Walter Biscardi
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Specs are fine, something is seriously wrong with your set-up though. We’ve run ethernet based shared storage over 8 years now first with FCP and for four years with PPro. No issues like you’re describing. We do not, however, run any trashcan Macs as I refuse to buy them.
We run a combination of iMac with Thunderbolt converter (10gigE), older Mac Pro and Windows Dell workstations. Absolutely nothing like you describe. Is the NAS properly set up to work with Premiere Pro? We run Studio Network Solutions EVO config and it’s amazing along with an older model Small Tree rig.
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[Dan DeStefano] “Why should we be forced to keep from upgrading because Adobe failed to use the three month beta period to make sure their app would be stable? Not that it was stable on Yosemite. Really a shameful piece of software no matter the OS.”
Completely and utterly idiotic statement. As if Adobe was the only company saying to not upgrade to the new OS. As if this was completely stopping you from working in the application.
It’s completely stable across 6 systems at my offices in Yosemite running off a NAS. Also very stable on my home MacBook Air.
If you have something useful to add to the conversation, that’s welcome, but statements like that above show completely and utter ignorance.
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We use Adobe Encore for all our DVDs. In fact we just did a run of 300 a few weeks ago and doing another run next week.
A pain in the rear to find in the Creative Cloud, but you have to download Premiere Pro CS6. That will download Encore CS6 with it. Then you can uninstall PPro CS6 and just keep Encore. Encore works just fine here on OS X Yosemite on Mac.
In Creative Cloud, click on Previous Version Drop down (next to Video) and then you’ll see in blue at the bottom of that window “View Previous Versions” Click that View Previous Versions.
It looks like not much happens, but now you have access all the way back to CS6. Click the dropdown next to Premiere Pro. You’ll see you now have options to download the earlier versions. Download CS6 which will bring Encore with it. Adobe has never separated the Encore installer.
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Is that just some black at the head and / or tail of your nested sequences?
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If you want to do a big batch of files, download the free Resolve and use their media transcoder. Does really large batches of media better than Adobe Media Encoder in my opinion.
From there you can choose any codec you want to edit with. As others have mentioned, PPro cuts with those formats you’re shooting really well so we just leave everything in full resolution on our end. We have a 96TB NAS here so we don’t have any issues keeping everything full res.
But you can go with a light flavor of ProRes, DNxHD, or whatever you want to use.
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I’m not familiar with that NAS but we’ve been running Premiere Pro on a NAS since we switched to it three years ago. First with CS6 and now the CC line. Most of our systems are 10Gig but we do have a few that are still 1gig.
The 1gig performance is much slower than 10Gig. We used to run Small Tree and now run Studio Network Solution for our NAS. Both were designed specifically for video editing. Is your NAS specifically designed for video editing or just regular networking? There is a difference.
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It was all over Facebook too as soon as Al said it….. He knows what he’s doing. 🙂
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Yeah, even Adobe says not to upgrade. Used to be so obvious but if folks want to upgrade and “be first,” have at it.
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Multiple feature documentaries, multiple broadcast and web episodics. So long as you have fast media arrays, you’ll be fine. We never transcode our media, we edit with everything natively except sometimes we’ll transcode GoPro material.
The only thing you notice is the lag to actually open the project. It can take a while.
One trick we do use however, is when the picture is locked, we’ll create a brand new empty project and import just the locked timeline forward into the new project. This way we can work on finish with the need to load up all 300 hours of media. We’re only loading up the 90 minutes of media in the final timeline. Makes for a much easier finishing process of Color / Graphics / Mastering.
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Bad media organization = bad transfer of projects between applications. If the organization is all over the place, then it’s possible you’re going to have to manually point Resolve to all of the files.
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