John-michael Seng-wheeler
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What would be great is if it had both Keywords, AND bins… that would be great.
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As someone who practically troubleshoots for a living, (Video production is my trade, but I seem to get hired for my troubleshooting oftener then not.) i have a few suggestions that haven’t been mentioned yet in this thread.
0) I also would like to know what happens when just the Quadro is installed in slot 2.
1) from all that you’ve said I’d have to conclude that it is the number 2 pci slot that it the problem. Ether the power coming from it is slightly out of spec, (not enough to through off the ATI card, but only the higher end Quadro) or possibly, though less likely, something in the data (Again, only the Quadro is affected for the same reason.)
2) did you try resetting the NVRAM with only the Quadro installed?
Also, I wouldn’t advise this exept as a last resort, cause weird stuff can happen when you do stuff like this, but try starting the Mac with NO GPUs at all.
If I think of anything else helpful I’ll let you know.
Is the Mac Pro under warranty?
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[Matt Stoltz] “are you serious about the iMACS having some kind of Apple firmware on them so youhave to replace it with an Apple drive”
Yep.
https://blog.macsales.com/10146-apple-further-restricts-upgrade-options-on-new-imacs
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Not necessarily. They have thunderbolt now, and we know apple doesn’t like you messing with their hardware. The new iMac’s having custom firmware on their HDD so you can’t replace them with your own is probably just the first step.
I believe the Mac Pro is indeed going to go the way of the dodo bird. It isn’t a money maker, and Apple loves to tell people what the future of computing is a big towers certainly aren’t it.
They love small and compact. The Mac Pro certainly isn’t small.
The only reasons to stay with Mac have been FCP and Resolve. Now that FCP is gone, DiVinci Resolve is the only thing left, and if the Mac Pro is discontinued it will probably be rewritten for windows.
FCP and the Mac Pro are not compatible with the direction that Apple wants to go. They’ve jettisoned the one, how long will the other last?
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I have done one project in RED on PP CS5 and I have to say, it’s AMAZING. There’s no diference then editing any other kind of media, exempt that you can click on any clip and select source properties and play around with the raw file to your hearts content. Also, with the 5.5 upgrade, the REDRaw controls have gotten a lot better. You can now do most of the functions that you can do with a raw DSLR still with 4K video… kinda blew my mind when I first played with it.
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[Craig Seeman] “A few people are already loving the work while render in the background feature for example. If you work in AVCHD then this is a major gain right now.”
Bahhh, that’s old. It shouldn’t need to render it at all. From what I’ve herd, all the stuff it’s doing in the background is stuff that it wouldn’t need to do at all if they’d actually made it a native editor.
I don’t doubt that they’re going to add features in the future, but I don’t think it’ll ever be the pro tool it was. The underlying code just isn’t there. For example, the media management system that they built for FCPX is based on the i apps, and is currently totally un usable in a multiseat edit house. For someone editing on their own, at home, it’s great. For me? It might work, but I don’t like the idea of having all my footage from every project visible all the time. That’s just way more stuff then I want visible at any moment.
But even if they do add back all those features, XML, EDL, Support for a network storage workflow ect, by then, the industry will have left them in the dust.
Some big people have jumped ship very quickly…. If apple doen’t work very fast, and make this work for the big boys, FCPX will quickly fade into the background, and Adobe and Avid will be left as the two big players. If they work and work and finally catch up, then maybe people will switch back, but editors don’t like change….
I think this is a very big win for Adobe.
Even better, Merged Clips was added to the most recent release, making Premere Pro finally able to handle sync sound, which was one of the last major problems with using PP for film work. -
A positive outlook is nice, and I’m glad someone has it. However, I find that hard personally in this situation.
We told them “You need to rewrite this from square one” They did. That’s no excuse to give us a program that, basically, doesn’t function in the industry it created.
As I attempted to say earlier in 10 words as I was running out the door, Adobe pulled it off, totally rewriting Premiere Pro for 64bit, while keeping all the features we needed and they did it in less time, AND they also rewrote AFX, Encoder, and Photoshop to boot. Compressor is still 32 bit….
Apple could have done it. The fact that they chose not to is what makes me sad.
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What we wanted them to do was rebuild it and keep innovating.
Adobe did it.