Pete Mulder
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That’s good news! At the risk driving you nuts… what is involved in doing the hack for 64 bit? I have looked around but still have not been able to figure this out. Can anyone direct me to a video of a link with the best instructions for this? Also; if I get the GTX card will this still be a good card to use in a brand new Mac if I decide to take the plunge in the near future… so that I won’t have to buy yet another video card? That might make all of this more palatable.
Pete
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Greg: Good advice. Thanks. I heard that if you do the hack for Cuda you loose your audio. Could this be true… and is it worth doing the hack in terms of reliability> This is my fear… gettin gin too deep and ending up with an unreliable system.
Pete
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Greg; Thanks for this. I had a feeling that the 64 bit thing would come into this eventually. The sad thing is that I just bought this 4870 card a few months ago before I knew any of this. I may have to keep an eye out for 5770 a card. How much better do you think the 5770 card would be compared to my 4870? Do you think that the difference would be significant?
Pete
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Hi Russ: I ran through the video link you provided and applied those changes but I still do not have the Mercury feature (or any other one) in that dropdown box unger the General setting for PremPro. Bummer. I guess that means that this card wont work for this (?) Could I be missing something? I followed it to the letter. Also; Yes, the $140 (or so) was for the pair (maybe a little more $, but in that price range).
Pete
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Hi Russ: Thanks for your reply. I will dig into the specs for this card a little more and let you know what I find. Refarding the CPU upgrade; it was a breeze to do! It works great and there are a series of very thoughtful and well prepared videos at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBivTJ0sitM&feature=relmfu . This man does a great job of explaining all of this and it was well worth the couple of hours it took to perform this upgrade. I had my laptop playing the videos as I worked on the Mac Pro. It was like having a buddy there to help 🙂 I bought the mached set of these processors on Amazon.com for around $140 with a 3MM 9″ hex wrench and some thermal gel for the CPUs. I just wish I could get more play out of my video card.
Pete
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I also have a 2006 Mac Pro but I have upgraded the CPUs to the 5355 quad cores at 2.66 and now have 16 Gb of RAM. I am running an ATI Radeon HD 4870 and dual monitors but I think that this card is the bottle neck for the machine rendering so painfully slow. I saw in your comments above that you said “I did that trick to enable the Mercury Playback Engine for a ATI OpenCL card in PPro CS6…” I still can’t figure how how or if I can do this with the 4870 card that I have on this machine. I would hate to have to buy a new machine as I do not do fulltime video editing and it works great for everything else but when I need to edit it can be like torture to wait on this thing. When I have a few effects on a clip and then try to render it everything can all come to a screetching hault and take virtually forever. Can someone explain to me how this “trick” (as mentioned above for Mercury Playback Engine) works and if it will work with my video card?
Pete
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I figured it out: From within PS there are are these little clip adjusting brackets beneath the image that allow you to choose just the portion of the clip you want to put the effect on. After you do this and render and save the clip, it saves a new clip at that adjusted length but be sure to do “save as” with a new file name or you will screw up your original clip. Its a great option.
Pete
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I have a similar question and I am also new to Adobe Premiere Pro: I have a 3 minute clip that I dragged into Premiere. However I am using only 30 seconds of this clip on the timeline. I want to edit just that 30 second part of the clip in Photoshop CS6 to so some lens distortion correction but when I attempt to do so I am forced to choose the entire 3 clip in Bridge in order for it to be worked on in PS. I realize that the non-destructive nature of the program is a virtue but how do I work on ONLY that 30 second portion, or perhaps I should be asking; how do I save just the 30 second portion from the timeline as a stand-alone 30 second clip that I can work on in PS without having to work on the original clip in its entirety?
Pete
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I have a similar question and I am also new to Adobe Premiere Pro: I have a 3 minute clip that I dragged into Premiere. However I am using only 30 seconds of this clip on the timeline. I want to edit just that 30 second part of the clip in Photoshop CS6 to so some lens distortion correction but when I attempt to do so I am forced to choose the entire 3 clip in Bridge in order for it to be worked on in PS. I realize that the non-destructive nature of the program is a virtue but how do I work on ONLY that 30 second portion, or perhaps I should be asking; how do I save just the 30 second portion from the timeline as a stand-alone 30 second clip that I can work on in PS without having to work on the original clip in its entirety?