Phillip Todd
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Phillip Todd
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I’m in the Facebook group MacPro 5,1. There you will find all the help and answers you need. Using the Mojave FW update you can boot off NVME (very fast) and add an RX580 8 GB GPU with you stock power supply. I’d avoid a TB3 expansion card unless they OK it and there could be sleep issues. I alway thought eGPU was a backwards solution for laptops and since you have PCIe, that is your best bet. YMMV.
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My workflow is slowly being phased out as I barely use cameras generating AVCHD anymore. But, what I found worked best, and I didn’t need the metadata, is to merge files using “MTSmerge” or terminal for all spanned files, then rename and re-wrap, using clipwrap the .mts files to h264 .mp4. Same file size and Premiere, I read somewhere, had issue with .mts, but, not .mp4 so the performance is better too. My experience was better performance in a 3 camera multi-cam edit. YMMV.
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Hi David,
I had time today. Glad to know this info has helped someone else.
#1) Don’t worry about making .DMGs since all the cards are already gone on to another job (been erased) and you have been provided with the complete file structure in your copies.
Premiere doesn’t need the file structure BTW, but, other apps might.
#2) removing the capitalization was a work around at some point (I think when I started using 10.8).
Now I just right click “Show Contents” and drill down to the filer called “STREAM” containg all the .mts files.I call it a consumer format, because the Mac OS makes you jump through these hoops. I enjoy the quality offered by my cameras shooting .mts I just think that always creating a file with the 1st file as 00000.mts makes for another reason to call it a consumer format. The images are great, the file handling in the camera is crap.
My work flow has also evolved a little bit.
-I learned from Nick Driftwood on personal-view.com about using “Movist.app” v 0.6.8 for easy and pain free viewing of .mts files on the mac. It works for me in 10.9 too. It does not let you scrub through the 2nd clip in a spanned clip. Use google to look for it. I don’t remember which site I got if off of.-Also PPro CS6/Plural Eyes 3 usually gives me a 2 frame gap between spanned clips, so now I use “MTSmerger.app” v1.0 to merge just my spanned clips (look for it on DVXuser). I then edit from the merged clip and just archive the camera original clips.
So now since I have renamed the clips in namechanger.app and merged the clips in MTSmerger.app I have complete and unique clips for fewer headaches when editing.
-If anything goes offline in Permiere, my naming convention makes it easy to find. Every clip gets a date at the head. Ex: If I shot the clip today, I’d call it “150323 ________.mts” so todays date: March 23, 2015 is clearly visible to my eyes and I can easily find it.
With any app, if you are unsure of the source where you got it, it’s a good practice to scan it with anti-virus software. I use ClamXav and have never found a problem, but, it’s your responsibility to back up your system before installing software (using CCcloner or the like, another good practice) and for virus checking yourself.
BTW, the apps in the versions I mentioned are all free too.
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Make sure that all sources have the same frame rate.
Try to have all sources in their correct chronological order.
In the menu you will see 2 extra options, which solved a problem for me recently:“Allow re-ordering of clips”
“Try Really Hard”Both are worth trying. Helped me the other day.
Red Giant does says in their help files to try and keep PE projects below 30 minutes.
-Phillip
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I’ve noticed the same behavior. I am also coming from FCP7 to PP CS6 and would like to the answer to this too.Phillip Todd
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Thanks for the confirmation Darren.
I read the Barefeats article: https://barefeats.com/tube05.html
and contacted Rob-ART@barefeats regarding his exclusion of the 2008 MP 3,1 from his final statement:
Question:
You (Rob) wrote: “Good news for those who are continuing with their 2009 – 2012 Mac Pro tower: You will benefit from the optimizations made in FCPX 10.1 and Motion 5.1 for the 2013 Mac Pro . And with high-end GPUs, you can get close to the render speeds of the 2013.”Is there a reason the 2008 MP 3,1 is NOT included in this list?
Answer:
The 2008 has some issues with some of the fast GPUs. Like the 7970 and 7950 never get to full speed in 3,1 in 10.9. Yet others, like the GTX 780, work fine.Plus the two 4-lane slots are PCIe 1.1 instead of 2.0. That means won’t get the speed with PCIe flash storage you will experience on the 2009 – 2012.
It’s not ‘upgrade caveat free’ like the 2009 – 2012 Mac Pros. But if you are willing to navigate the pitfalls, there are ways to boost its performance.
-Rob
I thought we would all benefit from this info from Rob-ART @ barefeats.
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I have been eyeing this card for my MP 2008 3,1. Any thoughts on it?
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With the CUDA driver 5.5.28 update I also noticed an extra control panel “Nvidia Driver Manager” had been installed. It allows easier management of the GPU driver. You can easily select the OSX driver or the Nvidia web driver.
Maybe try both options and see if one works better.
Phillip Todd
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