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Are green video files a symptom of GPU failure?
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<blockquote data-quote="WoodenBear" data-source="post: 1807353" data-attributes="member: 177935"><p>I usually do not restart my iMac between processing the files. Last night, however, after all the files turned green, I shut down the iMac for a few minutes while testing the videos in my media player. Then I turned the iMac back on and the files seemed okay for a short time before turning green as described in my original post. Last night I shut down the Mac and let it rest/cool all night long. This morning I turned it back on and have successfully processed about 5-6 videos--one at a time, and letting the fan thoroughly go quiet and rest between files.</p><p></p><p>As you suggested, I opened Activity Monitor while processing a video this morning. Memory seems fine. Barely registers a green line at the bottom. CPU doesn't spike. Energy goes up to 2/3 or 3/4 of the graph. I'm not that familiar with reading these results, so am posting screen caps for reference. Maybe someone can see something I'm missing.</p><p></p><p>I'm using an external Samsung Portable SSD T5 (1TB) for the video editing. It's got about 400GB free space, and is only a week old.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]28883[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]28884[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]28885[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WoodenBear, post: 1807353, member: 177935"] I usually do not restart my iMac between processing the files. Last night, however, after all the files turned green, I shut down the iMac for a few minutes while testing the videos in my media player. Then I turned the iMac back on and the files seemed okay for a short time before turning green as described in my original post. Last night I shut down the Mac and let it rest/cool all night long. This morning I turned it back on and have successfully processed about 5-6 videos--one at a time, and letting the fan thoroughly go quiet and rest between files. As you suggested, I opened Activity Monitor while processing a video this morning. Memory seems fine. Barely registers a green line at the bottom. CPU doesn't spike. Energy goes up to 2/3 or 3/4 of the graph. I'm not that familiar with reading these results, so am posting screen caps for reference. Maybe someone can see something I'm missing. I'm using an external Samsung Portable SSD T5 (1TB) for the video editing. It's got about 400GB free space, and is only a week old. [ATTACH=FULL]28883[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=FULL]28884[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=FULL]28885[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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