Don Smith
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I’m new to Roles so I’m not the expert, but it seems to me that Roles is exactly what you need. Roles makes exporting only what you need a painless task.
Assign a unique Role identifier to the clip you want to export, then export Roles and enable only that unique Role name.
See tutorial at:
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Thank you for that. When I attempt to put events on my folder within the XSAN I get an alert that says something to the effect that another user (null) has that location, but it’ll take the root of the XSAN. I’m connected through an Apple Fibre Card, but I don’t know if the protocol is Fibre Channel Protocol. I’m ignorant of this protocol and connection method, so pardon my ignorance. Of course, according to the document you linked, I can’t take the root of the XSAN or it’ll lock out other users to the XSAN if I understand it correctly.
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Zak, your advice to look at the ATI Radeon HD 5770 card for my MacPro 1,1 was solid.
Although my original MacPro isn’t a candidate according to the specs for the card, its working inside the computer just fine. Now, I don’t get the alert that my graphics card doesn’t qualify when I try to run FCPX or Motion 5.
I also ordered two Mini Displayport to DVI adaptors and my two displays are functioning just fine. The instructions said the DVI connector on the card is a Dual-Link so that you can run a 30″ Apple display on it, but I have no way of testing that.
Thank you.
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Thanks for the tip Zak. I read about the ATI Radeon HD 5770 and there’s a user review that says it works in his MacPro 1,1. He said that he could not also use the DVI connector when both mini-display ports were in use, but I only need to use the two mini-display ports (with adaptors). Thank you. I’ll follow up on this thread to see if the card indeed works (and I’m confident it will).
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Does anyone know if a graphics card for a more recent Mac Pro will work in the original Mac Pro? I seem to read their was a PCIe change a year or two after MacPro 1,1. For the moment, it seems that the ATI Radeon HD 3870 is the best card I can put into my MacPro 1,1 but I’m hoping I’m wrong.
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Thank you Mark. That would have been the easier way.
Apparently, the graphics requirement for the three apps has changed since the first release. The first time I bought FCPX, Motion 5 and Compressor 4, on my MacPro the App Store made no complaint about my graphics card. I thought I had dodged a bullet.
I worked around getting the apps on my MacPro by copying them from my laptop. That got them on my MacPro, but every time I launch them now I get an alert that the graphics card is not supported. They still run, but that alert is not only a pain, but it surely means that GPU assistance is missing.
Clearly, I need to update my hardware because I have what I think is the best graphics card available for the original Intel Mac Pro (ATI 3870? I’m doing that model number from memory). I would buy a better card right now if there’s one better for my older computer. In any case, I’m hoping to save the money needed for the next generation of the MacPro, but I’m hearing so many great reports of these apps running on the i7 iMac and Mac Mini that I’m looking at those options as well.
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Ah HAH! Thank you for clearing that up what ‘Theme’ means Mark. Yet another great feature in Motion 5.
You gave me my project for this holiday morning; I’m sitting here loading all Motion 4 templates one at a time, enabling all drop zones to be published, choosing my thumbnail, and publishing the templates with a preview movie and then checking my Motion 5 Project Browser to make sure they display and open correctly. It’s not easy being obsessive. 🙂
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I also need to point out that FCP Studio 3 was also on both machines.
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I too had output problems with Motion on both a Mac Pro and a new MacBook Pro.
In the case of the MacBook Pro, I had upgraded to Lion over an existing Snow Leopard installation. On the Mac Pro, I was still running Snow Leopard.
Since my laptop was new I decided to experiment and I zero’ed the drive and installed Lion. Then used Software Update to insure Lion was up to date. Then I installed FCPX and Motion 5. Nothing else. Now, Motion output is perfect. On my Mac Pro, still running Snow Leopard, Motion 5 still has faulty output.
Draw from that what you may. It appears that some other app is interfering but I can’t be certain. Just telling you my story on the way it happened on how I got good output.
I left a message similar to this in another thread and asked others with the problem to share with me what other apps are running to see if we could identify the culprit but have had no takers. I had Adobe CS 5.5 Master Collection on both computers and haven’t yet put it back on my laptop with its clean Lion installation, but that’s my next step, although, I think it’s unlikely that CS 5.5 Master Collection is the conflict.
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I’m starting to think that the audio rendering problem with Motion 5 has to do with a conflict. Let me ask; do the two of you who posted the same problem also have Final Cut Studio 3 installed on the same computer?
When I took my new MBPro 17″ Thunderbolt laptop, zeroed the drive, installed Lion, FCPX, Motion 5 and the new Compressor (and nothing else so far), that problem went away. It seems to me that the exporting problems of Motion 5 (and FCPX on that same machine) is the result of a conflict with something else.
Another piece of the puzzle is that the same output artifacts happen on a SECOND machine that, by the way, also has FCP Studio 3 on it as well.
I’m just trying to narrow this down by comparing notes.
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