Do i need up grade?

I have a 2010 imac model imac 11,2 intel i3 i noticed it going slower now my software is mac os x 10.6.8 should i upgrade to something else or what should i do to get the best performance out of my mac please help it`s all new to me????

How much memory do you have installed?
Telling us you have more than enough is a subjective answer.
If you iMac is running slow,
You may NOT have enough RAM memory.
How Full is your hard drive?
If it is nearing full, then this can also slow down your iMac.
If your are running Bloatware or CrapWare like antivirus apps or hard drive "cleaning" type of apps these can seriously effect the speed of your computer system.
OS X needs, by itself, between 2-4 GBs of RAM, alone , to do its thing quickly, smoothly and efficiently.
Run other app along side OS X and you may experience slow downs.
If your are running OS X10.6.8 and it's slow for you now upgrading the OS is only going to make your iMac even slower.
Every newer iteration of OS X is going to use more CPU, GPU and RAM cycles as well as more hard drive resources.

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DVD is dark: do I need to grade in PP before going to Encore? How?

Excuse me if this is an obvious question. Searches didn't show up anything, and I could not find an FAQ for this Forum. The Encore docs seem to say nothing about this.
I'm trying to make a DVD from source material originating with a Canon XF-300 and Vixia cameras. The material looks ok in PP CS6, and as rendered as an MP4 file, with flesh tones at about 70 IRE. As is common, the performance stage is not exceptionally well lit, so is on the dark side, but shadow detail is still there.
I generate my DVD by importing the PP sequences into Encore. It appears too dark on my LCD TV which I am testing on. Blacks are crushed.
I thought that this seems like an RGB to Rec709 issue. I tried adding a levels adjustment layer in PP, setting ouput black to 16 and white to 235. (My DVD player could play the PP-exported .m4v on a USB stick.) That's an improvement, even if it's not exceptional.
I've read a lot on the web and watched some videos, but not seen anything about this.
Must I grade for a DVD outputin PP before staring Encore? If that is required, why is it not mentioned anywhere in the docs?
If I need to do a pre-Encore adjustment, what is the best way? Do I need to worry about gamma too? (I understand that sRGB and Rec709 are close.)
Or something else?
I'm very used to working with color profiles in still photography, having used Photoshop for years and printed fine art photos. I'm using a calibrated monitor (but I understand PP does not use monitor profiles?) The profile complexity in video drives me nuts. The more I read, the less certain I am.
Thanks for any pointers to web resources I should follow, and for setting me in the right direction!
Brett

Brett Delmage wrote:
I'm very used to working with color profiles in still photography, having used Photoshop for years and printed fine art photos. I'm using a calibrated monitor (but I understand PP does not use monitor profiles?) The profile complexity in video drives me nuts. The more I read, the less certain I am.
Video is not stills. Two completely different things. Like trying to compare playing trumpet and clarinet. The only thing you can carry from one to the other is your ability to read sheet music. Or in this case, your ability to read light. None of the rest translates well.
First, unless you preview your work on a calibrated production monitor (one that can show you what your vid. looks like in the Rec.709 space) then you are working blind. There are other good reasons to use a production monitor instead of a computer monitor. One is a waveform monitor, which will likely help you a great deal (you can even use the one in PPro, which will help but you won't be able to see exactly what's going on, because it won't work while you are playing the video in PPro, and because you won't see the exact colors, black and white points, and contrast that you should). Another is a vector scope. Another is an RGB parade. All highly useful tools in color correction and color grading, and all the more useful if you can watch them while the video plays.
Second, as Mr. Jones suggests, do not send an MP4 to Encore for a DVD. Send only MPEG2-DVD for making DVDs. What you've done is like recompressing a JPEG in still photography. Some would say it's worse in video, IDK.
Third, get yourself a copy of Van Hurkman's The Color Correction Handbook. Read it. Learn it. Use it. It will make this part of your life so much better.

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necesito dale un up grade a mi laptop me pueden ayudar

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Advice needed (College Grad)

I am very interested in SAP O&G! I have basic software knowledge (microsoft office etc). I want to learn SAP O&G, what kind of software exposure do i need. What path should i take that would best help me understand it. Are there prerequisites i need before I even attempt to learn it? I do not have any work experience (just internships and a couple summer jobs). I'm also currently enrolled in Supply chain management and logistics masters program. i also have a bachelors in petroleum engineering which is why i'm attracted to the idea of SAP O&G.
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Hi Dami,
Pleasing to know your interest in SAP and SAP IS OIL. As you mentioned that you are relatively fresh in the area of SAP, i would recommend you to start learning the basics of SAP first. Although this is not a pre-requisite, but it will definitely help you to start learning the specialized IS OIL solution. Otherwise it will be quite complicated to directly start with IS OIL.
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I'm a Graphic Designer and Animator with a Mid 2012 15" MBP...Programs slowing need up grade

Hey everyoe,
I'm a Graphic Designer and Animator with a Mid 2012 15" MBP. My programs get REALLY SLOW, ToonBoom Harmony and Sometimes Illustrator, HELP! I upgraded my Ram to 16GB LONG time ago and it's made a big difference but still the stuff I make is semi complicated/detailed I can't imagine this is the strength of my MBP I refuse to accept that. WIth that said HELP ME PLZ!!! I have deadlines and I dont know what else to do! Steve Jobs my life is your hands right now man...

Maz0327,
if you boot into Safe mode, log in, and run your graphic design and animation apps, do they run just as slowly then?

HELP! Missing photos in Slideshow! Need for Grad Party Saturday!

I am panicking! I created a slideshow in Elements last night....spent HOURS on it and was not done. This morning when I went in to finish it, about 50 of my pictures that I had downloaded to the slideshow (toward the end of the slideshow) will not show up--only black, blank boxes are in their place! I saved the program and exited it numerous times in the work process last night, and the photos were always there. Now, I they don't show up--I can add more with no problem.
I have Elements 7 and am running it with Vista Home Premium. I am in tears over this--the slideshow is for my daughter's graduation party Saturday and I have no time to work on it except today! I have tried opening it as the Administrator to no avail. I do not have the "missing photos" (???) thing under my "File" icon. And do not have the money to pay Adobe for their phone support....I can't tell you how important this is to me to have done for my daughter and her party, and I do not have the time to go back through all of the CD's that I have to download the photos a second time.
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I know this reply is way too late to help you. But I'll give my 2 cents in case someone goes thru this thread looking for answers (as I did not long ago).
I had the same issues with PE6 on XP Pro - missing pic for some of the slides after compiling to an output file (.wmv). And my symptoms were similar, missing usually the pics at or near the end of slideshow. I compiled/output the file several times, and noted the different file sizes of the compiled .WMV files, some larger, some smaller (missing more slides). Each time I recompiled the slideshow, different pictures would be missing - sometimes the last two, sometimes the last 4, sometimes 3 slides near the end but had the final two slides appear...frustrating, always a different result. I thought it was a resource issue with my PC since every slideshow had only missing slides near the end of the slideshow...not enough memory, CPU power, etc during the compilation? I toyed with the settings - closed resident memory programs, disabled internet...anything to increase memory (I had 2G of mem on a P4 cpu desktop) and reduce interrupts to the CPU, etc. NOTHING worked. So I loaded PE6 onto my laptop which had 4G mem, Dual Core 2 CPU. SAME RESULT - missing slides! Not sure if it was a resource issue at all, or if it was only part of the problem.
So, I researched further into this forum, filtering thru hundreds of threads looking for the answer. And I found one semi-relatd, which suggested that the image size was too large. It did not make sense since all my pics were the same size, so why only the slides near the end of the slideshow?? Well, it would be a pain to reduce the size of all the pics in the slide show, so I only reduced the last quarter of the pictures (mostly the ones usually missing), leaving the first 3/4 of the pictures their original size (about 4000/3000 pix). The author of that thread mentioned that PE had issues with video output on pictures greater than 2000x2000. So I reduced the last 1/4 of my pics to 2000x1500 (they were landscape format). Saved the slideshow and then tried another output...IT WORKED!
Still not sure why only the last 1/4 of the slideshow was affected, and I did compile this on my newer, more power and more mem laptop, so it could be a combination of what I did. Not going to investigate this further...I'm tired. I think the main thing is picture size. New cameras are 10MP-15MP with huge size images (on the default settings), and getting bigger. If this is the case (pic size issue), I think Adobe should really try to fix this.

Games won't load due to "Need to upgrade flash player" which should be updated already in chrome

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?can SG grade a sequence that has multiple video tracks from Pr?

i have footage layered, in prep for AE work in Pr w/ footage on tracks v1,v2 & v3. i need to grade all of these. is there a way in SG to do this, or do i need to modify my Pr to do it.

Unfortunately at the moment you can only import 1 video track via edl or you send to speedgrade which "composites" all your video track into one

Need color grading process

Hi,i have completed my film edit with premiere, now i want to grade it with speedgrade,which is the best way to grade my whole footage(160 min), because i heared that speed grade will convert whole project to dpx files and it saves seperately,can anyone tell me how to do my grade in easy method,do i increase my hard disk?what is the best process.
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1) There are some pretty good demo tutorials through Adobe on using Premiere Pro and Speedgrade together. I STRONGLY suggest you go view some of those ... you might start say with this one ...
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-speedgrade-cc/direct-link-colorcorrection-premiere-pro-to- speedgrade/
Note: there are several other segments to this that might be useful for you. Also search through the Adobe tv/tutorial stuff using search terms of premiere pro linked to speedgrade or similar.
2) There are MANY different ways to process a PPro project through grading, especially one as long as yours. So I can only give general "details" for a general process. It is such a rich program in the way there are multiple "tricks" for each thing you might need to accomplish. Some will work "easier" for your brain than others. You'll have to work through that ... because there is not one way to do it.
A fairly common workflow for a job as long as yours is to split the project into separate sequences in PPro, a "master" and several sub-sequences dependent on perhaps major sections of the film or commonly different "sorts" of footage. Say, the outside stuff shot during mid-day, or simply outside versus interior or whatnot. Factors that make a difference in the way you'll need to grade the shots, all grouped in sub-sequences as a "nested" group. Tthen take those sub-sequences over to Sg group by group for primary corrections. Get each main group of footage looking decent within it's own group.
Then make an adjustment layer over each sequence/timeline in PPro, and create another sequence/timeline that includes a clip or scene from each of the groups of the previous step, then take that sequence/timeline over into Sg. Work on those top adjustment layers to "fit" or "blend" the various scene types into a coherent whole. Now, if done right ... those adjustment layers will have "spread" this work over each group and moved your grading work over all the affected shot sequences.
After that, you'll need to take your whole master timeline into Sg and do a few final modifications.
Sorry but I can't give you all the details of that ... just a general push. STUDY THE TUTORIALS! And then if Jim Simon or shooternz of Ann Bens or Fuzzy Barsik or some of the other experienced folk around here jump in, they can help with details down the road.
And of course correct anything in my verbiage above that I've either mis-typed or simply gone wrong on. And sorry but these are such huge programs there isn't a simple 1-2-3 way to operate. There's maybe 40 of them, at least. All with sub-options. And derivations, adherents, and detractors.
Neil

Both my ipad 3 and my iphone 5 does not want to up grade applications

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My company has a new project and I am trying to figure out if
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to do this on. I am not a Flex developer...I have a ColdFusion
background, so I need your help to decide if we should go looking
for a Flex Guru.
We need to grade digital papers remotely. The idea is that a
grader would launch this application and login. Then the system
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Features we would like:
1. The image pane would allow zooming of the image in case
some text was hard to read. Ideally it would allow real-time
brightness and contrast also, but perhaps that is asking too much.
2. If the paper was multiple pages (it could be), then the
application would have an area which showed thumbsnails of each
page. The grader could click on the thumbnail to skip to other
pages.
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5. Can it handle image caching? Performance will be
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paper was multi-page. Then once they flip to the next page it is
instantaneous.
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Thank you both for you answers. We will keep digging on a
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picnik looks to have a lot of the functions we need. Of
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Could the image container dynamically size based on the size of the
application window? Since this would probably be a desktop AIR app,
the user could size it depending on their needs. Ideally the image
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I am curious to know how anyone out there goes about making a final decision on a Mac Pro (or MacBook Pro) purchase. Not so much the ''want vs. need'' debate, because we all grapple with that. But directly dealing with the fact of buying a computer and then a few months or many months later, something new comes out and they add something better to the system you have.
I know if you think too much along those lines, you should never buy a computer because there will always be product refreshes and updates. And unless you buy a new computer every 6 months, you`ll never have the best, greatest thing.
I had a 2009 MacBook Pro and I had nothing but problems with it. Apple replaced the hdd many times over and 2x I sent it back for repairs. They ended up sending me a replacement, which I sold right away and waited a little bit until the 2010 Mac Pros came out. I bought a 6 Core, 3.33Mhz system, and once again have been having problems with it - slowness, sluggishness, etc. HDD replacements. Sent it in once 10 days ago for repairs and they removed one memory stick. Same problems still, so it went back to repairs today. Apple said they are going to replace the logic board and test more. But they also said if this system still acts the same, they will replace it.
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Hatter, obviously if you want to buy a complete PC, $2k will not fit. But a simple google search will reveal many "budget" gaming PC parts lists for you to assemble yourself for a far better value.
And my budget is $1200, not 2400.
$1200 Mac Pro
$800 CPU upgrade
$375 GPU upgrade
= $2375 (2400)
Here is one under $1200 that will beat your Mac Pro: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/build-a-pc-overclock-benchmark,3276.html
Here is a $2000 build that will blow your Mac Pro out of the water: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pc-building-overclocking-buyers-guide,3277.h tml
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Why is that? The Mac Pro is a professional/server computer, NOT a game computer. You're paying for 3 year old hardware, two of the most expensive bits (CPU and GPU) of it you will be throwing away!
Gaming PCs do not need server grade parts, so you're basically paying a huge premium for the case and you're still stuck with 3 year old technology.
So the 2009 single processor quad core with 8 threads will outperform the dual quad core/8 threads 2008 model?
Not even close. The 2009 model has 8 theoretical threads while the 2008 model has 8 physical threads. At best, you'll see 75% the performance of the 8 core.
The single CPU 2009 is a very poor value since you're stuck with one CPU. You're better off finding a low-spec dual CPU if you plan to chuck the old cpus.
What bugs and limitations? To what?
To a 3 year old computer running an unsupported GPU, which means you will never be able to run OSX unless you reinstall the old 5770 GPU before you boot into the Mac side.
If you plan on never booting into OSX, you're throwing away half the computer's value. Which is why I suggested you build a PC.

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How to include a survey quiz in my Captivate presentation without having to buy the Cap.dev widget? I've gone on Survey Monkey but they won't allow the survey to show all the answers as a comparative result.
I've got a Learning Style survey (10 questions) where the user chooses each question's answer, and their overall totals will determine if they are a Visual, Auditory, or Kinesthetic learner. For example, if the user chooses mostly answers "A", then he/she is a Visual Learner.
I've tried Flash, HTML, etc. but none of them seem to work well.

Hello and welcome,
A long time ago I created this example about learning styles, which I explained in two articles about advanced actions (would be already much easier in later versions):
http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/852/cpsid_85255.html
http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/852/cpsid_85252.html
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If you want to make a conclusion based on those questions, you'll need to grade your survey. That is why I'm posting the links.
Remains the problem, which you didn't explain: what do you want to report?
Lilybiri

Original 5D Mark iii H264 to Color Issues

Ive cut a project in Final Cut using ProRes422 Files created in Log and Transfer.
ive now reconformed the final edit back to the original 5d3 H264 files ready to grade in color.
The problem is once its in Color (via send to color) all the edits are wrong, ie the clips are all out of sync and referencing another segment of that peice of footage.
I know that reconforming back to H264 does work as ive done it on 60D and 5D Mark ii with no issues at all. but the mark 3 is a different kettle of fish.
id prefer to grade the H264 rather than the prores.
any one had this issue and know a fix? (other than grading prores)
details of footage if it helps: 1080P 25fps IPB compression
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Strange becuase ive graded H264 files from 60D and 5D2 many times in color without the need for ProRes until final render from color. ive only started having issues with the 5D3. (of course when editing i cut with prores proxy files)
>If you are going to use Color, you need to grade ProRes. Besides, ProRes is 10-bit 4:2:2...the original H.263 files are 8-bit 4:2:0
This is true but you lose data everytime you transcode and prores likes to compress blacks ive found. from my own experience ive have better results grading H264 files in color.
Ive very fimilar witht the 5D/prores workflow as thats how i used to do it but once i found i have more flexiblity using the h264 ive always used that.... until i got a 5d3

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