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Mac Book Pro and FCP
when exporting a video i am noticing that i am only at 50% core speed. Is it only using 1 core and why?
I have a MBP dual core 2.6ghz processor with 4GB of ram
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Why you ask, well simply put because FCP was not written to be able to do that.
The main programing for FCP was done before there were multi core processers, so the ability to use multi core processers could not have been written in. And for FCP to have full multicore support it would need to be compleatly rewritten, just like a it would need to be compleatly rewritten to become a 64 bit program and therefor overcome the ram limitations of a 32 bit program.
With the next OS 10.6 Snow Leopard being fully 64bit most people are expecting the next version of FCP to be a compleate rewrite making it 64 bit and giving it multi core support.
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so does that mean purchasing a Mac Pro would be useless. 8 cores but only 1 would be used?
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Oh no not useless at all. It’s great for running multiple applications. Also some apps like compressor can use multiple cores.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Oh no not useless at all. It’s great for running multiple applications. Also some apps like compressor can use multiple cores.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity! -
Ok, one last question. The videos i make never exceed 8-10 minutes. Being portable is a huge advantage for my type of job. Would a MacBook Pro be able to effieciently edit and export 8-10 minute videos. Currently we are doing SD but are looking to go HD within the next 6 months. would this be a problem. If so, should i go with a Mac Pro then and lose the benefits of being mobile?
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I regularly edit ProRes HD on my MBP and it handles it fine.
I do however highly teconend using a esata raid with it.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Zane,
I thank you for all the time you have taken. Just curious, what do you use to record? and what codec do you export to? Ive been doing my exports as MPEG-4 for purposes of streaming my videos. -
My camera is a Sony FX1. I capture to ProRes via firefire. When done I always export a ProRes master to be stored always on 2 drives incase one fails. I then convert to what ever format needed.
If you are going to h.264 often I highly recomend getting the Turbo264HD from Elgato, it is a USB hardware encoder that speeds up h.264 encoding.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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