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Kevin Hill
March 19, 2013 at 6:02 am in reply to: Premiere Pro CS6 and 10.8.3 Mac?

I updated my machine yesterday. So far, 12 hours of editing without any issues *knock on wood*

Calgary Wedding Videographer / Cinematographer
snapweddings.ca
Kevin Hill
May 29, 2012 at 8:50 am in reply to: Stupid Question – But an answer would improve my workflow

Jon, Thank you so much. Your response solved my confusion. Now grading is so much easier!
Thanks again for taking the time to help!

Kevin

Calgary Wedding Videographer / Cinematographer
snapweddings.ca
Kevin Hill
May 23, 2012 at 10:23 pm in reply to: Stupid Question – But an answer would improve my workflow

LOL

Thanks for that! Now it seems so obvious! Appreciate you taking the time to help!

Calgary Wedding Videographer / Cinematographer
snapweddings.ca
Kevin Hill
April 25, 2012 at 11:28 pm in reply to: Solution for Culling / Rating / Reviewing footage before editing?

Thanks for the recommendation, Owen!

Is there a way to trim footage in Bridge?
I’ve been playing with Aperture 3 for the past few hours, and it seems to work pretty well for sorting and trimming videos. I’m guessing LightRoom 4 could be used similarly.
Kevin Hill
April 25, 2012 at 1:19 am in reply to: problems with Canon 5D mark iii import into Premiere Pro 5.5 on pc

This won’t solve James’ problem, but I thought I’d share my experience as a Mac user.

So far, Premiere Pro 5.5 on Mac has worked really well at importing our 5Dmk3 footage. All-I and IPB formats. Really impressed.
Kevin Hill
November 21, 2010 at 8:38 am in reply to: New Mac Pro – Performance less than expected

Hi Todd,

Thanks for your reply – I’d never even heard of those drives before! I think I’ll have to make do with these for now, but you’ve given me ideas for the future.

I just did some comparisons between the imac and the mac pro.. They’re performing the same for rendering. Both seem to have low read / write speeds (about 8 to 10 MBs per second according to activity monitor) when rendering. The CPU is at 35% and I’ve got 5 GBs of unused RAM. Does that sound strange? I’ve tried various combinations, e.g. writing to the solid state drive, reading media from the raid array, writing and reading to the raid array, etc. No performance changes. 🙁
Kevin Hill
November 8, 2010 at 1:03 am in reply to: Improving workflow (spending less time waiting for rendering)?

Thanks for the advice. I’ll definitely smoothcam a clip and then move onto the next while it’s processing.
My machine is a 27″ iMac 2.8G Quad Core, 4 GB RAM, Snow Leopard.

What tends to happen is I run smoothcam on a clip, and then after it’s done, I tweak the setting (e.g. turn down translation smoothing on clips that have flashes causing the footage to jump). I find I often have to tweak clips three or four times, which means it has to render 4 or 5 times.

I’ve thought about increasing my RAM, but I’ve also heard that FCP mostly relies on the CPU, though even my machine isn’t fully used because FCP isn’t 64bit yet… (Something we’re all looking forward to).

I should also mention, the media and rendering files are all on a 7200rpm external hard disk drive connected via Firewire 8. (Unfortunately my iMac doesn’t have an esata interface.

With large files I leave them to render overnight, though I recently read that it’s best to divide longer sequences into shorter sequences, which are rendered separately and then combined and exported in a master sequence.