[Erik Lindahl]

Running 10.4.3 here on a G5 with a Kona LS and FCP 5.0.3. Looking very good so far (done a short-flick edit shot on DV this week).

[Erik Lindahl]

I was at IBC and really wanted to get a “hands on” tour of Final Touch my self. But it was a no goer. Very sad.

From what I’ve heard is that with PCI-E the bottleneck of AGP/PCI-X should be gone. We now have 2 times the bandwidth to the GPU, however, the video i/o is still the same speed as previews (Kona LHe is the only HD card for PCI-E at the moment and it runs on a 4X slot

[Erik Lindahl]

From AJA.com:

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10.20.05
Something New

Check Back Tomorrow

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We’ll probably se PCI-E versions of the Kona-series of cards, if not a completely new board/Io-type interface.

[Erik Lindahl]

Alright… Are you shooting in 24 or 25P? This did the trick for me, but I’ve shot in 25P here in PAL-LAND.

[Erik Lindahl]

Yes, I’ve thrashed the prefs-file for FCP and the “POA Cache” file in all my different “setups and tests”.

I tried FCP 4.5 in Panther and Tiger.

I just a week ago installed a clean Tiger and Final Cut Pro Studio on the machine.

I’ve tried to playback media off two different internal IDE-drives and an external FW400 drive.

Same thing. Very strange…

[Erik Lindahl]

I’ve looked at playback through a DV-camera on a TV yes, but only get 1/2 resolution (i.e FCP “medium quality”).

I do get full quality whilst scrubbing, choosing “cinemadisplay = RAW”, but not during playback. With or with out effects. The same goes for external sources.

[Erik Lindahl]

Okej, how come a PowerBook G4/867 with 640MB RAM handles it? In most cases the Dual 500Mhz machine beats it in terms of speed.

I still don’t se why I shouldn’t be able to simply playback a DV-file a full quality on this machine. A machine with roughly 1/3 of the speed did it with 1/2 of RAM and HD speed… 🙂

If this is the case, Apple should change it requirments of FCP to 1Ghz/1Gb RAM for full DV playback.

[Erik Lindahl]

Perhaps changing your sequence “Filed Dominance” to “NONE”. Otherwise I reckon FCP will go into field-land with your footage as soon as a render has to be done.

[Erik Lindahl]

That isn’t quite true. The RT-setting is for the whole timeline. If i choose LOW there, the whole sequence will playback at LOW quality. If I choose HIGH the whole sequence will playback at HIGH quality. This is for clips with or without effects on them.

If we disregard RT-effects, I can live with out these, I still can’t playback a sequence or a file at it’s full (in FCP “High”) quality. This very annoying. I can’t even choose “HIGH” on the machine. If I turn off RT-effects it still playsback at “MEDIUM” quality.

Again, QT-Player handles the DV-files in fullquality without a hitch, so does a similar sped PowerBook.

[Erik Lindahl]

If I could get RT playback that would be great, but that isn’t my problem.

I just want to playback ordinary DV-files (with zero effects or filters) at their “full” (in FCP “high”) quality. QT player does this without a hitch, the same version of FCP does this on my PowerBook 867Mhz. This shouldn’t be a problem. I could do this years ago on my G4/350 in OS9 for christ sake 🙂