John Rofrano
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[Bouke Vahl] “So, does this not undermine your own statement?”
No, it just means that I have a need to use software that is no longer offered. It is 32-bit because it is discontinued. That’s very different that the codecs I was referring to which are still valid and current codecs that those companies are selling and they haven’t bothered to upgrade them to 64-bit (which they will have to do now if they want those codecs to remain current)
[Bouke Vahl] So, money can’t be the issue.
That’s correct. It’s not a matter of money. It’s a matter of trying to make old technology continue to work as you introduce new capabilities that just don’t fit the old model. At some point, it is technically not possible to support the past and move forward at the same time. The software gets bloated with all the things it needs to do to remain backward compatible and at some point you cut the bloat and declare that the old technology isn’t supported anymore.
[Bouke Vahl] “But, a lot of people like yourself have a lot of old stuff they want to continue to use. “
Indeed, which is why I have 3 boot partitions: one for Sierra (which I’m about to upgrade), one for Yosemite (which is the newest OS that Pro Tools 11 will run on) and one for Snow Leopard (which I’m going to use with DVD Studio Pro so that I can upgrade my main partition to Mojave)
So, I don’t see why you think my answer is void. The codecs are not old versions. They are current versions which are based on older technology and need to be updated to stay current. This is very different from continuing to use old software that is discontinued.
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I have an ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition in my 2008 Mac Pro. That is the fastest “officially” supported GPU that you can use. If you try and use a non-Mac version GPU you will loose your boot screen unless you have the card flashed with hacked firmware and even if it’s OK not to see the boot screen, you will probably need to add an alternate power source to power some of the more modern cards.
But the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac is plug and play if you can find one. I’m not sure how it will handle 4K video but you could always edit with proxies. It will also depend on what video editor you use. Final Cut Pro X will probably perform a lot better than Premiere because Adobe favors NVIDIA cards.
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What if you turn it off. Does it just come back on? Do you need to touch the mouse or keyboard to make it come on?
How about the Wake for WiFi networks setting? If that its check it may be waking from a LAN packet.
…just thinking out loud here.
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Can you post a screen shot of what you are seeing?
BTW, my method of matching output aspect will only work if you set the Project aspect up correctly first. If you want to crop to 720p then first set your Project Properties to 1280x720p and then use the Pan/Crop Match Output Aspect ratio setting. That should crop your image to 1280×720 (16×9)
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If you want to import a folder structure into the same Media Bin structure in Vegas Pro, we sell a tool for $12.95 USD that will do that for you. It’s called VASST Media Tool which is part of our FASST Apps productivity plug-ins.
You can import the filesystem into matching media bins with one click.
In the interest of full disclosure I work at VASST and wrote the tool. ????
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[Jack Stewart] “It then said downloading from the web and showed another screen but I don’t have an image of this as it won’t appear anymore.”
That it actually one of the most amazing things about the Mac that Windows has never learned to do… If a Mac sees a blank hard drive, it will happily download the version of macOS that it originally came with from Apple’s servers. This is probably what was happening during this time.
What if you use Command (⌘)+R again to get back to the Recovery partition and re-install macOS from there?
Does Command (⌘)+R still work? (it should)
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I don’t see this as anything shocking. Apple is finally shedding it’s 32bit baggage and only supporting 64bit software. It’s about time! Intel introduced the first 64bit processor in 2001… check your calendar… 17 years have gone by and we’re still carrying around support for 32bit processors that no one has owned in over a decade!
What would be shocking is if Avid, GoPro, and Sony joined the 21st century and released 64bit versions of their codecs and THOSE did not work with macOS. Then I would panic! But the way I see it, it’s just a wakeup call for everyone to finally get on the 64-bit band wagon before it turns 20 years old! lol
BTW, I did not upgrade my Mac Pro to High Sierra yet because I have several 32bit apps like DVD Studio Pro that I still use and need to continue to work (which work in Sierra but not High Sierra). So you always have the option of not upgrading.
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Vegas Pro has an option to import a DVD and then you could render it as MP4. It’s in the File | Import menu. I’m not sure it would work for Blu-ray. For that you could possibly use Handbreak (never tried it). There are free DVD/Blu-ray Rippers out there but I would be careful because some of them could contain malware but their sole purpose is to convert optical discs to MP4 so they make the job very easy.
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[Francois Pénzes] “Also, you could use Track Motion to ”remove” those nasty looking lines after you’re done with your editing, would that be an acceptable quick fix for you ?”
If that’s not acceptable you can go into Pan/Crop on each of the events and right-click on the frame window and select Match Output Aspect to get your video to match the 16:9 aspect of your project.
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I thought I remembered some MP3’s not playing because of the way they were encoded. I would convert it to a WAV file outside of Vegas Pro. WAV files don’t use any codec so they are always compatible. Try using the free Audacity to convert it.
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