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Super Slow G5
I guess this is more of a general G5 question, but our main application is Final Cut, so I’ll post here. A couple of days ago I posted about Motion being unusually slow for such a fast machine (2x 750GB hard drives, 8GB of RAM, 8 processors). Well, the problem seems to have carried over into everything we do on the machine. It takes super long to Compress, download files, pretty much do anything. I don’t know if we have some configurations wrong, or what. I don’t know a whole lot about computers in general, I pretty much stick to the editing workflow. Any ideas?
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[T.J. Ingrassia] “A couple of days ago I posted about Motion being unusually slow for such a fast machine (2x 750GB hard drives, 8GB of RAM, 8 processors).”
Is this a G5 or a Mac Pro? G5’s don’t come with 8 processors, only up to 4. If it’s truly 8 processors then you have a Mac Pro (Intel) machine.
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Sorry about that. You are correct, it is a MacPro (I once again show my ignorance). Here are all the specs:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro2,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHzWe also upgraded to Final Cut Studio 2, and it’s running on Tiger. We recieved the Leopard software updates, but we’re also using an AJA KONA 3 card for direct HD-SDI injest, which isn’t yet compatible with Leopard.
The footage is being brought into Final Cut using Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) from a JVC GY-HD250 (again, via HD-SDI direct injest).
I hope that helps.
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Was the 8 gigs of RAM already in your Mac Pro when you bought it from Apple or did you have someone else install the RAM after purchase?
– Don
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The 8 GB of RAM came from Apple
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