[Michael Holmes]

Note above, the 570 (or 580) will be in an Xpander Desktop 4, not in the Mac Pro.

BTW, Cubix recommends using a card that meets PCIe specs with 8P + 6P auxiliary power connectors, rather than non-spec cards which have 8P + 8P + 6P auxiliary power connectors and over-spec height.

[Michael Holmes]

I thought that Lite would access one GPU card in addition to the GUI card:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/277/14723

I have only the 5770 card now for GUI, so the new 570 (or 580) card would be the one GPU card.

Am I wrong on this?

[Michael Holmes]

David,
Thanks for your help. I’m not knowledgeable about these cards. Man, lots of different options at Newegg, very confusing.

Some questions please:
(1) EVGA has lifetime warranty, so better quality?
(2) Is this the card you have?
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130687
(3) I can put the 570 in the Cubix Xpander Desktop 4 and then not have deal with additional power?
(4) With that excellent performance, you don’t see a need to go to 580 card, correct? I assume the equivalent quality 580 card is this one:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130733

[Michael Holmes]

OK, thanks, I see he has posted much on this.
Don’t know how I missed it.

[Michael Holmes]

FYI, the rendering completed, no errors, with the “Render Audio” box un-checked.
The media files look OK.
I have yet to complete XML round-trip, but at least rendering is finally done.

The earlier errors were apparently all tied to rendering audio.
Henceforth, I will always un-check the “Render Audio” box.

[Michael Holmes]

I am trying again to render all the clips/versions, but this time I unchecked “Render audio”. I will use audio processed in Pro Tools, so I don’t really need the audio from Resolve.

Meanwhile, any comments on the error messages and how you normally deal with them would be appreciated.

[Michael Holmes]

Yes, I see it in manual. My fault.

[Michael Holmes]

Next problem. While rendering I got this error message:

Error occurred while opening audio clip
‘Volumes/Video 1/Final Cut Events/Trio Bravo.Duffs.8-14-12/Original Media/00008(fcp1).mov’
using QTDecoder.

I clicked OK, then got this 2nd error message regarding same clip:

Error occurred while trying to read frame from clip
‘Volumes/Video 1/Final Cut Events/Trio Bravo.Duffs.8-14-12/Original Media/00008(fcp1).mov’
using QTDecoder.

I clicked OK and then got a 3rd error message regarding a different clip:

Error occurred while closing clip
‘Volumes/Video 1/Final Cut Events/Trio Bravo.Duffs.8-14-12/Original Media/00000(fcp1).mov’
using QTDecoder.

I trashed the partially rendered files, and started the rendering process again with a new job.

This time it rendered through clip 9, before giving this error message:

Recording failed.
Recording failed with error: Failed to encode the audio samples

Beside the job in the queue, there was a red X and it said 22% complete. but below this, the “Overall Progress” showed 100% complete.

The 2nd attempt did not show any of the errors related to clips 0 and 8, which showed up in the 1st attempt.

Any suggestions on how to get through this?
Do I need to try rendering one clip at a time?

[Michael Holmes]

Well…….hold my breath……..it appears that I got it to start rendering all the clips. I won’t know for sure for 4 hours, but maybe.

I opened Resolve and went to the Deliver page to try different things (for the umpteenth time). I then noticed that the In/Out times were for the 13th clip. I had just opened Resolve, so I see no reason it should be here, but it was. So, I selected Select All before I added the job to the queue. The In/Out times then changed to the correct times for all clips. When I then hit Render, the times stayed at the right settings for all the clips.

I have been adding the job to the queue, then selecting the clips to render. This seems logical to me, since Add Job is on the left side. So, I assumed you added the job, then moved to the right side to select the particular clips to render.

Is it a requirement that you select the clips you want to render before you add the job to the queue? If so, I missed it in the manual.

BTW, I still have no idea what is going on with the 13th clip.

We’ll see if this really works. I’ll hold my breath until: rendering is complete, I export XML data, import XML back into FCP X, then look at the clips in FCP X.

In the meantime, please let me know if I am the only one who didn’t understand the proper sequence.

[Michael Holmes]

I know of nothing unique about the 13th clip.

The FCPX round-trip won’t give me what I need, because I need all the versions rendered, so I need commercial workflow.

There is no “Render All” in 9. There is “Select All”. As I said above, I tried Select All.

I am using the latest version of Lite 9.