[Jc Bendock]

Unfortunatly, I dont think that is the problem. I run my OS and main apps off of a vertex 3 and my scratch runs via fiber @800MB/sec.

System specs:
Asus Rampage 4 extreme mobo.
2 GTX 580 classifieds Hydro copper- no SLI(used for Davinci and now adobe Yeah!)
1GTX 660ti Gui card for Davinci
LGA 2011 I-7 3930 @3.2 GHz
64GB Gskills Ripjaw-z DDR3-2400
Blackmagic decklink 4K extreme

I still have CS6 installed could that be influencing this? Is anyone else having any issues?

JC Bendock
Equipment Rentals|Video Production | Color & Post
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RonHillImagery.com

[Jc Bendock]

I’m experiencing lag. In nearly everything i do. For example duplicate a layer- Ctrl-D in cs6 it is instant in cc it takes aprrox .5 sec to do. If i duplicate 5 times it is a considerable wait. This lag is apparent in every function I try to do.

JC Bendock
Equipment Rentals|Video Production | Color & Post
O:801-486-3300
RonHillImagery.com

[Jc Bendock]

Or at the very least the could send an email to paid customers. I to am dealing with bugs while clients are sitting next to me and it is very embarrassing to have to say in some session 2-3 times an hour, “Hang on a sec I need to restart my machine, after sitting for 10 min hoping it recovers from a freeze so I can save my work .

The biggest bug I encounter is my reference monitor going out. If I hit play or try to change clips after it drops, its all over.

The client just left after sitting with me for an hour this happened 3 times, I could tell he was frustrated. Honestly it is making me look bad and giving davinci a bad name.

JC Bendock
Equipment Rentals|Video Production | Color & Post
O:801-486-3300
RonHillImagery.com

[Jc Bendock]

I have troubles shot this to death. Even with all the latest upgrades. Premeier doesn’t embed LTC timecode through the Aja sdi even though they give you the option. Ive tested it with many different decks, Camera TC in a Motu V4HD ,Locit box, older beta deck, Everything. The solution was to transcode everything to pro res and it worked fine in FCP7. I even tried mastering back to tape via 1394_what a nightmare. as well as use machine control and sdi+ext audio to a DVCProHD Deck -Nadda . As I said before the export tape command is seriously jinxed. Other than some $500 dollar consumer deck presets there are no controls. you end uo using generic preset A,b or C and then 99& of the time it never can complete the task. I love how Adobe spends time here on the board asking for what new features we want but if you try to call tech support on this issue the call cent host has never even touched the program…Durong our conversation the would say tome that these kinds of features should be in cs6…..Lovely more feats in CS5 and those same features in 6 but this time they will work,,,,,,,Anybody have a workaround……

I still can’t get my time line to just play without randomly stooping,

[Jc Bendock]

oh another major flaw is that while using Black magic or Kona’s proprietary codecs.(A must if you want to output HD/SDI) Many industry standard codecs don’t i.e. XDCAM 422, MPG4, H.264, DNXHD, even prores do not output correctly. By this i mean there is extreme aliasing and exzagerated stutter on playback. These same files on a nitris DX or output via the same aja or BM card in FCP do not have these artifacts.
Truly Sorry for the rant but i am just about at my wits end with PPCS ANYTHING.

My System is a 2.93GHz 12-Core Intel Xeon “Westmere” 32GB 1333 Ram i have an Decklink extreme 3d+ and Aja Kona 3G(bought the Kona for LTC timecode out but it is currently not installed) 2X Quadro4000s(used for davinci),32TB Fibre connected MaxEvo4k. Im running OS X Lion(upgraded because I hoped it would help-Dont Upgrade!!!)Os and main applications are installed on a 240GB OCZ HSDL SSD. I also have 4 2TB 7200TB WD Cavair Black HDD

[Jc Bendock]

I have lots of experience with PPCS5.5’s “Realtime performance, and i would say it is defiantly hit or miss.
In fact i was on here to hopefully find out if their is anything i can do. Basically we for one of our clients everything we shoot regardless of format, Red, 5D, F3 except has to be delivered on XDCAM disks. Since we have 4 F800s we opted to not get the 35000 dollar deck and just output vie HD/sdi to the input board on the camera. This is by far the fastest way. Our workflow is this. Transfer media to raid, throw it on timeline and hit play. We have both AJA and blackmagic cards. The problem is for no apparent reason the timeline just stops, usually on a transition between clip. We then have to reformat the disc and start over. Sometimes it works sometime s it doesn’t. Another issue is that there is no time code out except via machine control(an entire thread could be written about those problems.)I don’t know why they can’t just let you carry it over sdi, There is a setting for aja to do that under preferences but it doesn’t work. Our Flanders has a cool feature to display timecode but in premier it is useless.So in conclusion id say that if you want to do realtime out over HD/sdi don’t go the premier route it is 100% unreliable. These are just to of the constant bugs but there are many random F-ups everyday. Im really surprised so many pros sing its praises.

[Jc Bendock]

My client is. The only thing he will except is OMF

[Jc Bendock]

Hey thanks for responding. I am getting pretty full. And Repairing my permissions is underway. Im guessing this is similar to defraging on a pc? I only started on macs in jan. So im still in a learning curve.
I was wondering if upgrading to the 3.0ghz 8 core would yield a substantial difference. I have clearance to buy one. I just want to be sure that it will be ALOT! faster. The buyer is the owner and if he finds me wandering around because I am “still” rendering. In his mind it wont justify his purchase and then I might not get other item on my recomendation.