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Worthy Edit station
Im running a Dual 2.5GHz ppc G5 w/ 8g ram. Mac OS 10.4 I edit with FCP 6.0.3. Everything I edit is for the most part HD and nearly always dvcprohd ingested from a P2 or varicam. The problem I am having is it seems my system is extremely slow. Especially when exporting a self contained quicktime, Compressing to mpeg, Even loading a project seems to take a bit longer then I would expect upto 2min, not to mention a it will take a literal minute just to render a transisition. I also use AE and that is a nightmare to do anything in HD as well. Is this normal or is it possible a processor is going bad. Oh all my content is on an apple x serv raid running on fiber cable.
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Hi. How is the internal hard drive looking? If it is near full, that would be the cause of serious slowdown. Try to keep at least a third of your internal hard drive empty. The other thing to try would be reapiring your permissions using the Disk Utility.
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Hey thanks for responding. I am getting pretty full. And Repairing my permissions is underway. Im guessing this is similar to defraging on a pc? I only started on macs in jan. So im still in a learning curve.
I was wondering if upgrading to the 3.0ghz 8 core would yield a substantial difference. I have clearance to buy one. I just want to be sure that it will be ALOT! faster. The buyer is the owner and if he finds me wandering around because I am “still” rendering. In his mind it wont justify his purchase and then I might not get other item on my recomendation. -
With the current FCP apps an 8-core Intel machine will runs circles around a G5 system and have time to do a happy dance at the end. The difference in Compressor is the most extreme.
PS. Repairing permissions isn’t related to defragging at all. OSX does a certain amount of defragging on it’s own, but you need a software like TechTools or iDefrag to take full control of fragmentation.
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Unix, which underlies OS X, is a multi user operating system, so files are tagged with which processes, users and groups have PERMISSION to read, write or execute. These can get fouled up in various ways, especially if tasks end abnormally. Here’s Apples doc on the issue:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106712
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