[Neil Paisnel]

Probably an totally ham fisted amateur way to sharpen it up, but I know no better.

i had blurry output video , I just added a Sharpen filter to the bits I needed to make clearer.

It is in the filters section…weirdly enough under the ‘Blur’ subsection.

[Neil Paisnel]

Yes, sorry I forgot that.

That is one I have already done.

Wondering about the blades SSD’s units of the PCIe slot.

I have 28gb RAM and I don’t see increasin that will improve speed any .
Looking on stat Pro figures and Activity monitor, RAM never seems limiting, it is always the CPU’s that are max’d out at 680%

love to go out and buy new kit, but I have a mortgage to pay now

[Neil Paisnel]

If you ever get the issue of needing a second supply to run cards, then running an external supply is not an issue.

I had been using a HP server style Hot swap PSU running externally , jumpered to run continuously with cables fed through the back to the second card.
That second card is a GT8800 512mb RAM and the first card is a HD4870 running off the internal 2x 6 pin ports

I was considering a pair of GTX 760 2 GB. as they only require a single x6 pin plug each…but they are double width cards so Ioose a PCIe slot.

Second internal PSU’s are also available that sit in the lower Mac Pro CD drawer

As outlines further up, I am trying to avoid external storage as much as possible .

I want a bit of a speed improvement if I can obviously but this is no production environment where money is no object

[Neil Paisnel]

Thanks for the comprehensive reply John.

I’d try a 4TB internal again. I have 2 x 4TB in mine as Time Machine Volume, and Data sort roe volumes works just fine.

I’ll pick through your post, just wanted to post back quickly since it looks like we cross posted, and want you to know that the 4TB internal is possible.

[Neil Paisnel]

Looking at just a select few of these Geekbench figures, may not paint the whole picture, but it does show the 5,1 still outperforming the i7 in many areas.

I was in a country (UK) last month where there is an Apple store, (Not one where live, Jersey island) and I did drop by an Apple store and did have a look at the dustbin, (their name for it not mine, ) and although impressive I could not afford one and all the extra I need if I did get one, plus the extra cutter it would create.
I’ve got used to using three screens, so I’d have to continue like that. I guess you can run 4 screens off Thunderbolt/DP adapters to DVI. If not then it is three new Dp type screens

And then I loose all my Internal HDD storage, so have to buy an external HDD army or similar, or external drive caddies etc to fit my drives in to .

I am not going to be able to buy all that for my current budget of about $1500 US dollars.

Also the extra amount of clutter it will create in our living space,..too many extra boxes..it is bad enough as it is.
I now have 3 screens, all DVI, plus the 4th screen benighted home TV over the top of the three smaller screens. I live in a small apartment and this is in our living room / kitchen.

With a Tower machine I have the three screens, on the office type desk, keyboard and mouse on the sliding shelf and the Tower in the side slot. All relatively neat and compact.

When I bought my 08, the store did rip us off, I specified 2x 4gb RAM , so I could up grade with out dumping old RAM to buy new. What did I get.8 x 1GB sticks.
I also ordered the Apple display to go with it. Then I go to collect the order…Oh sorry sir, Apple are not making that any more, but here is a slightly smaller Samsung screen, unless of course you wool like to pay another £1000 for the next size up Apple display. I guess they knew I had to travel to the UK to buy it so they could get away with it.

Yes, if I had the money I’d probably get a spec’d up dustbin, three new screens and a HDD external box fitted somewhere but it is just more than i can afford for a hobby. I cycle every where and my car is a 2001 Suzuki 4×4 that barely gets used

An upgrade to the 3,1 or replace with older tech but better spec 5,1 . That is within my budget and space limitations. I am afraid

Or as I said go the Hacintosh route.
I have a HP4530s core i5 laptop with OS X installed, 15 inch screen, SSD, 16GB RAM and 1TB in the CD caddy, built for $600 USD which outperforms a 15 inch MBP for a third of the price..maybe that is the way to go , thou a lot more work.

[Neil Paisnel]

How would the 5,1 mac Pro , 12 core stack up against the i7 iMacs?

I really done want to go down the route of the glorified laptops that are iMacs. There is no way I’d ever buy an iMac, i just don’t like fact that if you want extra HDD they have to be external.

Since the new Macs Pros have become dustbins I’d not get one of them either….Unless I could perhaps house it and all the external HDD’s inside a proper tower case, 😉

Next time I spend big money on a mac it is going to have to be a ‘hyacinths’ so I can keep the tower case style that I prefer

But for now it is back to my basic question…upgrade the 3,1 or get a 5,1 ?

I run 4 screens here and all are DVI . Have 4 internal HDD’s. It is just so much easier and neater without having boxes and cables everywhere. it is bad enough with the screens without having to have all the harddrvies external too. This is in my home in the living room and it is relatively neat as a single tower box.

[Neil Paisnel]

Shift works the same too with the nudge keys , .

[Neil Paisnel]

I don’t know why , or how, but some tracks that I increased the gain on using the ‘Loudenss and Uniformity ‘ on, lost sync with the video.

Very weird.

hundreds of clips over 8 or more nights, all shot on a Canon 5D3.
None of the audio was EVER detached from the video.

yet randomly after applying Audio Enhancements Loudness and Uniformity, they would go out of sync on export.

I know, no connection you woudl ahve thought, but only clips that i had used this function went out of sync.

I was doing very little.
Draggin raw clips from browser,to timeline, adjsuting audio and exporting the timeline. Out of onlyu happened two or three times, out of hundereds of clips, and only where this enhancement was used.

I recorded ‘dual mono’ voices on stage on one track and musiicains on the other track, in camera via a mix desk.

If you do need more than 12 db for extermely low sections, then split the audio components then raise each individual track seperately. then when ‘colapsed back’ to the video, you cna rais it again on the whol clip.
If desperate to get yet more, I suppose you could nest the low clip within a compund clip, the raise the level of the compound too.

[Neil Paisnel]

I needed this the other day too, and created a message asking this very question.

I had dragged all my clips to a new time line..and it was very shot..Odd I thought , it should be 2 her 30 ..and it was about 1 hour.

It was as you discovered too that all in out markers in the Browser are retained even if you drag the whole clip to the timeline.

I found the Option X command just in time .

But this came as a shock, I miss read what Jeremy said about keywords . it had not occurred to me before, I thigh Jeremy was saying that any segment of a clip with In /out marked even if key worded would be lost..but thankfully no.

I just checked and after I used Option X the other day, all my markers with Keywords are still intact. that would have been a weeks work screwed if I had lost all the ey words ..phew panic over.

So go to the browser , select all your clips, the Option X..then drag all the clasp complete to the timeline

[Neil Paisnel]

Problem I am having after a bit or experimenting is that the smaller options for SD480p, to give me a small 640 size, which chop the output down to a nice compact 615MB are the Vimeo or Facebook options.

I can’t seem to find a way to save this file locally

IF I use File Export, the smallest option is 854 x 480 and 1.5GB

EDIT: UPDATE…Compressor does it , I found the SD480 option, saving now, lets see what it gives

Thanks for the help