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  • Posted by Marcel Franck on June 29, 2011 at 1:40 pm

    Do I have to anything special to work in 64 vs 32 bit…do I boot my mbp holding down any special keys?
    thanks
    marcel

    Producer – Director – Editor
    marcel@newcity.tv
    FCP 7.0.3 OS 10.6.8
    CANON 7D 3.0 MBP 10.6.8 8GIGS RAM 8TB SONNET FUSION F3 ESATA
    PPC G5 DUAL 2GIG, 6 GIGS RAM, AJA IO, 2TB SATA2 FCP 6.0.5 OS 10.4.11
    OS 10.4.11
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    Ae 6.5 CS3 Ps,Ai,Ae, CS5

    Jeremy Garchow replied 13 years, 4 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Olof Ekbergh

    June 29, 2011 at 1:56 pm

    FCPX will run in 64 automatically.

    You can check Activity Monitor if you like. The 64 bit tasks will be marked 64 bit.

    In some MBP’s you can speed up the graphics by setting Graphics to Higher Performance in the Energy Saver prefs. This will utilize a faster version of your gpu and 512MB instead of 256MB on the graphics card. This will speed things up, but drain the battery faster.

    Olof Ekbergh

  • Marcel Franck

    June 29, 2011 at 2:18 pm

    Thanks for the helpful info

    Producer – Director – Editor
    marcel@newcity.tv
    FCP 7.0.3 OS 10.6.8
    CANON 7D 3.0 MBP 10.6.8 8GIGS RAM 8TB SONNET FUSION F3 ESATA
    PPC G5 DUAL 2GIG, 6 GIGS RAM, AJA IO, 2TB SATA2 FCP 6.0.5 OS 10.4.11
    OS 10.4.11
    FCP 7 & 6.0.5
    Ae 6.5 CS3 Ps,Ai,Ae, CS5

  • Michael Garber

    June 29, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    One exception I’ve found for forcing a 64-bit boot. If you are running 10.6.8 and a Kona card, you need to run in 64-bit or you’ll get a kernel panic. One of AJA’s engineers sent me this page on the subject:

    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT3773

  • Jeremy Garchow

    June 29, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    There’s a difference between running the OS in 64 bit, and running 64 bit apps on a 32 bit boot.

    You must boot in to 64 bit by holding the 6 and 4 keys on startup. That doc will also tell you how to permanently boot in to 64 bit as well.

    Jeremy

  • Jean-françois Robichaud

    June 29, 2011 at 10:08 pm

    Is there a way to know which version of the kernel (64 or 32) is currently running? Will 32-bit applications see a performance hit when the kernel is in 64 bit?

  • Michael Garber

    June 29, 2011 at 10:12 pm
  • Jeremy Garchow

    June 29, 2011 at 11:25 pm

    The link shows you how, and there’s no hit, but there’s no gain.

    They are limited to the 32bit RAM constraints.

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