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Black_Oak_Creative
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February 8, 2020
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Import settings question - laggy new Mac Pro and GH5

  • February 8, 2020
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OK, been a user for years.  I work at an agency that produce tons of content.. I am embarraessed to say I am terrible at researching best practices and workflow efficiency.  

We use mostly GH5 cameras, and quick turnaround pieces. Shoot 4K 24 and 4K 60 mostly. .mov. 

Had an imac Pro for the past thre years.  Render times were insane, export times insane, etc.. But simple playback or scrubbing the timeline always lagged. Even scrubbing clips in media browser.. always lagged. So fast forward to today, we just got the new Mac Pro cheesegrater comps.  You have to wear a seatbelt using this thing.. Import GH5 footage and still lags.  Have to stop playback of the timeline to let it catch up.. We throw an adjustment layer and some color.. it struggles quite a bit.

We shoot prores on our drones and a couple cameras and yes, it is the best.  But with run and gun and our GH5 use, we do not do that.  Question is, is there a way to change some settings so this GH5 fotage is buttery to edit? This computer should be able to crank through this and it can not.  I really dont want to transcode to prores..  Any ideas?

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R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
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February 8, 2020

Much of the GH5 mov media is very extended long-GOP, which slows things down, period. So ... setup a watch-folder in MediaEncoder, with settings to create say ProRes422 (or with that media, maybe even 422LT) ... and put the output into a specific folder.

 

When you get some in, dump it in the watch folder before going home at night. Next morning, your ProRes is waiting for you to get to work.

 

After the project is done, delete the ProRes media as you can always recreate it from the original files.

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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Black_Oak_CreativeAuthor
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February 13, 2020

Done..  thanks for the tips.  Now that we have massive storage we are going to use your above method.

    Ann Bens
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    Ann BensCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 8, 2020

    I really dont want to transcode to prores.

    Don't think you have much choice.

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