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Rowlander

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Aug 25, 2007
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When I apply a simple filter like "flip" to an HDV Clip in my HDV-Sequence, I get a bright, saturated green render bar and the playback quality is lowered.

That bar should be pale green (real time)!

I am working on an early 2008 Mac Pro. A friend of mine works on an iMac and he gets the pale green render bar, so he can play back the effect in real time at highest quality! I already tried different variations of the RT-settings.

My current playback settings are
- unlimited realtime
- dynamic video quality
- high frame rate

The funny thing is: If I switch to high video quality (instead of dynamic), the render bar turns orange, but the clip now plays fine and smooth in highest quality as it should!

Trashing the preferences didn´t help!

So Final Cut seems to think that my Mac Pro is not fast enough to play that effect in real time. But it is! Even an iMac can do it! I remember that I didn´t have this problem last year. At some point something must have changed.

Thanks for any advice!


Mac Pro (early 2008)
2xQuad Core 2,8 GHz
8 GB RAM
GeForce 8800 GT
OSX 10.5.6
Final Cut 6.0.5
 
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