200 Megabytes per second * 8 = 1600 Megabits per secondĬ. Let's say your drive can read 200 MB/s, and you decided to stay with DNxHD 36. Determine how many layers of video your drive can handle at that bitrate. Easiest way to find out is to go into File -> Import, then look at the available bitrates from the dropdown menu.Ĥ. In your project, find out which bitrates can be accepted. Convert the Read and Write speeds from Megabytes per second (MB/s) to Megabits. Use Blackmagic Disk Speed Test against your media drive.Ģ. You might know this, but the "36" in "DNxHD 36" is the codec's bitrate: 36 megabits per second(Mb/s).ġ.
Best graphics card for mid 2010 mac pro upgrade#
I'd rather not upgrade until Apple provides at least some kind of bump on their now aging 2013 trashcan. Hopefully that will breathe some more life into my trusty tower. (now, this is on my computer monitor at fullscreen – because right now my Matrox MX02 won't play nice with the software, so I can't play out to my TV monitor!) I only get smooth playback if I go to 'yellow/green' mode, when the RT mask is being monitored. I checked the Activity Monitor, and it shows my CPUs at almost full-tilt, all 16 cores, just to play it back. So this seems to have something to do with how the software is processing the FX, that is different from earlier MC versions.
Best graphics card for mid 2010 mac pro full#
If I turn off the mask, it plays fine at full quality. So I'm assuming it's not a hardware issue, or something wrong with my media drives, etc.but a software one.
This is on material that I've had for years, and never had an issue playing back on previous generations of MC software. Drops lots of frames and falls out of synch. The most odd thing, is that playing back even something as low-overhead as DNxHD 36 with one RT 1:1:66 mask at 'green' quality – my machine can't keep up. I'm not sure the video card upgrade will help, but it might be worth a try. Thanks for the threads re performance, etc. Not necessarily for MC, but for other apps running concurrently. They even have a wizard to get you started:Ģ010 Mac Pro still has plenty of life left in it. Great rep and amazing selection of cards. It's not available from OWC today, but it seems to come back in stock from time to time.Īt this stage, I'd recommend getting a card from. (That must've really improved in 8.6 because I have a GTX 680 w/2GB RAM and I still have to transcode UHD AVCHD from a Panasonic DVX200 in MC 8.4.4 to play back anything.)Įnough caveats. Now it looks like it could be realtime performance for resource-intensive formats over AMA (or whatever they're calling it now). In the past, it was limited to third-party AVX plugins. I'm still fuzzy on what operations MC actually offloads to the GPU. Looks like there's trouble with 8.6, even with stock Apple GPU's.
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