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Final Cut and multiple cores/processors
Something I’ve been wondering about for a while: can Final Cut take advantage of multiple processors? I’m pretty sure it is using all four cores of my Mac Pro’s single processor, but if I were to upgrade to an 8-core or 12-core with an equivalent or slower clock speed, would I get a dramatic performance boost?
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I’m pretty sure that the current version of FCP utilizes two CPUs(cores) and around 4GB of total memory. Compressor I believe can use more CPUs
Wiser people will correct me if I’m wrong. 😉
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Correct.
Harry.
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I’ve seen my MacPro most if not all of my 8 cores up to around 80% when rendering in FCP… but that’s about the only time it seems to use more than one or two, and it may be content related (codec, filters).
Motion doesn’t seem to use more than one core (and seems to use my graphics card more than the system processors when rendering).
Compressor will indeed crank every core to max if you’ve got QMaster set up for it.
For me, I get more benefit from my extra cores in running multiple applications. Compressor rendering is great of course… when I need it.
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