Graham Withers
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As a freelance doc editor, I’m a big Frame.io fan. Used it with Premiere and Avid, love the integration, super easy and fast.
The whole “sign in process” leading to confusion around “adding a seat” for clients to review and comment needs to be addressed better but otherwise, I really like what it brings to my process.
The speed of upload/downloads using Transfer for passing proxies and assets around is kinda amazing too. Again, some bumps using it but a powerful tool and reasonably priced IMO.
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I’m a doc film/tv editor and in my experience with a 2018 MacBook Pro, 2013/14 Trashcans and now a couple of 2019 iMacs is that they are not set up to run a third monitor without some playing around. I’d say if you’re in a crunch, the simplest thing to do would be to cut with the director with just two monitors and use full screen playback together.
But, if you really want the 3 monitors, and have some mess around time, I find I’m constantly playing around with which ports to plug in the 3 monitors into when setting up a new system: whether they’ll playback with 2 DisplayPort inputs or whether your system plays nice with an HDMI connection, which TB bus ports to plug your monitors into, which to plug the RAID/Media into, etc. I haven’t experimented much with TB3 monitors – maybe that’d make a difference?
Look at the thunderbolt bus port allocation for your MBP – make sure you plug the monitors into the different buses.
Even with a breakout box, I find you’ll have to play around with the port arrangement for things to run smoothly – I find this with Premiere as well as Avid BTW.
My favourite hack, which is really my most reliable advice, is to put a desk fan blowing on the machine with the GPU.
Hope it’s working out for ya!
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Great points Jim – I find Premiere looses touch with it’s supporting files sometimes – like when the Media Browser won’t load a project the only way to fix it is to force quite out of PPro.
@oliverpeters I’ve always assumed it was related to the way it sometimes can’t access an auto-save folder on my Dropbox or Google Drive.
When working with small teams, we used to save projects to Dropbox which was an easy work around for sharing work with assistants but this “lost linking” tendency quashed that a few years back.
Do you guys think they’re related?
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No easy solves but depending on how many sources you’re dealing with, you could sync your rushes, turn on dupe detection and paste the rush at the end of the timeline – cutting, pasting and replacing down the line.
Super labour intensive but at least you’ll have the problem solved in a (long) day for sure.
Good luck with it!
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First thought here is that your primary consideration is which editing codec you’re transcoding into – that’ll be a big factor in terms of data rate, from there, depending on how your system handles 2k vs. 1080 data rates in that codec, go from there.
For me, in terms of 2K v 1080, it’s nice to be able to get a decent sense of what reframes and zooms are going to look like in the offline as well as how sharp focus is on shots, so choosing the highest resolution that works nicely in your system is a nice to have luxury. Linking your transcodes to your online media, if you storage allows for it, is a great way to cheat that in Premiere as you can seamlessly switch back and forth between online and proxy/transcoded version.
It does add a step though.
You’re probably not going transcode into a finishing (full colour value) format, so transcoding to 2K to meet your 2K DCP shouldn’t factor in I don’t think?
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My facility upgraded me from 2019 to 2020 over the weekend mid-project – yikes – but so far so good, no issues to report.
Windows 10 bootcamp on a Mac Pro Trashcan
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Good luck with it Keith – my downgrade to v13.0.3 and unplugging it/ plugging it in has worked consistently when the program doesn’t boot up with the third monitor showing fullscreen playback – I’ll report back here with future improvements if you do!
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I’ve been dealing with this since getting a new MBP with a the Radeon Pro Vega 20 4 GB graphics card and the latest Premiere 13.1.2 update.
I’ve found nothing all that helpful TBH – in the video playback preferences, unless you get your 3rd monitor/Fullscreen playback listed as “monitor 3”, I can’t seem to fix the issue. For me, that involves unplugging/plugging-in that 3rd monitor in with Premiere running in order to get it to pop as “Monitor 3.”
I’m running at 2018 MBP, with a 2K Monitor by displayport 1.2 through a Caldigit T3 and a 3rd 1080P monitor via HDMI/Apple T3 to HDMI adapter.
I’ve downgraded to an earlier versions of Premiere 13 in order to make the playback more predictable.
Lemme know if you have any luck.
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I believe there’s an issue with Premiere 13.1.2 not recognizing a 3rd monitor properly but only for fullscreen playback.
Whether it has to do with the software version or the 2019 MBP with Radeon Pro Vega 20 4 GB graphics I’m using, I don’t know but earlier versions of Premiere work fine.
Caution to others before ya upgrade.
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Appreciate the feedback Oliver – I’ve actually got it running now. I think it has something to do with Premiere 13 and the Thunderbolt ports on the MBP…
I tried playback in Premiere 12.1.2 and it worked so I figured it must be a 13.1.2 issue.
When I plugged the RAID into the left/back TB3 port – BUS 0 and the Caldigit with a 2nd monitor via DisplayPort in to BUS 1, the right rear port, and finally the 3rd monitor via HDMI/Mac USB-C adapter in the right front port, it’s working!
For now…
Good insight on the display robbing the power… All the different configs are awesome but dang, sometimes it’s a real dog’s breakfast making them work!