[Mark Palmos]

Hi Karl,
That is an alternative at the moment, and a convenient one since most of the stuff I have is on the mac on fcp, it would make life a lot easier to not have to deal with Prores>PC etc issues as well as copying things over etc.

On the other hand, I have a pair of macs ONLY because of FCP, so I would like my next system to be a PC. Of course I dont want to buy CS5.5 twice…

Cheers,
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Great advice, thanks David, very helpful.

[David Cherniack] “As far as the Quadro 4000 GPU it’s a mid-range card and the higher end gaming GPUs are much more powerful in CUDA cores at less than half the price. They are short of the 2-4 GB of vidram that’s useful for editing 3k+ material but if you’re exclusively HD then they’re a really powerful and economic solution.”

Ok, but I thought only certain of these Nvidia cards were able to harness the mercury engine, or are those high end gaming cards able to do that too? I usually work 720p rarely 1080, never higher… But more speed for less money sounds like a winning formula to me 😉

Speak soon, thanks again mate,
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[David Cherniack] “I’ve no doubt that Adobe’s in it for the long haul. If the Mac Pro won’t run 64 bits you’re SOL. The upside is that Windows workstations are very reasonable. After the Axio and HP xw9300 I built one on an Intel motherboard with dual 8 core Xeons and 24GB for 3k$”

Hey mate,
Im glad youre doing well.

Well, it’s odd… the Mac Pro does load win7 64 bit, it does load CS5.5 and the apps seem to run fine…
The main problem is I dont know if it would be wise to buy a quadro 4000 which works on the mac pro in osx and win7 only to find that when i dump the mac pro, the card will not work in another pc, or even worse, the quadro 4000 will not work at all in the macpro without 64 bit boot camp drivers which cause BSOD after 30 seconds.

Your system, would you mind telling me the specs so I can price it here in the UK, I may do something similar, or copy yours since it works!

Cheers David

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hey there David,
Good to see you too!
Ja, a bit tired (to say the least) of apple doing what they do best, being super arrogant… so Im trying to use PP on Windows on my Mac until I can justify getting a new PC and getting rid of the mac… but am having major issues cos my MacPro does not have a 64 bit kernel (late 2007) – despite 64 bit being plastered all over their advertising blurbs at the time (like “revolution in post” was supposed to impress us with FCPX!)

aaaanyway, things are generally good, hows things with you?

Im going to start a new thread about the 64 bit question…
Be well, catcha later,
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hey there Pat,

howya? I am curious as to why you want to stay with FCP, is it a case of large investment, archive projects – in for a penny, in for a pound…

As a one person operation, it’s very easy for me to make a decision. FCP7 for old projects, all new ones Premiere Pro 5.5 and Im getting one of those Quadro 4000 cards to pep things up a bit! Now THAT is what I would call an upgrade 😉

good luck with it mate.
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi
I understand they do not have a return policy on software bought at the app store anyway, they are making the exception due to exceptionally lacking software!!

I’d say tell them on the form you fill in that you have taken a week to try to “give it a go” but it fails so miserably that you cannot use it for pro purposes.

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Ok cool, sounds like the way to go then!

Cheers,
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

yep, you really can’t.

I am changing to Premiere pro which can play AE clips directly in the timeline… Apple have botched this one up badly, and the missing features are not all, the whole paradigm is flawed IMO.

[Mark Palmos]

Thanks Chris,

I was spending a day doing a relatively easy job on PP as I have just got Apple to refund me for the pathetic FCPX.

I am pretty fluent in FCP, and found the FCP keyboard mapping in PP did not work very well, when I changed one thing and saved it, none of it would work… anyhow, job is nearly done, but it was a bit of an uphill battle… not PP’s fault at all!

Cheers
Mark

[Mark Palmos]

Aah, got it, thanks…

Now Im trying to see why keyboard customisations do not stick, for example I wanted to use the up an down arrows to move to previous next edit points… and have changed them in the keyboard customisation and saved the new setting. Returning there the setting has been saved but it still does not work.

Also, ripple paste? it seems to be missing completely.

TX for the help,

Mark.