FCP 7 and 64 bit

[Declan Smith]

I am still running leopoard with FCP 7. How do you get FCP to use the cores? I have MacPro early 2009 (dual 4 core 8Gb) and iStat shows the cpus barely doing anything, yet there is a lot that needs rendering before it runs at full frame/quality.

Even compressor only uses 11% of cpu when it is flat out compressing. It’s not disk bound in my opinion.

I am surprised that with such high spec hardware, better performance isn’t seen, although like I say, I am running just leopard. Does snow leopard open things up?

I will be upgrading as soon as the driver for my mixer gets released.

Declan Smith

[Ugo Danesi]

Dear all,
we are talking about 32 or 64 bit, but actually I am exporting three movies each of about 3 min. I am exporting each in m2v + ac3 and in mov (h.264) via compressor

My dual quad core 16 GB RAM after 6 hours of job on this thread is assuring me that it need more of 12 hours to complete the job.

I have exported using a laptop win (four years ago) a movie of 15 min using premiere in one night.

Where am I wrong? Or is apple products that are wrong?

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Ugo,
My MBP run faster than your 8 cores.
Try making a bit of maintenance to your system: Permissions, directories etc.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Ugo Danesi]

Dear Rafael,
this is my dream (or nightmare), what are you meaning whith maintenance? Do You have some software to suggest me?

Thanks