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slow rendering – suggestions?
Hi Folks,
Sorry for the long post here, but I know that y’all can’t give me any advice unless you know all the details. So here’s the situation:I’m using FCP 7.0.3. I produce short educational media pieces and do a lot of subtitling. I’ve been shooting with a GH2 and loving it, and always edit the AVCHD footage using ProResLT. The problem is every time I add a new subtitle (on the same video track) I need to render it. Here are my system details:
Running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I use a lot of After Effects and just joined Adobe’s Cloud Program…thinking about slowly migrating to using Premiere Pro.
My questions:
1- how can I avoid these constant renders? Do I need a new graphics card? Heard lots of good things about the Quadro 4000. Thoughts?2 – the Maxx Digital RAID is only using the FireWire 800 connection now. At the time I purchased the RAID, the e-SATA card was not working with my system. Would solving that issue and using the e-SATA connection solve my speed issues?
Thanks in advance for your time – and Happy New Year!
–Dan Veltri
Producer
Treehouse VideoHardware Overview:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro4,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s
Boot ROM Version: MP41.0081.B07
SMC Version (system): 1.39f5
SMC Version (processor tray): 1.39f5
Serial Number (system): H09430V94PD
Serial Number (processor tray): J5939016X4MFE
Hardware UUID: A85D70BD-3D1C-511D-ACF5-0FC15765E93DATI Radeon HD 4870:
Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 4870
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 512 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x9440
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-B7710C-176
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.318
Displays:
LCD200VX:
Resolution: 1344 x 1008 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Display Serial Number: 48101067QA
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported
LCD200VX:
Resolution: 1344 x 1008 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Display Serial Number: 4X103203QA
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: SupportedFireWire Bus:
Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec
Built-in Hub:
Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 800 Mb/secOXFORD IDE Device 1:
Manufacturer: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd
Model: 0x0
GUID: 0x30E002E0A08890
Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec
Sub-units:
OXFORD IDE Device 1 Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0x10483
Unit Spec ID: 0x609E
Firmware Revision: 0x100
Product Revision Level: 0
Sub-units:
OXFORD IDE Device 1 SBP-LUN:
Capacity: 3 TB (3,000,461,058,048 bytes)
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk2
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
Writable: Yes
BSD Name: disk2s1
THMaxx1:
Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,153,686,016 bytes)
Available: 571 GB (570,997,809,152 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: HFS+
BSD Name: disk2s2
Mount Point: /Volumes/THMaxx1
THMaxx2:
Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,153,686,016 bytes)
Available: 582.93 GB (582,928,793,600 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk2s3
Mount Point: /Volumes/THMaxx2
THMaxx3:
Capacity: 999.54 GB (999,541,276,672 bytes)
Available: 443.74 GB (443,739,410,432 bytes)
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File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk2s4
Mount Point: /Volumes/THMaxx3 -
2 Replies
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My first guess is that your sequence settings and import settings don’t agree. It happens. Compare them side by side using “get info”.
Happy New Year, hope that fixes it. -
Do you have unlimited RT turned on?
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