Stuttering / glitching… :(

[Lance Bachelder]

The point with the 4870 machine is that the same exact footage and comp that severely chokes FCPX plays exceptionally well in Premiere CC, which I didn’t expect. Most of the year I’ve been running X on the top of the line i7 iMac with 32GB RAM and Fusion drive plus Thunderbolt RAID and it’s still sluggish at times when even FCP7 isn’t with the same sequence (Event).

My experience thus far with FCPX and Premiere CC is that, regardless of GPU, Adobe has done a better job than Apple is optimizing their software. I expect Apple will make big improvements in performance with the next rev especially when running Mavericks and the new MacPro.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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