• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  System performance

  Posted by Yannis on December 19, 2005 at 1:10 pm

  I would like to have your opinion on this.
  I have the following system:
  G5 Dual 2.7
  4.5Gb RAM
  1Tb.Sata
  ATI Radeon 9650

  The problem is performace is not what i expected(specially using Final Cut Pro v5.02).
  It can’t even play real time a 30 seconds.mov.I deal the same problem with other applications too(Motion e.t.c.) so there must be something wrong with my settings.What should i check?
  Thanks for taking the time to read all above.

  Yannis replied 20 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Oliver Peters

  December 19, 2005 at 1:49 pm

  What type of media are you playing?
  What is the media format?
  What is the sequence format?
  Are these SATA drives internal or external?
  Drive speed?
  Striped or RAID?

  Please send more details.

  Sincerely,
  Oliver

  Oliver Peters
  Post-Production & Interactive Media
  Orlando, FL
  http://www.oliverpeters.com
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  Yannis

  December 19, 2005 at 2:34 pm

  Everything is done in DV-PAL.
  External.
  Raid.

  Sorry for not being more specific,this is my first week with Mac and FCP..

  Thanks

  Yannis
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  Oliver Peters

  December 19, 2005 at 2:39 pm

  Hmm…. This should be really smooth. Do you see any colored lines over your timeline? If so, this indicates you need to render, which means that your media doesn’t match your sequence settings. Make sure you have the right sequence setting by using one of the presets before editing any media to that timeline. Do the individual clips play fine in the viewer before you edit them to the timeline?

  – Oliver

  Oliver Peters
  Post-Production & Interactive Media
  Orlando, FL
  http://www.oliverpeters.com
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  Yannis

  December 19, 2005 at 2:54 pm

  I render all before viewing and even after quiting FCP and playing the .mov with Quick Time Player it doesn’t play smoothly,even small file size movies(250-300Mb).That’s why i think it’s the system settings wrong.Another thing i noticed on FCP settins is that memory usage shows 2560Mb and still cache 241Mb.Should i increase still cache?

  Thank you Mr.Peters

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