[Doug Weiner]

One interesting data point that might be useful:

Rendering sequences in Premier Pro Cloud using a Nvidia 650 Ti causes screen corruption while but using NVIDIA 5000 does not. Please note I didn’t do exhaustive testing. Awhile back, I had the Nvidia 650 Ti installed and was getting the crashes which I thought was probably due to the fact the cards was a consumer card. So when I swapped out the card for an NVIDIA 5000 card (from an HP z800) and the problem went away, I thought I was right. Now back to the hardware/software details/workflow set-up.

I have a Hackintosh station using Premiere Pro CC. My source files are from HD TIFF image sequences, cut into timelines. (scanning old film). One sequence is destined for an HD ProRes quicktime, and the the other a smaller h264. The HD sequence has no effects, the h264 sometimes has a color correct (Colorista II or the built in Lumeri effects or built in Color Correct tool and a Time Code burn in. For rendering, I use Adobe Media Encoder for about 85 % and Premier 15%.

Hardware Setup:
i7 Hackintosh 3rd Gen Ivy
PP cloud 7.2.2 (v33)
10.8.5
CUDA: 6.5.18
GPU Driver Version: 8.17.76 (313.01.04f01)

Using the Titan 650 TI, I can regularly get screen corruption. I am unsure if I ever got this setup to work at all but I think it worked sometimes. Never on long sequences. Again, didn’t exhaustive investigate.

However, using the exact setup about and the Nvdia 5000, I have made at least 500 renders this way – 10 to 30 minute sequences, all with hardware CUDA enabled.

I have very little professional computer training, but I have been alive before there were computers and watched them grow up – meaning this kind of issue seems early familiar to when you push hardware and software to new limits from Vendors or do not share critical info, you get these annoying anomalies for which nobody is willing to take responsibility. My experienced guess, its how the CUDA driver is managing the flow of memory on the card or the flow from the card to the OS. (Like the card/driver sloppily dumping 4 gigs of rendered stuff to the OS and the OS not able to deal with it like – oh shit, I was not built to handle that much data in a moments notice, and the card says, hey you said come to the party with some friends, and the OS says, yeah like bring one or two, I was prepared for a party of 20 people but you brought 100 with you, and the card says, WTF bro, you didn’t’ specify, and the OS says I didn’t think I needed to, who the frick brings 100 people to a party, and the card says, what can I say I am popular, and the OS says, well you can’t bring the 100 in here, I don’t have the space for it even I wanted to, and the card, says this is bullshit I brought all these friends already I am coming in and then the two start arguing and finally some neighbor who was not invited the party and is quietly pissed about that but was putting up with it all to be a good neighbor because at least the party sounded fun through the closed door and he was getting a tiny bit of enjoyment from that, but in no way is going to put up with all the arguing and 100 people milling about the hallway, so he called the police and then the computer crashes. Its just like that.

[Doug Weiner]

Sounds good to me if they rent an LTO solution. Searching the web, I didn’t see this option pop up. But if its available, I am buying a BLU license and renting. I will check with them and report back.

[Doug Weiner]

Ok, Nick you led me in the right direction so thank you!!

Here is a poor solution, but one none-the-less.

A) Batch Export the sequences you want.
B) In Batch Export, set up the batch as a Still Image. Make sure to click OFF “use in and out”
C) Export to a folder

Now you have list in the Finder you can copy and paste. Also its fast and you haven’t used much disk space.

Its not ideal and you loose some column info, but at least you can get an accurate list of sequences!

Thanks
Doug

[Doug Weiner]

1) Final Print will work, just will cost me $125 for this one job. Ughh

2) Nick…do you know some trick for FCP7 to Batch List from the browser to get sequence names? I have yet to be able to do that. I am happy, to open each project and Batch List the sequence names, just can’t make this happen.

3) For now, going with the tedious, and a little error prone, copy and paste.

[Doug Weiner]

Ok found a solution albeit a poor one.

1) Make a copy of all the Project Files in question
2) Change the extension to .txt
3) Spotlight will re-index to use terminal and type “mdimport ”

This of course will require I create new text versions ever so ofter which is annoying and if anybody has a better solution, please let me know.

Doug

[Doug Weiner]

Ok, someone delete all those posts with the link and please give me clear directions how to upload a file. (Or if an Admin can just fix it, that would be great.)

In the meantime, here are the text instructions to create the same droplet in Compressor:

Frame Control ON:
Resize: Fast
Output Fields: Top
De-interlace – Fast
no adaptive details
Anti alias – 0
Details level – 0
Rate Conversion Fast
Set Duration – 100% of Source

Then in the Video Settings
Frame Rate: Current
Gamma Correction None (although no matter what I get the gamma shift)
Interlaced: Top Field
Enable Chroma filtering for 4:4:4 off.

[Doug Weiner]

a href="https://f1.creativecow.net/4572/field-switch-droplet-for-black-magic-intensity-for-use-in-compressor">4572_correctfieldswitch.setting.zip

[Doug Weiner]

a href="https://f1.creativecow.net/4572/field-switch-droplet-for-black-magic-intensity-for-use-in-compressor">4572_correctfieldswitch.setting.zip

[Doug Weiner]

I too am having this problem. The solution although not a good one is to use compressor. Here a droplet.

[Doug Weiner]

I will test this out. The QT Extensions was doing it in the same format, ProResHQ and it was taking 2-3 hours while just Export to QT was taking 7. Which seems crazy.

So I went back an checked the QT export and I had “Re-compress all Frames” checked. Duh! Unchecking that did the trick. 24 minutes now!!