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Red 3GL and 4.1 and multiple processors (mac)
I have Red 3GL and installed it on my MacPro. It works well enough for what I do, but was somewhat dissapointed with the speed. I also noticed it uses just one processor (99% of 400%) with the multi processor button checked. When I uncheck it it uses 101% of 400%. Odd.
I then download 4.1. Similar speed and similar story with multi processors. Red seems to do a very bad job using more than one processor/core. What gives? And why is 4.1 about the same speed at previewing to RAM as 3?
I emailed Boris about this last week…no reply.
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I just ran a test of PTR on a heavy composite project with multiple soft masks and blurs. I opened my processor panel and see about equal load on CPU 1 and CPU 2. I’m running RED 4.1 engine on an Intel Mac laptop with dual core processor. Make sure that all your processors are enabled.
RED 3 is expected to run much slower on Mac Intel since it is not Intel native and can only operate in Rosetta. RED 3 has some multi processing built in but not to the same degree as RED 4. Hope you’l find this information helpful
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thanks…I tried to test again and not I can’t export from Red3. It just hangs when I hit export to movie. 4.1 works fine, but maybe the 4.1 demo killed my installation of 3. Be nice if Boris would help on this…so far 0-2 contacting their support people.
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Hi Doug,
I also have 4.1 running on a 4-core Mac Pro and get the same results as you.
Very disappointing to see this happening especially as some effects seem to be just as slow as they were in 3 on a G4!
K
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5 emails, 2 calls…no response. Are they even around?
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