Jacob Kerns
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I say it is! After a few weeks of using it I’m loving everything about it. I haven’t had to boot the Mac up for FCP at all since. The raw speed of Premiere lets me concentrate on the best part story telling!
NIADA
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Ok, with cast shadows off it rendered in half the time.
I also moved the project over to the old MacPro Dual Xeon and it took a hour longer on that machine however I noticed the ram previews were quicker because of the Raid0 setup.
So I grabbed to old 250GB SATA drives and Raid0 them and it made a world of difference.
So it looks my drives are the bottleneck so I’m going to purchase another drive tomorrow.
Thanks for all the help!
NIADA
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Kevin,
The Avid codec looks like a winner I’m going to try all 3 suggestions and see which one works better.
Also Kevin the Memory tab Page that you suggested doesn’t work for me anymore I’ve switch to Win7 and don’t have a Mac anymore.
Dave,
That’s a good idea I’ll render one without shadows and lights to see if changes things.
I’m also going to go pickup another 500GB drive and leave one for Main with apps. Then put the other 2 in Raid0 for footage.
NIADA
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Kevin thanks for the Reply.
I did mess with memory settings as you suggested and it did speed up the rendering times a little. I also followed the Adobe blog post on memory and Multi CPU settings.
I’m rendering out 5.5min 1080i Chroma Key video with a background and some simple transitions. Its taking 1.3hrs to 2hrs to rendered it out. Using same settings on both import and export. I think this seems kind of a long time for this computer. Its still ram previews at full res faster than the output rendering.
Their isn’t much to the project. Unless lights and cast shadows slows it down a lot.
The video is Mpeg exported with match settings from Premiere. Original AVCHD footage is from a Sony HXR-MCR2000. Is there a better codec to be using in AE?
If setup network render to my Laptop C2Duo 2GHZ will that help at all?
NIADA
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For what it’s worth Mark Spencer made a bars generator for it ages ago. Can’t speak to Avid and direct ingest, but Premiere is a complete and total dog trying to edit AVCHD. It doesn’t rewrap so you’re always struggling with it. Playback is simply painful.
Premiere CS5 and CS5.5 Kick the butt out of FCPX with AVCHD period. The only thing I found faster was Eduis 6 but it was easier to edit FCP7 projects in Premiere. FCPX has to render it before its even usable in the edit. Premiere CS5 with a i3 and 8Gb you can get by editing AVCHD (without cuda). With a Dual Xeon or an i7 with Cuda card you don’t even notice that your editing AVCHD. Its saved us lots of hours from transcoding.
Tom you might want to check your system(s)for issues.
NIADA
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I had the same issue with my Mac Pro. Since I swap from FCP to Premiere I decided to also switch to Windows 7 and it seems to run smoother and fast vs the OSX version.
NIADA
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That computer will handle it fine. I shoot 1080p AVCHD and I’ve had to edited it on a i3 3Ghz Laptop with 8GbRam without Hardware Mercury Engine while off site. Premiere Pro handles it fine. I tried on a Core2 Quad and it was still possible.
i7 with 8Gb+ Ram ,Nvidia Supported card and fast scratch disk will eat AVCHD fine.
NIADA
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I had the same problem the only solution that worked for me was dragging FCPX itself into the trash. (thinking that’s where it should installed by default) I reinstalled and it fixed for awhile but it was back again last-night. Now that is seems to be working again I get a green solid view while scrubbing the timeline or whatever its called so I’ve giving up fighting with it and realized this its not worth wasting time with it anymore!
NIADA
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Makes me want a RED cam though!
NIADA
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https://www.vimeo.com/25512336 – David Battistella posted this on here he used and made it work.
I hate and switched to Premiere Pro.
NIADA
Technical Director