[Mark Whittle]

Are your png source files 1920×1080?

What size is your sequence and what are your sequence settings?

Try changing the playback quality from full to half to see if that makes a difference.

Sounds odd for a mac pro to struggle with that.

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

Hi Matt,

In my case my main camera has cam mic on L channel and Radio mic on R. Quite a lot of the time the radio isn’t in use so this track is mute. By default it imports as a .mov with a single stereo file.

What I do is select all the files I want to import in the media browser, import into one bin, then select them all, right click and choose Modify > audio channels.

It changes clip channel format to Mono, Number of Audio clips: 2.

If I’ve done a shoot with only one track I can just uncheck the Clip 2 R selection and only have one track.

I often shoot with multiple cameras so I like to choose the settings manually depending on the camera. You can save a preset for each camera if you want to make settings quicker.

Hope that helps.

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

OS on RAID 0? What happens when you lose a drive?

I would put the OS on an SSD all by itself. Re-format the existing internal RAID 0 again and keep your media and scratch files on there.

I’m running a stock standard (not a special Mac version) NVidia GTX970 card with web drivers in my 2009 Mac Pro. OK you lose the Apple boot logo but works great. I keep my crappy ol’ GT120 card for when some random update breaks my nvidia drivers, I can put the old card in and install new drivers. Or you can buy a special Mac version of a modern GPU card. PPro needs lots of GPU horsepower.

I also have a Matrox MXO2 card but it is disabled unless I want to injest analogue video, or check levels on external scopes. Premiere runs faster without it and I feed my TV monitor via a DVI to HDMI adapter from the GTX970.

We are running Avid 8 on PC at one place I work, also via a MXO but Premiere 2015 on the same machine is very stop/start freezes all the time. PP2014 works fine. Avid MC8 is very stable but feels like a dinosaur compared to PP, especially now we are working with 4k source material.

In my own business on my old Mac Pro, PP2015 is the best version yet. Only get swirly beach ball delays in Multicam source sequences.

Also, if you only have 16GB RAM, quit AE and Chrome while running PP. Get more RAM if possible.

Good luck

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

Where did you find the Graymachine presets, Jon?

I found a tutorial video for them on Harry’s site but nowhere to download them, free or otherwise.

They look very useful.

Cheers,

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

Here’s how I do it:

Select the clips you want to be in your multicam. Right click, choose Create Multicam Source sequence, Choose sync method and name it “Multicam SOURCE”

I now have a sequence in my project window which I move into my sequences bin.

This next bit is very important. Right click this multicam source sequence and select “Open in Timeline”. This lets me see the source clips all synched up and I manipulate the audio, do colour correction, add more clips (i.e. spanned clips), re-arrange the audio track order etc.

When I’m happy, right click the source sequence in the project window and select “New sequence from clip” and a multicam sequence is created ready for live switching. At this point I rename this new sequence, removing “SOURCE” so I can tell apart the source sequence from the multicam sequence.

At any time the source sequence is available if the audio needs mixing, or a shot needs adjusting somehow.

I hope that helps.

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

Yes, for example you have an HD sequence, then you can create an SD sequence and place the HD sequence into it, rescaling as necessary. This is nesting essentially.

Is that what you meant?

Cheers

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

Are you observing this on the computer monitor or on your video monitor?

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

I’m having the exact same problem. I have each card’s contents in its own folder but in the browser each folder appears to contain the same clip (the first part).

In MXF4Mac player I can see that the other clips are there but Premiere doesn’t see them.

Cheers,

Mark

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

Any news with this issue?

I have a colleague with a similar problem. DVCPro50 to MPEG, initially letting Encore handle the transcode, then I tried a manual export of a short clip which even skipped on my system (Mac Pro, CS5.5, FCP7)
The video plays back fine on Premiere’s timeline but skips or hiccups (repeats a frame?) at the same spot every time in the MPEG file.

Cheers,

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

You’ve given me some hope then, Warren. Thanks.

I haven’t re-installed Toast yet as I was worried there might be a conflict. When I’m feeling brave I’ll install it.

I hope I have solved my crashing issues now after the OS re-install.

Cheers

Mark W.