Tom Laughlin
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David, the only computer I’m talking about is my own, so I’m not going around and changing other computers, I’m just working on mine. This evening, I’ll be doing some more testing with the gentlemen who built out my Mac. We will remove the graphics card, the GTX-120, and repeating the same editing tests inside Premiere, to see if the editing continues unobstructed, or if the edit starts acting up, when and where it previously did. Several post house managers in Utah I’ve spoken with are keeping their Macs on Mavericks for a bit longer. They are also staying on Premiere 9.0 and 9.1, for a while longer. i’m on 9.2 the latest version, so I don’t think that’s an issue with all this.
Thanks for everyone’s help, andI’ll keep you posted.
Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Digital Chop House
Salt Lake City, Utah
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is there a difference?
Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Digital Chop House
Salt Lake City, Utah
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David, always great to get your feedback and input! When you’re back in Utah again, we need to get together. Let Phil Boyack and/or Avid know that we need another event with ProMax and Avid!
Regarding the OS, I am between projects and will be able to switch to Yosemite here in a few weeks, however I’ve heard Yosemite and Premiere Pro aren’t playing NCOs either. From compatibility or stability issues, to bugs and weird things happening, with other editors posting issues, I will probably test this out as you’ve mentioned, doing a boot drive here in a few weeks.
With the graphics card advice, so that’s where I’m weak in the know how. I don’t have a ton of experience with graphics cards as my precious Macpros were the default factory cards so I never had to update cards or put in newer cards. So this graphics card situation has definitely opened me up to a whole new part of post production editing and troubleshooting. I also had no idea about the GT-120 being part of the problem. The main reason I never thought about that is, the gentlemen who built out my macpro 5,1 12-core, he told me that the reason he installed two cards was the help alleviate the workload of each card. So instead of running one card too much, by splitting the workload of the two cards, both cards wouldn’t work as hard and the faster card would work even faster with one monitor hooked up to it, instead of two. So my dual monitors are set up where my main monitor on the left is run by my GTX-780 and my right monitor is being run and hooked up to my right monitor. I just figured that the two cards would share the payload.
From what you’re saying, ditch the GT-120, so I’ll try that. Does that mean to plug in both computer monitors into the 780, and leave the 120 inside the macpro, OR, to take the 120 completely out of the macpro all together?
Thanks for the note. I’ll try this out this evening and let you know how things go. If things are still weird, I’ll hear up and move into Yosemite ASAP. I did read a blog that someone was having issues with Yosemite and the GTX-780, but I didn’t get s chance to read in depth how they were using it and with what app.
Will keep you posted and if your or others have any more things to try, let me know.
Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Digital Chop House
Salt Lake City, Utah
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David, I apologize! I’m new to how thing is all unfolding here with this macpro. Yes, I will try and take the other card out and see if this helps. The reason for the long thread was that I wanted to help everyone get the chase with as much info on my end, just so people can see what I have been trying and seeing. I’ll ensure my posts are shorter next time, sorry! Thanks again!
Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Digital Chop House
Salt Lake City, Utah
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Pierpaulo,
So there is a few things I have tried and thiught would help but didn’t:
1. Change graphics from being PNGs to JPGs and TIFFs, still video goes black.
2. Found some precious Nvidia Cuda drivers v6.0.41 and v6.0.51, these cuda driver updates were released around the time Mavericks would’ve been released and Nvidia cards needing this update. Still nothing.
3. I have not yet tried reinstalling the latest cuda driver. The precious card I was using ran using the latest cuda driver installed and I thought card was going out. I took out the Nvidia quadro 4000 and replaced it with a Nvidia GTX-780, and simply left the latest Nvidia driver installed. Should I try and remove and reinstall the Nvidia driver? Back a few years ago, Nvidia drivers were card specific, now Nvidia has a driver for mac based cards, this driver just covers all cards now, so I know for now, the latest cuda driver is installed.
4. Tested cuda with exporting video via media encoder, and exports are fast and exports look good and the media encoder is able to use cuda and exports are fast and all functionality there is ok, it’s Premeire where video goes black intermittently.
5. Since I am on Mavericks, I’m not sure if it a problem with my graphics, so I opened up another projects and spend 10 minutes snapping around the play head in the timeline trying to get video to go black, this project does not have any 3-6k graphics, in the project, so I wonder if this is like a problem with the project not being able to handle (using cuda enabled) the 3-6k still graphic one files. (Fcp7 was notorious for crashing when you used large images, and people had to scale them down or open them in Photoshop and save them in a 1080p size instead of 2-6k, cause fcp7 simply didn’t like them and crashed a lot back then…)
6. I looked at my Mac specs, and as you can see, this macpro is a workhorse, and is robust enough to handle 3-6k editing. I use Rampant Effects, 4K .mov files and they play just fine on the timeline, so 4K video seems to handle ok.Any other ideas?
Thanks everyone, please more comments or thoughts!
Tom
Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Digital Chop House
Salt Lake City, Utah
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Sony has a new software that replaced the XDCam transfer and ClipBrowser. It worked up to OSX 10.7.5 for me, now I keep it on my older mac for offloading and do not have it on my new mac, using OSX 10.9.5. It sucks but at least I can still use it in that way…
Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Digital Chop House
Salt Lake City, Utah
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Send your EX-1 into Sony. It’s a sure and secure thing. Too many people doing it themselves, flying blind. Best $100 I ever spent, now I shoot to SD cards with no worries.
Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Digital Chop House
Salt Lake City, Utah
http://www.digitalchophouse.com -
Thank you Pierpaulo!!
So, from after carefully looking, it appears that I had updated from Premiere Pro 9.1 to 9.2 a few weeks ago. And it wasn’t until I was working on a more “graphically intensive” edit, in Premiere, that lots of photos and text layers started behaving “erratically”, as you see the screenshots in my post.
After my response from Pierpaulo, I checked, and sure enough, my Nvidia cuda had a new update available, so I installed it, and everything seems to be working fine at present. The eratic behavior seemed to be happening only inside of Premiere Pro, and not with general regular computer use, so I figured, may be it is needing the update, so I updated the CUDA driver for my Mac version Nvidia Quadro 4000, and ALL seems to be well, for now….
I also heard that other editors have had the “same issues”, when running OSX 10.9.5, with their older NVidia cards, and the newest versions of Premiere. So I guess, lesson learned! Check video card updates after every Premiere Pro update!!
Thank you Pierpaulo!!
Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Digital Chop House
Salt Lake City, Utah
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It’s exporting from Premiere, and just going right onto YouTube.
Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Digital Chop House
Salt Lake City, Utah
http://www.digitalchophouse.com -
Michael,
I’m in the same boat with my EX-1, however, have a question about my EX-1. I recently had a friend rent it a few weeks ago from me, I think he adjusted something in-camera with the audio, and the audio doesn’t quite right when used with wireless lavs… When time permits, can you email me at: tomyboy342000@yahoo.com
Thanks,
Tom
Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Digital Chop House
Salt Lake City, Utah
http://www.digitalchophouse.com
