Jeff Meyer
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Frame rate interpretation and composition rate correct across the board?
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Premiere CC will happily take a Final Cut XML. Expect edits to be along for the ride, but don’t plan on text or effects traveling. Transitions and audio tracks will be hit and miss. I would advise against considering it a back-and-forth workflow, consider it a one time conversion.
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With Premiere you need to stick to the same version. If you don’t you’ll be stuck on XML. So if they have CC you need CC, if they’re on CS6 you need CS6. I’ll let you check compatibility between that software version and your own system.
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Thunderbolt has 2 bidirectional channels, each can be 10gbps each direction. This gives a Thunderbolt cable the ability to carry 40gbps, 20gbps from the computer to the peripherals and 20gbps from the peripherals to the computer. Any single channels (or device) is limited to 10gbps each way.
Thunderbolt 2 has 2 channels and 40gbps like Thunderbolt, but Thunderbolt 2 allows for two channels to be ganged together. This allows a single device to break the 10gbps barrier. Without Thunderbolt 2 we couldn’t have 4k displays as they gobble up 14gbps on their own. After connecting a 4k display you have roughly a USB3 cables worth of bandwidth left leaving the computer on the Thunderbolt cable.
In terms of performance for storage, you’ll be hard pressed to saturate a Thunderbolt bus with any storage that’s close to your computer. You’ll be looking at a large SSD or a very large HDD RAID to get over 10gbps.
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With a dual 6 core MacPro (24 logical processors) and a Quadro I regularly see extensive usage of all CPU cores. Particularly when sending rendering to Adobe Media Encoder.
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If LUTs interest you Premiere is doing them realtime, and they’ve been doing it since CC dropped. Nice presets bundled as well.
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Any clip with an embedded alpha is going to be heavy on the hard drives. What does your storage situation look like? And how many layers of video are going on?
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Anyone know the last time a new lamp was dropped into the projector?
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The solution in this instance is to reshoot the interview. Sorry to be harsh, but out of focus is just that. Chalk it up to a learning experience and always shoot interview on manual focus, and always check focus after going to manual, but before pressing record.
For future reference, you’re on the Final Cut Pro 1-7 forum. Try the Final Cut Pro X Techniques forum for FCX advice.
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I’ll echo Dennis, your 1gig SAN connection is probably a bottleneck. If you explain a bit more about what’s on your timeline we can probably tell you more about your bottleneck. If it’s a higher end codec (100mbps+) the storage is most certainly a bottleneck. If it’s a couple layers of any codec the storage is most certainly a bottleneck. If you’re stacking effects on effects the K2000 could be a bottleneck.
Storage: Try copying media to a local drive. Ideally it will be a local RAID-0 or RAID-5, but an internal drive (7200RPM or SSD) will be enough to see if the network connection is a bottleneck. Even simply try exporting to your local desktop instead of a network drive. If you see improved performance you know you need to go to a fiber or 10gig ethernet connection.
Memory/CPU: With the number of processor cores on the system 16GB of RAM would be a bottleneck for AFX, but for Premiere it shouldn’t be holding you back much, if at all. Hyperthreading is an always-on function of Intel processors. I suppose it can technically be disabled in the BIOS, but I can’t imagine a computer shipping that way.
GPU: The K2000 isn’t a great card in terms of price-to-performanace. Being a Quadro it’s designed to be hit hard all day every day, but for the money you can find better performance in more consumer-oriented cards.