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FCP6 supports multi-core rendering ?
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Yes, Crispy was, but Chi wasn’t…
Compressor yes, FCP, probably not…
But there are other reasons you can benefit now from an 8 processor machine guys.. rendering in compressor while rendering in FCP while rendering in AE, and rendering in Motion will work just as fast as if they were each being rendered on separate duals… Barefeats brings this up. If you are running more than one app, that’s where all those processors kick in…
Jerry
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If only Nucleo Pro 2 works with FCP…
-chrispy
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It seems a reasonable to theorize that Leopard will put the tiger
in FCP’s tank (sorry for the mixed metaphor). -
[lasvideo] ”
It seems a reasonable to theorize that Leopard will put the tiger
in FCP’s tank”I’d like to think so but I’m not so sure. Back when Spotlight came out, everyone was clamoring that Spotlight technology will definitely be in FCP’s media manager. “Yea, of course, it makes sense! Media Manager powered by Spotlight!”
And AFAIK, spotlight is not involved with Media Manager at all. If anything, I think Leopard will make the app run faster but not because of any special FCP/Leopard optimization but just because Leopard will benefit overall OS operations.
My two cents.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
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I think multi-core rendering in FCP would be great – but the real focus should be no rendering at all. The work should be offloaded to the GPU as much as possible (Fxplugs, Motion 3, Color). I think that is the direction they are going and how FCP6 is able to mix formats, etc.
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Actually, I’ve found that Compressor does not appear to make efficient use of an 8 core computer. If I assign all 8 cores to a Compressor job, Compressor is *slower* to complete the job than if I use just 4 cores. This is on a computer with 16 GB RAM, so I don’t think it’s a memory issue.
fh
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Hey guys,
In this white paper Apple claims that ProRes uses all the cores a system has. On page 7 of this white paper they give some evidence. Can’t wait to see if anyone can confirm this with their shiny new copy of Final Cut 6.
Garyhttps://images.apple.com/finalcutstudio/resources/white_papers/L342568A_ProRes_WP.pdf
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Actually if you setup qmaster with 8 instances (system preferences) and then submit from compressor against your virtual cluster you will make use of all the computing power you have.
I currently have this setup and am rendering a large HDV video to H.264 and on the activity monitor I am using up to 96% of the cpu usage by the user, IE my qmaster cluster. All 8 cores are running at max.
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