Oliver Peters
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My work iMac Pro has it, too. On that machine I had set everything on the internal to be writable by the main user. So on that machine, the folder isn’t locked. It contains a subfolder for named Logs, but it’s empty. On my home machine, I trashed this oddball Library folder, but it returned.
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Glad it’s helpful.
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Edward, you may find this new article of mine helpful.
http://www.provideocoalition.com/understanding-premiere-pros-color-management/
– Oliver
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You might look at Elegato (Video Capture | elgato.com) . The linked unit should work over regular the USB-A ports, but I suspect it only works for capture, not output. The Intensity should work over USB-3 (Blackmagic Design Intensity Shuttle for USB 3.0 BINTSSHU B&H (bhphotovideo.com). That’s the same as USB-C, so you may simply need a USB-C to USB-3 adapter cable. Or the Intensity might simply work plugged into the mini’s USB-A ports. You may need to update the Blackmagic Desktop Video drivers.
If that doesn’t work, they maybe you can find a used BMD UltraStudio Express with the breakout cables. That would be a TB2 device, but *should* work with TB3>TB2 adapter.
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In my case, I had no direct connection between Premiere or Dropbox. IOW, no auto-saves or anything directed to the Dropbox folder. Yet apparently it’s still something Premiere was looking at.
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Thanks. I don’t disagree with any of that. I had my own mid-2009 cheese grater until earlier this year, to which I have done a lot of upgrades over the years. But in the end, I needed a better machine and gave it away to a student rather than deal with eBay, Craig’s list, etc. A new iMac more than replaced its functions.
But, yes, I know that there are plenty of older Avid installations still running on old Mac Pros. They are workhorses. However, the software industry has move to 64-bit and that’s a clear demarkation for both macOS and Windows. In that process, the OS versions have finally gone exclusively 64-bit and thus deprecated all 32-bit dependencies. Therefore, app developers have had to follow in the same direction.
Honestly, I have no idea whether or not old Mac Pros have the hardware capabilities to only run as 64-bit machines or whether there are real limitations. Or whether it’s simply Apple restricting the OS installation.
Maybe under Boot Camp, you could install Windows 10 and the newer (Windows) applications you want. I haven’t tried it and haven’t heard of anyone else doing it. There are plenty of cost-effective PCs that will blow the doors off of any old Mac Pro, no matter how upgraded it is. So probably people going Windows have gone that route instead.
My point is that you still have a very useful Mac Pro that can still run software within a couple of years of being current. But you are essentially frozen in time. That’s not a bad thing. Think of it as driving a reliable 10-year-old vehicle instead of moving up to a brand new Tesla 🙂
Oliver
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Unfortunately with Adobe, I tried just quitting Dropbox, but that didn’t help. I had to uninstall as well as delete the folder. Dropbox is very convenient for many, but it’s really not a great system.
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Catalina is the minimum for most Mac apps these days and it will soon be Big Sur. Old macOS versions are supported to a point, but only a couple of versions back. I’m sure you’re Mac Pro is a workhorse, but it IS 11 years old 🙂 And now it’s locked to Mohave or before.
If you want the latest version of an app, you’ll need to stay up to date on the OS. Unfortunately that’s just the way it is. I just had to update my mid-2014 MBP to Big Sur (from Mojave), because I had at least 6 or 7 apps that couldn’t be updated.
That being said, why do you feel the need to move to R17.1? What doesn’t R16 do for you?
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My situation turned out to be a conflict with Dropbox. This is a bug confirmed Adobe that affects a few, but not all, users. In my case, the symptoms were that the 3 installed video apps (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Media Encoder) would periodically spike memory use and nearly always require Force Quit to close the programs. It got worse with the 2021 updates. This was resolved by uninstalling the Dropbox application and deleting the Dropbox folder on my drive. So if you have these symptoms (not everyone will), follow those steps. It will probably be fixed in a future update, but I wasn’t given any sort of ETA. Hope that helps.
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Unfortunately, there is nothing consistent. Media players will manage the color in different ways and that’s what you are struggling with. If you export an MP4 and play it back through a media player like Switch, you will see an image that’s largely reliable. It won’t necessarily look like the image looks in the Premiere Pro viewer nor on YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, etc. That’s unfortunately just the way it is. When editors only dealt with broadcast TV, there was generally a common standard that everyone tried to achieve. Online content is a whole different ballgame.