[Jeff Coleman]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Can you do me favor and choose a new easy setup that mathces your format/frame rate with a codec of ProRes HQ, make a new sequence and try again?”

Did it. Same thing. Red bar with RT Video Playback Quality set to “High”. You get gray bar?

[Jeff Coleman]

Yes. The timeline and footage is ProResHQ. I even dropped some bars and tone into the timeline, exported it, then reimported with the same resulsts from either media drive source.

seems like this should’ve been easy.
Do you all have the latest software and MBP firmware?

[Jeff Coleman]

“This is because ProRes422 HQ is running at an average bit rate of 220 Mb/s and your drives are running at an average of 150 Mb/s.

This means your drives aren’t fast enough for ProRes422 HQ. ”

That doesn’t sound quite right to me. True, ProRes HQ is about 25-30 MBs which would be approximately 220 Mb/s. But my drives are running at 142 MBs which would be approximately 1136 Mb/s, not 150 Mb/s. My drive speed should be WAY overkill for any ProRes codec. A single eSATA drive (70 MBs) should be more than sufficient to play ProResHQ.

SO, is it really true that MacBookPros can’t playback ProRes HQ?
Is that because of the processor (duo vs quad-core)? or because of the speed of the drive?

I’m using HQ because I wanted the cleanest signal in order to pull a key and do some significant color correction with the best possible outcomes.

[Jeff Coleman]

Operator Error.
Ignore last posting.
Oh the pain of it all.
Don’t forget in addition to the preset packages to install the ProIODrivers.pkg as well.
all working well now.
sorry.

[Jeff Coleman]

Over the last couple of days I finally got around to reinstalling software on my MacBookPro 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB 667 MHz RAM.

FRESH: I started with a new internal drive. New OS. Latest and greatest updates, permissions repair after every install, etc. New Final Cut Studio install with latest and greatest updates.
OS X 10.5.6, FCP 6.0.5

WORSE: Now the IO problem is worse. Final Cut says it can’t even locate the device. Hardware profile sees the IO on the firewire bus. The AJA IO Control Panel seems to talk to the device just fine.

HMMM?: The boys at AJA are stumped at the moment.
If I boot from a clone with FCP 6.0.3 then the IO works just fine.

NOW WHAT?: Do I need to reinstall FCS again?

[Jeff Coleman]

Woa!
That worked. I don’t know what made you think of it, but it’s a brilliant workaround!
Thanks.

(BTW I don’t see an embedded movie in your last post, just a white box.)

[Jeff Coleman]

Thanks for your help.

Please, for project file, control click and “Save Link As…”

https://www.countdownvideoproductions.com/tempfiles.html

[Jeff Coleman]

See if you can get this:
https://mailroids.com/download.asp?ID=50B25A935042B17F

I left that Motion project for a few hours and when I came back to it, it played fine. Bewildered, I duplicated the 2nd layer and then the first two played strange. Like this:

Trash prefs? I dunno.

[Jeff Coleman]

[Bob Zelin] “Exactly HOW is your audio wired ? do you have the MAC Audio line output going into your shure mixer, or into your presonius ?”

The Mac Audio digital output does not go into the Shure mixer. It goes into the digital input of the PreSonus. The Shure mixer is getting it’s tone from its own oscillator.

[Bob Zelin] “Exactly where is the I/O output plugged into? Where are those XLR outputs of the I/O plugged into ?”

The Tascam multi-pin output of the IO is going into one of the analog inputs of the PreSonus.

It’s been that way for years, nothing new there. Even if it were wired weird it wouldn’t explain the disappearance of audio from the FCP meters.

Hector at AJA went over it with me in great detail this morning and we still couldn’t figure it out. We’re both guessing some sort of software bug at this point. Great support over there nevertheless.

I’m going to try and pull my old G5 out of the closet and make sure the IO works with it. If it does, then I’m going to reinstall Final Cut Studio (oooouch).

Thanks for your help. I’ll post back when I learn something. Well, actually I’ve already learned quite a bit (including the stand alone IO test and always, always clone before doing a software install.)

Love,
Jeff

Final Cut Studio 5.1, G5 2GHz Dual Processr, 2.5Gb RAM, AJA IO

[Jeff Coleman]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Make a new sequence.

Drag the appropriate bars and tone into your sequence and hit play. No sound?”

No sound.

[Jeremy Garchow] “bring up your audio mixer and tell me how many output busses you have there and try hitting the down-mix button”

Looks like one stereo master output. Downmix button makes no difference.

Thanks for the suggestion.