Multi-Threading in FCP 6

[David Roth weiss]

That’s much more likely to be perfected when Jaguar finally hits the shelves in October.

[Walter Biscardi]

[leuey] “Does anybody know if FCP 6 wil be able to make use of all available processors?”

Motion can right now, but they did not specifically show FCP using the processors so we’re really not sure. I would like to think that it can, but we really don’t have time to really mess with it during the demos at the booth.

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[David Roth Weiss] “That’s much more likely to be perfected when Jaguar finally hits the shelves in October.
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I hope you mean Leopard, because I don’t want to have to wait 7 months to downgrade my OS.

[David Roth weiss]

[zrb123] “I hope you mean Leopard, because I don’t want to have to wait 7 months to downgrade my OS.”

Good point!!! Its been one of those kinda days… Everything went wrong all day long.

[Matt Riley]

Compressor can use all 8 cores on the latest Mac Pros. They showed this during the product launch demo Sunday.

I asked about Color and the answer I got was that Color is not (yet) optimized to take full advantage of all 8 cores. How many cores it can take advantage of, I don’t know, but I was told there is no current conflict with running Color on the 8 core Macs. It just doesn’t use all the horsepower available. Aside from rendering, though, I believe Color is really more about the power of the GPU rather than the CPU. So, a more powerful graphics card will probably do more for you when using Color than a multi-core machine.

-Matt

[Greg Leuenberger]

it looks like compressor will be able to gang processors one 1 item (this is good).

Walter, Motion 3 is multi-threaded? Because Motion 2 certainly isn’t to any degree. Do a simple test – animated a few shapes around, ‘replicator’ them 10 times or so, turn on motion blur, add some giant blur, glow, and distort filters for good measure. Now render and watch your activity monitor. Afaict Motion won’t even peg 1 processor – and the other 3 basically aren’t doing anything.

Now I love motion – and can’t wait for 3. But using motion blur (which I don’t believe is GPU enabled) along with motion estimation, any number of filters, and possibly even field rendering are very CPU dependent.

I’m really a 3D guy – and using Maya or Modo will peg all for cores at 100% usage when calculating frames. That’s the type of ‘bang-for-the-buck’ I expectd on a multi-core machine. I’ll probably get an OctoMac because of my 3D work – but I REALLY think Apple needs to get on the ball here and take advantage of these machines. I get the feeling the support for this will be much more robust in Leopard (it had better be seeing as how this is where we’re headed). I’d just like..ya know…now.

: )

-Greg

[Moody Glasgow]

As far as I could tell, and from the answers I got at the Apple/AICE event last night, the answer would be no.

moody glasgow
smoke artist / editor

[Greg Leuenberger]

yea!…i mean – boo! oh well, until next year.

thanks,

G

[Sean Oneil]

I’m pretty sure FCP cannot do this on it’s own.

Qmaster has the ablity to do this. If FCP could do background rendering using Qmaster, that would be really cool and would no-doubt use as many cores as you want. But obviously background rendering would be a huge new feature (like what Smoke has) and they would have mentioned it if it was there.

Sean

[Ben Holmes]

Apple make some specific claims about ProRes using all available cores. See above post.

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