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What Video Cards Work Best
I would like to know what people are using for video cards with FCPX and how well are they working out.
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We’ll have to see where AJA, Blackmagic, Matrox go with FCPX support. I believe they all have claimed they’re working on support but haven’t really defined what that means. I suspect someone will be using an API to plugin capture to FCPX but that’s speculation until someone says something more concrete.
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I have heard all those rumors too about support. What I would like to know more about is the graphic card support. Since FCPX uses open CL to help render faster, I want to know what graphic cards people are using in their systems. I wanted to use the Nvidia Quadro 4000, but I see that it currently does not support FCPX. What is working out there?
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The ATI 5870 works just dandy, but don’t expect blazing render performance with FCP X. It’s not there with any card or machine.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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I’m using Radeon 5770 but 5870 should work as well.
Lots of FCPX speed tests but not specific to GPUs
https://www.barefeats.com/fcpx01.htmlhttps://www.barefeats.com/macs11_01.html
This is Apple Motion 5 GPU testing. 5870 leads and Q4000 was a poor performer.
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[Bob Duthaler] “Nvidia Quadro 4000”
I posted Motion 5 GPU tests elsewhere in this thread.
Here’s 4000 and others with Premiere Pro and Resolve.
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Just a note, regular rendering or background rendering in FCP X doesn’t use the GPU. Exporting does use it and is ridiculously faster.
For example 20 second timeline. 5 layers of 1080p, h264. Created optimized media. Color board correction on each, made each move and zoom, etc.
Modify > Render All — 17.5 minutes
Changed a clip, now the entire timeline shows orange and needing to render:
Share > Export Media – Current Settings (prores) — 1.5 minutes
(I also did a h264 export 1 minute 50 seconds)10x faster Exporting than using the GPU. It’s curious why FCP X doesn’t use the GPU for regular rendering. Perhaps it will be turned on soon.
MacPro 2006 2.66 4 cores
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T. Payton
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Apple officially stated that Broadcast I/O support will be there in January.
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They said January?
Bottom of this page says Early 2012: https://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/software-update.html . That doesn’t necessarily mean January – could be the end of March.
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The MacBook Pro I regularly edit on with X is:
2,8Ghz Core i7 — stock NVIDIA Gforce GT 330M 512MB
And X runs smoothly and efficiently. I haven’t had a crash or hiccup in more than a month.
Actually, now that I think about it, that’s probably about when I transitioned to LION.
Go figure.
FWIW.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Seriously, no hickups or spinning beach balls? Have you actually opened FCP X since you transitioned to Lion?
Just kidding of course. 😉
I’m in the middle of a spinning beach ball after dragging some footage into a project, ence I am writing this post, but I am still on now Snow Leopard. I wonder if other folks are having good results with Lion.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque
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