Performance tips for FCP7?

[Rob Ainscough]

Twice as fast is still too slow for me … at least compared to Adobe on a Windows 7 box anyway. Does FCPX support any 3rd party accelerators when it comes to rendering on the timeline?

I’ll certainly keep and eye on FCPX and what Apple do with their MacPro line … I like how FCP 7 flows, sure there are some features I’d like that are missing … good example is being able to change parameters on a video generator that is used in several clips by selecting those clips and open in editor so that changing an Opacity value will be reflected on all the selected clips not just what is determine to be the “current” one.

Also seems like my ATI 5770 is being under utilized … it has a lot of processing power sitting idle. Does FCPX support nVidia CUDA or ATI Stream?

I’m not trying to sound Pro Adobe/Windows either, it’s just that similar projects render considerably faster and in some cases I don’t have to render. But I suppose on the plus side I can surf the web while I wait 😉