Shane Ross
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Dan, if you get a NEW Mac, it will ship with High Sierra. FCP 7, now officially, is unsupported and will not install on that version. And, if the computer was made when High Sierra was released, it can ONLY run that operating system, not any previous one.
If you need to use FCP 7, it’s best to keep an older computer with more compatible OS to do so.
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Posting only to say that I’m not ignoring this…I just don’t know the solution. Perhaps get PREFERENCE MANAGER from Digital Rebellion and see if that helps. It should work, I mean, you are on the supported OS.
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Both are SSDs, and both are fast. I dont’ think you’ll see ANY difference if you use one over the other for either task, to b honest.
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According to the Configuration Guide for DR 15, it should work.
Page 19:
“In the last year or two there have been an increasing number of systems with the new GPUs that are suitable for use with DaVinci Resolve. So while performance varies greatly, most modern AMD, Intel and NVIDIA GPUs that support OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 3.0 compute capability will operate with Resolve.”
Does your particular GPU support OpenCL 1.2?
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[Bill Davis] “Wow, just remembering how recently EVERYONE who used a laptop for video production was a wannabe.
Totally Unprofessional. A joke. “
Yeah, funny how when I used one on the set of a feature film, because the scene was too long and we needed to make adjustments, so the writer director re-wrote the script and the producers freaked out that the edit wouldn’t match, but then I had my laptop on set and fixed the edit and we were good to go… 14 years ago. Not sure when a laptop was said to be unprofessional. The editor of UP was using it on an airplane and the person next to them wasn’t impressed, but that was a commoner. Laptops have been used by professionals for years…so you must be talking about that 14 years ago when the producers didn’t think I could do it. that’s a long time ago…
[Bill Davis] “You apparently find constant reason to be upset about those same changes. Basically, the Apple glass is EVER below what you’re going to be comfortable with. “
When every advance is done for NO OTHER REASON other than “it’s different,” when you have lots of money invested in equipment and in 6 months Apple computers no longer connect to that equipment, meaning you need to hold onto that computer for 4 years longer than you were planning to…just because Apple doesn’t think the average user doesn’t need it anymore. “Oh, you just invested $12,000 in TB2 RAIDs and IO? Well…GOOD NEWS! We don’t support that anymore! Now there’s TB3!! Oh, and that headphone jack, we don’t need that anymore, so you can dump your $400 studio headphones and get our BEATS BY DRE! wireless ones!”
All changes only address the average user. Time and time again they prove they don’t give one hoot about professionals and their needs. Only “make it thinner! Make it lighter! We don’t need that connection anymore…Bob from down the office doesn’t need that. Nor does your average soccer mom, or young blogger. So let’s get rid of it, it’s useless. Then we can make it sleeker.”
I’m so glad you enjoy spending money over and over again for new equipment when the old works just fine, but happens to be two years old so ANCIENT in tech terms. SO nice to be able to afford $8000 for a new RAID every two years because the connector is better, and the adapter doesn’t quite get the speeds that the direct connction did. Or that the $1500 IO you have that is in fine working order won’t work anymore, so you can shell out another $1500 for a new one. This after spending $6000 on the new computer.
I’m not talking about how there’s a guy at Technicolor who still runs a D1 deck to online SD shows…in 2018. No, we are talking things being dropped after two years…or less. Or conections vanishing altogether thus requiring adapters, but wow, not enough connections to accommodate all the things I need to attach.
Glad to see you love giving these companies all your money and all your obsolete equipment stacking up…
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[Bill Davis] “One might perhaps be that with a device that accompanies people on their busy daily lives – and that we increasingly rely on for personal safety and security – not compromising the devices integrity by needlessly drilling headphone jacks and data ports into it, serves to increase its reliability.”
Please oh please name ONE INCIDENT where an iPhone’s integrity was compromised by the headphone jack. Just one. One will do. I can point out hundreds of thousands of cases of CRACKED and SHATTERED iPhone screens. Google it and you’ll be outdone. But, Bill, come on. Name on case where the headphone jack caused any issues…compromised the integrity of the phone itself. SURE…headphone connectors have broken off and gotten stuck inside the jack…but that didn’t break the phone…that was a broken headphone.
[Bill Davis] “It’s lightness and thinness might make it more likely to be something a person takes everywhere. “
Funny how other phones are bulkier and heavier and people seem to take them everywhere. That has never been a factor in me taking my phone me.
[Bill Davis] “No company can sell millions of units EXCLUSIVELY to top tier video professionals. “
I guess not. Which is why Apple doesn’t make them for Professionals anymore. NOPE! You want professional connections? Get adapters. LOTS OF adapters. Third party adapters. JUST LIKE WHAT THEY DO WITH FCX! The way it is, out of the gate…plain Jane downloaded…it isn’t ready for professional use. Can you edit video? Yup. Can you post it to YouTube? Yup. OH, wait, sorry…I keep forgetting that there are many many levels of professional and I’m only talking about the ones that need to send their audio to professional audio mixers or Change lists or send the project to Adobe. Sorry, forgot, we are the 2%. The same 2% that need to capture from tape on occasion or output to tape, something Apple thinks doesn’t exist…unless it’s DV or HDV (ironically).
So they’ll just make this hardware that’s marketed to the average user, but put PRO on it so professionals can feel good about getting it, while they shell out hundreds of dollars more for the adapters they need.
[Bill Davis] “But I try not to get too grumpy because Apple aparently has more in mind than what “I” need.”
Apple USED to have several tiers of products. The laptops for consumers, then the ones for professionals. Now they have them ALL for consumers, but put PRO on some so they can charge more and consumers can go “look, I have a professonal laptop!” While they don’t really, as they don’t have ANY of the connectors they need for all the pro work. Well, besides Thunderbolt.
I love Avid…but I still complain about many things they don’t do right. I love Apple, but complain about the things they don’t do right. I’m…lukewarm about Adobe, but still find things that they don’t do right that I need done. No one is perfect, no company is perfect, so we will complain about them when they don’t fulfill our needs. And we will complain MORE about a company that we LOVE that doesn’t do that…one that DID but then is proving, over time, to be turning their backs on us and walking away…slowly…getting rid of the things we use and need…Shake here…FCP Legacy there…multiple ports of varying types so they can make a laptop with ONE port so you can’t charge your computer AND use a hard drive on it at the same time (MacBook).
The fact that no matter WHAT Apple does…you always think they are the greatest thing. I mean, nothing….they can do nothing that will make you complain. They could drop Thunderbolt tomorrow and you’d say it’s about time they did, as you never needed that. They could drop all external connections and you’d say “It’s because the future is wireless, even wireless RAID drives…Apple knows this so they are forcing everyones hand and it’s good…you’ll see.”
You are losing credibility with every post you make defending absolutely everything Apple does. Your opinion used to have weight, at least with me. Now…nope. None. I find myself waiting for you to post to see what insanely stupid thing you’ll say, and I can say, you never disappoint.
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[Dennis Kutchera] “Then export from there with Media Encoder to DNxHD or HR for Avid MC. “
The scaling engine in Premiere is decent, but not optimal. After Effects is better. Hardware upconverting even better. This solution is only one I’d use if I didn’t have the budget for hardware, and didn’t have After Effects.
[Dennis Kutchera] “You can also use the free MPEG Streamclip app to convert the DVD to your choice of codec.”
Sorry, but this is one of the worse options for scaling footage to HD. It does a very bad job of scaling. Converting to other formats, fine…DVD to DV or other SD format…fine, but scaling to HD? No…it rated the worse on all of my tests.
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My advice…because you are converting an SD DVD to HD (both interlaced, so that’s good)…and you want it to look GOOD….then you need to have it upconverted to HD before bringing it into Avid. Run it through a Terranex to scale it up (out of the DVD player, into the Terranex, then into the Avid)…that way you only convert once. Or, if you can’t do it, go to a post facility that can upscale and capture as DNxHD 1080i50. Via Terranex or Alchemist.
Any scaling or transcoding using Avid will offer less appealing results.
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Are you on Facebook? There’s a very active Avid group on Facebook with LOTS of people who might know…
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2244549459/
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Go into your OMFI folder, and delete the CREATING folder. You can do that safely. Then try.
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