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Peter Rudolfi
October 20, 2014 at 11:06 pm in reply to: Importing Images in Motion 5

As far as “how the play” in n Image Sequence File, try in Properties/Timing/Frame Bending, changing that setting to Optical Flow. You’re in for some fun.

Mark Spencer has an excellent tutorial here on Morphing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bQnr6kHwHY

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Peter Rudolfi
February 13, 2014 at 6:38 pm in reply to: NVidia GeForce GTX 285 Sluggish Performance

One more thing on this topic. It appears that the latest CUDA Drivers are only designed to work on Nvidia products for the Mac and with an OS of 10.7 or later. That leaves me out on two counts. I run 10.6.8 and more importantly I’m about to trade up to one of the ATI Radeon video cards so probably wonte benefit from CUDA at all.
Peter Rudolfi
February 13, 2014 at 6:33 pm in reply to: NVidia GeForce GTX 285 Sluggish Performance

Thanks for following up. Two things.

Don Smith in his 3-15-12 post at 7:18:31 am states that his new ATI Radeon 5770 video card only worked after removing his CUDA preference from his mac. YOu are advising me to install a CUDA Driver for my MAc. Not making sense.

Regarding the best ATI Radeon card that works on OS10.6.4 and above including Mavericks 10.1 check out this comparison between the 5770 & the 5870:

https://www.hwcompare.com/982/radeon-hd-5770-vs-radeon-hd-5870/
Peter Rudolfi
February 12, 2014 at 1:20 pm in reply to: NVidia GeForce GTX 285 Sluggish Performance

RE: the ATI Radeon HD series video card for running FCPX and Motion 5, I have a friend who uses the Radeon 4850 and finds it problem free as compared with the notoriously choppy nVidia GeForce GTX285 video card that Don 7 I suffered with. Given that Don’s thread was posted nearly two years ago here is a link comparing the latest ATI Radeon 5770 with its even newer 5870 which using almost every metric is 50% faster:

https://www.hwcompare.com/982/radeon-hd-5770-vs-radeon-hd-5870/
Peter Rudolfi
February 11, 2014 at 9:14 pm in reply to: NVidia GeForce GTX 285 Sluggish Performance

Dont see CUDA In my Systems Preferences Window (OS10.6.8). There are 5 panels in System Preferences: Personal, HArdware, Internet & Wireless, System & Other. In none of those are the words or an icon for CUDA. Must mean I don’t have it on this machine?

RE: sluggish performance I tried all kinds ways to minimize the drag. Once rendered the project of course played slightly more smoothly but rendering took a long time too. The new ATI video card seems to be the answer many have found useful replacing NVidia 285.

Do you happen to know or can advise on the latest ATI Radeon HD card for FCPX? The 5770 1 GB mentioned in the March 2012 post may not be the most optimum available today and for functioning in Mavericks OS 10.1.

Thanks,
Peter Rudolfi
February 11, 2014 at 4:02 pm in reply to: NVidia GeForce GTX 285 Sluggish Performance

Wow, I’ve had this problem with that darn NVidea 285 card for well over 3 years. Tried every possible solution with only moderate results. All the things you experienced and had to do get the project to run somewhat smoothly have plagued my computer too. I do mainly ‘art videos’ and nothing will stop the creative process more one which depends on spontaneity than a herkey-jerky machine. By the time the data is running again or stopped jumping the inspiration has long since passed. Just to determine if the music and image synch up requires exporting a small portion of the project into a .mov file to check since in Motion5 or FCPX itself the play jumped over those critical moments so you could never tell. Once in a .mov file one could see/hear what was happening you then could make an adjustment back in the project and export it again to see if one had it right. This took several episodes of this procedure just for that one edit!

Can’t wait to install that ATI Radeon HD5770 1 GB Card.

One Question please Don: what is the CUDA Preference panel you refer too? Is that a custom install you did a while back? Where would I look to see if its on my machine? Don’t think it is standard content and it appears you have it now deleted.

Thanks for this riveting story Don.
Peter Rudolfi
January 15, 2011 at 7:07 am in reply to: “This project is unreadable…” error message (I’ve tried ALL the troubleshooting methods)

Willy when you say ‘original external’ are you referring to an external hard drive, and, connecting a second external hard drive to complete the process you describe? I too have this bizarre message ‘this project is unreadable or may be too new for this version of Final Cut’. It came up directly after saving a 3 minute FCE4 project to an external hard drive. using FCE 4.0.1, iMac OSX 10.6.6.

Please clarify so I can possibly retrieve 6 hours of creative time!

Peter Rudolfi