• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Mac Pro Slow

  Posted by George Hazuda on December 4, 2008 at 3:27 am

  I just purchased a Mac Pro 2 X 2.8 Quad with 4mb ram and nvidia geforce 8800gt graphics card. I have 500gb in bay 1 for applications such as Final Cut Studio 2. I have (3) 750gb drives in bays 2, 3 and 4. These are raid 0 together for 2tb which is where all project files, render files, etc rest. I just started editing in hd – mostly dvcpro hd at 720 resolution.

  My problems: FCP crashes alot. It’s sluggish. My old g4 dual 1.42 running FCE was much faster and it only had 2gb ram. Motion is a Dog!!!!!! I think I’m spending more time rebooting programs then I am being productive.

  Is this a RAM issue? That’s my guess. If so, what do you recommend for RAM? What manufacturer of RAM do you use – you know apple tries to scare you into using their extremely overpriced RAM.

  Is this a graphics card issue? If so, what do you recommend?

  Hope you can help. Not happy with my new mac and I’ve had them since 1980.

  Thanks.

  George Hazuda replied 17 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Rafael Amador

  December 4, 2008 at 6:33 am

  The System directories are a real mess after installing.
  Repair permissions and run DiskWarrior, TechTools or similar.
  Rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  George Hazuda

  December 4, 2008 at 8:20 pm

  i will give that a try

  Thanks

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