Rob Alexander
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As mentioned below, your drives should be up to it. USB 3 expresscards were a bit finicky on the macbooks – I have a caldigit one which has worked well but is no longer available. I suggest you look to something like the Caldigit TS2 which connects to your thunderbolt port and adds USB3, esata, ethernet and HDMI. A great little device!
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Thanks Tero but the LUT in the drop down menu had actually changed – in this case from an ARRI Amira setting to an Arri Alexa, and the look was wildly different. It has happened every time I’ve moved suites.
The monitors in both locations are well matched.
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Thanks omni disksweeper – it was loads of pesky Adobe cache files!
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The old machine is on 10.7.5 and the new one 10.8.5. I’ve posted on the apple forums and opinion is split but the majority think it should work.
So if the new machine doesn’t recognise the stripe they should reappear on the old one?
Thanks for the advice.
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I was planning to remove them from the caddies inside my current Mac pro and fit them to the ones in the new one. Having been striped with disk utility I was hoping that they’d carry the striping data locally and just show up. I may be missing something though!
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AE isn’t recognising the GTX680 in my Mac Pro (it’s a custom build system and might be a flashed PC version of the EVGA), its identifier is NVIDIA GeForce GTX680. AE tells me that CUDA ray tracing is turned off for my card.
Do I need to edit the approved cards list or is it possible I need to update the drivers for the card.
Also Adobe Media Encoder reports it’s using OpenCL Mercury Engine acceleration but intuition tells me that I should expect it to use CUDA if that’s available?
I should add that I’m new to Adobe software having been a long time AVID and FCP user.
Thanks for the help.
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An alternative thought…
Why not keep your Mojo DX and add a BM Multibridge pro (or equivalent from another manufacturer) running in standalone mode. It will convert your analogue sources to SDI and you can keep your AVID workflow without the cost of a Nitris DX box. You can of course connect directly and see whether your system is more sluggish.
There is of course codec acceleration in the Nitris but it seems that would not be of too much concern to you.
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Ah… it’s so easy you’d never think of it!!
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Hi Paul,
The harding test is specifically designed to identify a potential epilepsy risk so whilst your flashes may or may not be illegal in luminance this is unlikely to be the cause. The specs are quite detailed but as a rough guide if more than 25% of the screen has a dramatic change in luminance more than 3 times per second (i.e. flashing) then it will fail. This also applies to red flashes (your building at the end), repeated patterns within the image can also cause a fail as can fast moving shots which might not immediately seem to be flashing but do in fact cause rapid luminance shifts – I’m thinking of sunlight through trees shot from a moving vehicle as an example here. Your video is very contrasty and the whip pans may be causing issues.
One solution (which you regularly see in movies on TV these days) is to dramatically reduce the contrast in the offending areas such that the change in luminance is not so great – i.e. lift the blacks so they’re much more washed out and potentially drop the whites too. I was watching the new Star Trek movie the other night on channel 4 and many of the action scenes looked like this.
Hope this helps,
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Hi Noah,
it’s a soft bag I’m looking for. Always good to know other people’s experiences.
Rob