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[David Cherniack] “AFAIK it had all to do with playback…which was why it was called a playback engine.”
Nope. You can turn it off and go software-only and it makes no difference on standard media playback. It affects effects processing and transform functions, so if you add filters in software-only or several layers with PIP, then you are taxing the CPU. It also affects the output using an external i/o.
For example, on my mid-2014 MBP, if I put a 4K ProRes clip on a 1080 timeline as “set to frame size” so it scales, it will play just fine (1/2 resolution). When the project is set to Metal acceleration, there’s no colored “stress” line over the timeline. Playback is smooth and instant. When I switch to software-only, I get a red line over that clip and it has to buffer for a split second before it starts to play.
– Oliver
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[Tom Sefton] “I just don’t have the same issues at all with relinked media in fcp. “
Obviously our experiences differ. I’m glad it works for you better than what I’m seeing. The experience you describe is how Premiere works for me ☺
Agreed on Postlab.
– Oliver
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[David Cherniack] “The Mercury Playback Engine is what, 12-13 years old?….”
MPE is Adobe’s architecture for dealing with the GPU to accelerate effects. I’m not sure it has anything to do with the playback issues that are of concern.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Single click the library, hit file > relink files. Hit the locate all button, and point it at the top most folder or directory, (or even drive), “
It’s at this stage where – if you have a large volume of files – that you get stuck on searching, same as with launch.
Just to clarify, sometimes that does go fast. But on this batch of revisions, when you try to follow this process, you can never stop the “looking for matching filenames.” So at each step you get a spinning beach ball for a while until it to a point where it lets you go to the next folder. Basically the app is trying to be too smart for its own good.
– Oliver
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It seems to me, when it comes to NLEs, we have largely tapped out on the new “whizz bang” features. After all, add 16K capabilities? Meh, you can do that now if the hardware you have supports it. Only Adobe seems to be trying to do something useful with its AI features. But none of these things are marquee items. Collaboration? Sure Avid’s been doing that for decades and everyone is still playing catch-up.
So going forward, maybe the new focus will be on workflow solutions and less on the glitz. And does the big wild card of Covid mean cameras will go smaller? Is remote-directed, remote recording the new production mode? If so, does the Apple iPhone or the Sony Xperia phone become more important than your Canon, Arri, RED, or BMD camera?
– Oliver
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[Joe Marler] “Oliver, could you clarify this? While there are some major FCPX re-link issues, in general the above case works for me “
The original edit was done from media on shared storage. Library on a local machine and media left in place. These files were archived onto different archive drives. That’s because the media isn’t associated with one single project. So the library and various media files are on several different drives. In order to make the necessary revisions at home, I have to copy all of these pieces (media and library) back onto single larger RAID. So obviously in that process, paths and volume names have all changed. Filenames are unique.
When I launch the FCPX library it starts to search for files, first going for the nonexistent volume in the path name. It just sits searching and searching. When it finally (minutes later) lets me point it to the new volume it goes back into a long searching mode again before I can actually point it to the correct file.
It would be a very simple fix (IMHO) to add a “manual searching” function that let you point to a place for it to start searching, like you can for individual files once you are in the library.
In the same situation in Premiere, when it can’t initially find the media on launch, it quickly pops up the relink dialogue and you navigate to the new files and hit locate. Then all files in a relative path are immediately relinked and you are ready to go. The only slowdown is that waiting for caching to be completed, since no caches have yet been built. Fast for a project with a few assets. Longer for a project with hundreds of assets.
In my case for this project, I only needed to fix one timeline. So I canceled the search and let it load with media offline. Then relinked the few individual files in that sequence.
– Oliver
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Both methods create new media. If you select copy, it simply copies the source files without modification and at full length. If you select transcode, then it converts the media (such as to ProRes) and gives you the option to trim clips to the length used in the sequence plus a few frames or seconds of handles. You can only Project Manage/Media Manage a sequence, however multiple sequences can be selected. Sometimes if you select transcode, it may still copy the full clip because of certain clip attributes.
Not sure why you would get an error, but Project Manager certainly has issues from time to time. Do you have enough available space on the target drive?
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[Bill Davis] “Maybe if we ever get back to some sort of normal, vis-a-vis large physical gathering type events, we’ll see a giant spate of beautifully rev’d stuff.”
A lot of the development teams are also on lockdown internationally. We can all talk about the pros of WFH in some cases, but for hardware/software developers that’s not necessarily the case. So some of these product developments are simply on pause until people get back to their facilities/labs/design studios. Not to mention, when we come out of this, no one on the production side will have any great interest in spending money on new gear. So I really feel that it’s simply a lost year for this industry.
– Oliver
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Project Manager gives you 2 options. Are you copying or transcoding/trimming media?
– Oliver
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[Tom Sefton] “I can only think there must be something hellishly wrong with the install of premiere.”
Yes, there’s something wrong that isn’t typical.
– Oliver
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