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Multicores
Hi.
How are your experience utilizing more than 1 core in motion ?
I have mac pro 8 cores but it seems that motion hardly ever uses more than 1 core 🙁
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Margus
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6 Replies
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Motion is not written to utilize more than two cores. Final Cut isn’t either. Basically the only thing in FCS that can use all 8 cores is Compressor (once you create a virtual cluster).
-Bryan
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I just wonder if there is eny info if “faster” version of motion is coming out soon like in a year or so.
I guess my 8 core machine will last at least 3 years from now if
apps would support it.—
Margus
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I’m wondering if the amount of RAM is governing factor …
The Activity Monitor shows FCP is using all eight processors …
And, it’s not using up all my RAM (6gigs)The same footage (image sequences) in Motion, uses up all the RAM
and is only working two cores at a time.Also:
The first week I had my Mac Pro, I was running on only 2 gigs of RAM.
And AfterEffects did not use all the cores.
As soon as I got more memory, AfterEffects jumped all over the other cores
and became a multiprocessor monster …… so it’s got me wondering if Motion needs 10 or more gigs.
Anyone running Motion with a ton of RAM? -
Where in activity monitor is it showing you that FCP is using 8 cores… specifically what values are you getting?
I have 16GB of RAM in my Mac Pro. I run Motion all the time. Motion is greatly GPU dependent so that tends to be where the slowdown occurs.
-Bryan
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I was looking at both sets of eight indicators that Activity Monitor gives you.
And ALL of them were up about a third.
But … if I remember right, I was looking at them when FCP was exporting via quicktime compression.
So … Maybe they were reacting to the QT algorithms …It seems kinda nuts that a program like Motion is pissing away the opportunity to use those cores 🙁
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>It seems kinda nuts that a program like Motion is pissing away the opportunity to use those cores 🙁
You see my point 🙂
Mac Pro is like sports car that only goes on 2 cylinders as annother 6 are ideling. Makes you really sad 🙁
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Margus
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