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Slow Render After Upgrade
I just upgraded to snow leopard and my fcp from 6.0 to 7.0 and with it motion from 3.0 to 4.0….. Well when I work on the new project with multiple levels of graphics its very slow to navigate around the project, and the render time takes forever….I mean I thought the upgrade was going to help…..Anyways this is un acceptable with the time lines I’m faced with…I’m in broadcast and I’m a used not an engineer. Please help me in laymen’s terms….
Kevin
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Do you do a clean install (wipes the drive and starts fresh) of the OS and FCP, as opposed to installing over the existing OS & FCP?
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.1, Motion 4.0.1, Comp 3.5.1, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.1)Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO & 192 Digital I/O, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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I have re-loaded the OS and final cinal cut studio….twice…Totally wiped drives clean and started from scratch…Editing is still sluggish and slow…Any other ideas?
Thanks
Kevin
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What drives are you using and how are they connected to your Mac? Do you have a Kona or similar card/io box? Even if you don’t have a Kona I think you can download their System Test from the AJA site. It measures your drive speed which could be a factor.
Did you update all drivers that might not be happy with SL? Did you Repair Permissions after your installation? Also, it might help to run Disk Warrior. It cleans up your disk directories and that definitely affects performance. You especially need to do this after a major installation.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.1, Motion 4.0.1, Comp 3.5.1, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.1)Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO & 192 Digital I/O, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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FCP 7 IS a bit slower with rendering than FCP 6, but you shouldnt notice any difference in speed during editing and general work with your projects. You could check Activity Monitor (in your Utilities folder) for some rogue process taking up a lot of CPU time. Or, your drive can be dying – happened to me last year. It worked, but very slowly, turned out drive was about to die.
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