| | | | Re: Color 1.5 not outputing to external monitor
by Ronen Pestes on Sep 3, 2009 at 5:46:13 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
Apple rep doesn't know what he is taking about!
the problem is not with the Kona, but with your graphic card (7300) which is not supported by color.
I run different kona card and different Mac pro. ATI cards are fully supported with Apple FCP & Co | | | | |
| | | | Re: Color 1.5 not outputing to external monitor
by walter biscardi on Sep 3, 2009 at 2:12:20 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
[Bob Pierce] "I'm in the same boat (no video out with Color 1.5 on my Mac Pro 2.66, with the stock NVIDIA 7300 graphics card) and wondering if there was any resolution to this matter. It's behaving exactly the same for me as described here - video ou | | | | |
| | | | Re: Color 1.5 not outputing to external monitor
by Bob Pierce on Sep 3, 2009 at 2:04:35 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
I'm in the same boat (no video out with Color 1.5 on my Mac Pro 2.66, with the stock NVIDIA 7300 graphics card) and wondering if there was any resolution to this matter. It's behaving exactly the same for me as described here - video out only appears | | | | |
| | | | Re: No Video-Out with Apple Color 1.5
by Bob Pierce on Sep 3, 2009 at 2:03:27 pm
in the Blackmagic Design Forum
I'm in the same boat (no video out with Color 1.5 on my Mac Pro 2.66, with the stock NVIDIA 7300 graphics card) and wondering if there was any resolution to this matter. It's behaving exactly the same for me as described here - video out only appears | | | | |
| | | | 1 or 2 Graphics Cards? FCS & Motion performance?
by Matt Campbell on Sep 3, 2009 at 12:53:18 pm
in the Apple Motion Forum
Sorry, I've already posted this in the OS X forum not sure which is better place for it.
Question on graphics cards and speed with Apple apps, i.e. Motion and FCS. My apologies ahead of time that this question has probably been asked a bunch, but | | | | |
| | | | 1 or 2 Graphics Cards? FCS & Motion performance?
by Matt Campbell on Sep 3, 2009 at 12:49:31 pm
in the Apple OS X Forum
Question on graphics cards and speed with Apple apps, i.e. Motion and FCS. My apologies ahead of time that this question has probably been asked a bunch, but I just don't have the time to search the topic. So, responses are greatly appreciated.
I | | | | |
| | | | Avis only read as audio in CS3
by David McGuire on Sep 2, 2009 at 8:20:54 pm
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
I have been editing 1080i video with CS3 imported via a matrox Rt.X2 graphics card.
Ive been having problems with the matrox codecs so decided to scrap the card.
I have reformatted my machine and wanted to import the avis captured through the matro | | | | |
| | | | Re: Recommend Solution
by Margus Voll on Sep 1, 2009 at 8:35:21 pm
in the Blackmagic Design Forum
Hi.
I had pc for SD work and it used XP for that.
Just regular 3Ware hw raid. Even 2 drives striped was good to go.
AMD X2 and generally thats it.
Nvidia Quadro 1700 or something like that also.
SD work does not take too much with todays c | | | | |
| | | | Re: Quadro cards
by Jeff Kosmicki on Sep 1, 2009 at 6:05:25 pm
in the AJA Xena Forum
OK, so I got the LHi and a Quadro card up and running. I have been using ATI cards for the past few years and have not used an Nvidia in a while.
The problem I am having is with the Nview software, it does not seem to work with hardly any applicatio | | | | |
| | | | Laptop Editing: what are the MOST important specs
by Stéphane Demers on Sep 1, 2009 at 12:49:02 pm
in the Art of the Edit Forum
Hello everybody, I have been a long time lurker, but I decided to join in and share my voice.
I've been editing, for a while now, various projects of various lenghts shot on my HV20, on an IMac using Adobe Premiere Pro. Actually, I bought the CS4 | | | | |
| | | | Using OpenGL in AE
by Marcus Painton on Sep 1, 2009 at 6:57:41 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I have a Nvidia GeForce 9800M GTS 1GB videocard, along with 4GB of DDR3 RAM. I am needing the best performance out of my laptop so that AE will render as quickly and smoothly as possible. Which are the optimal settings for OpenGL and other RAM sett | | | | |
| | | | Re: No Video-Out with Apple Color 1.5
by Mohamed Kamel on Sep 1, 2009 at 6:05:10 am
in the Blackmagic Design Forum
I think color is not so friendly with nvidia, so any ATI card will work just fine...also with color if your using a nvidia card, your limited to working with either 8 or floating point internal pixel format. 12 and 16 are always greyed out.
Hey Ra | | | | |
| | | | Re: Live Type and FCS3
by Christopher Wright on Sep 1, 2009 at 4:06:01 am
in the Apple LiveType Forum
No I have not. Contrary to much of the advice given on the Cow, I have always done the "upgrade" install (versus completely wipe system drive and do a clean install) with all the FCP and the Apple OS upgrades I have ever used and have never had any p | | | | |
| | | | Re: Political Spots
by Christopher Wright on Sep 1, 2009 at 3:47:31 am
in the Business & Marketing Forum
Once upon a time I was doing political ads in the same area at the same time for all three political parties (Elephants, Donkeys, and Greens). Each one wanted me to spill the beans on the other's campaign plans and I politely refused, and just shot a | | | | |
| | | | Re: Problems with sony DVD Architect 4.5 changing colours
by Jeremy Rasnic on Sep 1, 2009 at 2:30:36 am
in the Sony Vegas Forum
What are you watching the DVD on?
If your pc make sure you are not allowing for overlays provided by your graphic card software. nVidia I know has overlays that I turn off for video due to this very reason. Try watching it on a set top box on yo | | | | |
| | | | Re: GeForce GTX 285 VS ATI Radeon HD 3870
by Erik Lindahl on Aug 31, 2009 at 10:20:16 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I think Color is still very optimized for ATI's card. Back in the day when ATI was the only GPU developer for Mac Final Touch came and only ran on G5s with the highest end ATI card available. It seems this story continues. Certain features still are | | | | |
| | | | Re: Premiere Pro CS4 Hangs Frequently & Randomly!
by Fabian Terh on Aug 31, 2009 at 1:48:29 pm
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
This should be interesting.
System start-up, new project, import ALL my footage, tried to render. Encoding stopped halfway through my first clip. Alt-tabbed to my Premiere Pro, it's responsive. Alt-tabbed back to AME, and back to Premiere Pro an | | | | |
| | | | Re: Rendering questions
by Richard Boyle on Aug 31, 2009 at 5:19:48 am
in the Sony Vegas basics Forum
The movie in question was originally a series of different movies, some in AVI format, some I only had the original DVDs (archival films etc) and some were originally MKV files. I converted them all to AVI using River Past Video Cleaner Pro, with the | | | | |
| | | | Live Type and FCS3
by Christopher Wright on Aug 31, 2009 at 3:38:33 am
in the Apple LiveType Forum
Well here is the good and bad news about Live Type and the FCS3 with Snow Leopard:
If you do an "upgrade" to FCS3, LiveType is still there. If you do a fresh install, LiveType disappears totally. Apple states that all LiveType functions have moved t | | | | |
| | | | Re: Graphics card question
by walter biscardi on Aug 30, 2009 at 6:36:56 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
When I "downgraded" from the 8800 the ATI 2600 in my Mac Pro Octo 3.2 I saw immediate improvements on overall performance in Color and faster renders. In the new Mac Pro Octo 2.93 we have the ATI 4870 card and it just smokes Color.
ATI has alwa | | | | |
| | | | Graphics card question
by Alejandro Flores on Aug 30, 2009 at 6:03:45 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
How will upgrading my Nvidia 8800 GT with a Radion ATI 4870 benefit Color, faster rendering? Faster overall performance?, better display quality?
will I notice any difference at all?
just curious to see if it's worth the upgrade.
Thanks in | | | | |
| | | | full screen playback not clean in MC
by Tudor Paslaru on Aug 29, 2009 at 8:41:50 pm
in the AVID Editing Forum
Hi, I am trying for a few days to get a clean full screen playback from MC, but nothing changes. Images has a strange look, looks like frames cut one into each other, here is a sample. Could you help me, I really want to work in MC, I spent too much | | | | |
| | | | Re: Is 'incompatible effect/MP off' temporary?
by Michel Lacroix on Aug 29, 2009 at 7:29:15 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Actually, I have been having lots of trouble as well. I am getting the same message, incompatible effects or expressions, multiprocessing is off. ? not sure why, im using dynamic liking maybe? I have contacted Adobe about this without success. I have | | | | |
| | | | Re: GeForce GTX 285 VS ATI Radeon HD 3870
by walter biscardi on Aug 29, 2009 at 12:49:52 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
ATI makes Color run much much faster.
Right now the GPU has not much of anything to do with FCP that I'm aware of. It's all Color and Motion right now, though the Snow Leopard ads keep pointing to the GPUs handing more of the load from the proc | | | | |
| | | | Ati 4870 card for color??
by ron smith on Aug 29, 2009 at 6:55:55 am
in the Apple Color Forum
Currently running a NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 on a mac pro 3GHZ dual core intel xeon with 12 gb of ram .Would buying a ATI 4870 card for this machine help Color perform much better?? thanks | | | | |
| | | | IBM Intellistation/Edit System
by Roger Castillo on Aug 29, 2009 at 12:02:52 am
in the Classifieds, For Sale Forum
IBM Intellistation M-Pro Type 6850-21U
Dual Pentium Xeon 1.7GHz Processors
1.25GB ECC RAM
18GB Program Drive
48x-20x CD-ROM
Floppy Drive
10/100 Ethernet
Windows 2000 installed
Discreet edit 6.5 Keyboard
NVIDIA Quardo2 MXR AGP 4x video card D | | | | |
| | | | what renders the motion tracking in Color?
by Jan Bliddal on Aug 28, 2009 at 7:17:09 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
Is that the processor or the Graphics cards. In other words where should I expect to see improvements if I replaces the nVidia 7300 stock graphics gard with a faster ATI Card?
Let the machine work for you. Not you for the machine | | | | |
| | | | Re: Macbook Pro and Mac Pro renders compared....
by walter biscardi on Aug 28, 2009 at 3:44:07 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
[Peter Wollsey] "as I know that generally the ATI card is recommended for best performance...."
I can tell you that the base ATI 2600 card in the Mac Pro Octo 3.2 machine greatly outperformed that nVidia 8800 card or whatever that "top of the line | | | | |
| | | | Re: Macbook Pro and Mac Pro renders compared....
by Peter Wollsey on Aug 28, 2009 at 3:38:15 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
I guess this is the one argument in favor of using an NVIDIA card for use with Color...if you want to use a macbook pro and mac pro on the same project...as I know that generally the ATI card is recommended for best performance.... | | | | |
| | | | Re: Ultrascope anomaly?
by Bob Zelin on Aug 28, 2009 at 3:14:06 pm
in the Blackmagic Design Forum
I used the CD that came with the 4650. I want to stress that I was told by Blackmagic that only the 4670 and better would work, but my client went to Compu USA, and bought what they had in stock - a 4650, so I figured "what the heck". And it worked | | | | |
| | | | Re: Macbook Pro and Mac Pro renders compared....
by Uli Plank on Aug 28, 2009 at 5:31:36 am
in the Apple Color Forum
You are just lucky with that combination. I've seen obvious shifts between NVidia and ATI (my MBP has NVidia, while all Mac Pros in our lab have ATIs).
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts | | | | |
| | | | Macbook Pro and Mac Pro renders compared....
by Peter Wollsey on Aug 28, 2009 at 12:40:33 am
in the Apple Color Forum
So if you have seen my posts below in the "Home Grading Setup" thread you will know that I am considering setting up a home grading suite with a Macbook Pro.
One option I have if I do this is to do the creative work at home and then render from a | | | | |
| | | | Re: Very Interesting Flash site...How'd they do it??
by Clint Milner on Aug 27, 2009 at 12:07:30 pm
in the Adobe Flash Forum
Hi Nick,
That's not actually flash at all. It's html and javascript to make it scroll sideways. If you view the source (right-click the page --> view source) you can see all the javascript import statements at the top of the page. You might hav | | | | |
| | | | Re: Can I get help with my li backgrounds?
by Clint Milner on Aug 27, 2009 at 9:02:15 am
in the Adobe Dreamweaver Forum
Hi Abraham,
That was the problem exactly, thank you so much! I'm glad it was me doing something dumb rather than some crazy bug that was going to be a load of work to get around.
Have a good one and thanks again,
Clint
Adobe CS4 Master S | | | | |
| | | | viper and mac power pc
by belen lopez albert on Aug 27, 2009 at 8:53:04 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Hi,
I have a question, I have a computer with the following requirements:
Nombre del modelo: Power Mac G5
Identificador del modelo: PowerMac11,2
Nombre del procesador: PowerPC G5 (1.1)
Velocidad del procesador: 2.3 GHz
Núme | | | | |
| | | | Re: Premiere Pro CS4 Hangs Frequently & Randomly!
by Jim Simms on Aug 27, 2009 at 5:59:59 am
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
I agree it's a good idea to stick to system requirements but doing this does not guarantee anything.
I bought a nVidia 8800GT video card for CS3 because Adobe said they preferred nVidia. Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop & Lightroom all have th | | | | |
| | | | Mac Mini as a render node.
by Marcus Herrick on Aug 26, 2009 at 10:32:41 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
Has anyone had experience in running Color 1.5 on a MacMini, Macbook or any of the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M machines?
I plan on breaking grading projects into chunks and using VNC to render each completed chunk on the Macmini over the network while I co | | | | |
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