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Anecdotal Experience of Memory vs Processor vs Graphic Card vs OS vs FCP X Smooth operation
So here we are a month and half in with FCP X and I’m wondering how other editors are experiencing performance, speed of rendering, crashes, operational speed etc.
I’ve got a 2009 8 core Mac Pro with 6GB Memory, ATI Radeon 5770 and am experiencing a fair number of spinning ball crashes and slow renders. It’s as if its got too much to think about and just slows down. Occasionally I force quit and restart and everything is fine again.
On a couple of occasions I’ve trashed the >com.apple.FinalCut.LSSharedFileList.plist< and >com.apple.FinalCut.plist< preference files and again this has helped with stability and speed. (whilst also losing any Keyboard Commands I’ve programmed in)
I know that operational speed, stability and performance is based on a number of factors and I am trying to decide on a variety of solutions for the frustrating problems I’ve encountered so far.
The cheapest option is to buy some more memory, the most expensive is to buy the new MacPro when it comes out. Another option is to install Lion although a lot of software I rely on has not been re-versioned yet (eg Telestream Episode Pro)
So I would be really interested to hear about other peoples experience. And how they have got around operational issues.
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Did a clean install of lion on a new partition a la the wisdom of Dr. Weiss. Still get weird behaviors that I found restarting X resolves. Seems more stable than under Snow Leopard. When I get the spinning beach ball I head to the fridge to refill my beverage. If it still spins when I get back, force quit. I did upgrade to 16 gigs ram which has helped in my opinion.
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I’ll only give the spinning ball 30 seconds before force quitting , life is just too short.
What I have done is order another 8GBs of very expensive Crucial memory which will take me up to 14GBs and we will see how that helps.
Mark Dobson
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Alembic TV
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I noticed a very large increase in program speed/power when I upgraded my iMac from 4GB to 16GB of RAM. The beach balls and playback glitches have pretty much gone. I think having background rendering and processing with little ram was just killing software performance. Much, much better now.
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Did you get memory from Apple or a 3rd party?
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David A Fenton
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I got it from crucial.com.
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