[Elijah Lynn]

Rendering takes place within Final Cut Pro and s different from exporting.

If you are referring to rendering then compressor will not help.

I am having this same problem. Our brand new 8×3.2 Ghz with 10 GB ram and a 8800 GT only uses about 10-40% of the cpu according to the Activity monitor.

I have called apple many times and I must say their tech support is the most worthless thing ever. I am still waiting for a call back from 2 days ago. Most of their guys don’t know anything but a few do. I was lucky enough to talk with one BEFORE our purchase. I guess they are only reserved to make sales.

If you figure it out let me know. This thing is super slow.

[Elijah Lynn]

Hey Dean,

Thanks for replying. No we do not have after effects. Do you use Final Cut Pro? What percentage of cpu usage does it use form most people?

Thanks

[Elijah Lynn]

I am on the phone with Apple trying to get some insight as to what is going on. Pretty much hit or miss with their customer service.

I am amazed at how hard it is to talk with someone who really knows how to use these machines. I feel almost like I am being punk’d. I just thinking that anytime now they are just going to say, “haha we got you, of course we know how to use these computers”.

The most intelligent people I talked to (3 of them) were PRE-SALES. My sales rep let me talk to 3 guys about storage and raid. They really knew what they were talking about. I emailed her after the sale asking where these guys were. No reply, 3 weeks and waiting.

Everytime I have tried to talk to Apple I literally get someone with an attitude and/or extremely unintelligent.

The guy was questioning me as to what “slow” meant by only using 20% of the processor. He said if you think it is supposed to just zip through the render then that’s not the way it works and that the computer decides what it needs to do. I swore I was being punk’d for a minute.

I talked to a guy before him and he wanted me to send him a screenshot of the “bar thingy’s”, that’s when I said I was sorry and I need to speak with someone else. He said there was nobody else. I said I need to speak to your supervisor, he said, “you are at the supervisor level” and the only way to talk to someone else was to call back.

I am not sure what is going on. Is this how Apple works? This is my first experience with these godly Macs and I have a bad taste in my mouth. I told the guy I should have just bought a dual-core and he said something along the lines of, “well maybe you should have.”

Frustrating.

Please help me figure this out.

I just disabled primatte keyer pro and just did a render with a garbage matte and it went up to a nice 20-30% but a long ways short of using this to it’s full potential of hopefully 100%.

[Elijah Lynn]

So are you saying this should be faster? Is it because of the animation codec? I have been reading up on the ShearVideo codec. Would Shear Video codec make this faster?

This is soo slow!

I will see if i can find something. I thought I followed the directions for slot placement correctly. If anyone can save me some time and fetch the link it would be appreciated. If I find it I will post it back here for everyone else.

[Elijah Lynn]

Hmm, I thought I replied to this shortly after your post. I guess it did not take.

We have 2 GB of factory ram and 8 GB of iRam of the same specs.

Total of 10 GB.

[Elijah Lynn]

Is it just me or does the HVX look to have all sorts of green and red on a black and white image?

Is this for real? I want to buy the new HPX170 but this is not appealing. Is this a downside of 4:2:2?

We have a XL2 and it has similar symptoms but way worse. The Sony looks much better in that regard.

I only had quicktime player to view these clips so could not zoom in but please let me know your thoughts on the color leakage or made up colors.

Thanks!

[Elijah Lynn]

+1 – If Panasonic wants wider adoption they should practically give these cards away.

[Elijah Lynn]

Thanks!

[Elijah Lynn]

Wait, I take that back.

It is 30 minutes plus another 30 (it says writing video now). For a 1-2 minute green screen clip to Animation codec?

Maybe Apple should issue a disclaimer with the Mac 8 core.

“You cannot use this computer at full speed with our video editing software, Final Cut Pro”

[Elijah Lynn]

I do not see it in there. Was it supposed to be installed when I installed Flash? Or did it come stock with Final Cut Pro?