[John Watts]

Many thanks to everyone. The RAID thing can be confusing. Most other editors I know in this market seem to be happy with RAID 5. On other systems over the years I’ve used RAID 1.

I’ve narrowed it down to 12TB or 16TB, OWC or Promise. OWC being cheaper. Promise has a great rep.

Certainly willing to consider others.

If my 2 billion dollar lottery ticket comes in tonight…well … it won’t matter!!

John Watts
Premiere Pro Version 12.1.2 Build 69
2017 iMac (Retina 5K 27 inch) 1TB SSD
4GHZ Intel Core i7
32GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB
macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6

[John Watts]

The second way looks like the answer.
Export as motion graphic is greyed out.

John Watts
Premiere Pro Version 12.1.2 Build 69
2017 iMac (Retina 5K 27 inch) 1TB SSD
4GHZ Intel Core i7
32GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB
macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6

[John Watts]

I’ve been looking at the Promise drives. A 12 TB would be fine. I don’t have to save all raw content for very long.

Frustrating fact is that my computer is TB2 or USB3. I have doubts about whether any array will work due to throughput speed. TB2 is 1/2 speed of TB3. Curious if that is fast enough.
Don’t really want to spend the funds and find out it won’t work.
But, an array seems like the most cost effective method.

John Watts
Premiere Pro Version 12.1.2 Build 69
2017 iMac (Retina 5K 27 inch) 1TB SSD
4GHZ Intel Core i7
32GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB
macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6

[John Watts]

We are diligently working toward getting this show to be live switched. I feel like this is going to happen in the near future.

FYI, during the edit last night, Plural Eyes worked!! Yay! It took a week but Red Giant tech support got back with me and provided a suggestion. Hopefully, this fix will stick and life can move on.
The fix had to do with the naming convention and path of the project.

Thanks for listening to my whining.

Good luck, we’re all counting on you.

John Watts
Premiere Pro Version 12.1.2 Build 69
2017 iMac (Retina 5K 27 inch) 1TB SSD
4GHZ Intel Core i7
32GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB
macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6

[John Watts]

All night Thursday is edit time, as well as daytime friday, and sometimes nightime friday…and…

John Watts
Premiere Pro Version 12.1.2 Build 69
2017 iMac (Retina 5K 27 inch) 1TB SSD
4GHZ Intel Core i7
32GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB
macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6

[John Watts]

FCPX requires transcoding of files, believe me, I’ve tried. It takes too much time for this program.
We record on Thu night, I take it home, need to have it ready to upload on Fri night. There is no line switch either, the edit cuts the show. Every minute is precious.

I agree, H264 is not edit friendly and AVCHD bites. But, it is what the client has and I have no control over that at this point.

Initially, I set up for putting the media on a new 8TB drive. The throughput (comp Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3 on the drive) was not fast enough to work the way I needed it to. Although, I have some ideas to try that might resolve the issue down the road. When first told by another editor to use my SSD, I thought that was batsh*t crazy. But, he was right. Right now, it is the only way it works, probably because we are dealing with so many raw AVCDH H264 crapola files.

I love Pro Res…it would be great…hands are cuffed, though.

John Watts
Premiere Pro Version 12.1.2 Build 69
2017 iMac (Retina 5K 27 inch) 1TB SSD
4GHZ Intel Core i7
32GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB
macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6

[John Watts]

Time does not allow for any transcoding.

The reason for doing this program in Premiere Pro instead of my preferred choice of FCPX is the fact that
PP will work with the native files, untranscoded. In fact, I have to work on the SSD drive for media in order to handle the AVCrap files fast enough.

I’ve yet to try the proxy route yet, it may be a way to get through this with FCPX.

Have just picked this show up recently and as time allows I effort (wait, is that millennial talk?) to improve workflow.

Thanks.

John Watts
Premiere Pro Version 12.1.2 Build 69
2017 iMac (Retina 5K 27 inch) 1TB SSD
4GHZ Intel Core i7
32GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB
macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6

[John Watts]

Concerning the audio settings. I check and make sure it is set as “Internal Speakers”
I’ve had this problem since day one with Premiere. There seems to be a connection to the latest versions of PP.
Relaunching PP 2-5 times is what it takes to work at this point.

I will have to work more with the internal sync functions on Premiere. Right now I get no success. My sync situation is
somewhat unique and when I try Premiere sync options it is just greyed out, so far. The turnaround time is very tight.
To a master audio track I must sync 10 locked down cameras. Each camera has ambient show audio. Audio drift is an issue, but Plural Eyes fixed that perfectly. Main issue; the low end AVCHD codec is often a frame or two or even more off intermittently. Also, the cams are limited to 2gb file limits while recording a one hour program. This leads to about 7 separate files per camera x 10 cameras. Again, Plural Eyes fixed this up nicely the first 3 times, and now, no luck.
It would be great to hear from their customer support!

Here are system specs.

John Watts
Premiere Pro Version 12.1.2 Build 69
2017 iMac (Retina 5K 27 inch) 1TB SSD
4GHZ Intel Core i7
32GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB
macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6

[John Watts]

I can confirm one of these…

– When I start a project at the beginning of my day, my sequence I was last working on either will not output sound for some mysterious reason (the only way to solve this is to duplicate that sequence and then magically it works fine) OR MUCH WORSE, if I have used Multiband Compressor on say dialogue audio clips (I do this quite often for internet delivering projects) the Multiband Compressor filter is ignored. The only way to re-enable is to select the filter, choose a different preset like broadcast, then re-select internet. If I remove all filters and paste Multiband Compressor with the Internet setting back on, that a lot of times will not fix the issue. I must toggle another selection and then go back to the internet setting. It’s f’n maddening.

I have not tried duplicating the sequence, but, 2-5 relaunches of PP is what fixes the lack of audio output for me.
The filter thing is also buggy. I have the client screaming about something audio related every week. When I check the audio filters and presets, sometimes one of the compressor or EQ settings doesn’t show up, even though I just dragged it there and the menu popped up. I’m always double checking the audio filters multiple times a day to see if they disappeared or are working.

John Watts

[John Watts]

Perhaps.
Getting the Premiere sync features to work has alluded me to this point, but, I will continue to try.

The first successes with Plural Eyes were so good and fast. Seemed like the perfect answer. Wish I could get it
to work like it did initially.

Be great if they responded.

John Watts