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Compressor Very Slow & FCP/Motion Sluggish on New Quad – Cross Post FCP
Hello Guys
A little confused here!
Installed FCP Studio 5.04 with updates on a brand new Quad.
Cut a 10 min DV sequence with couple filters and speed changes to each clip; about 25 clips.When I had Motion and FCP started at the time while modifying a motion project, the computer froze several times while making the change. Very simple motion project with a simple text and thats it. Either FCP or Motion wiould freeze and would need a Force Quit.
#2: Exporting the 10 min sequence outta FCP says 1 hour 30 mins. Now I know that I have exported projects much much faster on other Dual 2.0’s. Any idea?
My configuration:
Quad
4.5 GB RAM
Lacie 500GB Capture
AJA IO/Kona3 (but capturing using Kona3->DV for this one)
ACD 23″ Display
nVidia 7800GT VideoAnalog Inputs to IO – then SDI Out to Kona3 and Vice Versa back to IO from FCP
Using Kona3 8bit – DV Easy SetupShould I do a clean Install? The computer is BRAND NEW out of the box and causing all this.
Thanks for the helpSam.
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5 Replies
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What I notice is that both Motion and FCP tends to fight for the video output and can end up with the application becoming very sluggish. If you need both to be running, when you switch from FCP to Motion, turn off the External Video to OFF and then switch to Motion.
I don’t think you need to do the same for Motion when you switch back to FCP coz by then you would’ve set to External Video to All Frames which then FCP will take over. But remember to switch is to OFF again when you go back to Motion.
CMD+F12 is your best friend when you do the switching.
-chrispy
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Question #2 : What are you exporting to that takes 1 hr 30 min ?
-chrispy
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Open Activity Monitor and see what else is running. Check your Startup Items in your Account settings in System Preferences to see if there is anything that doesn’t need to be active. Is it possible your drive is being indexed? not likely, but that will slow things down a lot.
steve covello
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Nothing real was running on Startup. Not at studio will report back on the Activity monitor.
What I do know is that when the computer goes to sleep mode, it transforms itself into the new Boeing Jetplane with the fans. I have the 7800GT in the system.As for the length of the project, I have got a timeline of about 10 mins.. small clips cross dissolves, exported to Compressor via DVD 120 Best Quality with AIFF and it takes 1hr 30 mins
Thanks
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I suggest you turn off the sleep mode in Energy Saver. Put your system into screen saver mode instead if you don’t want to burn the screen. And make sure in the Energy Saver to disable the hard disk sleep mode.
-chrispy
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