanded the clips surrounding the gap you’ll see the dangling audio.
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Well, strip my gears and call me shiftless! That add/delete a key frame a few frames later worked! I tried the right-clicking on the keyframes in the Viewer to no avail. They were already marked as Liner. Even changing them to Smooth and back didn’t work. Then I tried your cockamamie add/delete keyframe trick and BOOM! The errant way of the interpolation came back to a straight path. Thank you!
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Very thoughtful reply. I appreciate it very much. I couldn’t find any point where I could right-click to change the interpolation since the Bezier movement was straight down the x-axis but now that I know where to look I can’t wait to try it.
I had once fixed a wandering interpolation by creating a new keyframe one frame later but I think that was somewhere else. Didn’t work this time and that’s where I thought you were headed in your explanation.. but you didn’t head that way. Interesting trick. Again, thank you very much.
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That was indeed the case (the folder structure in the Projects mirrored the hard drive structure). I’m just saying Event X didn’t ‘see’ the nested project and I was perplexed for a while why it didn’t show up in Event X but was clearly there.
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