[Jimmy Brunger]

Anyone any thoughts!?

[Jimmy Brunger]

Hi Jeff/All,

THanks, Just checked one of the Production Premium CS4 boxes and it does support 10.4.11 – which is the version I am running off.

Just to complicate things even more..one of the other Macs running same OS, Quicktime version, XDCAM Transfer, CS4, etc, etc *IS* working with the EX files! Only difference I can see between that one and mine is the other one has FCP 6.0.5 installed and mine has 5.14.

Any more ideas guys?

[Jimmy Brunger]

Hi John,

I was hoping you might reply…my BPAV is still intact and all I did to get the footage off the SxS cards was copy the whole BPAV folder (using XDCAM EX Clip Browser) onto our network RAID, then using Media Browser I imported each clip.

I think I understand the FCP codecs thing now – and as I haven’t converted any of the clips you’re right I shouldn’t need FCP. Although that still doesn’t explain why it works on one mac and not another, when the only difference is the operating system!?

[Jimmy Brunger]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your post. No I can’t get any EX footage into PPro using my mac. Having to use a colleagues Leopard Mac which is a pain, but only option in the short term.

I’d love to know how to sort this on my Tiger Mac though…seems a bit ridiculous that I have to rely on an Apple Pro App being upto date just so that I can work properly in an Adobe one! We moved over to 100% Adobe workflow when CS4 came out, but I’ve got to admit – on the edit side its a bit flaky isn’t it! Used to love Premiere on Windows, but it’s gaping reliability holes are rapidly making me want to sack it off!

HELP!

[Jimmy Brunger]

Hi Roland,

It’s a difficult one. This project has grown over the last 5 years or so and was at one point too big to fit back onto our shared networks RAID; therefore updates were added to the server and the main body from a massive external drive.

I was just trying to streamline the project to only include files relevant to the latest incarnation, hence the collect. I did have a ‘file path too long’ message on collecting to begin with, but then spent a week renaming/relinking so that it would collect. Then I collect and it drops links again, even though they WERE collected! MADNESS!

Anyway, I wasted another day yesterday relinking to the collect file and all seems to work now – phew!

This really should be easier.

[Jimmy Brunger]

OK, thanks Todd. I guess we’re going to have to buy some more workstations, AE licences and plugins sharpish then if Nucleo 2 doesn’t work! EEEk!

I for one can’t wait for CS5 – bring it!

[Jimmy Brunger]

Hi Walter,

Thanks for your suggestions. That could well work in some cases, but the resolution is 7000 x 800 and multiple RGB+A TGA sequences stacked up in a half hour comp would be a huge amount of data to store/move around. I’m not sure how much time it would save me either tbh. Hey ho!

I just hope the next version of AE has a more intelligent rendering engine (ROI still doesn’t seem to make any difference to preview time in most cases either)

Nucleo 2 I might d/load a demo of though and see if that will do it..shouldn’t have to pay for several licences of a 3rd party renderer something as simple as this though!

I do like to whinge on occasion.

[Jimmy Brunger]

These are 48khz WAVs and my project is set to 48KHz aswell. It’s very odd!

[Jimmy Brunger]

Another thing to throw in (and may not be relevant for Windows 7 if it’s now more secure?) but when I used to run an edit/vfx PC on Win XP at my old job it got so riddled with bugs and viruses that I had to wipe it, start again and not connect it to the internet AT ALL after that. I had AVC, McAfee, etc. to no avail!

Like I said, this may have improved with Win7, but I’ve not had one bug on my Mac in the last 2 years (touch wood!)

Something to maybe consider if you want a professional 24/7 working machine.

[Jimmy Brunger]

I think one way to look at it could be – if you’re budget is tight and you only use Adobe products then maybe a DIY PC tower is your best bet.

If you need to use FCP or Color/Motion, etc – then buy a Mac.

If you want maximum performance and have a good budget and like Windows, but ability to upgrade processors, etc later on *cheaply* then buy a PC.

If you have a healthy budget and want maximum flexibility – buy a Mac and a copy of Windows to run on it aswell.

EASY!