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Re: New Mac Pro pulls in HOW MUCH power?? - 2 months ago
Late addendum: Our problems are solved. I got the 2020 Mac Studio (M1 Ultra) and it is surely a beast in a box on your desktop, I cannot love this creature enough. Qiet as a mouse, eve working on AI intensive stuff like Topaz Labs' Video AI. And the Studio's current descendants make it a sure fire 4K investment. Apple nailed it with SOC! Best, as always, Lorenby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Anyone remember Cinema Tools? - 7 months ago
I remember it! What was it? Best as always, Lorenby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: New Mac Pro pulls in HOW MUCH power?? - 4 years ago
Actually, if I were editing at a small hydroelectric dam I think I'd be okay. Here's hoping everybody's OK... Best, as always, Lorenby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: New Mac Pro pulls in HOW MUCH power?? - 4 years ago
Stefan- I know! Well it automatically saves us 10-12 grand, better spent on renovation of the condo. But maybe I'll wire in a 20 amp circuit in case I win the lottery. Best, as always, Lorenby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: HEEEEELP! FCP7 - 4 years ago
I second Nick's CCC as your best solution, because it will copy the registration/license info. supporting frameworks and all the other bits and pieces which make FCP 7 go. If you select to clone the whole drive, it should also archive FCP's Quicktime buddy-- QT Player 7, or Pro 7, and the other FCP studio elements Compressor, Soundtrack, DVD Studio Pro. I had the pleasure of returning to FCPby Loren Miller - Café LA
New Mac Pro pulls in HOW MUCH power?? - 5 years ago
Folks- I don't know about you folks, but my little condo will blow breakers with a 1400-watt draw. That seems an outstandingly bad oversight. Obviously this Mac is meant for ad agencies, wealthy design firms, and post houses, not individual craftspeople. That's like 14 amps-- and anything added to the 15-amp circuit with blow it. That's even a huge chunk of a 20-amp circuit. So much foby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: What is the last OSX update that works with FCP 7? - 5 years ago
Dennis- Sorry to be so late with this-- where did the summer go? Yes, I'm aware of the difference between contain her or wrapper and codecs inside. You may have discovered by now what will continue to be supported and what won't. Avid's DNX gos away-- expect fun the Avid universe. Other popular formats like Cineform are gone. Good old DV remains supported, as all the ProRes flavors andby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Who's doing three displays from a 2013 Mac Pro? - 5 years ago
Fall update: The three-eyed monster still functioning perfectly on the 2013 Mac Pro. I removed one of my LaCie 3TB Thunderbolt 2 drives and replaced it with a LaCie 2Big RAID 8TB box measuring over 1300 Mbps on BMD's Disk Speed Test. I copied all media and all renders to the new box, as RAID 0 (no parity or redundancy, just pure bandwidth. Project files of course sent to system disk.) Bothby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Who's doing three displays from a 2013 Mac Pro? - 5 years ago
And now, as of June 3rd, I can throw away the 2013 Mac Pro and cough up 12-15 grand for the fabulous new boat anchor Mac Pro el Modulo and a 6K 32" Retina screen-- and it can be a matte screen for an extra grand! Really, the tower's the same dimensions as my 2009 cheese grater. Even the same boatyard weight- just under 40 lbs. The module approach is pretty cool, no doubt. But I'm not getby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: What is the last OSX update that works with FCP 7? - 5 years ago
Hi, Dennis- I get most my obsolescence info from Larry Jordan's "Edit Well" site. I recall he's informed readers that coming with Mojave and later, Quicktime 7 .mov's simply won't work under the new media foundations, which are 64 bit. If not Mojave, then Carolina will lower the boom. And even now, under High Sierra, I find when bringing over many older QT7 videos, they simply don'by Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: What about Motion? - 5 years ago
And I quickly add-- two lousy commands to move the canvas and timeline to the second display are a step in the right direction but still too little control allowed. Best, as always, Lorenby Loren Miller - Café LA - X
What about Motion? - 5 years ago
Motion is part of the contemporary FCPX suite. Why was the Motion forum closed? I have one answer-- but somebody tell me I'm wrong. For all its power and features, this affordable app remains constricted to a single screen??? Even laptop users like an external monitor. This is the reason everybody's cranky, they just don't know it. We need SPACE. The timeline and keyframe editor on its own bby Loren Miller - Café LA - X
Re: What is the last OSX update that works with FCP 7? - 5 years ago
Yeah, I concur, El Capitan was the last for me using FCP 7. I keep it installed on the model 4,1 8-core tower I've had for a decade, to handle old FCP client projects I don't want to transfer over to FCP 8. FCP 8 (AKA Premiere Pro CC) works fine under High Sierra (10.13) but watch out, 32 bit Quicktime ends when you install Mojave! All 32 bit media will need to be transcoded to work in the 6by Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Who's doing three displays from a 2013 Mac Pro? - 5 years ago
Coming late to this, and Joe's Tekrevue article link was an eyeopener., thank you. I had the Thunderbolt ports misidentified from an early graphic. 1 & 3 (Bus 2) appear to be on top of eachother, and to the left, 2 & 4 (bus 1). 5 &6 follow left right logic for bus 0-- but then there's that added HDMI port on the same bus. I also didn't follow the advice against place storage oby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Who's doing three displays from a 2013 Mac Pro? - 5 years ago
Yes, that was the sequence. It was pretty ironic. But in a way, good to hear. BMD Teranex! Yeah, about a grand more. I keep drooling. Best, as always. Lorenby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Who's doing three displays from a 2013 Mac Pro? - 5 years ago
Okay everything's been functioning well for a week or so. Adding a little clarity, here's my plug plan for three monitors, 2 HD Acer 21", one 4K LG 27", #27UK650. HD screen 1 - female DVI to MDPort which goes into one port on Bus 2 (top row) HD screen 2 - female DVI to MDPort which goes into one port on Bus 1 (middle row) 4K LG screen - ACTIVE female HDMI to MDPort which goes inby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: How do I import a rather old FCP/FCE project into FCPX? - 5 years ago
That sounds like FCP 3.x. If you have it installed or installable, load the project and see if you can export the XML for it. If it's available that early, use the highest version number possible. I believe such files will parse into FCPX with help from the utility SEND TO X (formerly 7 To X) from Intelligent Assistance, which brings home the bacon for 10 bucks. Not sure if XML export is evby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Looking for help with graphics card - 5 years ago
Stefan - Check with OWC (Other World Computing, US) for their card offerings, one might work for Model 1,1. Best, as always. Lorenby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Who's doing three displays from a 2013 Mac Pro? - 5 years ago
The company is still thrashing over this. But I got onto Amazon and picked up a Cable Matters ACTIVE MiniDisplayPort-to-HDMI adapter, a cheap thing, US $17.00. "Boosts port power." Why not? So I unplugged the Dumdum bullet, hooked in the 27" 4K to the new adapter into one of the Bus 0 T2 ports, replugged, and watched it light up the two work monitors, and then above them..by Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Who's doing three displays from a 2013 Mac Pro? - 5 years ago
Update: New machine installed. MiniDisplayPort-to-DVI adapters work fine. But the minute I plug in the LG UK650 4K, it either doesn't respond, or lights up (nice!) but cuts out one of my work screen duo. No matter what other busses they're plugged into. No matter how I plug in the HDMI- either alone on its own Thunderbolt 0 bus or into the bus through a MDPort adapter, it's two up only.by Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Who's doing three displays from a 2013 Mac Pro? - 5 years ago
Well, I got some wisdom, from Apple's own support docs and a visit to the Store. You're limited to two displays on each Thunderbolt bus, 0, 1, and 2. Must have two displays, it's expected by clients, no matter if it's FCPX, Premiere Pro, or Avid. 1 & 2 only have two T2 ports each. What gets weird is Bus 0 which sports three ports-- one of those is the HDMI. Somebody correct me here-by Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Who's doing three displays from a 2013 Mac Pro? - 5 years ago
Hi, Nick! Thanks for logging in on this. I assume I can use a couple of those Thunderbolt ports with a miniDisplayPort to DVI or HDMI cable adapter. In fact, I would probably have to use a third for the client monitor. I do have my heart set on a 27" LG or NEC floating over the work screens, although I've looked at things like Atoms and other small scale solutions. If I use the HDMI portby Loren Miller - Café LA
Who's doing three displays from a 2013 Mac Pro? - 5 years ago
Hi, Folks- So I'm looking at upgrading my 10-year old tower to a 5-year-old mini-tower. Just to stay behind the times. On the Late 2013 Mac Pro I see 6 Thunderbolt 2 ports (mini-display port-compatible) and 1 HDMI port. I would like a typical dual-monitor setup on the desk-- either HDMI or DVI, HD resolution fine. I would like a 27" 4K LG UW650 which is *mostly* color-calibratabby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Write protected SD card - 5 years ago
Stefan- Very useful. A museum wanted my show written to an SD card, so they could load it into a built-in slot on a screen. I'd never delivered for that possibility. Once you format the card on Mac, what scheme is used? Ex-fat? Does the card still load into the camera afterward, and can you read and write from it? I'm guessing is has to be reinitialized for camera. Best, as always.by Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: tif or jpg for photos used in video? - 5 years ago
Dennis - (Sorry, Robert, late in getting back to this.) Aha! Changed the sequence codec away from HQ. I actually cringed when Robert wrote "ProRes HQ"-- I've never had anything but disaster using 8-bit effects and filters in 10-bit footage on FCP7. I think it is a weakness in the QT 7.x codec, which works perfectly well on ProRes HD (classic 8-bit). 10 bit is great if you need anby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: DVD Studio Pro/Playback Issue - 5 years ago
A few things come to mind in order of ease: - Clear out your disk cache - I use Onyx for this maintenance. - Clean the lens on your player! - Or... despite your following recommendations, it's possible your bit rate is way too high. I think the max is what? 8 Mb/s? What is the CreativePro MP plugin? I go straight to Toast. I encode discs (yes, some of us still need them!) from Pby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: How to draw a virtual line - 5 years ago
Stefan- You have the Boris calligraphy plugin included with FCP6? That should include Vector Shapes, which provides for color line drawing (great for illustration callouts) which can be animated on, timed to a hand swipe. You can avoid pop-off by providing enough time for the end hold. You could build a graph line by line, stacking them up as a vertical edit. Then, to manipulate the entby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Hardware: HDMI to ethernet cable and back again - 5 years ago
Stefan- Let me know how thats for you. Best, as always. Lorenby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: tif or jpg for photos used in video? - 6 years ago
Robert- As usual, Nick covers the waterfront on this issue. At 5K pixels wide, you surpass FCP7's G-World limit (a Quicktime 7 limitation, actually) of 4K square. You do risk chokes and hangs and crashes with "heavy tiffs" in your timeline. I would definitely downscale your tiffs in Photoshop so something within FCP7's comfort zone. I'm assuming FCPX has a more generous G-world fby Loren Miller - Café LA
Re: Hardware: HDMI to ethernet cable and back again - 6 years ago
I get to reply to myself: HDMI over IP is a reality, and affordable. I took the plunge, purchased a transmitter and receiver system - these range from US $40-100. Picked up a GoFanco pair at US$53.00 on Amazon, well built, with flanges which allow easy tape-up to the back of the computer and display. The transmitter also loops the HDMI signal to a “local” display as well as a distantby Loren Miller - Café LA
