Todd Perchert
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And, just to follow up, this appears to be an issue with PPro and the real-time hardware acceleration through the Quadro card. Switch to software only and the problem goes away. Someone in the Matrox forums (not the Cow forums, unfortunately) pointed this out to me.
Just in case someone else is searching this issue…
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Def HP before ASUS. All depends on your budget. HP will most likely cost a little more.
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I don’t see a USB 3.0 in the specs. I know ASUS has a similar model with a USB 3.0 in the specs. I think you will probably want that as well, since the system doesn’t have Firewire capabilities. Which then begs the question… how you getting your footage into it?
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Dragan – looks good. That should work much better than your current system. Is that the ASUS G-series with a USB 3.0 port? I don’t recall a Firewire, so you may want to look at a good portable, USB 3.0 external drive with it.
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No problem… I was hoping it might just be a power issue, which it still could be – but good luck!
For your HD editing, you definitely will want a PC with more horsepower…
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Honestly, it’s a long-shot that this is the problem, but it certainly is worth trying. Myself, I had enough clean mpeg-2 renders that it has me convinced on my system so that I have a new PSU coming.
Did you do an uncompressed render? I’m guessing your system may not play back uncompressed smoothly… but what about matching your sequence settings and rendering. I’m wondering if that would play back well. It’s another option if this last mpeg-2 render with half your cpu doesn’t work. I know, it’s a lot of time doing all the renders, but can help in tracking something down.
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yes sir. Uncheck one and leave the other checked.
I thought your specs had an i7… Must be someone elses post I was reading with an i7… Anyways, your render will take longer, but I’m interested in the final result.
I discovered that my system may have a power supply going or a bad 12v rail to one of the cpus. I’ve run several tests with half the cores and have gotten clean mpeg-2 renders every time. I’m just wondering if you could be having a power supply issue or lack of power from the power supply.
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Dragan – I’m working on a theory here… Try exporting your project. When you get it into AME, try something. Before hitting render, hit ctrl-alt-del and start Task Manager. Click on the Applications Tab, Right-Click on Adobe Media Encoder, select Go To Process. Right-click on the Adobe Media Encoder exe process. Select Set Affinity. Uncheck a couple of cores and hit okay. Then go to AME and start que. Tell me if it works.
When you shut down AME after its done rendering and restart it, it should go back to all processors selected – you can always go back and double-check.
Like I said, a theory I am working on here. If it works I’ll tell you what I’m thinking…
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Dragan – I’ve been experiencing something similar with exporting to mpeg-2 through AME. I think the issue for me is something with AME or the mpeg-2 component. I am able to render out uncompressed avi files from PPro fine, but when I then take those and render through AME as mpeg-2 I will still get the short ‘stall’ or quick ‘freeze’ in the video on simple :30 TV spots. I’m still trying to narrow down the problem. Unfortunately, it’s not all the time, and if I adjust the bit rate for the mpeg-2 render it may be fine or the freeze may be in a different location. For me it usually happens once, occasionally twice, in a :30 spot. Like you said, importing that same mpeg-2 back into PPro will play fine, but I can’t rely on that for the TV stations – who knows what they will be using and if it will play fine or not.
I recently reinstalled Adobe Prod Prem and that didn’t take care of the issue.
TCPC specs: EVGA Classified SR-2 mobo, 2 x 3.33 Ghz Xeon 6 cores each liquid cooled, 24GB 1333 DDR3 RAM, Quadro4000, 700MBps external RAID, Win 7 64bit, Adobe Prod Prem CS5.
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How are you ripping the files? Converting to what format, codec, file size? You may be able to copy the VOB files to your HDD and rename them with a .mpg extension, then try importing those. That may save a transcoding step since the files have already gone from DV to mpeg, because if you are then transcoding to another highly compressed codec, that will just be adding to the problem.
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