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FCP faster under Leopard?
I wonder if there are any benchmark tests for Final Cut running under Leopard. that could be a good reason to upgrade.
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None that I’ve seen. The theory is that Leopard pulls most apps into the Intel universe and uses all of the GPU’s power. But FCP is still a few years/revs away from realizing any potential from your GPUs. You get all of Leopard’s other stuff and it probably speeds up your Intel interface noticeably. But
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I have Studio2 with Leopard on a brand new PowerMac G5 with a 4Ghz and FCP is absolutely not any faster than when I ran FCP 5 on a PowerBook with a 2.somethingGHz.
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[midwestmonsters] “brand new PowerMac G5 with a 4Ghz”
Brand new G5? 4GHz?
Compressor is where i’m seeing major improvements with Leopard. About 2x faster. I need to but in both OX HDs and boot back and forth and get some firm numbers. Maybe I do this the end of the week.
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[midwestmonsters] “brand new PowerMac G5 with a 4Ghz”
There is no such thing as a brand new Powermac G5, they have not been made for over a year.
And you would definitely see a improvement, in moving from a G4 Power book to a Powermac G5. The processor speed jump would make a big difference in render and compression times.
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Yes sorry, suppose I should’ve been more specific…and correct! lol
Mac OS X 10.5.1
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHzChipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
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Dimas,
it may have been my imagination, but when i had Leopard loaded a couple of weeks ago, what I did notice was the video monitor display was much more responsive. Usually there is quite an offputting lag between what you see on the computer screen and what the AJA outputs to video, but much less with Leopard.But then the problems with Motion meant i had to reload Tiger.
Just wait till Apple get their act together on a FCP update for Leopard.
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[mark palmos] “Just wait till Apple get their act together on a FCP update for Leopard. “
Wouldn’t that be 6.0.2?
https://www.apple.com/support/releasenotes/en/Final_Cut_Pro_6.0_rn/
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[JeremyG] “Wouldn’t that be 6.0.2?”
hi
well i hope not!
6.0.2 and the updated motion are what i had when leopard was not working properly with studio 2.
perhaps i need to phone apple and complain, maybe they think its all fine and dandy?
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