[Guy Ross]

Thank you Gerald!

I had the exact same problem with the yellow triangle and this fixed it.
Select all titles, delete and undo.

[Guy Ross]

Thanks Andy!

As I deal mostly with RED footage and ProRes (both of which are RGB and progressive), color space translations and interlacing don’t affect me so much…

However, I still would like to educate myself more about this color science business.

Granted, it’s all in theory, as my ‘good’ monitor is only 8-bit, and just barely covers the sRGB gamut 🙂
(BTW – I highly recommend it – HP zr24w. It’s cheap and color accurate and probably the best you can get for ~ $400).

Does anyone know if there’s a good comprehensive technical paper on this somewhere?
Preferably one that goes beyond the science to actual OS-specific details…?

Thanks!

[Guy Ross]

In my experience the ‘Out of Memory’ error has nothing to do with memory.
I get it often when trying to playback H.264 files downloaded from YouTube.

[Guy Ross]

Some more detail, in case it helps anyone.

This is how I connected 3 monitors to FCP

My system is a Mac Pro with ATI HD 5870.

The monitors are now connected as follows:

mini DisplayPort 1: 42″ TV 1080p via VGA to mini DisplayPort adapter

mini DisplayPort 2: 24″ Monitor via DisplayPort to mini DisplayPort cable

DVI: 24″ Monitor via DVI to DVI cable

I think Final Cut offers full-screen preview (Digital Cinema Desktop Preview) on the main monitor and one other monitor.

I think the main monitor is the one that has Mac OS’s menu bar in it.
You can move the menu bar to different monitors using System Preferences – > Displays -> Arrangement.

It is not clear to me how FCP chooses which other monitor is available for full-screen.

But, when I switched the order my displays were connected, FCP made the full-screen preview available on the monitor I needed.

Hope this helps.

p.s.
The reason I use the analog VGA connector on my third monitor is that the Mac Pros with the 5770/5870 require expensive ‘Dual Link DVI to mini DisplayPort’ convertors if more than one DVI monitor is connected.

It was not possible to connect 3 monitors simultaneously when I tried using either the ‘HDMI to mini DisplayPort’ connector, nor the regular ‘DVI to mini DisplayPort’ connector.

[Guy Ross]

Hey Paul,

I had the exact same problem and posted the question in this forum.

Andy Mees suggested that I change the order in which the monitors were connected and it worked.

[Guy Ross]

Thanks Andy!

I switched the monitor connections and now the full screen Digital Cinema Disply Preview is available on the right monitor.

Thanks!

Another loosely related questions you might know the answer to:

Several people have stated in this forum that Digital Cinema Display Preview is a sub-par monitoring solution as compared to Aja or Matrox output cards.

Do you agree?
What’s the technical reasoning behind that?

Thanks,

Guy

[Guy Ross]

I can’t get FCP to do “cinema display desktop preview” on my third display, even though my three displays are all connected to one card. (5870)

[Guy Ross]

Hey Todd,

I believe your article refers to still image sequences…?
Regardless, my frame size is 1080p, ie 1920×1080.
And so, if i understand correctly, the minimum required RAM is 1920×1080/16384 =~ 126MB
The GTX285’s 1GB is 8x that.

But pixels and math aside… you are on the Premiere team!

So, if you don’t mind, let me put you on the spot…

The GTX285 is one of only TWO video cards you recommend for Mac.

YES or NO – can Premiere reliably edit native Canon 5D/7D 1080p footage with the GTX285?

G

[Guy Ross]

Thanks Richard,

I have had these problems on three different systems, two of them with clean installs.

I don’t think the GTX285 is the culprit either.
It’s one of only 2 Adobe approved cards for the Mac on the Adobe compatibility list:

https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/performance/

The alternative, the Quadro FX 4800 is an older card (and significantly more expensive)

The GTX 285 exceeds the 4800 in key specs:

240 vs 192 CUDA cores
159 vs 77 GB/s memory bandwidth

although its RAM is admittedly smaller:

1GB vs 1.5 GB

thanks,

Guy.

[Guy Ross]

Hey Jon,

I’ve actually had these issues on three different systems, and two clean installs.
Mac Pro 2008 2.8 8 core 6GB GTX285
Mac Pro 2010 2.4 8 core 8GB GTX285
Mac Pro 2010 2.4 8 core 6GB 5770

I’m very interested to hear about your experience cutting DSLR on Premiere.

Which DSLR footage are you cutting? 5D? 7D? D90?
at what frame rate / resolution?
how are you getting hardware acceleration on a laptop…?

thanks,

G