[Mickey Power]

We’re all strangers, not knowing each other’s sound of voice or ever having met face to face. (Possible but unlikely.)

I think the discussion here about how to compress for screening a film on a domestic monitor goes beyond which player. It’s about preferred codec types, size, rates and any other aspects which might affect the film’s presentation on a monitor like that above.

In any case, I had already checked the Brightsign literature but no clear recommendations.

I did some tests Transport Stream Mpeg2 and H.264, both set to around 14mbps to compress the 9min HD 25p file. Transport Stream could only be played back on my Mac Pro on one app and there was a noticeable luminance shift. Perhaps this is the old app showing it, MPEG Streamclip. The H.264 in comparison looked excellent so I’m hoping when it’s installed on the player there’s no issue with play out rate.

Thanks. M

Mickey

[Mickey Power]

Does your experience mean that at the very least each still should be kept at 72dpi?

I understand what the other poster was saying re resolution/pixel size, that dpi doesn’t really count for anything in video. But, is it important to make the dpi/resolution setting 72 in order for Premiere to work well??

I ask because I’ve been having a lot of issues as above – stills don’t appear, screen is black, they don’t appear in the exported sequence, etc.

When I search this issue, one advice is to keep the size down but I assume this is pixel size and it means losing the ability to track and move within the still.

Thanks

Mickey

[Mickey Power]

Thanks, I’ve already trialled that as the fall back process. There’s a lot of edits! I was hoping that like in FCP7 an unedited clip could get a standard grade which it would carry through with it. This would save on the multi-selecting. I’ll keep experimenting.

Mickey

[Mickey Power]

Earlier I thought you were suggesting rebooting wasn’t necessary.

I’d like to avoid rebooting if possible. I usually have word, preview, email etc open at the same time as doing editing. I’ll install and test Virtual Box.

Thanks

Mickey

[Mickey Power]

Hi Shane

I have OS 10.8.5 Mountain Lion installed in my Mac Pro 5.1 on a separate drive to my ‘newer’ system OS 10.11.06 El Capitan. Are you saying I should be able to open any of the apps in Mountain Lion without changing the start up drive and rebooting? I’ve just tried opening FCP7 from ML and that’s fine but it opens anyway in El Capitan. There are other older apps like Motion 4 that have a cross through them and will not open.

By all means point me to a how-to-set-up older system side-by-side with newer system so I can update to Sierra and High Sierra but also easily have FCP7 open.

Thanks

Mickey

[Mickey Power]

Hi John

A tecchie friend of mine mentioned virtualising my mac so I can keep my system updated for Resolve/Premiere etc but still access and run older apps like FCP7 in Mountain Lion. I love the idea of not having to reboot.

Are there (m)any issues with running Virtualbox? (It’d be on my Mac Pro 5,1 12 core 3.36 with a new installed Nvidia 980Ti graphics card.)

Thanks
Michael

Mickey

[Mickey Power]

Thanks Dave, I’m still on ML for forseeable future.

Shane, I understand the point of not getting more power in FCP7 from a faster bigger graphics card.

What I don’t understand is if there’s a relationship between the distorting/non-display of images I occasionally experience when the sequences are long with filters on everything (and this isn’t stopping the editing just hampering it) and the GPU.

BTW is there a simple method for re-installing FCP7 without having to reinstal the plug ins?

Mickey

[Mickey Power]

Hi Dave

Any further thoughts on this?

As I was saying before, I understand FCP7 doesn’t benefit in performance from faster graphics cards but would it at least help avoid the problems I’m having?

Maybe I should consider re-installing FCP? With my previous OS upgrade it was as it was before. Do you think this makes a difference?

Thanks

Mickey

[Mickey Power]

The footage is mostly on an internal raid.

I know FCP7 is limited in terms of ram it can access and any speed gains newer apps can get from faster graphics cards, but a little more stability in my long form projects would be welcome if that’s what a newer card would offer.

(BTW Some of my editing is moving into Premiere etc but there are legacy projects from FCP7 that get updated and this constitutes a lot of our week to week turnover work.)

Mickey

[Mickey Power]

Hi Declan

When you say you got your 09 MP upgraded, what was done to it in the way of processor and graphics card? I’ve got a 3.3ghz 6 core MP which I’m hoping to upgrade (already have lot of RAM and an SSD).

Mickey