Jimmy Brunger
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Hi Steve,
Yes RAID array is SCSI attached to a server, which in turn is connected out to several macs via 1GigE. However The same ProRes files play fine in Quicktime Player and in FCP. Just seems to be Premiere struggling.
CS5 trial is running out and still not happy with performance, so just tried importing the ProRes files into CS4 to do a transcode and now won’t even let me scrub through the clip in source window!
The fun just never ends!…..
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Thanks for info guys. I wonder if my ATI card is the problem? (Radeon X1900T) It has caused numerous other problems in the past with GUI redraw and openGL stuff, but no – wouldn’t have thought it would affect QT playback. For ref – I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.5 and QTX + QT7Pro are both installed, as is FCP.
Tim/Todd – can you confirm that PPro CS5 *should* be able to playback (media drives being fast enough of course) 1 or 2 streams of ProRes @1080i/29.97 in the timeline without issue or a yellow/red render bar?
I’ll install CS5 trial on another mac running on HD 2600XT Radeons and see if same problem occurs. That said – I did initially try it on my Macbook Pro (Snow Leopard) which had an NVidia card and same problem. Don’t have any desktop machines with NVidia cards at the moment.
Any more info you have muchly appreciated.
Cheers,
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Hi Guys, thanks for all your replies…
Jeff – yep, first thing I tried was to copy onto my internal RAID-0 and plays exactly the same – jerky.
Alex – Connected to a workgroup switcher on 1GigE which runs through to an Xserve also on 1GigE, connected to a big 12-drive RAID-5 box via iSCSi. Fibre channel or 10GigE connection would be nice, but cost to upgrade pretty huge at present.
And, yes I also think it’s pretty odd that a mac – that is built with Quicktime at it’s core – won’t playback what is a fairly light file type properly in Premiere. FCP on the same machine plays it no problem, infact about 4 streams of it all overlaid with no rendering needed. Mercury does sound great, but to lay out approx £1k on a Quadro (seems the only certified card on a mac now that GTX285 is discontinued) seems a bit steep just to get ProRes working.
Has anyone had any joy on a mac with CS4/5 playing back ProRes with or without Mercury? It would be good to know I’ll definitely get the workflow I want before investing.
Looks like h264 transcode in the meantime then! Fun and games…
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3.0 is a faster processor core, so on simple comps I would imagine it will render faster. We have a few quad 2.66GHz macs and also a 3Ghz quad and the 3.0 is quite a bit faster for most stuff. Best to test render on only one core to test that. Also, with multiproc switched on it does take a little while to fire them all up (at least with CS4 and below it does) so the more cores you have then will probably add a few secs at the start when you hit render. For more complex renders you will likely notice an improvement on the newer machine.
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I also sent a feature request for this one….fingers crossed we get it soon.
Pre-comping, adjusting ROI to fit biggest layer, then going back into parent comp to re-position back into place is not the most elegant of workflows eh! I’m prepping a giant AI file into easily workable groups of animatable layers at the mo and it would save me ALOT of time!
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Indeed….It wouldn’t be SO bad if I didn’t have to wait 30-60 seconds every time I want to review an edit tweak for a clip only 5 seconds long! 😉
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Oh I wish it was that simple Dave! Picking up a gigantic mess that someone else started – the audio in the original Prem proj now in now way matches what is in AE!
I know about CS5/64-bit/plugin issues, but I think I might just have to bite down and go sloooooowww as I am for now!
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Cheers guys, yep – no audio preview is ok, but I’m having to make some edit tweaks within AE – post grade/vfx – and dynamic link’s shortcomings were revealed a good while ago, so I have no option but to make painfully slow edits in AE rather than switch back out to Premiere…and need to hear the audio to do this.
So if I buy CS5 will the problem be 100% fixed do you think? Don’t really want to UPG in the middle of a project incase it creates more probs, but running out of options here.
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Hi Dave,
Thanks for your response. I’m using XDCAM EX footage (mp4 wrappers) I know about the whole h264, mpeg-2 problems in AE, but AE (and the whole CS suite) is supposed to support XDCAM EX!?!
Frustration doesn’t even cover it!
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Unfortunately it doesn’t fix it for me!
Todd – if you’ve time please respond to my post on the Adobe AE forums re: the same problem with 9.0.3. I have a deadline tomorrow and ‘locking existing frames’ is knocking off about 50% of my productivity, so an allnighter I fear if I can’t stop this incessant hanging around waiting for previews to kick in!!!?!
HELP.